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PRESS RELEASES - 2004
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INDEX 2004
Archive Index: Past releases and stories from AVBC
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AVBC Honored with State Award for Cutting Waste
(November 19, 2004 – Boonville, CA) Anderson Valley Brewing Company has again been named a winner in the 2004 Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) for continued efforts to reduce waste and protect the environment, sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board — the state's leading authority on recycling and waste reduction.
“For a company who runs 365 days a year and releases twenty thousand barrels of beer a year we produce very little waste,” states brewery President, Ken Allen. “For example, 99% of our waste water is processed through reclamation ponds (a white Egret hunts in Pond 3) and used for land irrigation, we recycle most everything in the office and out on the floor, and our spent grains go to local livestock owners for feed. Basically, we have a 4x8 dumpster for “garbage” that takes a whole week to fill. I'd say reuse and environmental responsibility is a lifestyle for us.”
Now in its 12th year, the WRAP awards honor businesses for cutting the amount of trash they produce, conserving resources, and reducing waste disposal in landfills. All together, this year's WRAP honorees have diverted 1.8 million tons of materials from local landfills through excellent resource management and recycling, and their voluntary waste reduction efforts have saved them $135 million in operating costs. Applicants are honored based on a set of criteria developed in cooperation with the business community. Practices evaluated include waste prevention, materials reuse, recycling, recycled-product procurement, and employee education.
“Businesses make up the engine that keeps California's economy strong,” said Board Chair Rosario Marin. “It is a pleasure to honor each winner of this year's WRAP Awards because their voluntary efforts help local cities and counties by recycling and reducing the amount of materials going to landfills. WRAP Awards recognize the good work businesses do to bring us closer to a zero waste California.”
The California Integrated Waste Management Board is the State's leading authority on recycling and waste reduction. It promotes a zero waste California in partnership with local government, industry, and the public. This means reducing waste whenever possible, promoting the management of all materials to their highest and best use, and protecting public health and safety and the environment. For a complete list of winners by county, and more information, please visit the Board online at www.ciwmb.ca.gov/WRAP/.
For more information about Anderson Valley Brewing Company's waste reduction efforts, or the company in general, visit www.avbc.com, call 707-895-BEER (2337), x14 for Dave Gatlin, Head Brewer, dgatlin@avbc.com.
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AVBC Brings Heavy Metal to California
(L-R) Neil Atkins; QA/QC, David Gatlin; Head Brewer, Charlie Papazian;
President and Founder, The Association of Brewers, Ken Allen AVBC President.
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(October 4, 2004 – Boonville, CA) Anderson Valley Brewing Company brought some
heavy metal home from Denver, Colorado this weekend. On October 2nd, the
brewery received a Bronze Medal, in the British Stout category, for their
Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout, at the
2004 Great American Beer Festival ®
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"It's a real honor to receive a medal at the GABF," said AVBC Head Brewer,
David Gatlin
. "There are so many good beers being brewed these days, it's a tough
competition. Most of the beers we compete against are brewed in small batches,
some specifically for the event. The beers we send to the competition are
brewed in hundred barrel batches (3100 gallons) and come right off our bottling
line. They're exactly the same beers that you'll find on the store shelves,"
he added.
The Great American Beer Festival® is the nation's premier beer event, now
attracting approximately 400 breweries and displaying over 2000 different beers
in 67 separate style categories. Competition is fierce, with the widest array
of beers and beer styles, of any beer judging in the nation. With 201 medals
awarded this year, fewer than ten percent of the entries received awards. As
this year's festival lacked a specific Oatmeal Stout category, Anderson
Valley's brewers decided to see how the Barney Flats would fare in another
category.
"
Barney Flats
has too much hop character and aroma to be a true-to-style oatmeal stout, but
it's our deliciously rich and complex version of what an oatmeal stout can be,"
said brewery president Kenneth Allen. Recalling the early years of the brewery,
Allen added "Barney Flats was our first ale to receive a GABF medal, the gold
in the Oatmeal Stout category,
back in 1990
. We'd entered it in prior years, and the judges kept saying it was fantastic,
but too hoppy for the style. In 1990, though, they decided that, style or no,
Barney Flats was so much better than any other stout being judged, that they
had to give it the gold. It's tough to get that much flavor into a stout, and
I think we're the only ones doing it."
Barney Flats, one of Valley Brewing Company's regularly awarded ales, also
recently won the Silver Medal in the Oatmeal Stout Category at the
2004 World Beer Cup
, and the Gold Medal for Oatmeal Stout in the 2003 World Beer Championships.
