(Vista, CA) – The latest update from Latitude 33 Brewing Company, courtesy of Wednesday’s email newsletter…

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Distribution Growth

Beyond brewing those seasonal favorites, we’ve also been hard at work expanding our brewing capacity to cover our coming distribution growth. In the next couple of weeks we’ll wrap our new distribution contract and begin shipping beer to Los Angeles and Orange Counties which will give mean you’ll be able to enjoy Latitude 33 brews everywhere in California from the 32nd to 34th parallels! Expect the announcement and details some time around Labor Day.
More Bottles

As part of our distribution expansion you’ll also be seeing Double Hump and Wilford in bottles soon! The label approvals just came through from both the state and fed, so we’ve given the printer’s a thumbs up and are now waiting for the labels to get here. Expect to see these beers join our others on the shelves in September. We’ve got a couple other labels in the works as well, so you can expect even more bottles from us this fall.
Upcoming Brews

Finally, we’ve also got some new brews in the works. This week we will be brewing up S. Santa Fe Imperial Pilsner, our nod to our home city of Vista’s 50th anniversary. More details on SSF will be available in a few weeks. And of course, Humptoberfest is right around the corner, so we’re working on getting Dry Hump IPA brewed very soon (lots of Meridian and Cascade hops and fermented with oak in the tank). Wet Hump, our Fresh-hoped IPA shouldn’t be far behind — it really just depends on the hop harvest.

We’re also making preparations for the the new Slater’s 50/50 brew to be released during San Diego Beer Week. While an annual release celebrating Slater’s 50/50′s birthday, the brew itself changes from year to year. Last year it was a (award-winning) smoked red ale. This year we’re doing a smoked porter aged on Calvados oak.