From The Cellar: The Malt-terrogation - Tim Clifford of Sante Adairius Rustic Ales
Malt Couture
Alex Kidd
4.9 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
For our very first Malt Seat suspect we brought in none other than the saison czar of Capitola: Tim Clifford of Sante Adarius Rustic Ales! Hear the tale of how dank the worst beer he ever brewed was and how he keeps it local when it comes to Brew, Buy, Kill, his go-to beer in college, and his ideal collab partners.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Tim Clippard from Sante Adairius Restigils, and Malt Couture is keeping it in the |
| 0:05.8 | evergreen. |
| 0:07.3 | They're the best. |
| 0:08.1 | I love them. |
| 0:13.5 | With a small startup seed of $10,000 in 2011, |
| 0:21.6 | in a small industrial park in Capitola outside of Santa Cruz, |
| 0:25.6 | Santa Darius rustic ales began bubbling away in 2012. |
| 0:29.6 | Over the course of eight years with a small but dedicated reserve society, |
| 0:33.6 | this Cézon Preveyor has consistently put out the most compelling farmhouse ails in America, from Wesley to West Ashley to the choir, to stencil pages. |
| 0:43.1 | Their approach to beer making is one of whimsy, highly inspired by Belgian tradition with a modern American mixed fermentation twist. |
| 0:50.1 | Joining us today is Head Brewer, co-owner, fermentation master and barrel blending baron of Santa Darius rustic ales, |
| 0:58.6 | Tim Clifford. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.4 | Hey, what an introduction. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm going to make a quick correction. |
| 1:09.2 | We were, we started with $100,000. Still a paltry son. |
| 1:13.6 | But I cannot, cannot, it was more than that. It was $50,000 each, me and a dare. |
| 1:20.6 | It was a small loan from your father. |
| 1:23.6 | Nah, no, it was my dead mother's bequeef, bequeathing of, uh, bequeef, bequeathing. |
| 1:32.4 | It was, it was a conditional will. It's like, Tim may only take this sum if he makes a |
| 1:39.3 | saison brewery. If he stays in this scary house overnight and brews a saison. |
| 1:46.8 | California, one of the only states where you can still have a conditional will. |
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