Carmel Magazine

BEST OF THE CARMEL POLICE LOG… Offi cer responded to a residence that reported a chicken hen in their yard. The hen was captured and held at the department until returned to the owner. Educational information and a warning were given. SHORTCUTS CARMEL CONFIDENTIAL Local Beers Take Home Prestigous Awards E mmy award-winning broadcaster Jim Nantz, a fi ve-time National Sportscaster of the Year, joined Peter Deutsch of W. J. Deutsch & Sons for a Sardine Factory dinner in December. The pair shared wines from their collection, The Calling, assisted by winemaker James MacPhail. Guests sampled The Calling's new Monterey County Pinot Noir during a welcome reception, and a four-course pairing menu by Chef Bert Cutino featured additional releases from the brand. Nantz, Deutsch and MacPhail chatted with attendees and shared stories from their collaboration, which stemmed from a conversation about Nantz's 2009 book, "Always By My Side." The Calling Launches a Local Pinot Noir M onterey's Alvarado Street Brewery won two medals at the 2019 Great American Beer Festival (GABF), which evaluated 9,497 entries in 107 beer catego- ries. The brewery's Double Cone, named for a peak in Big Sur's Ventana Wilderness, took gold in the imperial IPA category. Alvarado Street also won bronze in the contemporary American-style pilsner category with its West Coast lager, Citraveza. Alvarado Street's sister brewery, Yeast of Eden, won a GABF bronze in this year's Belgian-style sour cate- gory with Saison Apotheca. The inaugural California Craft Brewers Cup in August recognized Alvarado Street's Monterey Beer with fi rst-place honors in the stan- dard American beer category, and Champagne Hopi took fi rst in the specialty IPA category. Peter B's Brewpub, another Monterey venue, won gold in the competition's standard British ales category with its English-style brown ale, Inclusion Amber. . Monterey made the list of America's best small cities in Conde Nast Traveler's 32nd annual Readers' Choice Awards, which were announced in late 2019. A piece about the recognition called attention to Parker-Lusseau Pastries and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Monterey ranked sev- enth overall among the communities included on the list. Several local lodging properties also earned notice in the survey, which counted the votes of more than 600,000 readers. Carmel Valley Ranch, Bernardus Lodge & Spa, Ventana Big Sur and The Lodge at Pebble Beach placed in the top 16 resort properties in Northern California. The Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa, Portola Hotel & Spa, L'Auberge Carmel, Post Ranch Inn, Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa and Spindrift Inn received top 25 hotels in Northern California honors. California State University Monter- ey Bay (CSUMB) is receiving more than $850,000 to create a virtual startup incubator for local businesses. The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded the school a $426,035 grant to sup- port the Startup Monterey Bay Launchpad. 54 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 2 0 Carmel's Yeast of Eden won a 2019 Great American Beer Festival bronze medal in the Belgian-style sour category. Photo: Brock Bill

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