Sparks Casino Welcomes New German Style Brewery
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cOmmuNITy SPARKS Raise Your Voice event held at Legends YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1910 Page 3 TribuneSERVING SPARKS SINCE 1910 Volume 110, Number 18 Wednesday, May 2, 2018 $1.00 SPORTS cOvER story Sparks casino welcomes new German style brewery By Kayla Anderson of brews which helped Oc- Sparks Tribune cidental stand out from the rest. Cougs look to lock It is a Tuesday morning “I haven’t seen four and Occidental Brewing Kolschs on tap anywhere,” up first place Company Proprietor Ben Engler says. While he feels this week Engler just spent the week- that IPA is the dominant end filling 300 cases of Ger- style of beer in the US, Ger- Page 8 man-style beer at its new man beers appeal to drink- brew pub in Baldini’s Sports ers who like a more subtle, Casino. The part-owner flew less hoppy tasting brew. down from Portland, Ore- Since its opening in Sparks, gon, to oversee and help with Occidental’s traditional Ger- the first canning which he man-style beers have been said went pretty smoothly. well-received and customers Its canned Kolsch and Pil- have even enjoyed the new sner will soon be distributed one coming out. to grocery stores and liquor At a bar filled with poker shops in the area. machines, I taste test the When High Sierra Brew- Pilsner, Hefeweizen, and 5.2 ing Company went out of percent ABV Dunkel beers. business last fall, it pre- The Hefeweizen is nice and sented an opportunity light with hints of natural Corbett taken by for Occidental to move in. cloves and banana notes. Browns with With the acquisition came The Dunkel has a sweet, a 15-barrel brew house, four roasty clean finish and the No. 33 overall pick fermenting tanks, six Brite pilsner is fresh, sweet, and Page 9 finishing tanks and a restau- sharp. rant attached. “Plenty of German beer “We knew one of the own- pairs very well with our ers from Baldini’s, our fam- menu items, but with a big, INSIDE ilies go way back,” says En- greasy burger (like the lo- gler. “We took over the space cal’s favorite Awful Awful), Weather...............................2 and equipment. It was rela- Kayla Anderson/Tribune I think the Pilsner pairs State Briefs..........................2 tively easy to open this loca- Occidental Brewery Proprietor Ben Engler displays one well with it- it helps wash it History................................6 tion with low risk,” he adds. of the german style beers on tap at their location inside down,” Engler says. Opinion............................10 This is the family’s only Baldini’s Casino in Sparks. Now that the first suc- Classified Ads..................13 other Occidental facility out- cessful round of canning is Puzzles..............................14 side of its flagship brewery dini’s loves doing business the Kolsch, Pilsner, and over, you’ll probably start to Advice...............................15 in Portland, and its first one in Sparks,” Engler says. “We Hefeweizen. see Occidental beers in local Legals................................16 in Nevada. basically opened a brewery “We have a couple of feel- stores and more transforma- “Beer is a very local thing. in five months, it was an in- fine-the-next-morning, tions to their restaurant. Since it’s fairly dense, it’s ex- credibly fast timeline.” easygoing straightforward “We’re trying to build Follow us on pensive to ship so that’s why Occidental has always beers,” says Engler. Rock Boulevard as the place Twitter: more local breweries are specialized in German-style Years ago, he started to get beer. The beer is pro- @SparksTribune popping up everywhere,” beers and began pairing it brewing beers with his un- duced here, we pay taxes Engler says. Occidental took with German food and pub cle Dan and they ended up here and employ people over the space Baldini’s this favorites. The restaurant liking their own German- here. My wife and I love to January and got its license to keeps 8-10 of its beers on tap style beers the best. While ski and hike and be close to brew beer shortly after. (plus a guest tap- currently craft beers were on the rise, Lake Tahoe, so we’ll proba- “The city was really easy to it’s Revision IPA) and its no other businesses seemed work with and I know Bal- most popular drafts include to be focusing on those types > See BREWERY, Page 6 SPARKS Get the digital edition. SEE MORE sparkstrib.com Tribune News | Sports | Trending Now Your Community Newspaper Since 1910 ONLINE! 