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AVBC Visitor Center Opens
(BOONVILLE, CA - September, 2004) Anderson Valley Brewing Company, whose
award-winning
brews
and
"beer"
(part bear-part deer) laden labels, are legendary, has opened their doors even
wider to the public with the brewery's first
Visitor Center
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"Prior to this point," says
Ken Allen
, brewery president, "we could only give folks a
tour
, now we have somewhere to showcase our beers as fresh and as good as they can
get. Directly from the source!"
The experience Allen hopes to impart is one of inclusion into their brewing
world. "We're eager to introduce folks to our unique surroundings [the verdant
Anderson Valley
lies 2.5 hrs. north of San Francisco], and show them what we do here."
Allen also plans on teaching his guests the value of beer and dining. "Our goal
is to teach people about beer and the palatable advantages of pairing a
particular style with the right meal. There's more to food pairing than wine,
beer is very complex. Eventually, we'll hold beer dinners but we'll start with
beer and cheese tastings."
With the Visitor Center as a hub of activity, guests can play the brewery's
18-hole Disc Golf course
(discs can be bought on site), schedule a ride in the
Shire-drawn carriage, or plan an event to be held in the center, or under the oaks in the brewery's
park. The window-generous building, with beer garden currently in progress,
overlooks the 1st hole of the course and allows views of pastures, hills and
dells of that part of Anderson Valley.
Guests and locals alike are encouraged to swing by the Visitor Center where
your knowledgeable hosts can serve you seven days a week, (M-Th, 11-5 and
F-Sun, 11-6.) Brewery tours are at 1:30 and 4:00, seven days a week, Disc Golf
course is open from 11 until 1 hour before closing of Visitor Center.
For more information on Anderson Valley Brewing Company, the brewery's new
Visitor Center and rates please call, 707-895-BEER (2337), ext 22.
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AVBC and Boonville Beer Festival Raise $35,000 for Local Charities
Cecilia Pardini and Jim Brown accepting $5000 for the Mendocino County Fair and
Apple Show
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BOONVILLE, CA - June 10th 2004
- The Boonville Beer Festival is a small affair by international festival
standards, but
that is part of what makes it so enjoyable. The delicious local food, the
beautiful location, the relaxed atmosphere and, of course, the great beers.
This year the festival hosted 55 breweries and over 3000 beer aficionados.
People from as far away as Boston came to sample the some of the best beers
in the world, including many of this years World Beer Cup winners.
Participating breweries from Belgium, England, Germany, Canada and the
United Sates came to pour beers.
Each year the profits raised by the festival go to local Anderson Valley
charities.
This year the Boonville Beer Festival was able to donate over $35,000.00 to
various non-profit organizations, including
the Anderson Valley Historical Society, the Anderson Valley Ambulance and
Rescue, the Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department, Mendocino County
Fairgrounds, Anderson Valley Education Foundation, Anderson Valley High
School Boosters, Anderson Valley Animal Rescue, Anderson Valley Senior
Center, Anderson Valley Elementary School Art Program and the Mendocino
Sheriff's Department K-9 Unit.
Ken Allen, President and CEO, of Anderson Valley Brewing Company
said that "2004 was our biggest and best year ever. This
year's donation of
$35,000.00
brings the total to over
$115,000.00
donated over the 8
years of the festival's existence. We are greatly pleased to be able to help
out charitable organizations, especially in a time when government funding
is hard to find. Every brewery that participated should be very proud to
have helped bring much needed funding to worthy organizations."
Next year's Boonville Beer Festival will be held on May 7th.
Click here to see some photos of the event!
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Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout
Wins Silver in International Beer Competition
BOONVILLE, CA—April 26, 2004—The Anderson Valley Brewing Company (AVBC)
recently claimed the silver medal in the Association of Brewers (AOB)
World Beer Cup® 2004
, a global beer competition that evaluates beers from around the world and
recognizes the most outstanding beers being produced in the world today.
Gold, silver and bronze medals in the competition's 81 beer-style categories
were awarded April 17, 2004 during the World Beer Cup Gala Awards Ceremony and
Dinner at the Town and Country Resort in San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
AVBC, and head brewer, David Gatlin, were awarded the silver medal in the
Oatmeal Stout beer style category for their
Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout
(its fourth honor from the AOB.) A deep, dark brown-black, full-bodied stout
with a rich, creamy and complex, mocha character, the Barney Flats Oatmeal
Stout was also included, by beer expert and author Stewart Kallen, in his book,
The Fifty Greatest Beers in the World: An Expert's Ranking of the Very Best
. AVBC is a 260,000 case Craft brewery located in Boonville, CA, that
specializes in consistent, high quality, ales of distinction.
"We're delighted with the recognition our Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout has
received from the panel of international judges," states Ken Allen, brewery CEO
and president. "Such a prestigious award means a lot, especially when you
consider that the brews we send to competitions come right off our bottling
line. The beer that gets judged is the exact same beer available in the
stores."
