(Paso Robles, CA) – Mustang delight is brewing throughout the Central Coast as Firestone Walker Brewing Firm introduces Cal Poly Gold, the official craft beer of Cal Poly.
Cal Poly Gold will debut on the Cal Poly Mustangs’ first 2022 house soccer sport on September 10 and can proceed to be out there in any respect Cal Poly Athletics occasions the place concessions are offered. It’s going to additionally start rolling out subsequent week in six-pack (12-ounce cans) and draft codecs as a year-round providing throughout San Luis Obispo County and into Santa Maria. It’s going to even be out there at Firestone Walker’s essential brewery in Paso Robles.
“Cal Poly graduates have at all times performed a significant function within the ranks of our brewing workforce and elsewhere in our brewery,” stated brewery co-founder David Walker. “Like us, Cal Poly is passionate in regards to the brewing sciences and craft tradition, and this collaboration is the most recent instance of how we assist one another.”
Cal Poly Gold is the most recent step in a longtime relationship between Cal Poly and Firestone Walker Brewing Firm, stated Cal Poly Athletic Director Don Oberhelman, and could have a wide range of constructive impacts. Proceeds from all concession gross sales at soccer video games and different sporting occasions will assist fund student-athlete scholarships and can assist present new and thrilling Be taught by Doing internship alternatives for Cal Poly college students.
“Firestone Walker is among the finest breweries on the earth and has employed many Cal Poly alumni and benefited straight from the college’s renown for producing graduates who’re primed for achievement,” Oberhelman stated. “It made good sense for us to additional unite the excellence of our respective establishments to create this new beer. I’m assured our followers and alumni will completely love Cal Poly Gold. I’m very obsessed with this relationship and the mutual alternatives we’ll take pleasure in with our mates at Firestone Walker, and I’m excited to see how this friendship and relationship will develop to learn our whole group.”
Cal Poly Gold is an all-malt lager brewed with noble hops. Based on Firestone Walker Brewmaster Matt Brynildson, Cal Poly Gold was a collaboration each step of the way in which, from shepherding the thought with the college to reaching a consensus among the many brewing workforce.
“We’ve got a myriad of Cal Poly grads on the brewing and advertising groups who had a hand in formulating and making this beer,” Brynildson stated, noting that the can art work was designed by Cal Poly alum and Firestone Walker Artwork Director Alyssa Hornby. “We collectively determined that this must be a lightweight, sessionable beer, in distinction to one thing hoppy or heavier. So, we created Cal Poly Gold as a crisp, refreshing, easy-drinking lager that’s good for having fun with the SLO life.”
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Based by brothers-in-law Adam Firestone and David Walker in 1996, Firestone Walker Brewing Firm is a California beer firm with three revolutionary brewing services. Firestone Walker’s essential brewery in Paso Robles produces a various portfolio starting from iconic pale ales to classic barrel-aged beers. The Barrelworks facility in Buellton makes eccentric wild ales, whereas the Propagator pilot brewhouse in Venice focuses on R&D beers and restricted native choices. Firestone Walker can also be the brewery behind 805, one of many nation’s fastest-growing beers. Firestone Walker was just lately named “Greatest American Brewery of the Decade” by Paste Journal.
Cal Poly is a nationally ranked public college situated in San Luis Obispo, California, and recognized for its Be taught by Doing philosophy. Every year greater than 22,000 top-tier college students come to Cal Poly to place data into motion, taking their studying outdoors the classroom as they put together for careers in areas reminiscent of engineering, agriculture, science, enterprise, humanities and the constructed atmosphere. Cal Poly’s hands-on method, small class sizes and shut student-faculty mentorships end in graduates prepared from Day One to influence their communities, California and the world.
