Golden Nuggets: Beer, Voles, and it's kind of been a light week I don't have a third thing.

Phew. We're nearly through Summer.

Hello and welcome to Golden Nuggets! In this weekly write up, we try our best to cover all things Cal, Berkeley, Bearkeley, UC Berkeley, University of Cal Berkeley, University of Berkeley at Cal, BerkeleyInspire, and California Berkeley University that happened more or less in the last week! Let’s dig in!

Pitching my idea for The Most Interesting Man in Berkeley ad to Bear Republic.

Beer, Glorious Beer

We start this week with news of a new partnership that UC Berkeley is announcing with Bear Republic Brewing to develop the university’s first-ever co-branded craft beer.

“UC Berkeley this week announced a new partnership with Bear Republic Brewing Co., establishing the local brewery as the “Official Craft Beer of Cal,” and the forthcoming launch of “Oski’s California Gold,” Berkeley’s first-ever co-branded craft beer. The light golden ale is set to be sold at California Memorial Stadium and local supermarkets this fall.

Revenue from the collaboration will support Berkeley programs and campus priorities, the University Business Partnerships & Services office announced in a press release, while strengthening alumni and fan connections with the university.” Read more on the news here and keep an eye out at Memorial for some California Gold!

Hot Links

• The Berkeley Library profiled Gašper Beguš, associate professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley on his fascinating research looking at how whale, robots, and…time travelers talk?

• Fall Camp for Football started last week and you can watch parts of it here

• The Oakland Ballers are hosting Cal Day on August 20th at Raimondi Park in Oakland! Come join the Calgorithm for fun, merriment, and the best baseball in Oakland! Tickets here.

• Justin Wilcox, Ron Rivera, and Mike Silver joined KNBR this morning live from Memorial Stadium! Watch the roughly hour long program here on the KNBR Youtube Channel. The action starts at roughly 1 hour in.

• Oski’s Cub Club Back! Get details here for your 2-13 year old!

• Vole Love baby! A UC Berkeley study found that social prairie voles lacking the receptor for oxytocin are slow to form friendships and less aggressive toward unfamiliar peers.

• Berkeley got a new matcha spot over the last week!

Golden Bear Honors

• Teagan Wy (Women’s Soccer) was named to the Preseason All-ACC Team

• Benji Palu absolutely rocketed a field goal when he needed a penalty kick as Women’s Soccer collaborated with the Football Team as part of Fall Camp

Cal Athletics Round Up

• It got really hot out here in Brentwood.

Cal Pros Round Up

MLB

• Andrew Vaughn is still at it, and earned himself a t-shirt. He also got a nice feature courtesy of Yahoo Sports. Oh and Fangraphs.

PGA

• Collin Morikawa changed up his caddie again before tying for 22nd Place at the Fedex St. Jude Championship. Michael Kim tied for 59th.

Next Week in Bear Territory

• Women’s Soccer kicks off their season down in San Diego (8/14) and then Fullerton (8/17)

• Men’s Soccer travels to UC Davis for an Exhibition game (8/16)

As always, thanks again for reading Golden Nuggets! Please let me know what I missed in the comment section. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to sing the correct lyrics to the California Drinking Song while waiting outside Safeway to secure my spot in line to get some California Gold.