Pizza Port canning line

Sweet!

 

I'll take a case of Poor Man's tall boys, please.

 

I raise you a case of tall boy Hop Suey's.

 

I'm assuming they are going to be doing this out of their new facility that's being built? How close is that to completion?

Furthermore, any news on Bagby Beer Co. in Oceanside?

 

They're moving the tanks/fermentation equpiment into Pizza Port #5. Head Brewer will be Yiga from PP OB.

Bagby has a location in Oceanside and I think they're planning it now?

 

Yeah their new facility in Bressi Ranch will have a canning line as well as a brewpub. Expected completion was sometime in the next couple of months (although I don't know if the project has been delayed at all.)

Bagby's new place will probably be done sometime towards the end of the year - they found a location, signed the lease, and have started the construction process.

 

Can someone please enlighten me on how pizza port is related to port brewing (if it even is at all). I'm uninformed.

 

They are owned by the same people. It all started as Pizza Port. Then the owners Vince and Gina, along with the lead Pizza Port brewer at the time, Tomme Arthur, started a separate brewery and production facility called Port/Lost Abbey. A lot of Port's beers were initially created at Pizza Port then scaled up to production at Port.

Now, Pizza Port is a different company brewing different beer with different brewmasters (although the same owners). This is their first production facility.

 

I am pretty sure that Tomme is not related to the "Port Brewing" part of their business. Essentially, they are just sharing space, right?

 

It's complicated? I have no idea if we'll see Wipeout or Mongo in cans, as those are Port beers.

I think it just depends on who the owners are. I don't believe (and I could be dead wrong) that Tomme has any stake in the Pizza Port line.

Still wish Port would force carb their beers.

 

Thanks for the info, been curious about this for a while.

 

This is how I understand it to be:

 

He's one of the founders of Port. This is explained on their website (which is down, at the moment.) I'm sure he still plays a part in production, if only to oversee it.

 

Think of each "Port" as a semi-independent brewery, with equally independent brewers. Pizza Port Brewing/Lost Abbey just doesn't make pizza and has a different owner/corporate structure.

 

I like it in the can.

 

Try Hillcrest Brewing Co. They've got you covered.*

*Obligatory homosexual joke

 

Where CAN I put in a request for a star wars theme beers mixed pack ?