Sweet Stout – Our Winter Seasonal Ale
It’s true San Diego. Winter is here. We were all made abruptly aware by the reported 400 traffic accidents reported the day of our first major rain storm. 400! How about a toast to our emergency responders? As a former beach lifeguard for the city of San Diego, I know they love their job. But it’s sometimes thankless. We at TailGate Beer say cheers!
Temperatures are dropping and holiday gift giving typically means an exciting time for beer drinkers. Holiday warmers and winter releases have been coming out sooner and sooner. Some companies releasing them in October! And why not? There are a number of delicious beers that we only get to sample a few precious months of the year. Why not stretch that availability? I love having more beer selection. That’s why TailGate offers 5 year round releases!
As has been our winter custom, Sweet Stout is our Winter Seasonal. It has developed quite a following and we have been receiving a number of inquiries about where to find it this year. I sadly have a good news/bad news situation. Good news is we are selling more beer than we ever expected to in our first two years of operations. You are responsible for that, thank you! Bad news? We’re selling so much beer that we needed to make an inventory decision this winter. To keep up with continued demand and in attempting to continue expansion, we need to focus on our main lineup of year round releases. At this point and time we will not be brewing Sweet Stout.
I personally am staying optimistic and hope to be able to brew a very special release batch of the Sweet Stout with the turn of the New Year. I would like to at the very least send out a small batch of 15-30bbl’s. Cross your fingers everyone and hope for a holiday miracle!
As a sidenote: we receive a number of emails and calls about where to find TailGate Beer. How to order by the case or even keg. Please contact our general email and we’ll make sure your stockings are stuffed this year!
Thank you everyone for your continued support!
Cheers!
Wesley Keegan – Owner