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Lost Abbey / Port Brewing 5th Anniversary Party

Celebrate our 5th Birthday with food, live music and new beer releases!

Come party with Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey and celebrate our 5th Anniversary on Saturday May 14, 2011.

5th Anniversary Celebration

Like last year we’ll be breaking the party into two sessions and limiting the number of guests so everyone can relax and enjoy themselves.

Items on tap for our daylong festivities include specialty kegs from the barrel archives, bottled beer releases, special barrelhouse tours, amazing street food from our in-house chefs, and live music from our two special guests — Kiera and the Lesbians and The Professors.

Brews, Food, Tours and Entertainment

Brews:
Following our anniversary tradition, not only will we be loading all our taps with the latest and greatest of our beers, but we’ll be releasing Anniversary — the fifth release of our hoppy, strong pale ale from the Port Brewing side of the house.

DOBO Tomme Arthur will also be delving into the storied Lost Abbey barrel and bottle archives to give guests an opportunity to sample rare brews from the past half-decade. (Look for special bottles, and secret taps all day long!)

Food:
For those of you who enjoy five star food, this year chef Jason Danderand will be heading the outdoor kitchen and barbequing, steaming, smoking, broiling and baking his way through a stunning assortment of street foods with a unique “San Diego” culinary spin.

Special Tours:
Lead Brewer and Keeper of the Barrels, Ryan Fields, and our new QAD, Gwen Conlley (née Flying Dog), will be hosting tours of our famous barrelhouse, giving guests an opportunity to see where our beers await the angels on high (and possibly learn a few of the secrets behind one of American craft brewing’s most famous barrel programs).

Music:
We’ll have two bands playing this year. The first session will feature the vintage-tinged garage, folk, rock and roll sounds of Kiera and the Lesbians. The second session will play host to our favorite lounge lizards, The Professors, who will be performing their own special brand of sophisticated Surf Music.

The Details

Location
Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey, 155 Mata Way, Suite 104, San Marcos, CA 92069.

Time(s)
Two sessions — the first from 11am to 3pm and the second from 4pm to 8pm. For $15/session admission guests will receive a commemorative tasting glass, 8 beer tasting tickets and food (additional taster tickets are $1 each). Ticket sales will be strictly limited for each session.

Tickets

Remember, we’re limiting admission for each session, and last year we sold out completely, so make sure to get your tickets early! (It’s unlikely we’ll have any at the door.) 21 and older only please. ID will be required.

First Session
11am – 3pm
» Buy Tickets for 1st Session
sold out
Second Session
4pm – 8pm
» Buy Tickets for 2nd Session
sold out

For Designated Drivers (Either Session)
» Buy Designated Driver Tickets
sold out

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MIHO Gastrotruck Breakfast & Lunch Menu 3/17/12

 

BREAKFAST

AVANT GARDE BISCUITS & GRAVY

Homemade biscuits, Niman Ranch chorizo, Avant Garde gravy 

(add a fried farm fresh egg)

 

PB & J FRENCH TOAST

 pistachio butter and strawberry jam stuffed brioche

 

MIHO BREAKFAST SAMMY

Fried egg sammy on ciabatta with MIHO cured Berkshire bacon,

local arugula Spring Hill cheddar

 

 

LUNCH

***THE REUBEN***

house cured & smoked grass fed corned beef, MIHO cured bacon, house funked kimchi, fried potatoes,

 russian dressing, griddle marbled rye

 

LAMBURGER

Niman Ranch lamb, harissa aioli, goat cheese, caramelized onions, local arugula, ciabbata

 

BURGER

grass fed beef, caramelized onion, arugula, black truffle aioli, Spring Hill cheddar, gourmet bun

 

PORK BELLY BANH MI

braised all natural pork belly, pickled daikon & carrot, sliced jalapeño, aioli, sesame aioli, french baguette

 

THE BELLO

local portobello, roasted fennel pesto aioli, Spring Hill cheddar, caramelized onions, local arugula, whole wheat bun

 

BELGIAN STYLE FRIES

fresh cut Kennebec potatoes, house made Moroccan spiced ketchup

 

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Lost Abbey Open House

Take a tour of our new expansion!

