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Tiger!Tiger! Now Open

24 Monday Oct 2011

Posted by Jeff Hammett in bars and restaurants, blind lady ale house, tiger!tiger!

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Tiger!Tiger!Tiger!Tiger! the new bar/restaurant from the owner’s of Blind Lady Ale House opened it’s doors for the first time last week. They’re calling it an ultra soft opening for the time being but when I stopped by things seemed to be running smooth enough. I didn’t get a chance to eat while there, but heard from friends that the food is great.

The beer selection had many of the usual suspects often found at BLAH. Prices seemed similar.The space itself is pretty nice, with a long bar, a handful of picnic tables for seating and a couple of tables outside on the front patio.

For now Tiger!Tiger! is only a bar and restaurant, but co-owner Lee Chase told me recently that he’d like to use Tiger!Tiger! as a sort of pilot brewery for the soon to be expanded brewhouse at BLAH.

Located at 3025 El Cajon Blvd (just east of 30th Street), Tiger!Tiger! is currently open 5pm-Midnight Tuesday through Sunday. According to their website they’ll be adding lunch hours Friday, Saturday and Sunday soon.

Here are a few photos they posted from the first weekend.

Above Photo: Kinsee Morlan

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Growlers Coming to Automatic Brewing Co.

04 Tuesday Jan 2011

Posted by Jeff Hammett in automatic brewing co., bars and restaurants, beer previews, blind lady ale house, breweries

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Automatic Brewing Co. LogoAside from a few appearances at various beer festivals, the only place to enjoy Automatic Brewing Co.’s very limited release beers has been at Blind Lady Ale House (which house’s Automatic Brewing Co). As San Diego’s first “nano-brewery”, Automatic brews on a very small scale and has only released five beers in the time they’ve been brewing. For their sixth release, a Coffee Imperial Brown Ale, 50 1 liter growlers will be available for take-away according to Automatic’s Lee Chase. The release date was set for January 16th but has been delayed. They’re now planning on releasing it Sunday, Jan. 30th for Blind Lady Ale House’s 2nd Anniversary Weekend. Follow Automatic Brewing Co. on Facebook to get updates and find out how to pre-purchase via Brown Paper Tickets. See the comment from Blind Lady co-owner Jeff Motch below for more info.

As far as I know Automatic Brewing Co. will be the first brewery to offer growler fills in the urban “uptown” area of San Diego. While growlers will be limited at first, and Automatic’s beers are not available very often, there’s hope that sporadic growler fills are soon a bike ride away.

This post was updated 1/14/2011 and 1/22/2011.

Automatic Brewing Co. Thank You Mamm Belgian White

13 Wednesday Oct 2010

Posted by Jeff Hammett in automatic brewing co., bars and restaurants, beer previews, beer reviews, blind lady ale house

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Automatic Brewing Co.’s Thank You Mamm Belgian White looks like fresh squeezed grapefruit juice with a frothy white head.
It smells sweet, like wheat and Belgian yeast. The first taste is sweet, but is not overpowering. There might be some coriander in there.

Thank You Mamm Belgian White is actually pink in color, and my preconcieved notions of what pink things usually taste like makes reconciling the taste and appearance of this beer difficult. It in no way looks the way it tastes. Why is this beer pink? Thank You Mamm is brewed for national breast cancer awareness month. For the second year in a row Blind Lady Ale House is doing a breast cancer awareness benefit and donating 15% of their total sales to Keep-A-Breast. This is explains why the beer is pink, but just how did it get pink? According to brewer Lee Chase the pink color comes from unicorn’s blood.

Additionally, Thank You Mamm Belgian White uses about 50% 2 row pale malt, 40% malted wheat and 10% unmalted wheat. The hops are a medium alpha acid British hop (the name I did not catch) and it uses White Labs 400 yeast.

Thank You Mamm Belgian White is easy drinking at around 5% ABV and 15 IBU or so. Stop in to Blind Lady Ale House on Sunday for a pint and to help support a good cause.

Note: We’re pretty sure Chase didn’t actually use unicorn’s blood to color Thank You Mamm. Got a guess on what makes it pink? Leave a comment below.

SD Park 2 Park’s Beer with the Expert, October 23rd

17 Friday Sep 2010

Posted by Jeff Hammett in automatic brewing co., bars and restaurants, blind lady ale house, breweries, homebrew, homebrew supplies, homebrews and gardens

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The SD Park 2 Park shuttle isn’t running on a regular basis any more, but that seems to have freed them up to organize special events and tours.

