LA-beer-week-headerPhoto: Brewing up Unity last year for L.A. Beer Week 2010
The L.A. Beer Week team has come to a decision. Last year, “Unity, L.A.’s Team beer“, a California Common (aka Steam beer) was brewed by the L.A. Beer Week Committee on a hot autumn day at Eagle Rock Brewery.  This year, the creative crew came up with a brand new recipe but the name will remain. Eagle Rock Brewery Co-founder Jeremy Raub explains the Autumn Saison, a collaborative beer concocted by Raub and Craftsman’s Mark Jilg, which will be brewed with help from some of L.A.’s craft beer advocates.

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After getting suggestions from some of the LABW team, Jay Baum, Mark Jilg and I distilled those ideas down into a final recipe for this year’s batch: An Autumn Saison, made with locally sourced Tamarind. We had also discussed using local honey, although in consideration of our vegan friends, we may want to exclude that ingredient.

The finished beer will be a slightly hazy, light copper color and will have the subtle citrus and woodsy aromas of Tamarind. Finishing between 6-7% abv, the beer will be strong enough to commemorate the occasion, yet “session-able” enough to keep our heads on straight.

We’re planning on releasing the beer at the beginning of the LABW festivities, so that many of the participating restaurants and bars will be able to serve it at their events. The beer will be available on draft and a small amount will be available in bottles. (Yes, we’re actually going to bottle some!!!)

Also, we will keep the same name as last year, “Unity” to represent the unified idea of creating a better beer culture in our city, and to represent the support we all lend to each other in our industry.

The beer will be brewed this week and will be available for your mouth before and during L.A. Beer Week. L.A. Beer Week is really TWO weeks this year, October 10 – 23. There will be a Stone Brewing Co. kick-off event (details yet to be announced) and a closing festival at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles on October 23, 12 – 4 PM. Tickets for the closing festival will go on sale starting August 15.

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Follow the fun of L.A. Beer Week right here, and take a look back at our coverage of last year’s festivies during L.A. Beer Week 2010

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