2 May 2, 2018 yOuR SEvEN-Day fOREcast WEDNESDAY THuRSDAY fRIDAY SaTuRDAY SuNDAY mONDAY Tuesday 68/43 76/48 80/50 78/49 78/47 80/51 83/50 Partly sunny Mostly sunny, nice Warm with Warm with clouds Sunny, nice and Chance of a Very warm with and warm periods of sun and sun warm shower some sun NEvaDa news bRIEfS Associated Press to one count each of wire fraud, mail rooms to obtain at least 300 sexually recorded history. KC said 2018 is off fraud, aggravated identity theft and explicit photos and videos he later to a hotter start, with 40 fires coming filing a false tax return. traded with others. in the first two months of the year. FBI In nevada to anchor chIld Federal prosecutors say he admit- All 40 of those fires, she added, aBductIon rapId-response ted failing to report more than $1 FIre season looms aFter were started by humans. team million in taxable income he received late wInter storms Fuel “Last year, we didn’t even hit fire Brush growth LAS VEGAS — The FBI in Las Ve- through the fraud scheme in 2013. season until about June,” she said. gas is unveiling a new multi-agency They say he used the stolen iden- CARSON CITY — The late winter Northern Nevada in particular is quick-response team to handle po- tities to open unauthorized prepaid storms that helped bolster Nevada’s predicted to be one of most at-risk ar- tential child abduction cases in Ne- cards, credit and bank accounts. He lagging snowpack also jump started eas in the country for wildfires from vada. then used the accounts to send ap- the growth of grasses and brush that May through July, KC said. Special Agent in Charge Aaron proximately $3.5 million to himself potentially could fuel another big Rouse plans to outline the Joint Child through checks and electronic trans- wildfire season. laxalt skIppIng NRA event Abduction Rapid Deployment unit actions at about 500 accounts under “I hate to use the term ‘worst-case to campaIgn For nevada governor on Monday, with representatives his control. scenario,’ but it’s kind of leading from federal, state and local police He faces a maximum of more than into another potentially very ac- LAS VEGAS — An aide to Nevada agencies, the state attorney general’s 40 years in prison at his sentencing tive fire season,” National Weather Attorney General Adam Laxalt says office and at least one sheriffs’ office. scheduled July 30. Service meteorologist Chris Small- the Republican is skipping a major Dubbed JCARD, the idea is to be comb told Gov. Brian Sandoval National Rifle Association event this able to quickly involve trained inves- paroled nevada rapIst Wednesday. year to instead campaign for gover- tigators to increase the chances of re- gets 22 years For chIld Smallcomb said the late precipita- nor. pornography covering a child safely. tion push in March raised the snow- Laxalt was listed as a headliner for A statement calls the unit a force- RENO — A Nevada man who spent pack from 36 percent of normal in the NRA Annual Leadership Forum multiplier — modeled after an FBI more than 30 years in prison for rape February to 85 percent of normal as scheduled May 3-5 in Dallas but his national abduction rapid deployment and kidnapping has been sentenced of March 27 at Tahoe. name was removed from the list after program. to 22 years on child pornography “Now you’ve got the accumulated a Florida school shooting in Febru- In Nevada, it will include Las Ve- charges. vegetation of the grasses from the ary. gas, Henderson, North Las Vegas Federal prosecutors say 59-year- previous year plus the new stuff from Laxalt campaign spokesman Andy and Mesquite police; Esmeralda old Ira Weirich Jr. posed online as this year,” he said. Matthews denied Laxalt is skipping County sheriff deputies; the Nevada a teenage boy and persuaded more More flashy fuels isn’t the only con- the event because of the shooting. He Highway Patrol; U.S. National Park than a dozen girls to send him nude cern, as the weather service said less said in a statement Wednesday that Service police; and federal Homeland and sexually explicit photos. than average snowpack also means Laxalt has decided to stay and cam- Security Investigations agents. He pleaded guilty last August to dryer vegetation. paign in Nevada because early voting distribution and receipt of child por- “Now the trees are starting off with starts three weeks later. reno man guIlty In $3.5 nography, and was sentenced Thurs- a lot less moisture and then as they get Matthews declined to offer details mIllIon Id theFt scheme day in U.S. District Court in Reno. into the hot parts of summer they’ll on when and where Laxalt would RENO — A 47-year-old Reno man Weirich earlier was sentenced to dry out sooner,” said Smallcomb. be campaigning, saying the schedule has pleaded guilty to using stolen life in prison after he raped, kid- State Forester Kacey KC agreed was not yet public.