Announcing the January/February 2013 Platinum Strains

We’re beyond excited to announce the first batch of 2013 Platinum Strains, which will be released in January.

Be sure to ask your homebrew shop about them and plan your brews accordingly!

WLP022 Essex Ale Yeast
Flavorful British style yeast. Drier finish than many British ale yeast. Produces slightly fruity and bready character.    Good top fermenting yeast strain, is well suited for top cropping (collecting). This yeast is well suited for classic British milds, pale ales, bitters, and stouts. Does not flocculate as much as WLP002 and WLP005.

WLP510 Bastogne Belgian Ale Yeast:
A high gravity, Trappist style ale yeast. Produces dry beer with slight acidic finish. More ‘clean’ fermentation character than WLP500 or WLP530. Not as spicy as WLP530 or WLP550. Excellent yeast for high gravity beers, Belgian ales, dubbels and trippels.

WLP815 Belgian Lager Yeast
Clean, crisp European lager yeast with low sulfur  production. The strain originates from a very old brewery in West Belgium. Great for European style pilsners, dark lagers, Vienna lager, and American style lagers.

11/16-18: White Labs Walks for the Cure!

 

This weekend, several White Labs employees will be walking a total of 60 miles around San Diego County to raise money for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity. Starting Friday 11/16,  Lisa White, Neva Parker, Kara Taylor, Maureen Lalonde, Allison Wells, and Michael Fuller will begin the walk at Del Mar Fairgrounds as part of the 18-person Beer 4 Boobs team that is aspiring to raise $45,000.00 for the cause!

We want to give a big shoutout to our fantastic sponsors: HopUnion, Green Flash, Ballast Point, Lost Abbey, Pizza Port, Northwestern Mutual, Maui Brewing Company, Briess Malt & Ingredients, Sam Adams, Fredericksburg Brewing Company, Coronado Brewing Company & Sudwerk Brewery.  Thanks also go out to Bootlegger’s Brewery and The Bruery for holding some amazing pint nights and offering generous beer donations.

Below you’ll find a listing of the cheering stations for this weekend:

Friday, November 16
7:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
En Fuego Cantina Restaurant
1342 Camino Del Mar
Del Mar, CA 92014
9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
UCSD Scripps Institute of Oceanography
8580 La Jolla Shores Drive
San Diego, CA 92037
9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
12:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Taylor Library
4275 Cass Street
San Diego, CA 92109

Saturday, November 17
7:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Robb Field South
2525 Bacon Street
San Diego, CA 92107
Please park in parking lot inside park closest to Sunset Cliffs Blvd and cheer on participants as they walk between parking lot and ball fields.
9:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Robb Field North
2525 Bacon Street
San Diego, CA 92107
Please cheer on participants as they walk along OB Bike Path between water and parking lot opposite tennis courts.
10:45 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
South Mission
2600 Mission Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92109

Sunday, November 18
8:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
San Diego Visitor Info
2688 E. Mission Bay Drive
San Diego, CA 92109
11:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater
2150 Park Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92101

 

White Labs & AleSmith Collaboration Tasting

Join us on December 3rd in the White Labs Tasting Room for a very special, one time-only event. We’ve teamed up with one of our favorite breweries on the planet, the superb AleSmith Brewing Company, to put together a Tap Takeover, White Labs-style!

AleSmith provided us with some of their Wee Heavy wort and we’ve fermented it with 16 (!) different yeast strains, all of which will be on tap on Monday the 3rd for the release party (and will remain on tap until finished, which means they could be on tap for several weeks). The good folks at AleSmith had the idea to try to bring out the characteristics of a Weizen Bock in Wee Heavy using yeast and fermentation alone, and we’ve used a wide variety of strains- from Hefes to Belgians- to elicit significant changes in the flavor profile.

Simply put, this event is not to be missed!

Chris White To Visit HomeBrew USA

As part of the Customer Club Vial Redemption program, White Labs offers rewards and discounts to repeat customers who send us labels from their used vials. The ultimate reward, given to a homebrew shop that amasses 5,000 labels, sees Chris White himself paying a visit to the shop to brew a beer and hang out with fellow brewers and White Labs faithful. On Saturday, December 8^th, Chris will travel to Norfolk, VA to visit Homebrew USA where he will give a talk, answer questions, and brew an award-winning homebrew with Customer Club member Christopher Knight (a hop-forward Belgian ale brewed with coriander, grapefruit peel and chamomile!)