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Courtesy of Derek Wolfgram San Jose-based Clandestine Brewing’s Agent Provocateur Doppelbock offers a hint of toasted bread and toffee. While 2020 may not have been anyone’s favorite year for a host of reasons, it was a great year for California breweries at the Great American Beer Festival, with 63 of 272 medals being awarded to California breweries. Following are a variety of medal-winning Golden State-brewed beers I’ve had the opportunity to enjoy over the past few months. • Clandestine Brewing, San Jose: Agent Provocateur, Gold Medal, German-Style Doppelbock. Deep brown with a creamy, persistent beige head and ruby highlights, the aroma showcases rich malt complexity, with intense toasted bread and toffee character, as well as light perfumy yeast esters and subtle herbal noble hops. Similarly, the flavor is dominated by intense dark bready maltiness, while simultaneously coming across as well-attenuated and not particularly sweet. With just enough hop ....
Jake Deardorff After being closed for nearly a year, Align Brewing has reopened with 16-ounce crowlers, growler fills, and outdoor, on-premise service. Even if you’re a devoted San Diego beer fan, it wouldn’t be totally surprising if you were under the impression Align Brewing had closed its doors for good. Back in the spring of 2019, word got out that owner Andrew Heino was leaving San Diego for a brewing opportunity in Hawaii and hoping to sell the small Miramar brewery he’d opened in the Miralani Makers District. Place 8680 Miralani Drive, San Diego A sale did take place, and buyer Guillermo Nasser inconspicuously took the reins over the course of that summer. “The transition was very quiet,” Nasser acknowledges. “It just happened, and people thought we were closed.” ....