Founded in North San Diego County in 2010 by Daniel & Jon Love, and Kamron Khannakhjavani, what began as a hobby years earlier had formed into a business. Originally operating out of a 2200 sq. ft. industrial space, the business grew quickly thanks to thirsty patrons visiting the industrial, but homely, onsite tasting room and adjacent homebrew store. Brewhouse upgrades soon followed and in 2012, Mother Earth opened a large Tap House in the historic downtown Vista district. The relocation of the tap room allowed the company to expand its production spaces even further and over time additional square footage was added to nearly 28000 sq. ft. in total.
In 2015 the company began development of a new, state-of-the-art 40,000 sq. ft. production facility in Nampa, Idaho. Featuring a 40 bbl multi-vessel brewhouse, and the capacity to produce over 100K bbls/yr, “Mother Earth – Nampa” went on-line in August of 2016 and through continuous upgrades and expansion rapidly became the largest brewery in the state of Idaho. As Mother Earth's second regional headquarters, Nampa supports most of the company's growth and produces beer for all markets outside Southern California. The original Vista brewery continues to provide draft and specialty offerings to its home market of Socal as well as creating unique one-off brews for visitors at its retail operations in North County San Diego. Mother Earth remains family owned and operated and has become a standard of success within the industry.
Bottle consumed at Cropredy, Fairports Annual Reunion Festival 2015 Friday 14th shared with Craig. Thick in the mouth, sweet and juicy with lots of hops but also plenty of crystal malt, so quite a bit of toffee also. The appearance is orangey/gold with a white head a touch of haze. Sweet, a little oily. Good. A6 A4 T8 P4 Ov13 3.5
Bottle consumed at Cropredy, Fairports Annual Reunion Festival 2015, Friday 14th shared with Craig. Creamy milk chocolate on the nose, biscuity, actually Oreo cookies in the mouth and also on the nose. Bitter chocolate on the end, cocoa powder,not as smooth as the nose suggests. Good. A8 A4 T7 P4 Ov14 3.7
Bomber, brought back from California to drink at home in Shropshire: shared with my son on 1st August 2015. Light amber to golden body, slight haze on the final pour: on top a thin but full off-white head. Tropical fruits in the aroma with Grapefruit coming through strongest and into the taste. Really pleasant flavourings, citrus notes mostly and semi-bitter in the finish. Liked it.
Bomber from Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours dark gold with a slight foamy whitish head. Aroma of sweet caramel and a large load of mixed exotic fruits. Med + body. Flavor is strongly hoppy - fruity hoppy - with some sweetness. It doesn’t seem dank, but there’s so much hop it should be. Grape seems prominent. Heat doesn’t seem an issue. I could continue to go in circles on this, but, heck, time to start drinking seriously.
Bomber shared by Marcus. Pours light, clear copper with a quite transient head. Aroma is oak aged English barley wine. Deep inhale reveals fruit esters, but light. Arguably full bodied. Flavor is very oaky, there’s some heat, some brown sugar/treacle. And hop? And fruity esters? And Belgian yeast/spice? ? answer might be lost in the main wonderful strong flavors. Just excellent.
Golden with a white head - Fruity hop arom flavour that is fruity - Malt body to support a nice hoppy flavour that is fruity - The fruity hops goes into the finish - This was good
22oz bomber pours with a clear pure gold body that supports a thin off white head. The aroma offers up inviting citrus juicy smelling mango and spicy hop dankness flowing into grassy to floral hoppiness. The taste is easy going and it makes it hard to stop taking refreshing sips and start taking notes. After nearly half the bottle . . . here it goes. The beer delivers clementine and ripe tangelo citrus, some mango juicy tropical fruitiness. To midway it starts to get into growing bitterness with the help of spicy dank onion and floral hops. Damn solid IPA.
Can shared at a tasting at Stas’s place. Better Beer Of The Month Club. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of "green" and citric hops, slightly stale. Flavor is rather dry, with citric and "green" hops, slightly stale. Medium-bodied.