Tioga-Sequoia Brewing News

I'm late getting this posted, but if anyone is in or near Fresno tomorrow, 12/20, I strongly recommend going to this. Rush Hour is delicious, and I've only heard good things about the variants from people who've had them so far.

We are pleased to announce the first ever Rush Day at the Tioga-Sequoia Beer Garden (745 Fulton, Fresno, CA 93721) on December 20, 2014 from 11am until 9pm.

Rush Day is the day we celebrate our coffee infused beers. We will be releasing our first barrel aged beer in bottles called Midnight Rush, a blended bourbon barrel aged Imperial Breakfast Stout (Coffee Infused Double Milk Stout). About 1000 bottles will be produced total. We will also be releasing batch three of Rush Hour Breakfast Stout as well as a variant on Rush Hour called Piece of Cake a chocolate milk stout infused with Coffee, Madagascar Vanilla Beans, and Toasted Coconut.

We will have master roaster Leo from Cafe Corazon on site selling coffee from roasted Colombiano Beans used to make batch 3 Rush Hour and Midnight Rush.

Dusty Buns (Food Truck) will be on site the whole morning/afternoon serving a Brunch Menu catered to pairing with Coffee and Beer.

Bottle Limits

First 80 People

4 Bottle Limit on Midnight Rush (500ml $15) – 320 bottles
2 Bottle Limit on Slice of Cake (22oz $8) 160 bottles
6 Bottle Limit on Rush Hour (22oz $7)

After first 80 People

2 Bottle Limit on Midnight Rush (till gone) 400 bottles
4 Bottle Limit on Rush Hour for the rest of the day.

All beers will be on Tap throughout the day with 1L and 2L Growler fills of Piece of Cake and Rush Hour.

Announcement

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They did pass out tickets to the first 80 around 10:15, so this wasn't too much of a problem at least for PoC allocations. I didn't see too many people cutting, but it's always going to happen some. It may have been worse behind me, so hopefully it didn't cause people to miss out on Midnight Rush.

 

From their Facebook, Piece of Cake batch 2 is being released today at 4pm. 72 bottles, 1 per person. It will be on draft, but no growlers. They've added more coconut to this batch, which I think should be an improvement - b1 was good, but wasn't that different from Rush Hour, I thought. So if you missed out on b1 or want to try the new one, here's your chance.

 

I picked up a bottle and had it on draft this afternoon. I can confirm that there's more coconut this time. It's much better than b1, and that seemed to be the consensus from people I talked to and overheard. I'd still like a bit more vanilla, but the coconut is more integral to the German Chocolate Cake flavor they're going for.

I had pretty much the same reaction as you to b1. If I didn't already know there was coconut and vanilla in it, I'm not sure I would have noticed. But Rush Hour is already amazing on it's own, so it wasn't bad by any means, just a bit disappointing.

 

Ever had Rush Hour? T-S may not be an exceptional brewery, but RH is an exceptional beer. Take a stout people already love, barrel-age it, limit it to 720 bottles, throw in a 160 bottle variant, and you have the recipe for lines in the barrel- and rarity-obsessed craft beer world.