DUCK BOOTS AND BAIT BALL CAN RELEASE

We are releasing Duck Boots, a 6% ABV Hazy IPA. It is double dry-hopped with Chinook, Amarillo, Motueka and Ekuanot.  They will be $17 per 4-pack (16oz). 

We also are putting our top seller Bait Ball IPA into cans for the first time.  This low bitterness, easy drinking and unfiltered IPA is going to in 12oz 6-packs for $14.50

Taproom opens at 10am.

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2 NEW BEERS RELEASED TODAY! DANCE HALL AND DUCK BOOTS

Today we release 2 very fun beers in the taproom. First, Dance Hall, a dry-hopped Saison we brewed with a unique blend of hops chosen by the Pink Boots Society. The second beer is a juicy / hazy IPA at 5.2% ABV.  It is called Duck Boots, and is very tropical with big hop aroma and flavor like guava and papaya. Double dry-hopped with Motueka, Amarillo, Chinook and Ekuanot. 

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OUR TWO NEWEST BEERS

We have just released two brand new beers!

Sidewash, a Hazy IPA is packed with Ekuanot and Amarillo, and drinks easy at 6% ABV. Juicy and medium-bodied, sure to be a crowd pleaser. 

Waxboy, is a foeder-fermented Farmhouse Pale Ale at 5.8% ABV. A SMaSH beer (Golden Promise and Cascade) brewed with Sacch Brux Trois yeast, it is a fun one!

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PHOTO SHOW : JOHN LUCARELLI

This Thursday, December 21, GUNWHALE is anxious to present the work of local photographer John Lucarelli.  John is is a self taught photographer whose work revolves around his life at the ocean.  His impressionistic imagery - saturated with color, symmetric in composition, and stirred by movement - is rapidly identifiable as his own.  Though based in Newport Beach, California, John has an immense passion for travel and scours the globe in search of remote adventures.

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CAN RELEASE WITH OUR CHAPS AT BREWERY REX

As folks who dreamt of making beer, but were not working directly in the industry prior to opening our own place, we are humbled by the chance to hang out with some guys who have been around the block, as well as to laugh, talk shop, and bloat ourselves on good beer and a hell of an evening on the water in Newport Harbor. We would like to think you have as much fun drinking the beer as we all did in making it.  We hope you enjoy the fruit of this humble partnership when it releases on December 16. Here are some shots from the utmost serious R&D that goes into these things...

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