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DETAILS: Bruery & Dogfish Collaboration

UPDATE: Here are the details this collaboration.  The beer will benefit Japan.  Per Benjamin Weiss, Sales & Marketing at The Bruery:

What happens when you combine two brewers with a love for experimentation on a single beer recipe?

We’ll soon find Continue Reading →

$250 For A Bottle Of Beer?

How much are you willing to pay for beer?  As in, one bottle?  The Bruery has made quite a name for themselves in 3 years.  Let’s just say their beers are fantastic. Butttttt…  it stands to reason… how Continue Reading →

Cigar City/Bruery Collab Revealed

It was mentioned last week that Cigar City Brewing & The Bruery were collaborating. Some artwork, a name and some details have surfaced.  The beer -“Dos Costas Oeste” is a saison.  Translation: Two West Coasts. (Bruery in Cali, Continue Reading →

Stone, Elysian, The Bruery, Pumpkins

Steve Wagner & Greg Koch published a video to the Stone Blog today about all the excitement surrounding the Stone Brewing’s recent big news.  Stone takes a few minutes to put whole $26 million dollar story in their own words. Continue Reading →

Acer Quercus

Last Thursday, The Bruery opened up about their current capacity, lineup changes, & their future.  Something I didn’t quite understand at the time (and overlooked) was that the title of the email I received was called “Project Quercus Continue Reading →

Bruery: More Barrels, No Orchard White

The Bruery is entering their 3rd year.  Their popularity has grown exponentially.  Their beers, amazing.  Things couldn’t be better.  Now the Rue family has a choice to make.  Build a bigger brewery, incur debt, and bring in outside investments, or Continue Reading →

Posted in Beer News, Coming Soon, Dogfish Head, The Bruery

DETAILS: Bruery & Dogfish Collaboration

UPDATE: Here are the details this collaboration.  The beer will benefit Japan.  Per Benjamin Weiss, Sales & Marketing at The Bruery:

What happens when you combine two brewers with a love for experimentation on a single beer recipe?

We’ll soon find out as Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery is flying out to California this week to work with Patrick Rue and his team at The Bruery on a collaborative beer.

Both Dogfish Head and The Bruery are infamous for their use of experimental ingredients, often inspired by flavors found in exotic cuisine, and this collaboration beer will be no different.  Brewed with the intention of raising money for victims of the recent earthquake in Japan, the flavors of the small Asian, island nation famed for their umami rich cuisine will be featured in this new beer.

Made with ingredients such as nori, chili peppers, sesame seeds and kumquats and then fermented with a sake yeast, the yet to be named collaborative beer will certainly be something that furthers each brewery’s style-bending reputation and hopefully raises quite a bit of money to help out our fellow beer lovers in Japan by donating a portion of the proceeds from every bottle sale.

Availability: 750ml bottles. Limited basis.  The Bruery’s distribution areas.

 

Earlier Post

Per the Bruery Reserve Society email I got over the weekend:

[quote]“If you haven’t figured it out from the subtle hints we’ve dropped recently on Facebook, we are excited to announce that we will be brewing a beer in collaboration with Dogfish Head and we plan on brewing it next week at The Bruery!”[/quote]

Reading back over the posts from The Bruery’s Facebook page they have been hinting at this for a while.  Especially in a post: “Thinking about brewing something off-centered.”   The beer is being brewed this week.  The collaborating breweries have picked a style, but haven’t divulged a name for it.  It was also mentioned that there is no name or label for the beer.

Availability: Unknown

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Editorial, The Bruery

$250 For A Bottle Of Beer?

How much are you willing to pay for beer?  As in, one bottle?  The Bruery has made quite a name for themselves in 3 years.  Let’s just say their beers are fantastic. Butttttt…  it stands to reason… how much are you willing to pay for rare beer?  Recently The Bruery collaborated with City Beer in San Francisco, California to create a beer for City’s 5th Anniversary.  The Wanderer (Dark Sour Ale barrel aged w/ blackberries & cherries) was limited to 30 cases to commemorate the occasion.  Now, after they sold out – the beer appears on sites like Ebay for $250 dollars a bottle! Traders are asking for a lot in return on a trade like this. So… the question to you the drinker is – is it too much? Is rare beer fun? Or getting out of control?