Saturday October 23rd they’re teaming up with a couple local businesses to do a beer tasting and homebrew demonstration. For $35 they’ll pick you up at one of their designated stops and take you to Blind Lady Ale House where you’ll be guided through a six beer (5 oz. each) tasting by Blind Lady co-owner and Automatic Brewing Co. brewer Lee Chase. Pizza will be served and then you’ll all hop back on the  bus to head to Homebrews and Gardens for a homebrewing demonstration. All participants will get 15% homebrew supplies during the event.

This event is still a month away, but according to the Park 2 Park blog they have already sold 5 out of the 25 seats (maybe more now). If you’re at all interested in homebrewing this would be a great way to get an overview and discounted supplies, as well as a beer tasting with one of San Diego’s beer elite. Click over to the Park 2 Park site to purchase tickets.

Beer this Week(end) in San Diego September 15-19

15 Wednesday Sep 2010

Posted by Jeff Hammett in bars and restaurants, beer dinners, blind lady ale house, dogfish head brewing co., drinkabout, firestone walker brewing co., hamilton's tavern, manzanita brewing co., mission brewery, o'brien's pub, sierra nevada brewing co., stone brewing co., the linkery, toronado

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The Great American Beer Festival is set to get under way in Denver tomorrow (September 16th). Beer geeks and industry folks from around the world travel to Denver for the event, including many from San Diego. But fret not if you’re stuck in San Diego this weekend with no travel plans for Denver, because even though the biggest beer event in the country is going on a few states away, there are still plenty of great beer to be drank right here in San Diego.

Tonight Wednesday, September 15th

  • Blind Lady Ale House will be tapping a keg of Sierra Nevada’s Ghidorah at 5pm (which BLAH’s Lee Chase helped brew at Beer Camp)
  • The September DrinkAbout is happening from 7pm-11pm. Click here for more details.

Thursday, September 16th

  • The Linkery is holding a Vegetarian Cask Beer Pairing Night. Each plate with half a pour of beer is $9. They have some great casks and the food sounds delicious. See the full menu here.
  • Toronado will be hosting a Dogfish Head Night. They’ll have Punkin Ale, Palo Santo Marron, Midas Touch, Theobrama and 90 Minute IPA on tap and bottles of Festina Peche, Burton Baton IPA, Worldwide Stout.

Friday, September 17th

  • Hamilton’s Tavern Firkin Friday with Mission Brewery. They’ll have Mission IPA on cask and Shipwrecked Imperial IPA, Blonde Ale, Amber Ale, and Hefeweizen at 5pm.
  • O’Brien’s Pub is hosting a night of beers from Manzanita Brewing Co. in Santee. (We stopped into Manzanita when they first opened, check out that post here)
  • Make sure your Stone Brewing Co. growlers are clean as they have three excellent growler fills this weekend. Friday they’ll have Stone Smoked Porter with Vanilla Beans

Saturday, September 18th

  • Blind Lady Ale House will have Firestone Walker’s Union Jack IPA on cask at 11:30am. Pints are only $3.50 until 3:50pm.
  • More growler fills at Stone Brewing Co. today they’re offering Stone Smoked Porter with Vanilla Beans again, and if you go after 8pm they’ll have 2010 Stone Imperial Russian Stout available as well.
  • Hamilton’s Tavern is hold a “Shuffleboard for Charity” event. We don’t have any more details, but you can’t go wrong with shuffleboard and good craft beer.

Sunday, September 19th

  • Pints for Prostates Fundraiser (DrinkAbout Part 2) Check Facebook for more info.
  • Blind Lady Ale House will hold a Blind IPA Challenge. 11.30am to Midnight. Judge six IPAs which out knowing which is which. Click here for more info.
  • If you only get one growler fill from Stone Brewing Co. this weekend this is the day to do it. Starting at 11am they’ll be filling growlers with 2005 Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine

New Beers from Blind Lady Ale House’s Lee Chase and Automatic Brewing Co.

01 Wednesday Sep 2010

Posted by Jeff Hammett in automatic brewing co., bars and restaurants, beer previews, blind lady ale house, breweries, sierra nevada brewing co.

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UPDATE: Here’s a bit more info from Automatic Brewing Co.’s blog about the new beer, Sex Panther Strong Pale Ale.

Today (Wednesday, September 1st) at 5pm, Blind Lady Ale House will be tapping a keg of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Ghidorah Double IPA. This beer isn’t from Automatic Brewing Co., but Lee Chase did have a hand in making it. Ghidorah Double IPA was brewed at one of Sierra Nevada’s Beer Camps which Chase attended. It’s an 8.2% ABV double IPA and looks to be pretty limited, not too many bars are going to be getting kegs of it. Lee Chase wrote a blog post about the Beer Camp and brewing Ghidorah that you can read over on Blind Lady’s site. Blind Lady will have some nice Sierra Nevada pint glasses for the first 45 people that order Ghidorah Doubel IPA this evening.

