See our previous story about the economic impact of Pliny Tourism. The annual release of Pliny the Younger, and the massive crowds that event draws, helped drive the decision to build the new facility.The Windsor location can hold 324 people. The Fourth Street pub in Santa Rosa can accommodate 135 guests it sees about 400,00 visitors per year.In addition to being a brewery, the 85,000 square foot facility, which occupies a 10-acre lot, includes a 200-seat restaurant, a beer garden, a tasting room, and a gift shop.The new facility is in Windsor, CA about 10 miles up Highway 101, north of the Russian River location in downtown Santa Rosa.We do this to eliminate the filtration process, but, it does put an animal product in the process. "Unfortunately, I use gelatin in all of our beers to fine them. They are ALWAYS made at our production brewery where we make beer in larger quantities and thus use a centrifuge to remove the yeast and not gelatin, we end up with the same results as we do at the pub where we use the gelatin." "The bottles of Blind Pig IPA Pliny the Elder, and Damnation do not employ gelatin in the production process. Yes, the draft that makes it out to Philly is run through the centrifuge as Here's the email I got from Vinnie on Friday: (Philadelphia being one of them - yay for me!) There's a good chance most other markets outside of California, Philly, and NYC don't even get draft Russian River stuff.īlind Pig, Damnation, and Pliny the Elder on draught in bars, or in bottles = goodĪnything else (primarily only in bottles - these are barrel aged mostly sour beers) = badĪnything served in their brewpub in California = bad However, they also keg those beers (kegged => served on tap) and ship them to a few select markets outside of California. They bottle those beers and distribute them all over the country. At that production facility they make Pliny the Elder (Double IPA), Blind Pig (IPA), and Damnation (Belgian Golden Strong Ale). They were able to score a nice centrifuge (big machine that spins the beer around to get the yeast out) for this.
This year, they started a production brewery to go along with the brewpub. At the brewpub they use gelatin to fine all of the beers for clarification purposes. " Russian River started out as a small brewpub. Yay, this is so exciting (Pliny the Elder is considered by most to be the best example of that style - Imperial/Double IPA)" (Not too many other areas outside of CA get kegs of Russian River) "that the draft offerings of Blind Pig, Damnation and Pliny the Elder that get served in Philly are also vegan.
At our pub is just isn’t cost effective or labor effective to run a filter and honestly, the gelatin does a better job as it leaves more flavor behind." Also, any beer out for distribution from the brewery, such as beers on tap at Toronado do not have gelatin as they would have been made at the production brewery where we filter everything. "The sour / barrel beers regardless of bottle or keg do not use gelatin. "Actually they (the sour beers) are filtered as we have to filter out any fruit particulates, even the sour beers without fruit I filter as the process just seems to work better."Įd note: Being filtered is vegan but fined is not. All our bottled beers do not use gelatin and these are for sale at our pub so even a vegan guest can at least drink a beer at our pub that is vegan." "At our brewpub we use gelatin to fine our beers, none of the gelatin remains in the beer but none the less, we use gelatin. She didn't give me details, but said all their beer is not vegan, if you'd like to update." "Hello, I have been informed by the company (Russian River) that there beer is not vegan. "Thanks for the email, everything brewed at our Production Facility is vegan, everything brewed at our brewpub on 4th street is not." "Pliny the Younger is not vegan, we use gelatin to filter the beer though all of the gelatin is filtered out in the process." We don’t produce our beer at any other facilities and other than the honey in She’s so Italian we don’t use any other animal products." "I think the only beer that will be left that won’t meet the criteria of being vegan would be our beer She’s so Italian, we use some local honey in this beer. In a month we’ll stop using that as we are in the middle of installing a centrifuge which is the same piece of equipment we use in Windsor to remove yeast and hops. Temporarily we are using a fining agent called Biofine which is formulated from silicic acid. We stopped using gelatin a while ago at the downtown Santa Rosa brewpub. "Good news, almost all our beers are vegan now at both breweries, this includes Pliny the Younger at both breweries this year.
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