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breweries where that is your neighbor- hood brewery. I think the full package though is when you can get home from work, walk from your house to your brewpub, get a meal, have some beer, and walk back home. I don’t think anybody would oppose that idea. I like what is happening in SD with small breweries being able to survive, because being able to sell a pint of beer over the bar is a game changer when it comes to survival, so I think the authorities that regulate that kind of thing should be quick to license any small restaurant that wants to produce some beer. Why isn’t every passionate homebrewer getting a job with a restau- rant that needs better beer? That’d be cool. It’s an idea.
ment to some beer. Down the line, the hope would be that in a year we’ll have a license to brew some beer here, and the space and resources to pull it off.
Left to right: Lee Chase and Jeff Motch of Blind Lady Ale House and Tiger!Tiger!
WC: What can people expect at Tiger!Tiger!? Chase: All of us as a group that own and operate Blind Lady, we love bread, and pizza is, by and large, good bread. We love the bread we serve at Blind Lady from Bread and Cie, but we’d also like to have bread fresh out of our ovens here so we’re able to make it with some nuances and differences. So this project is basi- cally our hope that we can make amazing bread and turn it into sandwiches. We have a meal that’s different than pizza, equally loveable, and a nice accompani-
WC: What does the future hold for Auto- matic Brewing? Chase: We’ll definitely strive to get a license at Tiger! Tiger! If we can do that, then this space will probably become the official Automatic brewing facility. The kitchen here is way bigger (than BLAH’s), so if I could just start brew- ing here on that system it would make life way easier. But I can’t just move the license over from Blind Lady, where we just received four pretty big tanks. We have three 10 bbl fermenters over there and a 10 bbl bright beer tank.
WC: When do you expect to put beer in Automatic’s new tanks? Chase: As soon as we can get them plugged in, after we open Tiger! Tiger! Then we can start working on the new brewhouse and cellar over there. It’s a stretch to think that we could have some beer for San Diego Beer Week. But I don’t know, maybe. Bring kegs of beer over here, putting it on tap, hopefully having enough beer that we can share with some other pubs around town that would like it. I think it’d be a nice thing to be able to share some beer with our neighbors. If all goes well Tiger!Tiger! will ultimately be the 2 bbl pilot brewery for the, I wouldn’t say production, ten barrel brewery at Blind Lady. We could experiment here and share a keg between, play with some stuff here and actually make the beer that we are comfortable with making in big batches there.
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