Next Wednesday, September 8th, Blind Lady Ale House will be tapping a new beer from their own Automatic Brewing Co. This will be the third beer from Automatic (Automatic #1, a Belgian-style Wit was the first, and Chocolate Rain, Too an Oatmeal Stout was the second) this one will be a Strong Pale Ale, and like the previous beers this is a limited batch. We’ve heard good things about it and are looking forward to trying it.

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The Bruery Flights at Blind Lady Ale House

03 Tuesday Aug 2010

Posted by Jeff Hammett in blind lady ale house, events, the bruery

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Jen Chase, Patrick Rue and Lee Chase

This past Saturday, Blind Lady Ale House hosted Patrick Rue, CEO and Founder of The Bruery for a guided tasting of six of The Bruery’s beers. Blind Lady Ale House often offers brewery specific or style specific flights (they had a flight of Allagash Brewing Co. beers not too long ago) but this is the first time I know of them offering a guided tasting with someone from the brewery.

The flight of beers was available on it’s own for $20, but for only $5 more we got to sit in and listen to Rue talk about the history of The Bruery and how the beers came about. The six beers were: Hothenroth Berliner Weiss, Oude Tart Flanders Red, Tradewinds Tripel, Humulus Lager, Mischief Belgian Strong Pale Ale, and Coton Blended Anniversary Ale.

The only one of these beers I had ever had before was Tradewinds Tripel, I enjoyed it and the few other beers from The Bruery I had previously so I was pretty excited for this flight, and to hear what Rue had to say. Below are some notes I took on each beer, either my own tasting notes or something that Rue or someone else mentioned:

  • Hothenroth Berliner Weiss, an authentic example of the Berliner Weiss style this beer was tart but flavorful for only being 3.1% ABV. Made using lactobacillus and a hint of brettanomyces many people add raspberry or woodruff syrup to cut down on the tartness. Jen Chase, co-owner of Blind Lady, mentioned that they had tried to make a raspberry syrup out of fresh raspberries, but it just didn’t turn out. Their solution was to add a bit of St. Louis Framboise instead. I ended up back at Blind Lady later that night with some friends and we tried this and I have to say it was really good. Hothenroth on it’s own was good enough, but the added sweetness was nice too.
  • Oude Tart Flanders Red, I’m not a very experienced sour drinker, I’ve had a few, but not many, but I have to say this was one of the best and most complex sours I’ve ever had. It smelled like cherries with a hint of alcohol and tasted tart with oak flavors. The tasting sheet provided mentioned hints of leather, which doesn’t sound appetizing but there was a slight hint of leather, which tasted great and didn’t detract from the beer at all. This beer is usually only available at the brewery so it was a special treat to drink on draft in San Diego.
  • Tradewinds Tripel, the only beer in the flight I had tasted before. Previously I had it in the bottle and thought it was good, but it was far better on draft. A tripel made with Thai basil, the basil aroma and taste were more up front in this draft version compared to the bottle.
  • Humulus Lager, it was news to me that The Bruery promised to never make an IPA, but I think Humulus Lager would satisfy most hop heads. An extermely hoppy lager (with over 3lbs. of hops per barrel), they use rice to lighten the body to make it more like a traditional American lager.
  • Mischief Belgian Strong Pale Ale, Rue said this beer has become their best seller. It’s Duvel inspired with American hops, the balance between the malts and the Belgian yeast and the hops is perfect. It has a floral, yeast flavor up front with a kick of hops afterwards. It’s only 35 IBU but it seemed hoppier to me.
  • Coton Blended Anniversary Ale, Coton is The Bruery’s second anniversary ale and probably their most talked about beer recently. A 14.5% ABV Old Ale, the same recipe is used for the anniversary ale each year, and each year some is held back to be aged in barrels. The fresh anniversary ale is then blended with each of the previous years. Rue said that by their 10th anniversary they’re hoping to that each release will be 100% barrel aged. Coton is strong but drinkable. Carbonation was low, but not too low (but this could have been because it was the last beer tasted so it had been sitting out for a while). It was sweet and slightly syrupy, with a good bourbon flavor and aroma.

Coton, Mischief, Humulus Lager, Tradewinds, Oude Tart, Hothenroth

The extra five dollars over the standard flight price was well worth it to hear Patrick Rue talk about each beer. The event sold out (I believe Blind Lady sold 20 or 25 tickets) and I noticed some people drinking flights alone afterwards so it seems demand is high. Thankfully Blind Lady said this was the first or many flight tastings with brewers, although the next one hasn’t been scheduled yet. As soon as they schedule another we’ll be sure to add it to our calendar, so be sure to check out our list of events.

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