Santa Cruz Mountain PEOPLES PORTER

June 21, 2007 – Santa Cruz, California : The coffee roasters of Coffee Cat/Lulu Carpenters and the brewers of Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing teamed up in a new organic beer adventure. The new beer, Peoples Porter, is available for tasting at the brewery’s tasting room. The brewers’ claim, ’if money’s got you down, you can get your coffee fix and your beer in one pint sized punch with the Peoples Porter!’ Emily Thomas and Tom Perozzi first brewed a test batch at the National Homebrewers, ’Big Brew,’ the first Saturday in May, in a 10 gallon kettle in the alley behind the brewery with eleven other homebrewers. Everyone loved the small batch so much, brewer, Chad Brill went ahead with a full run production. The sweet aroma and spicy flavor of the Fair Trade, Organic coffee beans are definitely present in this subtle porter. The beer has a crisp dry finish with a nose that will make you think you are sipping on a cup of coffee. The body is deep and rich with a hint of sweetness, but the smoky overtones of the Guatemalan coffee beans are clearly there. Beer loving folks can get a sample of it at the Brewery’s new tasting room in the Swift Street Courtyard, 402 Ingalls Street, any day between noon and ten. The coffee beans come from the Finca Vista Hermosa farm, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Shade grown on steep hillsides, the family farm has been producing one of the most elegantly processed beans for three generations. They are then expertly roasted at the Coffee Cat shop in Scotts Valley, by Rory Phares and Roman Bondarenko.