She brought the Scarcella’s Pizza and, because she was of legal drinking age and Vinnie wasn’t, the beer. When they started dating, he found himself with company-Natalie would spend up to three or four nights a week there, talking while brewing and bottling. The two were introduced that day, but it wasn’t until they found themselves at the same party the next summer that they started talking and Vinnie invited her to his 20th birthday.Īt the time, he was a homebrewer messing around in his parents’ winery’s drain- and hose-equipped cellar. One day, she and her employer had driven over to Cilurzo Winery-owned by Vinnie’s parents-to buy some produce when she saw Vinnie crushing grapes. Natalie, a late teen at the time, was working for a winery called Piconi. In fact, it was through winery connections that she and Vinnie met years earlier. He wrote about it once, and it was a feather in our cap.” “He was blown away that this beer could be made and it was that good in plastic fermenters. “We got George out to speak and he tasted some of our beers,” Vinnie recalls. But it’s also a beer mecca, where Russian River’s founders, Vinnie and Natalie Cilurzo, readily pour beers for local residents just as often as for the excitable, starry-eyed obsessives looking for "_tion" beers on their very first 4th Street pilgrimage. It’s the neighborhood pub here, where hometown folks unbothered by the crowds swing by to grab cases of Pliny for their weekend barbecues. Dozens of World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival medals fastened inside dusty frames above the bar gaze down at patrons underneath them is an array of soured and fresh beers listed out on a menu, fairly legendary names in the beer world just kind of humbly hanging out: Glances dart around the bar, as locals and tourists prepare to pounce at a vacant seat. Unlike most businesses downtown, people have returned in droves to this brewpub. “It’s gonna be a while for a table, but the bar’s open,” the host offers as I reach the front of the queue. From Barons to Barrels with Captain Pabst.Message in a Bottle with Brewery Ommegang.Beer is Labor with East Brother Beer Co.Let Go or Get Dragged by Jerard Fagerberg.Ferments at Low Temps by Stephanie Byce.So, there is still a chance to drink Pliny the Younger at many of the brewery’s draft accounts in California, Oregon, Colorado and Philadelphia! Unfortunately bottles will not be available for distribution. According to the brewery, many of the recommended hotels have confirmed that its special Younger rates will be honored during the new dates.įor those of us not trekking to Sonoma County, draft distribution of Pliny the Younger is still on target to begin reaching the brewery’s wholesalers the week of February 7th. With many visitors traveling from afar, hopefully this is enough notice to alter your travel plans and to stay safe. Therefore, Natalie and Vinnie Cilurzo, co-owners of Russian River Brewing decided it would be best to postpone the highly anticipated release of Pliny the Younger.īarring any additional setbacks, the world’s most popular Triple IPA will see its Santa Rosa and Windsor release on draft and in bottles from March 25 – April 7, 2022. This new health order takes us well into our upcoming Pliny the Younger release. In addition to the brewery’s internal crisis, on January 12th, Sonoma County issued a new health order banning large gatherings and asking residents to stay at home for the next 30 days. It’s a challenge everywhere for breweries to keep their doors open. Earlier this month, Russian River Brewing had to close both locations due to a staffing shortage. With the spike in COVID cases from the Omnicron variant, the brewery has seen its own challenges in keeping its doors open due to its staff becoming sick. Pliny the Younger was brewed for the first time in 2005 as a winter seasonal beer, building upon the Pliny the Elder recipe while pushing the envelope with malt, hops, and alcohol just to see how far they could go! It is always brewed only once a year and released the first Friday in February, rain or shine…. It is loaded with hop flavors, bitterness, and aromatics. The alcohol usually finishes at about 10.25%, although it is remarkably dry for the amount of malt used in this recipe. Pliny the Younger is a Triple IPA, simply meaning that it is higher in alcohol and has tons of hops. Originally set for release at Russian River Brewing in Santa Rosa and Windsor, California on February 4, 2022, the Pliny the Younger release has now been pushed back to Friday, March 25, 2002, continuing through April 7, 2022. With the hope of returning to an on-premise release of Pliny the Younger at Russian River Brewing, the brewery has decided to postpone the official brewery release by eight weeks.
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