Camino de Santiago “Cafe con leche” Beer!!!!!

[Vacajoe]

The craft beer movement in Northern California turns out some amazingly different beers, but this one should be of interest to everyone on the site! Even better, it was on sale...

 

[Devon Mike]

I've had a few of these on the Camino....

 

[LesR]

The craft beer movement in Northern California turns out some amazingly different beers, but this one should be of interest to everyone on the site! Even better, it was on sale...View attachment 40717View attachment 40718

Hmmm... Brewed and bottled in Pittsburg CA? and the connection to the camino is???

 

[trecile]

Hmmm... Brewed and bottled in Pittsburg CA? and the connection to the camino is???

The brewery is probably owned by a Camino addict.

 

[LesR]

Maybe - but I would put my money on pure commercial interests..

 

[Camino Addict]

The brewery is probably owned by a Camino addict.

I wish I owned both those breweries!

 

[Vacajoe]

The partners biked the Camino and started brewing upon their return. Sounds like they’ll be opening a taphouse in San Jose very soon.

 

[JennyH94]

What a great story Vacajoe - it shows how life-changing the Camino can be.
I really like the bottle - great design and I think it's wonderful that the brewers' story is shared on the bottle.
I'd love to know what it tastes like! Could you let us know?
Thanks and cheers from Oz -
Jenny

 

[Vacajoe]

http://content-magazine.com/home/camino-brewing-company/

 

[JennyH94]

http://content-magazine.com/home/camino-brewing-company/

Thanks so much Vacajoe for the link to the article about Nathan and Allen. Gosh - what an interesting article. Good on them! I wish them every success with their Camino beer business.
Cheers from Oz -
Jenny

 

[Pelegrin]

http://content-magazine.com/home/camino-brewing-company/

The article says:
"Nuberu, named after the Galician god of storms, is fresh and bright, a hoppy pale ale."

"Nuberu" wouldn´t be a god, but a fantastic being in the Asturian mithology (not Galician).

In Galicia the name would be "Nubeiro", but there they are not so popular as in Asturias.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

From the magazine puff piece "an homage to the milk stout with espresso that the Spaniards drink daily"

From the company website "Started as gypsy brewers after coming home from a 1,900 mile cycling pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago trail across Spain."

I think these guys are sampling far too much of their own wares!

 

[caminoagogo]

Oh wow! Thanks, @Vacajoe, for posting. I'm mad keen to try this. If any beer nerds are doing the Camino from April 23- May 23, keep an eye out for a guy in a Dave's Brewery Tours t-shirt or hat. That'll be me. I'm a tour guide in Sydney with Dave's and would love to grab a beer with you and talk all things beer and El Camino.

 

[november_moon]

Yep, we are anxiously awaiting the opening of their tap room. It's down the street from us

 

[november_moon]

The tap room is open! We went down there yesterday for the grand opening. It went really well. The beer is excellent, the tap room is nicely done, and the crowd was really good. They opened at 2pm and we got there about 2:30 - they already had a fairly full house with more people arriving. I saw a couple Facebook posts from that evening that showed that they were still going strong. So it looks like the grand opening was an unmitigated success.

Someone asked what the beer tastes like. The Cafe Con Leche Stout is a good, solid stout style, but not overly heavy like some can be. They brew it with coffee, so you get the coffee notes in the beer. It's very well balanced. We also had the Baerista Brown - it's a brown ale, which is one of my favorite styles. Again, solid beer - good balance between hops and malts, excellent flavor. We'll definitely be back to try their other styles. They had a saison that looked really promising.