High school dropout turned tech industry entrepreneur Barry Braden met Ballast Point brewer Alex Tweet in San Diego. They became fast friends. Tweet went on to brew at Modern Times Beer. Braden knew Tweet needed his brewery to flourish. Braden convinced Tweet to move to Northern California so they could open Fieldwork Brewing Company in West Berkeley. They opened Fieldwork in 2014, adding satellite operations in Corte Madera, Monterey, Napa, Sacramento, San Leandro, San Mateo, and San Ramon. Fieldwork honors Northern California’s magnificent outdoor landscapes with an array of idiosyncratic, highly aromatic, well-balanced beers. Today, Peaks & Pints presents a flight of Fieldwork beer — a flight called Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Fieldwork.
Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Fieldwork
Fieldwork Super Saint Thomas
9.6% ABV
Super Saint Thomas is not just an imperialized version of its Mosaic IPA, Saint Thomas; it’s a double dry-hopped happy birthday to Saint Thomas Harley, who helped build the brewery. This double IPA opens with a barrage of freshly made tropical fruit salad — honeydew, citrus, fresh green grapes, and hints of under-ripe pineapple and freshly harvested marijuana dominate the palate in a sticky and resinous manner. Shockingly clean and restrained in malt character, the Mosaic hop character slam-dances all over the palate, finishing with an assertive yet refreshing note of freshly cut ruby red grapefruit.
Fieldwork Crowded Lonely Night
10% ABV
A Belgian-style quad brewed with utter hubris alongside Belgian candi sugars, barley, and hops for a malty, complex but light dark ale with Belgian esters and a little caramel.
Fieldwork Crossing the Atlantic on a Tricycle
13% ABV
Taking the “extra” in extra special bitter to new heights, this gargantuan English ESB delivers all the balance and fruity esters you’ve missed from an ESB but will warm you up like a cast-iron stove in Victorian England.
Fieldwork The Narrow Seas
13% ABV
Brewed to survive the long voyage, this sea-wise giant imperial porter is an ABV-fueled oil slick of European malts, American yeast, Italian licorice, and gooey molasses that stains glasses and steals souls.
Fieldwork Brother of the Quill
13% ABV
Brewed with admiration for the over one and a half centuries of barleywine history in England, Fieldwork brewed this oversized ode to barleywines of the past with select British malts and a laborious boil. It hits the nose with caramel malt, plum, raisin, and hints of apricot, with the same flavor profile but with added peach, honey, and hints of dates. It’s a bright barleywine that leans English but has a slightly lighter stone fruit character.
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