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Christmas in July Celebration 2012
Our annual beer release and party to benefit the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots Foundation!
Join us for a day of Christmas time festivities, great food and beer to celebrate the release of bourbon barrel-aged Santa’s Little Helper and collect toys and cash to benefit the Marine Corp’s Toys for Tots foundation.
The Details:
- When: Saturday, July 14, 2011; 11am to 8pm.
- Where: The Lost Abbey/Port Brewing, San Marcos, San Diego County, CA
- How Much: Photos with Santa, food and entertainment are all FREE when you bring a new, unwrapped toy valued at $15. No toy? That’s okay. Give a $15 cash donation to Toys for Tots at the door and you’re in! (Beers are all regular price!)
Events on tap:
Beer releases:
- 2012 Bourbon Barrel-aged Santa’s Little Helper – 22oz bottles; $15 ea. / 6 bottle limit. Bottle sales begin at 12pm.
Food & Beer:
- Food – Entrants will receive a ticket good for food at any of the four vendors in our mobile food court
- On Tap – All of The Lost Abbey & Port Brewing’s full regular tap line-up, plus a few secret specialties (more on those as we approach the event…)
Activities:
A Visit from St. Nick
Santa Claus loves to visit us while he’s on vacation in San Diego! He’ll be dropping by the brewery from 12pm – 5pm so you can get you, your friends’ and family professionally photographed with him. Santa’s photo schedule will be 12-1, 2-3, 4-5 & 6-7
Toys for Tots toy drive and fundraiser
- Toy Drive — Bring a new, unwrapped toy valued at $15 or more to benefit Toys for Tots
- Giving Tree – Make an additional $15 cash donation to Toys for Tots (above & beyond the unwrapped toy) and you get to select a gift from the Christmas Tree. Gifts will include rare bottles, Port Brewing & Lost Abbey gear and tickets to our legendary Barrel Night during San Diego Beer Week.
Vodcast #12 The Lost Abbey Propaganda
Happy Birthday Port Brewing & The Lost Abbey!
Location
Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey, 155 Mata Way, Suite 104, San Marcos, CA 92069.
Date / Time(s):
Saturday May 12, 2011-Two sessions
We’ve sold out completely each year, 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.
Click Below to Purchase Tickets (via Brown Paper Tickets)
Watch Online
Anniversary Schedule of Events
Attending our Sold Out 5th Anniversary Celebration? Not attending but interested in lurking outside and seeing what’s going on? Well, we’ve ordered up some great weather (partly sunny, mid-60’s) and put together an amazing list of everything in store for the day:
All Day Events
official hashtag
#port5th
(tweet it!)
Live Webcast
We’ll be broadcasting live all day! Andy Killion (aka @Metromixsd !) will be covering the entire event live with interviews, chats and fun. If you’re attending, you’re invited to step into the broadcast booth and say hello to everyone. If you’re watching from your computer, tablet or phone, you’re invited to chat with Andy and his guests via our Ustream broadcast channel!
Live broadcast begins at 11am PDT.
Click here to download the phone app and watch the broadcast.
Barrel House Tours
Explore the mysteries of the Lost Abbey barrel archives with Barrel Master & Lead Brewer, Ryan Fields. Ryan will be leading two tours per session. Each tour takes approximately 30 minutes and is limited to 35 people. (Register early to ensure your slot. This fills up quickly!)
Session One Tours: 12pm | 2pm – Session Two Tours: 5pm | 7pm
You must sign up to go on the tour! Registration will be at the entrance to the barrel house.
Live Music
This year we’re pleased to host not one, but two live bands in the brewhouse for your listening pleasure. Session One will be host to the vintage-tinged garage, folk, rock and roll sounds of Kiera and the Lesbians. Session Two will be our favorite lounge lizards, The Professors, and their special brand of surf-styled rock and roll. Music starts at noon.
