‘Beers Made By Walking’ Collaborates with Three San Jose Breweries for Upcoming Tapping Party
I recently received a wonderful series of updates from Eric Steen of Beers Made By Walking, who coordinated a hike back in May in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project area with brewers Elliot Hoffman of Camino Brewing Company, Adrian Kalaveshi of Clandestine Brewing and Ryan Standridge of Uproar Brewing Company.
The three local San Jose breweries then brewed new ‘place-based beers’ inspired by the plants from the trail.
The resulting beers are set to be tapped this coming Sunday, July 14 from 3pm to 5pm at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (520 S. 1st St.), coinciding with the closing of the museum’s water-themed exhibition.
Tickets (Free)
Entry is free to the tapping event, to include talks by Eric and the brewers, but tickets are required via event registration.
Additional information and pictures, in part, from Eric’s recent updates:
Beers Made By Walking (BMBW) is a program that invites brewers to go on nature hikes and urban walks and make new “place-based beers” inspired by plants from the trail.
On Sunday, July 14th, from 3:00pm-5:00pm, BMBW will tap three craft beers that serve as drinkable, landscape portraits of the Salt Pond Restoration trail, the culmination of the collaboration between three local breweries, BMBW, and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (SJMQT), which is hosting the tapping event.
In mid May, brewers from Camino Brewing, Clandestine Brewing, and Uproar Brewing hiked along the trail of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project near San Jose.
Led by Dave Helsing, the Restoration Project’s executive project manager, the brewers learned about the edible and medicinal native plants, invasive plants, and about the importance of the wetlands area.
The three breweries then made beer inspired by what they learned on the hike.
Beers Made By Walking founder Eric Sheen shared, “We’ve worked with more than 200 breweries on Beers Made By Walking events, but we’ve never had a hike in a wetlands area, so this was a real treat.”
“We identified pickleweed, mustard, invasive grasses, New Zealand spinach, salt bush, and other plants. I’m really excited to see what the breweries have come up with!”
The tapping coincides with the closing of SJMQT’s H2Oh! Exhibition, an exhibition with “water” as the central theme.
The beer-tapping event will begin at 3:00pm with an artist talk from BMBW’s Eric Steen about how beer and art can build a sense of place.
Brewers from each brewery will also talk about how their beer was inspired by the hike in San Jose.
Beers will be served following the talks.
Entry is free, but tickets are required. For tickets, visit the museum’s event registration page.
Beer List
Announced just yesterday: the list of beers to be tapped at Sunday’s event with descriptions from the breweries:
Camino Brewing – Alviso Fresca Gose-Style Ale
Inspired by the salt ponds and the salty plants that line the Salt Pond Restoration area in Alviso, this is a lightweight Gose-style ale perfect for a sunny walk in the hot weather. The beer is made with cucumber, mint and lime for an extra refreshing character. Gose-style beers are also known for a light tartness and saltiness so we used pickleweed, which grows near the salt ponds, to give this beer extra salinity. 4.8% ABV.
Clandestine Brewing – Don’t Call Me Dodder IPA
Our beer was inspired by the visual aspects of our walk, mostly the bright orange color of the dodder plant, a parasitic plant that grows attached to other plants and looks like a tangled mess of orange twine. This beer was made with Bravo, El Dorado and an experimental hop. It also has a unique ingredient giving the beer an orange hue: beets! We will also have a side dish of mustard seeds that you can add to the bottom of your glass before filling up. 6.5% ABV.
Uproar Brewing – Dead End IPA
An herbaceous IPA with lemons to mimic the pickleweed plant that we saw and tasted on our the hike. On top of that, we also dry hopped the beer with actual pickleweed in a firkin! We also used Ekuanot hops, which are known to have a peppery quality, inspired by the peppery mustard plant that grew all around the salt ponds. I named the beer Dead End because I used to live in Alviso and would take 1st Street into Alviso, where it dead ends next to the Salt Ponds. 6.1% ABV.
About San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
At San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, our mission is to promote and celebrate the art, creators, craft and history of quilts and textiles. We are dedicated to showcasing the most cutting edge quilts and fiber art, while honoring our textile traditions.
About Beers Made By Walking
Beers Made By Walking is a program that invites people to step outside and see the place they live in a new light. We invite brewers to take nature walks and make beer inspired by the plants identified on the trail. Since 2011, we have worked with more than 200 breweries throughout the country. Our hiking and tasting events act as educational programs for institutions and environmental organizations in the regions we serve.