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Port’s Bagby Featured At Toronado NYE #craftbeer, @lostabbey

Courtesy of All About Beer

(Photo Credit: All About Beer, Julie Johnson)

If you haven’t heard by now, here it is… GABF award winner and Port Brewing’s (@lostabbey) celebrity brewer, Jeff Bagby, is leaving Port Brewing to start his own brewery.  In celebration of such a momentousness occasion, the infamous Toronado (@toronado) will be replacing all of their taps (60) with his Port Brewing beers. Taking place on New Years Eve.

If I wasn’t frequenting the Lagunitas event in Big Sur I’d be over at the Toronado consuming these great beers. 

Congrats Jeff on your new adventure.

On Friday night a couple of friends of mine made our way to a few “beer” bars in Oakland. Thanks to the Craft Brewers Conference in San Francisco this past week, there was a plethora of rare beers to be had in the Bay Area. It’s not like we don’t have enough outstanding beers on tap to indulge in, but when you have the best of the best brewers in town, and as a proud brewing City, you need to show off a bit. And that’s exactly what The Trappist (along with a few other venues) did this weekend.  For me, going to The Trappist is like… is like… going to a record store that has that really hard-to-find import 12” record. But in the case of the Trappist, it’s the hard-to-find Belgian beer on draught.  So, the first stop was Barlcay’s in Rockridge to meet my buddies coming in on the BART, just a few blocks from my house. The first beer of the evening was the always satisfying local Linden Street Black Common. Holy crap this beer is good. Think Anchor Steam but with chocolate malt - I purposely didn’t have more than one beer because I knew what the night had in store.    The second stop was The Trappist. My first beer was De Dolle Oerbier. The Oerbier being a nice and smooth Oerbier made with 6 malts and the Poperinge Goldings. The lads had the Russian River Mortification, a Belgian style Quad. The description on the menu “Big and  brown.” Only one beer at The Trappist you ask? Well, not exactly because The Trappist was so fricking crowded and we decided to go somewhere else for a little while: Beer Revolution.  The first beer at the Revo’ was “Toast” from the Moonlight Brewing co. followed by a tasting of the oak barrel aged Linden Street Black Common. As we were finishing our beer, my buddy Ryan got a text from his college buddy Jeff Bagby, the master brewer at Port, letting Ryan know that he was at The Trappist. So, we made our way back to The Trappist and had the following:  Boon Lambic Foeder #10  limited to only 100 kegs, this very rare single vintage 3 year aged lambic was a treat on none the less.   Cantillon St. Lamvinus a two year old lambic fermented in oak casks with wine grapes from France. (5%) Haandbryggeriet Norwegian Wood a smoked malty and juniper berries.  Needless to say I was a bit hungover on Saturday, but the fact that I had two super rare lambics made it all worth it. 

On Friday night a couple of friends of mine made our way to a few “beer” bars in Oakland. Thanks to the Craft Brewers Conference in San Francisco this past week, there was a plethora of rare beers to be had in the Bay Area. It’s not like we don’t have enough outstanding beers on tap to indulge in, but when you have the best of the best brewers in town, and as a proud brewing City, you need to show off a bit. And that’s exactly what The Trappist (along with a few other venues) did this weekend. 

For me, going to The Trappist is like… is like… going to a record store that has that really hard-to-find import 12” record. But in the case of the Trappist, it’s the hard-to-find Belgian beer on draught.

 So, the first stop was Barlcay’s in Rockridge to meet my buddies coming in on the BART, just a few blocks from my house. The first beer of the evening was the always satisfying local Linden Street Black Common. Holy crap this beer is good. Think Anchor Steam but with chocolate malt - I purposely didn’t have more than one beer because I knew what the night had in store.  

 The second stop was The Trappist. My first beer was De Dolle Oerbier. The Oerbier being a nice and smooth Oerbier made with 6 malts and the Poperinge Goldings. The lads had the Russian River Mortification, a Belgian style Quad. The description on the menu “Big and  brown.”

Only one beer at The Trappist you ask? Well, not exactly because The Trappist was so fricking crowded and we decided to go somewhere else for a little while: Beer Revolution. 

The first beer at the Revo’ was “Toast” from the Moonlight Brewing co. followed by a tasting of the oak barrel aged Linden Street Black Common. As we were finishing our beer, my buddy Ryan got a text from his college buddy Jeff Bagby, the master brewer at Port, letting Ryan know that he was at The Trappist. So, we made our way back to The Trappist and had the following: 

  • Boon Lambic Foeder #10  limited to only 100 kegs, this very rare single vintage 3 year aged lambic was a treat on none the less.  
  • Cantillon St. Lamvinus a two year old lambic fermented in oak casks with wine grapes from France. (5%)
  • Haandbryggeriet Norwegian Wood a smoked malty and juniper berries. 

Needless to say I was a bit hungover on Saturday, but the fact that I had two super rare lambics made it all worth it.