Now that the madness of our 1st Anniversary Party is over, I’ve had a chance to reflect a little on what we accomplished in our 1st year. And after crawling back through a year’s worth of social media posts, I’m pretty goddamn amazed at how much stuff we packed into 12 months of work. Here, for the benefit of posterity, is a timeline of the major events in our first year (I’ll update with the things I’ve inevitably forgotten):

July 8th—Our launch week kicks off! We’re draft only at this point.

July 13th—We threw open the doors to the Lomaland Fermentorium for a one night only preview. It was weird and rad.

Well, things went so swimmingly with Oneida bottles, that we've decided to do the bottle thing again. In fact, all signs point to this becoming something we do regularly. 

Bottle release #2 will be Phalanx IPA, which we tapped for the very first time at our 1st Anniversary Party. It's a peachy, juicy, robust 7.5% ABV IPA loaded up with (insanely expensive) Australian Summer hops. We balance the peach/apricot flavor & aroma from the Summer hops with small quantities of Horizon (for dankness) and Chinook (for citrus). 

We're having our 1st Anniversary Party this weekend (TICKETS!) It will go down in history as the best party in the history of parties. Ever. Here's why:

1) This is the finest collection of beer we've ever assembled. The three barrel-aged sours are tasting amazing: tart, oaky, funky, delicious. Bourbon Barrel-Aged Monsters' Park is a barrel-bomb, and the version with coffee is the best stout we've ever made: super aromatic, ultra flavorful, incredibly complex.