Karl Strauss Presents 31st Anniversary Scotch Ale

SAN DIEGO, CA— Legacy San Diego brewery Karl Strauss Brewing Company celebrated its 31st anniversary earlier this month with the release of their Barrel Aged Scotch Ale.

KARL’s 31st Anniversary Ale is a traditional Scotch Ale aged for 12 months in American whiskey barrels. This 11% ABV beauty was the brainchild of Karl Strauss Head Brewer Sean Albrecht. “I wanted to brew a beer that could handle aging in fresh American whiskey barrels for an entire year.” he says. “This style is malty and strong, one of the closest beer styles to whiskey, with tons of caramel notes and a full body. This beer will get more complex the longer it sits— at proper cellar temperature of course— but it’s got a nice "heat" to it now that will remind you of your favorite whiskey, or even scotch.” 

Karl Strauss Barrel-Aged 31st Anniversary Scotch Ale is available in 500mL bombers across California while supplies last. 

2020 marks the 10th year of the Changing of the Barrels anniversary tradition at Karl Strauss in which the brewery invites guests to taste the following year’s anniversary ale before it lays to rest in barrels for the next year. The Karl Struass 32nd anniversary ale is a Coconut Imperial Stout that will age in whiskey barrels.

The Karl Strauss launch date, February 2nd, was named an official Day in History by Mayor Kevin Faulconer and the city of San Diego at the 2019 Changing of the Barrels celebration. For more information about either the 31st or 32nd anniversary beers, or with any other Karl Strauss inquiries, contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.

ABOUT KARL STRAUSS BREWING COMPANY

Karl Strauss Brewing Company has been proudly independent since 1989, pioneering the craft beer scene with innovative beer releases like Aurora Hoppyalis IPA, Queen of Tarts Dark Sour, and Boat Shoes Hazy IPA. The brewery has won 110 medals since 2009 and was honored with the “Mid-Size Brewing Company of the Year” award at the Great American Beer Festival in 2016. For more information, visit www.karlstrauss.com or call the brewery at (858) 273-2739. Share it. Cheers. 

Karl Strauss’ Celebration of Independent Beer, Collabapalooza, Returns For Its Third Year

SAN DIEGO, CA— Karl Strauss Brewing Company is proud to present the third year of Collabapalooza, an indie beer collaboration celebration featuring independent San Diego craft breweries. This signature event is going down on Saturday, October 19, behind the North Park Observatory. 

Voted Best Beer Event of 2017 and 2018 by the readers of West Coaster Magazine, Collabapalooza celebrates the spirit of independent beer made in San Diego, with once-in-a-lifetime chances to taste a unique selection of one-off collaboration beers and rare releases made by more than 40 local breweries.

This collaboration festival benefits the San Diego Brewers Guild, as well as the North Park Main Street Association. Collabapalooza will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 1 to 5pm. General admission tickets cost $40 per person, with VIP priced at $60 each. All tickets include unlimited 2oz pours and a commemorative taster glass, and VIP admission also boasts early festival access and a festival t-shirt. Tickets are available for purchase here. 

The complete pour list for Collabapalooza will be announced at the end of September. The complete Collaboration Partner list is available below.

For more information about Collabapalooza, contact Emily Hutto at coop@radcraftbeer.com.

ABOUT KARL STRAUSS BREWING COMPANY

Karl Strauss Brewing Company has been proudly independent since 1989, pioneering the craft beer scene with innovative and award-winning beer releases like Aurora Hoppyalis IPA, Queen of Tarts Dark Sour, and Boat Shoes Hazy IPA. For more information, visit www.karlstrauss.com or call the brewery at (858) 273-2739. Share it. Cheers.

Karl Strauss Collaboration Beers with…     

AleSmith

Alta Brewing      

Thorn

Helix Brewing    

Belching Beaver

Stone    

Mission Brewery

Participating Breweries 

Abnormal Beer Co. with Thr3e Punk Ales & SouthNorte  

Alpine Beer Company with Pizza Port OB

Amplified Ale Works with OB Brewery & Half Door 

Automatic Brewing Co. with Gravity Heights 

Bagby Beer Company with Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company

Bay City with Thunderhawk Alements

Bitter Brothers with Stave and Nail

Black Plague with SLO Brew & My Yard Live          

Booze Brothers with Stave & Nail 

Burgeon Beer Company with Eppig Brewing         

Burning Beard Brewing with Automatic Brewing Company

Coronado Brewing Company with Ketch Brewing

Duck Foot Brewing Co. with Deft Brewing

Eppig Brewing with Home Brewing Co     

Fall Brewing Company with Artifex Brewing

Gravity Heights Brewery with Automatic Brewing Company          

Half Door with Southpark Brewing & Pizza Port Bressi Ranch

Mason Ale Works with Horus Aged Ales

Mike Hess Brewing Co. with Pariah Brewing

Mikkeller Brewing with Setting Sun Sake

Mother Earth Brewing Company with (TBD!)

