[Press Release:]

This latest barrel-aged sour ale from Santa Barbara’s premier craft brewery will be available on November 18

(Santa Barbara, CA) – Telegraph Brewing Company will release Obscura Peche, a barrel-aged sour ale with peaches, on Friday, November 18. With more than 25 pounds of locally grown, organic peaches added to each barrel, this beer captures the essence of that fresh, ripe fruit. Bottles will be available starting at 2 pm on November 18 at the downtown Santa Barbara tasting room. This beer was last released in 2014.

“We aged this beer in used wine barrels for 18 months,” explained Patrick Ceriale, Telegraph’s barrel program director, “so crafting it requires real patience, but the pay-off is huge. The bright fruit aromas married to a mouth-watering acidity make Obscura Peche an extremely satisfying beer for lovers of sour and wild ales. Our house sour culture, which includes lactobacillus, brettanomyces, and other souring organisms, creates an extremely complex flavor profile—flavors that we think stand alongside the best sour beers in the world.”

Obscura Peche will be released as a bottled beer in 375-ml, cork-and-cage bottles, and as a draft beer in 5.2-gallon kegs. The beer will be available throughout greater Santa Barbara and in select markets including Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Arizona, and New York State. Cases began shipping to distributors in early November. Only 280 cases were produced.

“This is one of our most highly anticipated bottle releases,” said Telegraph sales manager Trevor Scoggins. “Demand for Obscura Peche always exceeds supply, but with the beer now being released in 375-ml, rather than 750-ml bottles, we’re excited that even more sour beer fans will be able to find this and enjoy it.”

Telegraph Brewing, an award-winning craft brewery located in downtown Santa Barbara, specializes in brewing uniquely American and Belgian-inspired beers using 100% domestic ingredients and as many local ingredients as possible. Telegraph’s Obscura Line of experimental beers, nearly all sourced from the brewery’s extensive barrel-aging program, includes both award-winning favorites like Gypsy Ale and Reserve Wheat Ale, as well as many one-off projects that will never exist again.

For more information, including descriptions of beers brewed by Telegraph, visit TelegraphBrewing.com.