Oskar Blues Brewing
Oskar Blues & BrewDog Plan to Collaborate
We have just learned that Oskar Blues (CO, NC) and BrewDog (All over Scotland) are planning a collaboration. Oskar Blues’ Dave, Stephen and Chad aretouring the UK next week, and a brew day is in planning at Brewdog.
More on the brew day, style, and release notes to follow…
Teaser: Oskar Blues Preps a New Seasonal
Oskar Blues (Colorado/North Carolina) is teasing their fans about a new seasonal release. The brewery is releasing it next year (2014) between the release of Gubna Imperial IPA and and Ten Fidy Imperial Stout.
Estimating, that timeframe would be next summer. No info, hints or clues yet. Add this to your can radar. When we know, you’ll know.
Oskar Blues and The Hi*Beams Play with Cactus [VIDEO]
Oaskar Blues collaborated with a local country/honky tonk band, Halden Wofford & The Hi*Beams, to create a new exciting beer. Honky Tonk Ale is being brewed for their Hops and Honky Tonk Festival and features prickly pear cactus as an addition. This isn’t the first time Wofford has worked with a brewery – a few months back he assisted with an animated short for New Belgium’s Clips of Faith Film Festival (check it out here).
Did You Know Oskar Blues Sponsors a Race Car? [PICS]
Bet you didn’t know that Oskar Blues Brewing (Colorado/North Carolina) sponsors stock car racing. It’s true. The car owners Kevin & Melissa Steinke are based in Colorado, but travel to 4 states to race. The super late model car is built on a Dodge body with a 600 HP Dodge engine.
The Oskar Blues Stock Car races in the Pass Series and Southern Super Series. I know you want to know about speed. The stock car averages around 150 mph, but could hit 190 mph in a straight line. The car is typically a top five finisher, and and recently won the Champion Cup at Colorado National Speedway.
If you’re not first, you’re last…
Oskar Blues Canundrum Ships in May
Oskar Blues (Colorado/North Carolina) will ship this new “Canundrum” mix pack this May. The 12 pack will have 4 cans of Mama’s, Dale’s Pale, and Old Chub.
Oskar Blues and Asheville Brewing Name Collab
With Oskar Blues opening a second location in North Carolina the first thing they wanted to do was make friends in their new Southern home. What better way than to brew with them? Keeping that in mind, Oskar Blues has teamed up with Asheville Brewing Company for their first colla-BEER-ation inspired by the Southern roots around them. Meet Big BAMA Buzz – an Imperial Brown Ale with Ethipian-blend coffee. The name was created by combining two names entered by Matt Hazelton and Janice Freeman on the breweries’ Facebook pages. Since the head brewer at Ashville and the owner for Oskar Blues are both from Alabama and love all things Southern, the name just seemed perfect.
Simultaneous launch parties will take place at both breweries on Monday, April 8th, from 4-8pm with proceeds of beer sales benefitting the Animal Care Network, the largest animal welfare organization in Western North Carolina.
Style: Imperial Brown Ale (with coffee)
Availability: draft only
Arrival: April 8 2013
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Oskar Blues, Asheville Brewing Big BAMA Buzz Imperial Brown Ale (PR)
(Asheville and Brevard, NC) — Oskar Blues Breweryand Asheville Brewing Company have teamed up to create a North Cackalacky colla-BEER-ation. What did our brewers come up with? Think Alabama/Southern roots (both ABC head brewer Doug Riley and OB founder Dale Katechis hail from that Magnolia-strewn state). Think big, bold lightly-hopped nectar with a malty, steeped with Ethiopian-blend coffee, backbone. Think fun, tasty, and a little outrageous. It’s our new Imperial Brown Ale, aka Big BAMA Buzz!
We went to the public to name this special brew, running simultaneous “Name that beer” contests on our brewery Facebook pages–https://www.facebook.com/asheville.brewing and https://www.facebook.com/OskarBluesSoutheast. Turns out we got two winners, as we combined the two names entered by Matt Hazelton and Janice Freeman and came up with Big BAMA Buzz. Matt and Janice win lifelong street cred and a T-shirt from each brewery.
Dale and Doug have been talking about doing a colla-BEER-ation since Oskar Blues first announced that they would open a second brewery in Brevard in May 2012. The Alabama-bred boys attended rival high schools in Florence, Alabama, and share a love for great craft beer and all things Southern.
“This was a really fun recipe to come up with, and it’s a fun style of beer that will be smooth but pack a wallop. We’re amped to be working with Doug and Asheville Brewing Company,” says Oskar Blues Head Brewer Noah Tuttle.
Big BAMA Buzz will be released at simultaneous parties at both breweries on Monday, April 8, from 4 to 8 p.m. (Oskar Blues Brewery taproom at 342 Mountain Industrial Dr. in Brevard and Asheville Brewing Company’s brewery locale at 77 Coxe Avenue in Asheville). It will only be available on tap at the two breweries–while it lasts.
“We’re excited to collaborate with Oskar Blues, not just on the beer but by working together to benefit an important local nonprofit–Animal Compassion Network,” says Mike Rangel, Asheville Brewing Company founder and president. “We also had fun playing on the Alabama connection.”
Proceeds from the sale of the beer will benefit ACN, the largest animal welfare organization in Western North Carolina. Because both breweries love us some hound dogs.
“We are honored to be chosen to benefit from this special small batch release by two of our local breweries,” says Lauren Weldishofer, ACN marketing coordinator. “A cold local brew and a rescue dog by your side is what I call a happy hour.”
The first 50 folks at each brewery on April 8 will get a free Big BAMA Buzz T-shirt commemorating the historic event.
About Asheville Brewing Company
Since 1998. Asheville Brewing Company has been creating some of the area’s tastiest brews. From our flagship beer, the Shiva IPA, to the Ninja Porter, we try to capture our spirit of fun and adventure with every beer we make. Our brewery team of superstars is always striving to improve and meet the challenge of being one of the best in a town full of great breweries. Happy Brewers. Happy Beer. www.ashevillebrewing.com.
About Oskar Blues Brewery
Founded by Dale Katechis in 1997 as a brewpub and grill, Oskar Blues Brewery launched its craft-brewed beer canning operations in 2002 in Lyons, Colorado. It was the first American craft brewery to brew and can its beer. Today there are more than 200 craft breweries canning beer. The original crew used a hand-canning line on a tabletop machine that sealed one can at a time. Oskar Blues Brewery in Longmont packaged 59,000 in 2011 and grew to 85,750 in 2012 while opening an additional brewery in Brevard, NC, in late 2012.
www.oskarblues.com