If you follow our happenings, you’re probably aware that we’ve been undergoing an expansion for the last several months essentially doubling our brewery space.

Open House, Jan. 22

We built new offices, a DOBO habitat (aka, Tomme’s office), a state-of-the-art lab, brand new packaging storage, modern delivery bays, oh… and a bottling line so roomy the brewhouse boys no longer have to stand with their butts touching during bottling. (We can’t tell if they’re happy or sad about that.)

Yesterday we finally fired up the bottling line and did our first run of beer in the new space, marking the last step in our move-in. (Hooray!) To celebrate our new digs, we’re holding an Open House this Saturday. We’ll be doing tours of the new space, checking out the DOBO habitat, and talking about all the great new stuff we’ll be doing in 2011 (did we mention we just added a few hundred new barrels to our collection?). We might even put something interesting on tap…(hint, hint).

The Open House will be all day during normal tasting room hours, so make sure to drop by and check it out!

Click here for directions to the tasting room

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Special Thanksgiving Week Hours

We’re pleased to announce that our tasting room will be open special extended hours this Thanksgiving week! Here they are:
Special Thanksgiving Week Tasting Room Hours

  • Monday & Tuesday – Nov. 22 & 23: Closed
    (Hey, we still have to get some important Brewery Stuff done before we start stuffing brewers)
  • Wednesday – Nov. 24: 1pm – 6pm
    Extended Hours! Drop by, have a few tasters and pick up a growler fill or a bottle or two before Turkey day.
  • Thursday – Nov. 25: Closed
    Enjoy Thanksgiving Day!
  • Friday – Nov. 26: 12pm – 9pm
    Extended Hours! Black Friday madness? No thank you. How about a nice afternoon in the Tasting Room with family and friends?
  • Saturday – Nov. 27: 12pm – 6pm
    If you’re in town for the Holiday, stop by for a tour and tasting!
  • Sunday – Nov. 28: 12pm – 5pm
    Sunday’s are pretty low key, so if you need a post relative / pre-back to work break, this is a great day to do it.

So if you’ve got family and friends in town and you want to show them a good time (or they’re driving you crazy and you need a moment of peace), drop on by this week. We’ll be happy to see you.

» Click here for driving directions
» Click here for What’s on Tap and In Bottle
» Click here for the Vintage Bottle list (changes daily)

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T.E.A. Party Update — What we’ll be tasting

Tonight is the “Other” T.E.A. party and our brewers have released the final list of the Traditional Experimental Ales (T.E.A.s) candidates. And what a wide-ranging slate it is. From Plantain and Coconut stouts to Caramel Apple Ales, everyone of these presents a palate pleasing, puckering, and possibly perplexing, party platform that you partisans can get behind. (Or not.)

Here’s the list of T.E.A. Party candidates we’ll be presenting for your consideration tonight:

  1. TEA 1 — Mellow Yellow (French Oak barrel-aged Amigo) with fresh lemon zest and Black Tea
  2. TEA 2 — Avant Garde Farmhouse Ale with Caramel Apple Rooibos Tea
  3. TEA 3 — Mongo Double IPA with Mango Ceylon Black Tea
  4. TEA 4 — Red Barn Saison with Orange Ginger Mint Tea
  5. TEA 5 — Red Barn Saison with Ginger Lemon Grass Green Tea
  6. TEA 6 — Old Viscosity with Green Rooibos Plantain Coconut Tea

It’s up to you to exercise your rights, so get out and vote! Polls open at 6pm in the Lost Abbey tasting room and close promptly at 9pm. Be there and vote for your favorite beer!

More information on the time, place, costs, etc. is on our website here: The Other Tea Party: You Decide

PS: Many thanks to our friends at the Republic of Tea for providing the Teas we’re partying with. Visit them online at www.republicoftea.com

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American Craft Beer Week Celebration

Celebrate with us May 21 - 23

Celebrate American Craft Beer Week at The Lost Abbey this Friday, May 21 through Sunday, May 23!

We’ll be doing $3 and $4 pints on some of the beers than began the San Diego brewing revolution (from our own “Founding Father” Tomme Arthur), as well as specials on many of the newer beers (including a few barrel-aged wonders) that cemented our region’s status as the new Beer Capitol of America.

