Blog Post Number 00001

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By Brian Schmitz in Blog on October 26, 2016

Welcome to our new blog, aka my personal rantspace/soapbox and your glimpse into what’s brewing behind the scenes.

I’d like to start out by saying thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for your support. We opened Lucky Luke Brewing Company nearly a year ago to a tremendous outpour of support, and you haven’t let up. We’ve met so many great people and forged some amazing relationships in our little brewery, and I just don’t have the words to express my gratitude. Thank you for letting us do something we have so much fun doing for a living.

So here we are, almost a year behind us now. We opened our doors in late November last year with 4 beers on the menu, a staff made up almost entirely of volunteers and a seemingly bottomless tank of ambition. Since then we have added nearly 30 beers to our rotating tap list, poured our beers at more festivals than I can count, employed a staff of seven amazing beer loving folks, added a “brewery-mobile” complete with Lucky Luke logos plastered all over, and have started sending our beers out to a plethora of amazing bars and restaurants in both the Los Angeles and Ventura counties. In between tending bar, visiting accounts, building projects around the brewery and trying my hardest to remember to be a husband and father whenever possible, it occurred to me that it was about time our website received some updating. We teamed up with the very talented folks over at Headspace Creative to add some bells and whistles and once we opened this thing up, we found that over 800 of you had signed up for our non-existent mailing list! Not only were you thirsty for great craft beer, but thirsty for info as well! We’ll be sending out some fun things on that mailing list in the near future, so keep an eye out.

So, without further delay, here’s what is in store at Lucky Luke:

  • Bottles! We just finished a small bottling run that included our beloved barrel aged Belgian Golden Strong “Actuary”. Keep your eyes peeled for a release party celebrating our very first bottles of our very first barrel aged beers. Also, as our bottling production increases, you’ll start to see our beers in your favorite bottle shops and grocery stores. Please go grab them as soon as you see them. Share them with friends, take them to barbecues, take funny pictures of yourself with them during your travels. Spread the love man!

  • Sour beer! We are finally geared up to start producing small batches of traditionally soured beers. If we were any more excited about this, our heads would explode. Look for these beers to be released in very small quantities here and there. We’ll announce when these very special beers will be released and we can’t wait to get them to you.

  • Barrel aged beer! Finally, after what seemed like forever, some of the beers we laid down in bourbon barrels in the tap room will be ready for bottling, and your happy belly. Again, very small quantities will be available as they get bottled up. Stay tuned for release details on our bourbon barrel aged porter as well as our imperial stout.

  • Special events! The tap room and patio is home to some awesome parties. We have birthdays, food pairings, paint nights, yoga in the brewery, retirement parties, team building parties, bridal expos, charity events, car shows, comedy nights, live music, food trucks, costume parties, a pumpkin carving contest, movie night on the patio, and even a few weddings. Looking for a special place to hold your event? Let us know. Looking for something fun to do while exploring some great beers and make a ton of new friends? We’ve gotcha covered.

Be sure to follow our Facebook and Instagram accounts:

as well as our new fancy shmancy calendar on our website here: http://luckylukebrewing.com/events/ for upcoming event details.

This winter is gearing up to be even more amazing than last year (if that’s even possible), and we couldn’t do it without you. Thanks for being so thirsty!

Cheers,

Brian

Paul Soriano