Dear Taproom Friend & Baird Beer Enthusiast:

The onset of cooler weather and shorter days announces the arrival of the season for the enjoyment of hearty, warming and complexly potent ales.  We are pleased to greet the season with the release of our 2011 version of West Coast Wheat Wine. 

New Seasonal Baird Beer Releases:

*West Coast Wheat Wine 2011 (ABV 9%):

Wheat Wine is a beer style born on the U.S. West Coast in the 1980s, thought to have  been originally brewed at the Rubicon brewery-pub in Sacramento, California.  It has as its progenitor the British Barely Wine style.  A Wheat Wine, generally, is characterized by a rich and hearty complexity that is lightened and made a touch sprite by a predominantly wheat, rather than barley, malt base.  It is a style representative of the irreverent creativity and unrelenting passion that are hallmarks of craft brewing on the West Coast of the United States.  Baird West Coast Wheat Wine is crafted in annual homage to the skilled brewing artisans and fearless beer entrepreneurs who have pioneered craft brewing on America’s great West Coast!

This 2011 version of West Coast Wheat Wine contains no character malt whatsoever and thus appears in a wonderfully hazy hue of sunset gold.   The flavor is characterized by a deep, layered wheat malt complexity that is complemented  beautifully by a citrus-fruit accented hop character (exclusive use of U.S. West Coast hops:  Citra, Centennial, Cascade, Ahtanum).   At packaging, West Coast Wheat Wine is krausened in order to add further flavor complexity and to produce a piquant all-natural carbonation.  

West Coast Wheat Wine 2011 will begin pouring from our Taproom taps on Wednesday, November 23 (which happens to be a Japan national holiday — appreciation of labor day).  It also will be available at other fine Baird Beer retailing pubs and restaurants throughout Japan.  Bottles (633 ml) can be purchased by individual consumers direct from the brewery via our online E-Shop.

Cheers!

Bryan Baird