Show 187, September 3, 2016: Wicks Brewing Company, Riverside

Brian Herbertson and Ryan WicksRiverside’s Wicks Brewing Company is one of the largest brewpubs in the Inland Empire with 16 taps, a great rotating guest tap and bottle list, crave-worthy food, live entertainment and one of the only Brew-On-Premise (BOP) systems in California!

Wicks Brewing Co was founded in 2013 with the sole purpose of bringing great craft beer and food to the Inland Empire in an environment that the whole family could enjoy. The Wicks Brewing Co’s brewpub houses a beautiful 7 bbl copper brew house, which is visible from their open floor taproom and restaurant. You will often see their brewers at work creating their next batch of great craft beer!

The elevated pub grub from a modest kitchen is worthy of praise, too. All the sauces and salad dressings are, surprisingly, created in-house. A favorite menu item is the BBQ Pulled Pork Quesadilla with their house-made Black Knight BBQ sauce. For dessert the Root Beer Float is created with Wicks’ own root beer (made with brown sugar and blackstrap molasses.)

Head Brewer Brian sampled the Bard’s Song Pecan Brown Ale in this segment.

Wicks’ Paladin Hoppy Pale Ale is a liberally hopped pale ale. It brought home bronze at the World Beer Cup in 2016 and back-to-back gold at the 2015 and 2016 Los Angeles International Beer Competitions. Copious amounts of citra and cascade hops impart layers of tropical fruit notes and grapefruit aromatics.

Tapping the keg for us are in-studio guests General Manager Ryan Wicks and Head Brewer Brian Herbertson.

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