World Beer Cup 2004 winners were selected by an international panel of 93 beer
judges from an impressive field of 1,566 entries received from 393 breweries in
40 countries. More than 3,800 breweries in 100 countries were invited to
compete.
The 93 judges were from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, UK,
and the United States.
"With such a diverse list of entrants and winners, we are confident in saying
that the World Beer Cup is truly an international competition that is both
capable and skillful at recognizing global beer excellence," states Nancy
Johnson, director of the competition. "Without a doubt, a World Beer Cup winner
can truly boast that it is one of the best beers in the world."
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Release Party at TORONADO for
Brother David's Double
and
Triple Abbey Style Ales
Anderson Valley Brewing Company was recently approached by a small group of
Risiblarian monks from a local valley monastery. The sect wanted the brewery to
brew a beer from the original monastery recipe that dated from the sect's
inception, in the year 1663. The brothers had found the recipe during a
renovation. When enlarging a crypt they discovered a sarcophagus, sealed for
years behind a wall of stone. Beneath the moldering bones sealed in the tomb,
lay the recipe, which appeared to be written in blood on a lambskin parchment.
The Anderson Valley brewers gladly accepted the challenge, and working with the
brethren developed two new world class beers. The beers were named after the
monastic order's founder - Brother David Keene (the great, great, great, great,
great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather of the owner of San
Francisco's Toronado pub). In Honor of David's ancestor who brewed the first
batch back in 1666 the Anderson Valley Brewery's beers will be release at the
Toronado on lower Haight Street.
We do hope you will join us for this secular celebration of non-secular
inspiration to quench ones thirsty soul.
The release of the Anderson Valley Brewing Company's Brother David beers
will be Feb. 20th at 6:30, at TORONADO, 547 Haight St. and Fillmore, San
Francisco, CA.
Click Here
for Pictures of the first brewing of Brother David's Abbey Style Ale
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AVBC Releases Barney Flat Oatmeal Stout Chocolates
Always with an eye toward beer and food pairing Anderson Valley Brewing
Company has now developed their own line of chocolate candies. The chocolate
candies are made with a soft Oatmeal Stout center.
They come in either semi sweet dark or milk chocolate and there is a
mocha-stout version that has a roasted coffee bean in the
center. "Chocolate and Stout are a taste combination made for each other, we
just found a new way to put them together." said
brewery President Ken Allen. "Most people assume that wine pairs with all
foods, but really beer is often a better choice for pairings than
wine. Beer does much better with many foods, hot and spicey foods, or tangy BBQ
sauces are obviously better beer combinations,
but possibly the best collaboration of all is chocolate and oatmeal stout, it's
a perfect match."
The release of the Anderson Valley Chocolates will be in early Feb. 2004
(just in time to for your sweetheart - with the sweet tooth). The chocolates
are available in quarter pound boxes at the Official Boonville Beer Gift Store
(707
895 2337 ext.23).
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First Person Inducted into AVBC Hall of Foam
We are proud to announce the very first inductee into the Anderson Valley
Hall of Foam
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Mr. Brandy Flower, of Los Angeles, California, was our first fan to collect
fifty of the new AVBC bottlecaps and send them in, with a translation of all
Boontling phrases. In addition to being immortalized in the Hall of Foam, Mr.
Flower will receive a
certificate redeemable for a VIP Brewery Tour
, here in Boonville, and a
signed, limited edition, uncut sheet of Anderson Valley beer labels.
There's still room for nine more photos on the wall of the hall, so keep
collecting those caps.
Click here to find out more!
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The Brewmaster's Dinner
Anderson Valley Brewing Co.
, in conjunction with the
Cathedral Hill Hotel
in San Francisco, present
The Brewmaster Dinner
, Thursday, February 19th.
Executive Chef, Bruce D. Paton CEC
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Master Brewer, Fal Allen
, will work to pair Anderson Valley Brewing Company's award winning beers with
specially prepared gourmet dishes. A reception will be held from 6:30 to 7:30.
From 7:30 to 9:30 participants will enjoy a three course diner with beer
pairings. Amazing food, award winning beers and a few surprises. All this
for only $60.00 (includes tax & gratuity).
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6:30PM
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Reception
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Chef's Hors D'Oeuvre
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Boont Amber Ale
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7:30PM
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First Course
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Smoked Sturgeon Nicoise with French Beans, Fingerling Potato and Baby Lola Rosa
Lettuce
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Deep Enders Dark Porter
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Second Course
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Wagyu Hanger Steak with Parsnip Puree, Upland Cress and Caramelized Onion Jus
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Brother David's Belgian Style Double
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Third Course
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Espresso Flan with Chocolate Crème
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Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout
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For reservations please contact Kimberly Avila at the Cathedral Hill Hotel -
415 776 8200 ext 7498
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