June Lake Brewing
Shirts are Here ~ That's right we've got shirts, stainless growlers, cups, and all the other accouterments in stock. Tragically we're not setup for ecommerce at this point, and are seriously working ~12+ hours per day, so the logistical reality of filling one-off mail orders isn't viable (unless you want Justin to stop making beer...). So sorry, but we feel beer is more important than swag. Speaking of beer, the Hutte Double IPA will be released into the wild this Friday at 11am! So for those missing a huge hopped beer in their lives, come on by for 9.5% abv of hopalicious pallet anihilation. Also in beer news we'll be brewing our Mammoth Rock n' Dirt Milk Stout this Saturday, so expect some dirty brown lactose laden goodness available on nitro in about a month. Also on the beer front we've finally received our ABC approved 12oz bottle labels and we're selling bottled beer! Get down to Mammoth Liquors (Home of over 200 Beers), Fern Creek Market, or of course the JLB Tasting Room to get yours while they last. Due to the near extortion level pricing of the glass, labels, caps, holders, boxes and the time/labor/beer loss involved in packaging by hand, it is unknown when we'll be able to bottle again. So boogie over to the aforementioned purveyors of awesomeness to get a piece for yourself. With the DH season approaching a close the JLB TestPilot Team is in rare form and should take some top spots at the last Village Championship DH race on Kamikaze this Friday (come on out and Heckle for some Hutte DIPA), not to mention the Kamikaze Bike Games September 18th - 21st. Aside from that we've got some crazy beers coming down the pipeline and can't wait to see you on the trail, or in the tasting room. Cheers! Justin/Sarah
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Kilmister Ginger Beer ~ That's right folks, it's finally time! This Sunday at 11am we will be tapping our first 1bbl pilot batch of Kilmister Ginger Beer at our tasting room. Be there early because this stuff is going to go quick. With a 28 gallon yield we have less than two kegs worth so get it while you can. Sorry in advance, but absolutely no growler fills :-( Also on Sunday at 5:30pm we're hosting the June Lake Brewing Gran FollowMe trail ride. This is an hour to an hour and a half intermediate trail ride followed by $1 beers for all the riders that participate (that are over 21 of course). Meet at the tasting room with your favorite riding attire and wheeled apparatus at 5:30pm Sunday, and we'll head out to have some fun around 6pm. More info here - https://www.facebook.com/events/666222573452439/ In other beer news we'll be releasing our Silver Lake Saison tomorrow (Friday August 15th). This is our lightest color, flavor and alcohol beer to date. Finishing up around 4.9% ABV and 26 IBU, this beer is clean, dry and an all around good time. To round out beer releases our Archimedes Red is on track for beligeration Friday August 22nd, and the much anticipated Hutte Double IPA will be following up with ultimate palate domination the last Friday of the month (August 29th). So plan accordingly and join us on a beerventure of your own. Big thanks goes out to everyone that made Bluesapalooza two weeks ago, and the 60th annual June Lake Fireman's BBQ this past Saturday. If you missed them be sure to make it out to the upcoming Kamikaze Bike Games September 18th - 21st. Rumor has it JLB will be posted up at the upper Bullet Rock Garden for the Pro DH race Saturday the 20th to heckle and generally cause disruption. This just in: Stainless Steel Cups and Growlers are back in stock! So come on by the tasting room between 11am and 8pm any day but Tuesday (the one day we're closed) and check out what we've got ripping. Cheers! Justin/Sarah 
June Lake Brewing
LET THERE BE BEER!!! That's right we're brewing it up! After receiving blessings from the building permit deities we fired up our 15bbl system and jumped right into some JLB SmoKin Porter Love. That's right our first homebrew testbatch on our pilot system was also our first production batch on the JLB production system, and it's fermenting along nicely! So it's been busy and haven't been sleeping much, so here's the highlights -
Thanks, and Cheers! Justin/Sarah 
June Lake Brewing
