{"id":247532,"date":"2014-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/hess-brewing-shares-the-love\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T07:00:00","slug":"hess-brewing-shares-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/hess-brewing-shares-the-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Hess Brewing shares the love"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Park brewery collaborates with other local brewers for \u2018Hess Fest\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Jen Van Tieghem |\u00a0Uptown News<\/p>\n

Starting as the smallest production brewery in San Diego in 2010, the past four years have seen considerable growth for North Park-based Mike Hess elaborando cerveza<\/a>. The company now boasts a 12,500-square-foot facility for brewing and tasting, a second tasting room in Miramar and ample distribution throughout San Diego County. At its North Park tasting room, it will celebrate this laudable growth at its impending fourth anniversary celebration \u2014 a.k.a \u201cHess Fest\u201d \u2014 on Saturday, July 19 with bells and whistles to mark the milestone.<\/p>\n

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The home of Mike Hess\u2019 operation lies in the heart of craft beer country. The brewery is located at 3812 Grim Ave. one block from University Avenue, literally just steps away from all the action in North Park.<\/p>\n

Ticket holders for Hess Fest will enjoy unlimited tastings of both Mike Hess beers and those from 10 guest breweries starting at 12:30 p.m. with last call at 4:30 p.m. and a commemorative glass at the end of the day. The ticket also includes four food samples from participating vendors including Slater\u2019s 50\/50, Waypoint Public, URBN Pizza and several other eateries. Full-size portions will be available for purchase as well. Plus, local bands Sandollar and The Routine will provide music.<\/p>\n

In addition to having their standard lineup of beers on hand, Hess Brewing also created a fourth anniversary beer to serve. Anno Quarto is an Imperial IPA powered by Simcoe and Amarillo hops and coming in strong at 10.75 percent ABV. The beer will also be bottled for distribution and available at the tasting rooms.<\/p>\n

Another impressive undertaking for Hess Fest involved the handiwork of 10 other breweries and one of Hess\u2019 flagship brews, the Grazias Vienna Cream Ale.\u00a0\"SDUN<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cInside the brewery, we can\u2019t serve anyone else\u2019s beer,\u201d owner Hess explained. \u201cSo our work-around was to do this collaboration cask thing. We prepared the beer and got it ready to be \u2018cask-ified.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The breweries tapped by Hess (bad beer pun intended) to participate showed up with everything from hops to honey to coffee beans to add to their variation of the beer.<\/p>\n

\u201c[We] filled up right then with the beer we had out of our fermenter and capped them up,\u201d Hess said of the process. \u201dThey sat in here for a few weeks and now they\u2019re all in the fridge.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the 10 guest casks, both Hess tasting room crews and the brewers were asked to make their own version of the beer \u2014 making for 13 varieties in all.<\/p>\n

The casks will be tapped during the VIP hour of Hess Fest, which is already sold out, but there\u2019s good news for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe festival is out in the street and the parking lot adjacent so we can have the tasting room open,\u201d Hess said. \u201cPeople that are at the main event have in and out privileges. [In the tasting room] they can buy a taster or a pint of any of the casks.\u201d<\/p>\n

This also goes for beer lovers without tickets to Hess Fest who want to stop in for these one-of-a-kind casks \u2014 while supplies last, of course.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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