Highland Park Brewery thread

I can't think of another brewery in LA that did a spontanous fermentation beer yet.

Cucurbitophobia is the same. They used mixed cultures even though it was open fermentation. They didn't do spontaneous fermentation like HPB did. Don't think Chaos is a friend of mine was spontaneous either

"The wort is then fermented and aged in neutral French oak barrels with our diverse house culture." (chaos is a friend of mine)

 

Monkish has also done open fermentation with Other Half and AZ Wilderness. Both are probably in barrels right now. I'm assuming they pitched a house mixed culture, I doubt there's enough wild yeast and bacteria in the air there. Curious how HPB pulled that off.

 

If you've gone into HPB on a crowded warm night, there's definitely enough bacteria floating around there from the hipsters to inoculate water. ;D

 

Any word of a another (non-hazy) can release during the coolship pickup window?

 

Some time in March is what I recall last hearing. Soooo.. maybe?

 

It goes deeper than this. They have painstakingly (with permission) cloned the environment of the Cantillon Brewery and will shortly be an American lambic style only brewery.

 

I can confirm after seeing the cobwebs and dust on the rafters.

 

At Cold Box Cool Ship pickup: "custom glassware". Have they posted photos anywhere?

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1298916976864262

Lambic glass.

 

Oh hell yeah. Hope they're still available tomorrow.

 

new IPA cans this coming monday!

 

Anybody at Hermosillo want to share the growler fill options for the weekend? Website is lagging I think

 

"Hello All!

We'll be selling WONDERCLOUD Hazy IPA cans (6.3% abv. Nelson and Mosaic hops) this coming Monday, February 27th starting around 4pm. They are $17/4 pack (two to three, 4-pack limit) and we will have around 100 cases. The sale will be in the back of our parking lot (5125 York Blvd. LA, CA 90042) by the brewery. We hope you can make it!"

 

Growler fills right now are well well, for crazy and Timbo.

Got a new batch of raised eyebrows on and some other pretty good stuff. The cold box cold ship was excellent too - very lemon zesty...great balance of funk/tart.

 

They're calling 5 gal Raised Eyebrows a "preview keg" so I hope this means a bottle release is imminent? Last time I believe it was tasting room only but i'm hoping for Eventbrite this time.

 

Last one was online which I bought. Still got like 4 left of batch 2 somewhere lol

 

Lately they've been doing preview kegs at release days of upcoming stuff, just most of the time they don't announce it. Fun Juice, GJG b3, Occupied Space b2 and Company of Parrots b2 come to mind. I'm sure there's more but those ones stood out.

 

Another cloud beer title with 3 days advance warning. Was going to try and get there by 1, but I don't think that's gonna cut it. Glad to see they are starting with a reasonable limit this time around, should make for smoother line management than cloud party

 

Wait.. about 3 days advance notice is on par at the very least for their can releases. Maybe folks are just jaded by Monkish's same day announcement, but HPB has always been pretty solid in terms of forewarning, especially for a weekday release.

 

That wasn't a knock on HPB about announcements and timings, just hinting that with 3 days, a lot of people might/will try to rearrange their schedule to make the release, especially because the beer name has the 'cloud' buzzword in it. I really appreciate the timing of the announcement, I was trying to figure out when to pick up cool ship, and this is as good a reason as any.