Third Annual It’s the Malt!
September 19 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm UTC+8
$60 – $90
🌾 IT’S THE MALT is BACK! 🌾
Join us Saturday, September 19th at Admiral Maltings in Alameda for the third IT’S THE MALT Festival, our annual celebration of malt’s central role in beer and whiskey and everything it takes to get it from grain to glass.
New this year will be our Festbier Station pouring a variety of beers you’d find at the original celebration in Munich but with a homegrown twist. These beers will range from hefty Pale Lagers to classic amber-colored Marzens, all crafted with California-grown and locally-malted grains.
Expect:
🍺 Unlimited tastings of over 30 beers including our new Festbier Station, 2 Cask Ales, and a gravity poured “stichfass” keg welcome beer
🥃 A carefully curated Single Malt Whiskey flight
🎧 DJs from KXSF on the sound system
🎸 Live music from: The Permanent Records and Amp Melo
🛍️ A local Vendor Village featuring:
Pop up record store with 1-2-3-4 Go! Records
Pop up book store with Pleasure Reading Books
Pop up vintage clothing store with Treal Icons
🎤 Two live panel discussions:
Crafting Festbiers with Admiral Malt – live sensory demo and discussion with our own Kim Sturdavant
The Art and Practice of an American Single Malt Whiskey Collaboration: a discussion with our neighbors, St. George Spirits distillers Lance Winters and Dave Smith.
🍺👨🔬 Live homebrewing demo with Dahoam1516
🍔🔥 Smash burgers, pulled pork sandos, hotlinks, beyond brats and more cooked up by The Rake
✨👀 A peak behind the scenes of our malt house operations
🚜 🌾👷♀️Farmers, maltsters, brewers, and distillers on hand to talk all things malt
Brewery list:
Almanac
Alvarado Street
Barebottle
Bartlett Hall
Brewing with Brothas
Brix Factory
Canyon Club
Cellarmaker
Discretion
DTSJ
Dunloe
East Brother
Enterprise
Fathers
Foxtale Fermentation Project
Geisthaus
Hanabi
Headlands
Hidden Splendor Beer
Highland Park
Half Moon Bay
Hop Dogma
Laughing Monk
Moonraker
Niteglow
Pizza Port
Pond Farm
Pure Project
Smog City
Standard Deviant
Sugoi
Temescal
Western Flyer
Distillery List:
Redwood Empire Whiskey
117 West Spirits
Hinterhaus Distilling
Sidewinder Spirits
(plus a secret St. George Spirits whiskey for VIP ticket holders)