10 Sep San Tan Brewing Coming To CANvitational, Announces Temporary Distribution In Indianapolis
After San Tan visited Sun King’s CANvitational last year and I had some of their beer, I knew they were definitely a place I needed to visit. I had the pleasure of visiting San Tan Brewing in Chandler, Az. (outside of Phoenix) in March this year and I was able to smuggle home some Devil’s Ale in my suitcase.
Minister of Craft Beer and “spreader of the good word” Chip Mulala said he is looking forward to CANvitational, along with brewer Stephen Henderson, “whose talents are shown in our award winning brews!”
Anyway, let’s hear it from Chip:
This is our third year celebrating the almighty can!! SanTan specializes in what we call Southwestern Style Ales: beer brewed specifically for warmer climates. We do this 2 ways. We carbonate all of beers for a more effervescent taste and mouth-feel resulting in a very crisp characteristic regardless of style. We also fully attenuate our beers to make them as dry as possible (less sweet) even on traditionally sweeter beers like Fruit Wheat and Hefe!
We are actually distributing our beers in the Indy area temporarily just for this event so that people that try the beers at the festival can buy some at local beer shops, stores, craft beer bars and restaurants
We will be serving some of our mainstays at CANvitational as well as some cool special stuff.
1) HopShock IPA - (just won the 2015 Gold medal in US Open Beer Championships) Nelson Sauvin is the star in this West Coast IPA hybrid
2) Mr Pineapple Wheat - Silver medal GABF winner. Light and refreshing with RFA Certified natural pineapple juice from Costa Rica. Not sweet at all!
3) Devils Ale - Our award winning Pale is a great balanced Pale. 96 Points DRAFT Magazine
4) Seasonal Oktoberfest Lager - In a can! Classic Bavarian lager with our Southwestern style twist.
SPECIALS:
5) KiloHOP Ludicrous IPA (DIPA) - 100% Citra weighing in at just under 10% abv. 1 kilo (2.2 pounds) of Citra hops per barrel was used in the brew. Deceptively smooth and just last week was named one of the top 25 DIPA’s (#22) in the country by PASTE Magazine!
6) It’s CANZilla unleashing time! We’re bringing some special Crowlers that we call CANZilla’s for 2 special “tappings” at 2:30pm and 3:30pm FIRST: MoonJuice IPA. A beautiful example of the use of Galaxy hops! Wheat malt in the bill gives this IPA a unique mouthfeel with nice notes of passion fruit and citrus.
7) Heavy D! - This is a suped up version of our flagship Devils Ale showcased as an Imperial IPA Big bold yet still nicely balanced.
Cheers!
Rick
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