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| San Diego's newest brewery. Read why this one is different. |
JUST IN TIME—GUEST BLOG—By
Westcoastersd.com--As
the first month of 2016 heads into history, yet another new brewery is born in
craft beer nirvana (a.k.a.) San Diego, California. Tomorrow, the debut belongs to Pure Project
Brewing (9030 Kenamar Drive, #308, Miramar), which is the first tenant of H.G.
Fenton’s Brewery Igniter program site to open for business.
What was
once a stark white, nondescript, ready-to-use tasting room space just waiting
to be given personality is now outfitted in stylish reclaimed wood, belly bars
fashioned from felled trees and a screen featuring projections of nature-based
videos. This rather Zen spot opens at noon (January 30).
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Hard to
ignore is the Pure Project’s logo in the tasting room. It’s composed entirely of three varieties of
bulging green fauna with a swirled fluorescent blue water droplet dotting its
plant-based insignia.
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| A taster flight of beers at Miramar’s new Pure Project Brewing built within one of H.G. Fenton’s Brewery Igniter suites |
Surprisingly,
the beer-board lists a dozen different beers-- quite a large number for a
brand-new operation. Brewmaster Winslow Sawyer promises to greet first time
visitors with three India pale ales on tap—a single, double and five gallons
worth of a Brettanomyces-fermented version.
But it’s not
all about IPAs here…far from it.
Let’s get to
the taste details right now: Many of Pure Project’s beers are infused with
tropical ingredients, which is fitting considering the brewery was originally
going to be founded in Costa Rica.
Examples
include a hibiscus saison, ginger-citrus blonde and coconut quadrupel—a bizarre
additive for monastic Belgian-style ale. An orange-vanilla cream ale, session
rye pale and Kölsch will provide a trio of refreshing options. The latter is
proudly adjunct in nature and brewed with rice. Light-bodied and refreshing, it
flies in the face of most beer lovers definition of craft beer, but it’s tasty
and should help to transition the uninitiated to more adventurous offerings.
A coffee
milk stout and Russian imperial porter make up the darker end of the spectrum
and though the stout could use more body, it has nice flavor.
Though they
have yet to sell their first beer, ownership is already looking ahead. More
than a dozen barrels lay waiting to be filled in the back of the brewery.
Sawyer intends to siphon a lambic and Flanders-style red ale into Pinot Noir
barrels procured from Napa, and has bourbon whiskey barrels from Coloroado’s
Breckenridge Distillery ready to house his porter.
Pure
Project’s opening weekend festivities will extend to this Sunday.
Following
that, ambitious initial plans call for the tasting room to be open seven days a
week.
More on HG Fenton’s Igniter Program
Brewery
Igniter isn't an incubator. It's a serious facility designed for serious beer
artisans who know how to brew and have the vision to launch a brewery business.
Benefits member brewers can enjoy include:
All of the
equipment and space needed to launch a microbrewery, reducing startup cost and
risk and expediting the path to profitability.
Short,
flexible lease terms.
The option
to pay initial bills by selling product at onsite tasting rooms. In addition to
a full brew house, all Brewery Igniter units come with a tasting room, bar, and
plenty of space for thirsty customers.
Quick-start brewing - as soon as brewers have their ABC license, they can begin crafting
The ability
to sell products in as little as two months. In a traditional startup setting,
it would take at least nine months and $500,000 to lease a space, purchase and
install equipment and obtain all licenses before selling a single pint.
Brewery
Igniter buzz in the community
Multiple
locations:
Miramar
(leased out)
North Park
(early 2016)
North County
(2016)
See more at:
http://www.hgfenton.com/breweryigniter/#sthash.dG9Cdtas.dpuf
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