Tony Gwynn Jr. follows dad in brewing as well as baseball Wearing safety goggles and glancing at his watch, Tony Gwynn Jr. waits for the right moment to add hops to a kettle of boiling water and malted barley as he tweaks his craft beer recipe on a two-keg system dwarfed by giant tanks at AleSmith Brewing Co. Gwynn followed in the footsteps of his famous father in playing at San Diego State and even with cheap baseball jerseys the Padres, and now he hopes to hit on something similar to San Diego Pale Ale .394, AleSmith's tribute to the late Hall of Famer. "That would make me feel fantastic," Gwynn said. "I would like to do something that is equal to my dad. I mean, I couldn't play baseball as equal to him. ... If I could make a beer that people enjoy half as well as they enjoy my dad's, I would be thrilled." San Diego is the self-proclaimed Craft Beer Capital of the World and Cleveland Indians Jerseys Tony Gwynn was one of the city's most beloved figures, so it's only natural that the two would be linked somehow. AleSmith's association with the Gwynn family began in the spring of 2014, ostensibly because Gwynn wanted to get back at Tom Seaver. Seaver, as the story goes, brings wine from his vineyard to the Hall of Fame banquet but won't share it with hitters who did well against him. Since Gwynn hit well against pretty much everybody, he didn't get any wine once he became a Hall of Famer. "Tony said: 'You know what? I'm going to brew a beer and you're not going to get any,'" said Peter Zien, AleSmith's CEO and owner. Ten days earlier, .394 Pale Ale— named after Gwynn's highest batting average, in the strike-shortened 1994 season — hit the market. It's been a home run in San Diego and even made it to Cooperstown when Tony's widow, Alicia, brought several cases last year. It's only natural that the younger Gwynn gives brewing a try. Under Zien's tutelage, he's learning the craft behind craft beer. The .394 Pale Ale is about 6 percent alcohol and Gwynn is looking to brew a session IPA with somewhere around 5 percent alcohol. "I'm a big IPA fan and I also love .394," Gwynn said. "I wanted to do a combo, a session IPA, the best of both worlds." A session IPA, Zien and Gwynn explain, is a beer that someone can have several of during a drinking session due to the lower alcohol content. On this day, Gwynn is working on a second batch of his beer. "Without revealing too much, I am trying to get some of the end taste to be better," he said."The initial taste was exactly where I would ever want a beer to be at. The aftertaste, I want to improve that." Said Zien: "That is so important, the aftertaste, because that's what gets you to want to pick your glass up again. And if it's not good, wholesale jerseys you may just want to get another beer." As Gwynn is finding out, there's a lot that goes into brewing craft beer. "It's a blend of art and science like nothing else," said Zien, whose beers kyle schwarber jerseys are distributed in 24 states and six countries. Tony Gwynn wrote a book called "The Art of Hitting," and his good friend and native San Diegan Ted Williams wrote a book called "The Science of Hitting." If you want to know more about 2017 world baseball information, see http://www.2017worldbaseballjersey.com, you can get it!
