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FEATURE Saint Archer
San Diego Downtown & Uptown News March 2021
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(R&D) department, which focuses on creating new and exciting recipes for avant garde beer projects. The R&D department acts as the “special forces” of Saint Archer Brewing Co. in a quest to keep the company on the tip of the spear in San Diego’s craft beer scene. The idea is to create new and exciting beer recipes utilizing unorthodox ingredients. But the R&D department has received new orders due to the Covid shutdowns. Their yearlong mission is to seek out small, local specialty companies impacted by the shutdowns and to collaborate with them for mutual
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sdnews.com benefit. The result of this partnership is a new line of creative and delicious smallbatch beers with a personality all their own and uniquely local. “I’ve been with Saint Archer coming up on four years now,” Garrity said. “I started in the cellar – cleaning tanks, cleaning pretty much everything – and worked my way up to a brewer eventually. After I brewed for a couple of years, I got the opportunity to become the Research and Development Brewer where I helped de- Tea (Photo courtesy of Katalyst PR) velop recipes like our Hazy IPA, Tropical IPA, IPA 99, peanut butter, banana, marshCoffee Brown, and Saint Archer mallow and banana bread stout, Gold. And just recently I got alongside a raspberry Berliner moved to head brewer, so now I’m Weiss. And when you mix the running the pilot system and the two together it becomes a peanut production system as well.” butter and jelly beer!” Garrity’s first collaboration In her own example of pivotbeer is called Peaches & Cream ing, de Leon describes herself as a Milkshake IPA, which is now “furloughed meeting and catering available for sale at the two Saint professional gone rogue,” and has Archer tasting rooms. “It’s a col- given herself the new title of small laboration with Paru Tea Bar, batch baker/micro business owna local tea company located in er. She now sells small batch craft Point Loma,” added Garrity. He dessert breads online. decided to visit the tea bar perThat attitude is exactly what sonally, and learn about tea in Garrity is hoping to foster with felgeneral as well as to see if there low businesses. “Essentially, we’re was a possibility of using their using the R&D series to collaboproduct in a recipe. “They told rate with local companies that me about this Taiwanese Milk might be struggling or need busiOolong Tea and they said it was ness just as much as we do, right? bursting with Stone Fruit taste Like, trying to help each other and with Butter Cream aromas, and provide that sense of community that it’s almost like peaches and that we all need right now.” cream. And so that just clicked The specialty beers are available and I decided to do a Peaches & to-go in limited edition 16 ounce Cream IPA. It’s brewed with fresh can four-packs, and the Peaches peaches, lactose – which is dried & Cream Milk IPA comes with milk sugar – and ten pounds of the a half-ounce packet of the Milk Oolong, which produces four to Milk Oolong tea steeped in it.” The IPA, which serves as a base six servings of tea. Garrity considfor the beer, is hazy (unfiltered) ers this collaboration a huge sucand that in addition to the peaches cess and is looking forward to the and lactose give the collaboration future brews. “It was exactly what beer a rich and creamy texture. I hoped for in what we’re calling Garrity is extremely pleased with the Research and Development his creation as he previously had Series. I really wanted to take lolittle experience in brewing beer cal businesses that do something with tea. “I’ve seen other brew- outside of my expertise – outside eries work with tea, but this was of beer. I really wanted to take a actually my first time working back seat and learn something with tea and beer,” Garrity stat- new. About baking, tea, art, wine ed. “I had tried to use it before on a or anything you know? And this small scale, and I did a jasmine tea one really did it for me. but it just came out soapy a little “We also got to introduce our bit. So I’ve kinda been thrown off beer crowd to a tea company, by it, but there’s something differ- and their tea company crowd to ent about Paru Tea, that tea is just beer, so really bringing a sense of amazing! That Milk Oolong was community during a time where just so unique that I told myself I this is not a whole lot of sense of could definitely see this working community. That was my hope, in beer.” my hope and dream – to introduce Garrity’s R&D department has the two crowds to each other. And been tasked with doing one col- I think – brewing beer or making laboration with a local company tea – we’re not like curing cancer per month for the entirety of 2021. or Covid or anything like that. But His next project is to work with a one thing we do offer as a place local bakery to create a unique of business is a sense of normalcy beer which will be released in and I think that’s something that mid-March. “We’re collaborating people need right now.” with a local baker named Cathy de —Vince Meehan can be reached Leon who owns the I Love Banana Bread Bakery and were doing a at vinniemeehan@gmail.com.
