Duck Foot Brewery

Last night’s virtual tasting was probably one of the best ones we’ve attended so far – except that it was beer, and I am not a beer drinker. Bryan is, however, and he said it was very good beer.

The event was hosted by La Bodega again, this time featuring the Duck Foot Brewery out of San Diego. We had both their Owner and their Chief Beer Taster talking with us and sharing three of their creations with us: Sour On Love (a sour beer with cherries), Jabberducky (an IPA), and Turn of Darkness (an imperial stout beer). As an added bonus, the Tasting Kit included a glass for the beer with the Duck Foot label on it! Because, yeah… we need another glass.

Matt Delvecchio started the Duck Foot Brewery back in 2012 as a way of providing good craft beer for people (like himself) who have Celaic Disease and cannot tolerate gluten. With that in mind, ALL the beer they create is certified Gluten Reduced. Technically it is gluten free (they consistently test well below 20 parts per million) but since they start with products that contain gluten and remove it organically for their end product, they cannot claim being completely gluten free.

Matt Akin, the Chief Beer Taster, has to have the worlds best job ever = he gets paid to taste beer! He stated last night that every beer that comes out of their brewery has to pass his palette first.

The evening was full of good conversations, good beer, and good company.