Beeramid ~ The pharaohs had the right idea: pay them with beer+food and they'll move mountains. So in homage to those who've helped us get to where we are today we constructed June Lake's first ever Beeramid. Comprised solely of our first shipment of kegs, the JLB Beeramid was a marvel of modern engineering (not really, it was actually pretty sketchy). Sadly we had to deconstruct it due to the possibility of Beeramid envy from neighboring businesses (actually I was scared it would collapse on our new-to-us beerlivery vehicle). That's right we've now got 170 15.5 gallon and 174 5 gallon kegs that are in desperate need of filling with amazing beer. So next steps are to get final county building permit signoff on our production area (this week) and then start the super major cleaning mission to get everything ready to test the brew system (next week), and proceed with full-on production (soon)! That being said June 21st is looking better and better for an opening of grandeur. So get your accommodations lined up, pick out your finest Guayabera shirt, and definitely reachout if you're looking for lodging/camping/vagrancy advise. Thanks, and Cheers! Justin/Sarah 
June Lake Brewing Gad Zooks ~ Wow, totally apologize for the radio silence (last update was April Fools), but it's really been that busy. From cutting down and milling the bar (thanks for the help Johnny) to standing/placing our tanks and brewhouse, we've been checking boxes off the ever shortening list. Check a snippet of our forth coming construction time lapse - http://vimeo.com/92418265. Our Director of Visual Awesomeness (yeah Robert Bradford!) is masterminding the full time lapse for release after opening and it's going to be world detonating. So yeah this is totally happening! Here's most of the stuff we've got left:
Right now we've allotted ~20 days from the day we brew our first production batch until we can open, so we basically have a month to get the production area buttoned up, get signoff on our building permit, and start brewing. After that we can focus on getting the tasting room and signage dialed in. Twenty days is plenty time to build a tasting room with a 30'+ bar made from a 100 year old Jeffery Pine tree and a genuine meat hook from the civil war era (*not sure on accuracy of actual age). So stay tuned for developments and stop by if you want to take a look at progress, but don't get bummed if we don't have time for a full-on tour... gotta build the brewery first B-) Thanks, and Cheers! Justin/Sarah 
June Lake Brewing Funded ~ Another busy two weeks have elapsed and we're getting it done by the numbers:
Cheers! Justin/Sarah 
June Lake Brewing
Frame it Out ~ Wow, it was so busy last week we didn't even have time to bust out the bi-weekly newsletter... Don't fear, we weren't neglecting our valued TestPilots, it was just busy. From buying a used forklift (still deciding on a name/paint scheme) to framing out our entire tasting room, we had a lot going down. Oh yeah, we also got a call from our brewery supplier asking if we could take delivery of our fermenters this week. Suffice to say we've got a lot going on and we're getting closer to opening every single day. So this week we're looking to receive three of our 30bbl conical fermenters, our 30bbl HLT (big hot water tank), start and finish our wiring, and get our framing inspection signed off. Next week we plan to finish all our bathroom and internal wall plumbing, insulate the building and begin our 7k sqft sheetrock extravaganza. The JLB equity offering is going well, and if you're at all interested in owning a piece of the awesomest brewery on Earth, be sure to reach out and ask us about the details before we close the offer in a little under two weeks on Monday March 10th. Don't miss your chance (it may be the only one) to be a part of history! Thanks, and Cheers! Justin/Sarah 
 June Lake Brewing Let it Snow ~ With two feet of fresh snow over the past week, winter has finally arrived! After a frantic couple of weeks getting all our trench drains cut/broke/formed and poured, not to mention getting the all important bathroom plumbing installed/inspected and poured, we were ready for a little excursion into the wild... and Ullr provided with 24" of love! Big thanks goes out to Joe Walsh, Ramon Camacho, Doug Nelson, Phillip Michael, Johnny Kimball, Jeff Kramer, Dave Tomaszewski, Shaun Paunch Maurer, Darth Hacker, Bobman, Aaron Dore, Fitz, Mark Fogg and everyone else that made it happen, now it's time for some framing.... and more snow of course! On the beer front the second 1bbl test batch of Alpers Trout Pale Ale was bottled last week by our trusty line of bottling chimps and it turned out swimmingly. If you're in the June Lake area hit us up and swoop by the house for a taste of this approachable pale crafted from Pilsner/Wheat/Munich/Crystal malts and Cascade/CTZ/Crystal/Mt. Hood hops... it is delicious! Last weekend we brewed the second 1bbl test batch of our well received Hütte Double IPA and it's fermenting along nicely. With an OG of 1.090 and a expected final gravity of 1.018 this should yield a 9%+ DIPA with a palate annihilating 128 IBU! Oh yeah and we plan to dry hop this monster with a pound of Citra hops. To wrap it up, our equity offering and term sheet is ready to rock and we will be reaching out to those who've expressed interest in becoming a stock holder in June Lake Brewing by way of equity investment this week. We'll be hosting meetings with potential investors this week in June Lake, and Sarah will be in the San Diego area next week to do the same down south. If you've already expressed your interest in investment you'll hear from us. If you're interested and haven't reached out, email [email protected] or [email protected] for more info. Thanks, and Stay Awesome! Justin/Sarah 