New English Brewing Company with Automatic Brewing Company

Nickel Beer Co. with (TBD!)          

North Park Beer Co. with Original 40 Brewing Company  

Novo Brazil Brewing Co. with (TBD!)

Pizza Port Brewing Co. with Alpine Brewing

Pure Project with JuneShine

Resident Brewing Co. with Helia Brewing Company

Rip Current with Long Beach Beer Lab

Rouleur Brewing Company with Black Plague

San Diego Brewing Company with BnS Brewing

Second Chance Beer Company with New English Brewing

Societe Brewing Company with Burning Beard Brewing

South Park Brewing Company with Burning Beard Brewing

The Lost Abbey with Burning Beard Brewing

Thr3e Punk Ales Brewing with Abnormal Beer Co.

Thunderhawk Alements with Border X Brewing

White Labs Brewing Co. with Latchkey Brewing

Wild Barrel Brewing with Pink Boots Society

Karl Strauss and Russian River Debut Collaboration Beer: New California IPA

SAN DIEGO, CA— California brewery icons Russian River Brewing Company and Karl Strauss Brewing Company proudly introduce their collaboration beer, New California IPA. This modern India Pale Ale is the first collaboration between these storied institutions of California craft beer.

 Santa Rosa’s Russian River and San Diego’s Karl Strauss set out to brew a beer that pays homage to craft beer’s most adored beer style, the India Pale Ale. The two breweries used their collective knowledge gained over the past 30+ years in the craft brewing industry to brew a new, refined IPA. Some India Pale Ales are extremely bitter, while others overly focus on aroma and flavor with no bite, but New California IPA strikes that “Goldilocks” balance between the two. 

This beer focuses on each critical stage of hop addition: bittering, flavor, aroma, and dry-hopping. The star of this India Pale Ale is a rather new cultivar: the Pahto hop. It is a high-alpha hop that lends a palatable bitterness throughout the beer, while an all-star lineup of Strata, Ekuanot, Amarillo, and Idaho 7 hops deliver wildly diverse layers of flavors, from bright citrus to tropical fruit to resinous pine. 

New California IPA will be available on draft and in 16oz can 4-packs beginning on August 1st (which is not-so-coincidentally IPA Day!) This IPA can be enjoyed at Karl Strauss’ Tasting Room, Brewpubs, and at craft accounts throughout California. 

 For more information on New California IPA, contact Emily Hutto at coop@radcraftbeer.com.

ABOUT KARL STRAUSS BREWING COMPANY

Karl Strauss Brewing Company has been proudly independent since 1989, pioneering the craft beer scene with innovative and award-winning beer releases like Aurora Hoppyalis IPA, Queen of Tarts Dark Sour, and Boat Shoes Hazy IPA. For more information, visit www.karlstrauss.com or call the brewery at (858) 273-2739. Share it. Cheers.

Duck Foot Brewing Company Joins Karl Strauss Distributing’s Family of Brands

SAN DIEGO, CA— Karl Strauss Distributing is proud to welcome Duck Foot Brewing Company into their family of brands. Duck Foot will now be available at more retailers, bars, and restaurants in Southern California through the distribution arm of Karl Strauss Brewing Company.

“We’re teaming up with a brand that has been in the industry, knows the business really well, and has such an amazing reputation. We feel blessed to be partnering with Karl, and to be working with such an awesome team that Karl has created. We’re really excited to go forward and see what we can do together!” – Matt DelVecchio, Head Quack (CEO & Sales Manager), Duck Foot Brewing Company

Both breweries are thrilled to introduce more fans to Duck Foot’s beers. Since opening their doors in 2015, the Miramar-based brewery has become highly regarded for their quality ales, brand approachability, and fun irreverence. In conjunction with Duck Foot’s stellar branding are award-winning beers to boot. What’s more, they remain the only brewery in San Diego to produce 100% gluten reduced beers, which are tested by a third party lab to be at Celiac safe levels.

“Having a brand that is this iconic, this cool, and that we can scale across Southern California is something that is really important to us. We want to take the distribution model back to what made craft beer distributing interesting and fun, and that is: educating people, showing them there’s a better way, and teaching them about unique beers they may not have tried yet.” – Chad Heath, Senior Director of Sales and Logistics & Vice President of Marketing, Karl Strauss Brewing Company

For more information about this partnership or Karl Strauss Distributing, contact Emily Hutto at coop@radcraftbeer.com.

ABOUT KARL STRAUSS BREWING COMPANY

Karl Strauss Brewing Company has been proudly independent since 1989, pioneering the craft beer scene with innovative beer releases like Aurora Hoppyalis IPA, Queen of Tarts Dark Sour, and Boat Shoes Hazy IPA. For more information, visit www.karlstrauss.com or call the brewery at (858) 273-2739. Share it. Cheers.