The celebration starts at 4pm on Friday, May 21st and continues all weekend long. See you there!

Scheduled Barrel Specials (4oz – $3 | 16oz – $8):

  • Friday (4pm – 8pm)
    The Angel’s Share (Bourbon Barrel) — The beer that started it all!
  • Saturday (12pm – 5pm)
    Red Poppy — Blossoms in your mouth!
  • Sunday (12pm – 4pm
    Older Viscosity — Molly’s Favorite Favorite!

(Oh — and don’t forget to bring your powdered wig and best revolutionary attire and sign our giant Beer Declaration of Independence.)

For more information on American Craft Beer week and a list of events, visit: http://www.americancraftbeerweek.org/

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Holiday Tasting Room Hours

We’re pleased to announce extended tasting room hours for the holidays! For the weeks of Christmas and New Years, our hours will be as follow:

Special Holiday Tasting Room Hours:

Christmas Week

  • Dec 23 (Wed) – 12pm to 4pm
  • Dec 24 (Thu) – 12pm to 4pm
  • Dec 25 (Fri) – Closed
  • Dec 26 (Sat) – 12pm to 5pm
  • Dec 27 (Sun) – 12pm to 4pm
 New Year’s Week:

  • Dec 31 (Thu) – 12pm to 4pm
  • Jan 1 (Fri) – 2pm to 8pm (extended hours)
  • Jan 2 (Sat)– 12pm to 5pm
  • Jan 3 (Sun) – 12pm to 4pm

You can read all the details about our newly re-modeled tasting room right here, get directions, etc. right here.

We also have this week’s Vintage Bottle list here.

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Vintage Bottles at the New Tasting Bar

Along with the opening of our new tasting room and bar, we’re please to announce the launch of our Vintage Beers List, a rotating collection of rare and unusual Port Brewing and Lost Abbey beers available by the bottle during tasting room hours.

Each week we’ll dig into the archives and pull out a limited selection of bottled rarities, magical one offs, and legendary vintages for exclusively for sale — and consumption — in our new tasting room. For most selections, a total of 12 bottles will be available for purchase over the course of the weekend’s public tasting hours.

Our first Vintage Bottle List kicks off this Friday, December 11, 2009 at 4 pm.

Here’s what will be available:

vintage bottle list

December 11 – December 13, 2009

Beer Vintage Size Price
Amazing Grace 2007 750 ml $35
Brother Levonian 2009 750 ml $12
Cuvee de Tomme 2007 375 ml $40
Cuvee de Tomme 2008 375 ml $25
Cuvee de Tomme 2009 375 ml $15
Duck Duck Gooze 2009 750 ml $40
Gift of the Magi 2007 750 ml $18
Gift of the Magi 2008 750 ml $15
Gift of the Magi 2009 750 ml $12
Isabelle Proximus 2007 750 ml $50
Ne Goeien 2007 750 ml $12
Older Viscosity 2008 375 ml $18
Older Viscosity 2009 375 ml $15
Red Poppy 2008 375 ml $20
Red Poppy 2009 375 ml $15
Saint’s Devotion 2008 750 ml $15
Santa’s Little Helper 2006 220z $12
Santa’s Little Helper 2007 220z $10
Santa’s Little Helper 2008 220z $8
Santa’s Little Helper 2009 220z $6
Santa’s Little Helper – Full Flight All 22 oz $32
Second Anniversary 2008 22oz $8
Signature Ale 2007 750 ml $12
Sinner’s Blend 2008 375 ml $30
Ten Commandments 2007 750 ml $18
Ten Commandments 2008 750 ml $15
Ten Commandments 2009 750 ml $12
The Angel’s Share (brandy) 2006 750 ml $55
The Angel’s Share (brandy) 2008 375 ml $15
The Angel’s Share (bourbon) 2009 375 ml $15
The Angel’s Share (bourbon) 2009 750 ml $30
Veritas 003 2007 750 ml $50
Veritas 004 2008 750 ml $40
Yellow Bus
(Includes two Lost Abbey Rastal Crystal Tumblers)		 2007 750 ml $75

Bottle purchases are for brewery tasting room consumption only and limited to stock on hand

» Printable List: Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey Vintage Beer List – December 11 – 13, 2009 (Acrobat PDF)