June Lake Brewing Hoppy New Year ~ Wow, hard to believe we've been sending these updates out for almost a year. Seems like only yesterday we were drafting the first one talking about building our pilot system, and now here we are! HUGE THANKS goes out to all of you that have helped make this happen. From all the county, state and federal licensing, to ordering and putting the deposit our equipment, we've got a lot done... But we've still got some major hurdles to overcome. First and foremost we're working on an equity offering to raise the extra capitol we need to build this brewery. As you know we ended up getting an ideal location for an awesome production brewery, and committed to purchasing a brewing system that's large enough to scale for our future brewing needs. Suffices to say this is larger than we had originally planned, and it's going to cost a little more than we had originally budgeted and saved. This is why we went so big on our JLBKickstarter (by the way we've collected over $16k of the $21k that was pledged, and have commitment of payment for an additional $4k!). We had also planned on locking down some major SBA loans, but we didn't account for the fact a couple downhill bikes, a butt load of snowboards, and a Subaru WRX don't qualify as collateral B-) During the JLBKickstarter campaign we had a number of individuals approach us regarding equity investment. After meeting many of these people and explaining our vision, we decided making an equity offer may actually be a really good thing. First off we would achieve the funding required to make JLB a reality, but more than that we would get additional people involved in the decision making process that bring significant experience and connections to the table. So we're working with a securities attorney and a CPA specializing in craft breweries to put together a Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) for release at the end of January. We're still determining a fair share price with the CPA and attorney, but if you're interested in investing in June Lake Brewing for a piece of the company please contact Justin ([email protected]), or Sarah ([email protected]) and we'll get you all of the pertinent information when it's available later this month. Until Then Cheers! Justin/Sarah 
June Lake Brewing Waiting for Snow ~ Huzzah, our test batch of Not So Hoppy Holiday Ale has been very well received by all those who've partaken! If you haven't tried it, venture over to June and give us a holler, but you better hurry cuz there isn't much left. Getting ready to brew our second test batch of JLB Alpers Pale Ale we're toning down some of the Caramunich malts to give the brew a lighter hue, but it will still pack that same malty body balanced with a mild hoppy bite courtesy of Cascade and Mt. Hood hop additions. Waiting for our remodel permit, we're ready to get ripping on our location buildout. First order of business after we get legit is cut our trench drains and bust out some concrete (get ready to drop some more hammers boys). On the funding front we're working on putting together a private equity offering to raise the final cash we need to finish the remodel, acquire our super bitchen brew machine, and get to making beer. So if you're interested in owning a piece of the most awesome brewery ever in the coolest location in the world, stay tuned... Lastly June Mountain is open to the top, but we're still waiting for the weather to wake up. As it turns out Ullr (Old Norse patron saint of skiers and snow) had been seen hanging out on the beachs in SD catching some rays. So we went to find him... After much searching we came across some killer sunsets and beyond awesome beer, but no Ullr. Rumor had it we'd just missed him and he was already off to go party with his buddy Santa up at the North Pole before ramping up our much needed winter. So fear not, snow is on it's way! Until then enjoy some fine holiday spirits. Hoppy Holidays! Justin/Sarah 
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