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It's the kick off of San Diego Craft Beer Week and it's also the kick off of Victory as Sea season! Jeff from Ballast Point drops in for a first taste of this year's Victory As Sea and all the details on why we're getting this beer now instead of in December!

A perfect beer for this time a year! Malty, smooth, crushable and delicious Alpine Afterglow is a Vienna Style Lager that will have you in the mood for rich soups, warm blankets and maybe a cozy fire.

As the Pure Project and Wildcoast release party for Baja Breach is happening at Sea House in Encinitas, Jensen and Anne brought a beer of a different type. Something from the N/A variety!

Earlier this year Pure Project and WIldcoast releaed their first beer collab to help with the mangrove conservation effort. Today we're getting a chance to try Rewild.

We started this conversation around 2 years ago, when Pure Project as part of their 1% for the Planet partnered with WIldcoast to promote what they were doing to keep the waters off our coast clear. Since then the partnership bloomed into not one but as of this week, two beers! Earlier this year they introduced Rewild a West Coast Pale Ale, this week they unveil Baja Breach West Coast IPA. Jensen from Pure Project and Anne from Wildcoast tell us how this all came together and what the beer is benifiting.

Ninty degree day. Imperial Stout? Absolutly! After all Bacon & Eggs is more like an 8%ABV iced coffee then it is a Imperial Porter. We wrap up the week with a fantastic Pizza Port Seasonal that will put you in the Fall mood.

There's no time where hops effect a beer more then Wet Hop season since each plant is a snapshot of what happen ecologically over the past year. Sometime local events also have an impact on the beer, in OB it was rather rainy when this beer was first brewed and between the hops that year and the 3-day old Huracan parked in the new appartment complex down the street both made history books!

Sometimes really good beers take time to develop. For Pizza Port brewing, creating a modern IPA that can sit a long side a staple West Coast IPA like Swami's it took two years of tinkering for the team to create Coastin' Tropical IPA.

Put this in my category of beers that I think you should drink when it's hot out! PIzza Port Imperial Beach crafted this wonderful Schwarzbier. Translated from German it means "black beer" and while a lot of people instantly think that means it's going to be heavy, it's not. This low ABV lager is just as easy drinking as any fizzy yellow lager but with more flavor and the Pizza Port Crew explain why!

Pretty sure this crew just stepped off the jetway from The Great American Beer Fest in Denver, a whole bunch of Pizza Port Brewing's finest have made their way to the Alt 94/9 studios to talk about what they've been up to! We start with a can that conjures thoughts of getting tacos in the late hours of the night, Amigo Mexican Style Lager.

Much like Tom's green truck (that he rolled on the freeway some years ago) this beer isn't here for a long time, but it's here for a good time. With a huge hop-puch that comes on fast and leaves fast it'll keep you coming back to sip this wet hop beer again, again and again.

O'Brien's Wet Hop Fest features more then just beers from Nickel Beer Company, it also shows off some of the other beers made by neighbouring breweries like Ketch. Under the guise of Dr. Billheimer, Ketch Brewing makes some of the cleanest, easy-drinking beers in San Diego and their wet hop brew this year Poisiden's Potion is no exception.

We've already established that Tom loves to brew wet hop beers and when he can tie in locally grown hop it gets him even more excited. For today's beer, High Country it showcases some of the best in locally grown San Diego hops.

This was the beer that started it all for Wet Hop season on Last Call. Tonight we get to try San Diego Brewing Company's San Diegrown only a few weeks after we first had it with Chris and Tyson from SDBC.

We got our first taste of Wet Hop beers a few weeks ago and this week we have the man who brews more Wet Hop beers in San Diego then anyother! Tom Nickel from Nickel Beer Company drops in this with Tori from O'Brien's to talk about Wet Hop Fest this weekend and what's been in Tom's brew kettle. We start with not an IPA but a Wet Hop Lager called Golden Nugget.