Mammoth Brewing Company
IndustryBrewing
Founded1995
FounderSam Walker
Headquarters
Mammoth Lakes, California
,
United States
Area served
California & Nevada
ProductsBeer
OwnerSean Turner
Number of employees
40+
ParentMammoth Brewing Group
Websitewww.mammothbrewingco.com

Mammoth Brewing Company is a Californian regional brewery founded in 1995 in Mammoth Lakes.

History

Mammoth Brewing Company was founded in 1995,[1] and is one of the highest elevation breweries on the West Coast of the United States at over 8,000 feet above sea level.[2][3] Since 2007 it is owned by Sean Turner.[3][4] The brewery and tasting room are located at 18 Lake Mary Road, in Mammoth Lakes.[1] They also had a tasting house, office and gift shop at 94 Berner Street, Mammoth,[5] although this was relocated in 2013.[6] In early 2013 they produced 5,300 barrels per year; in May 2013 they added two fermenters and one bright beer tank to increase their capacity to 8,000 barrels a year.[6]

Beers

Mammoth's beers include:

  • Golden Trout Kolsch (5.5% abv) - a kolsch style beer
  • Yosemite Pale Ale (5.5% abv) - an American pale ale.[7]
  • Double Nut Brown (5.5% abv) - a porter.[7] Won a Gold award at the 2012 World Beer Cup in the Brown Porter category,[4] and won Gold Medal at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival in the Brown Porter category.
  • Real McCoy Amber (5.5% abv) - an Amber Ale.[7] Won a Bronze award at the 2012 World Beer Cup in the German Style Brown/Düsseldorf-Style Altbier category.[4]
  • Epic IPA (6.5% abv) - an India pale ale.[7]
  • IPA 395 (8.0% abv) - a double IPA[7] or a spiced ale.

Seasonals

Mammoth Brewing Company has a variety of seasonal beers including:

  • "Elderberry Sour" (8.0% abv)- A Belgian style sour beer.
  • "El Capitan" (9.5% abv)- a west coast style imperial IPA.
  • Floating Rock Hefeweizen (5.0% abv) - a wheat beer named after pumice.[8]
  • Wild Sierra Mountain Farmhouse Ale (7.5% abv)[8]
  • Blondibock (7.5% abv) - A bourbon barrel aged German style bock, formerly known as Bluesapalooza Blonde Bock.[7]
  • Lair of the Bear (9.5% abv)[7]
  • Fire & Eisbock (10.0% abv)[7]
  • Hair of the Bear Doppelbock (9.0% abv)[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mammoth Brewing Company". Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Comiskey, Patrick (28 December 2012). "Mammoth Brewing Company: To the Ends of the Earth for a Microbrew". LA Weekly blogs. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  3. 1 2 Brooks, Jay R. (September 2013). California Breweries North. Stackpole Books. pp. 369–370. ISBN 978-0811711586.
  4. 1 2 3 "Mammoth Brewing earns gold, bronze". Mammoth Times. 11 May 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  5. ↑ "Mammoth Brewing Company". Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  6. 1 2 Lunch, Jack (17 May 2013). "Mammoth Brewing adds tanks". The Sheet News. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Our Beers". Mammoth Brewing Company. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  8. 1 2 3 "Our Beers". Mammoth Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
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