Food, food, food
Chefs Jason Danderand and Steve Owen will be steaming, smoking, BBQing and frying their way through a whole raft of San Diego-style street foods. Street food not your thing? The magic pizza trailer will also be on hand to cooking up pies fresh and hot! Water and soft drinks will also available courtesy of Dr Pepper.
Food and drinks will be in the outdoor pavilion next to the barrel house.
What’s On Tap
What’s a brewery birthday party without plenty of beer? The brewers have dug deep into the archives to fully stock both bars (the main bar as well as our new barrel room bar) with a huge array of Port Brewing & Lost Abbey beers. All of the following will be on tap at the main bar as well as in the barrel room:
The regulars (1 taster ticket)
- Port Brewing
- Anniversary – Hoppy, Strong Pale Ale
- Hot Rocks – Stein Lager
- Mongo – Double IPA
- Old Viscosity – Dark Strong Ale
- Panzer Pils – Imperial Pilsner
- Santa’s Little Helper – Imperial Stout
- Shark Attack – Double Red Ale
- Wipeout – West Coast IPA
- The Lost Abbey
- Avant Garde – Biere de Garde
- Devotion – Belgian Blond
- Judgment Day – Belgian Quad with Raisins
- Red Barn – Saison
- Saison Blanc – Light Saison with Green Raisins & Pepper
- Serpent’s Stout – Belgian Sweet Stout
- Ten Commandments – Belgian Strong Ale
The Specialties (3 taster tickets)
- Ad Lib (2011) – Special Limited Release Blend made with Rye Barrel Serpent’s Stout, Bourbon Midnight Expression and Bourbon Judgment Day. Only 50 five gallon kegs of this are going into distribution, so this may be your one and only chance to try a legendary Lost Abbey one-off blends!
- Angel’s Share – Brandy Barrel (2011) – Barleywine aged in Brandy Barrels
- Framboise de Amorosa (2011) – Raspberry Sour Aged in Wine Barrels
- Red Poppy (2011) – Flanders-style Red with Sour Cherries aged in Wine Barrels
- Older Viscosity (2011) – Dark Strong Ale Aged in Bourbon Barrels
…Expect other “secret” specialties throughout the day as well! (Watch for the DOBO lurking about.)
Remember, eight taster tickets come with your admission, but additional tickets will also be available for $1 each.
Whew…
See you there! (And if not, we’ll see you on the web.)
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.
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!
Port Brewing to kick off American Craft Beer Week with “Toast Heard `Round the World”
Brewery will celebrate with a live webcast toast at its 3rd Anniversary party May 9
Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey will be kicking off American Craft Beer Week next month with a “Toast heard `round the world” during the brewery’s 3rd Anniversary Celebration on May 9, 2009.
Inaugurated in 2006 with a U.S. Congressional resolution (House Resolution 753), American Craft Beer Week is a celebration highlighting the culture and contributions of craft beer to the nation.
From May 11 through 17, 2009 craft breweries across the country will be holding special events and encouraging beer lovers to sign the Declaration of Beer Independence affirming their support of small, independent American craft breweries.
Much the way the battle at Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts (immortalized by Ralph Waldo Emerson as “the shot heard `round the world”) presaged the American war for Independence, Port Brewing’s Toast heard `round the world will be the opening salvo in the week-long celebration of America’s growing independent brewery movement.
To be given by Port Brewing’s three-time Great American Beer Festival brewer of the year, Tomme Arthur, those who can’t attend the brewery’s 3rd Anniversary Celebration in person are invited to participate by tuning into the brewery’s live web broadcast and raising a glass along with Arthur and guests.
The toast is scheduled for May 9, 2009 at 5pm Pacific Daylight Time and can be seen on the Lost Abbey brewcam.
More information on the Port Brewing / Lost Abbey Anniversary party can be found here.
For more information on American Craft Beer Week and special events being held at craft breweries around the country, please visit the American Craft Beer week website or at its Facebook page.