“We want you to come and learn about our culture,” Mazzetti said. Still, for the full Rincon experience, there’s no substitute for the Rincon Reservation Road Brewery’s airy tasting room.
A new distribution deal should bring them to BevMo, Trader Joe’s and Sprouts Farmers Market. Rincon beers are poured in the casino’s restaurants, at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Disney California Adventure Park and several casinos run by other tribes. Local guavas and pomegranates freshen some Rincon beers, and the tribe recently set aside 10 acres to raise hops.
Those ties appear in several of DeVore’s recipes which draw on the tribe’s agricultural roots. The new name more directly links the Rincon culture to this Rincon enterprise. It opened six years ago as the SR 76 brewery, named for the state route that meanders through rural Rincon Valley, which is home to the reservation and its resort. Adjacent to Harrah’s Resort Southern California, the brewery - like the casino itself - is owned by the The Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians.