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Introducing Farmer’s Reserve No 3 & 4
Almanac is proud to announce the latest additions to our seasonal barrel aged beer program! Combining our love of barrel aged sour beers and local farms, our Farmer’s Reserve series capture seasonal harvests in complex sour ale form. These new offerings are available in 375ml bottles and limited draft starting mid-May. Farmer’s Reserve No. 3 [...]
Farm to Barrel
We’re proud to announce the release of our new line of 375ml Farm to Barrel beers. Since Almanac’s very beginning we’ve worked hard at developing an epic barrel-aging program. Simply put: we are infatuated with barrel aging. Oak aged beers are some of the most exciting and flavorful brews out there. Drawing inspiration from the sour beers [...]
Announcing Southern California Distribution
We’re happy to announce that we are bringing our beers to sunny Southern California starting January 1st, 2013! We’ve partnered with California Craft Distributors to distribute our Farm-to-Bottle beers in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. We’re thrilled to be expanding availability outside of the Bay Area and getting our craft beers into the hands [...]
California Table Beers
We’re proud to introduce our year-round, farm-to-bottle California Table Beer Series. Our Honey Saison and Extra Pale Ale are the first Almanac brews available year-round in convenient 12oz. bottles. Perfectly balanced, these beers are brewed with California barley, hand-selected additions from local farms, citrusy hops and a touch of oak. Whether shared with friends over [...]
Sausage Making with Fatted Calf
As long as man has been stuffing ground anonymous bits of pork into other unmentionable parts of the pig, he has also been pairing it with beer. Beer and sausage are such a natural pairing that it’s the gold standard of baseball games and most Anthony Bourdain “No Reservations” episodes. We decided to up [...]
Heirloom Organic Gardens
Heirloom Organic Gardens looks just like you want your organic farm to look—small fields of baby heirloom varietals, surrounded by rolling hills and filled with cool coastal breezes. Even Grant looks like the very embodiment of an organic farmer. His passion for sustainable agriculture is palpable and inspiring, and it comes through in the quality [...]
Hamada Farm | Kingsburg, CA | Dec. 28, 2011
Hamada Farm is situated in Kingsburg, California, a quiet hamlet just south of Fresno. First established by Cliff’s great-grandfather Shotaro Hamada in 1921, this family run farm now produces a bountiful selection of year round fruits. We visited the farm at the height of citrus season just before the new year to pick out the perfect blend [...]
Chef Brett Cooper + Farmhouse Pale
Chef Brett Cooper was nice enough to let us into his kitchen as he prepared a pairing to go with our Farmhouse Pale with Plums. What he came up with was simply delicious: local black cod atop a mix of seasonal beans with a mushroom-umeboshi stock. Here is how he put the dish together: Local [...]
Twin Girls Farm: Yettem, CA
Twin Girls Farm is an amazing place. Located just southeast of Fresno against the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, it’s a patchwork quilt of organic farmland pieced together over several decades by the Sanchez family. Nestled in the quiet town of Yettem, California (population 211!), Nacho and his wife Cassi run a great operation—one they [...]
Almanac Beer – The Movie!
When Turnstyle News asked if they could bring a camera to film us at our early stages of launching Almanac Beer, we enthusiastically said yes. What neither we nor Kai (the man behind the camera) could know was just how long of a trip it would be. As our launch process dragged on, Kai was there, [...]
This Season’s Offering