From a current Ebay listing for The Wanderer:

[quote]I will not accept other offers, and I’m content to cellar this beer should it not sell for my asking price. This bottle will only increase in value as scarcity also increased. Own this historical beer while you can.[/quote]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon, The Bruery

Cigar City/Bruery Collab Revealed

It was mentioned last week that Cigar City Brewing & The Bruery were collaborating. Some artwork, a name and some details have surfaced.  The beer -“Dos Costas Oeste” is a saison.  Translation: Two West Coasts. (Bruery in Cali, Cigar City on Florida’s west coast in Tampa.) The saison is brewed with coriander, ginger, and sweet orage peel.  Aged on cedar spirals.

Dos Costas Oeste is the result of a collaborative brewing effort between Cigar City Brewing of Florida’s Gulf (West) Coast and The Bruery of Placentia, CA.  Like the breweries involved with its creation, this ale cheerfully meanders off the beaten path.  Join us in celebrating this West Coast to West Coast collaboration

Since this release is brewed and bottled by CC, the beer will be available in the current Cigar City distribution channels.  (Florida, Alabama, & soon to be Georgia once the new brewhouse is completed.)  Dos Costas is already in the tanks. Interestingly, judging by the photo CC posted about this beer on Facebook – they called this Collab I.  Leads me to believe there is potentially another in the works.

Style: Saison

Availability: 750ml bottles, tap room draft?

Arrival: TBA

9% ABV

 

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon, Cool Stuff, The Bruery

Cigar City Brewing Tiramisu, Bruery Saison Collaboration

Cigar City Brewing teased fans today with a pic of a dessert beer their brewing up.

Tiramisu will be a sweet stout (milk stout) that tastes like the dessert  8% ABV, 50 IBUs

Also, another beer teaser – this one gives a little bit of details about The Bruery/ Cigar City saison collaboration.  Saison, with cedar. [NOTE: Tank says “Collab I”]

 

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Elysian Brewing, Stone Brewing Co., The Bruery, Videos

Stone, Elysian, The Bruery, Pumpkins

Steve Wagner & Greg Koch published a video to the Stone Blog today about all the excitement surrounding the Stone Brewing’s recent big news.  Stone takes a few minutes to put whole $26 million dollar story in their own words.  Interestingly, there is a collaboration in the works with Stone, Elysian, & The Bruery.  It involves the new farm, pumpkins, & October.

Stone’s Upcoming Projects from stonebrew on Vimeo.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, The Bruery

Acer Quercus

Last Thursday, The Bruery opened up about their current capacity, lineup changes, & their future.  Something I didn’t quite understand at the time (and overlooked) was that the title of the email I received was called “Project Quercus Maximus.”  Nothing else was mentioned about the peculiar title, but I went with it.  Now this little number has shown up, “Acer Quercus” a collaboration brewed with Sean Lawson of Lawson’s Finest Liquids.

Lawson’s is a small brewery based in Warren, Vermont.  Every beer is brewed in very small batches, sold in a few select places in the Mad River Valley of Vermont.  Acer Quercus is a collaboration that spans nearly the length of the United States in a maple and oak laden concoction.

A collaboration between The Bruery and Lawson’s Finest Liquids, this complex ale is seeping with Vermont maple syrup & maplewood smoked malt.

Maple Syrup & oak cubes. Sounds like a great fall release, or a pancake pairing.  Oak cubes are literally little cubes of oak available at different toast levels (how bold the oak flavor expressed.)  Vermont produces some of the best maple syrup in the world.

Style: Brown Ale
Availability: 750ml champagne style bottles.  Areas TBD
Cellar? Yes

9.5% ABV

Lawson’s has an award winning small batch (less than 400 bottles) annual release each year around April.   Sounds like Acer Quercus might have a little in common. Label below…



by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, The Bruery

Bruery: More Barrels, No Orchard White

The Bruery is entering their 3rd year.  Their popularity has grown exponentially.  Their beers, amazing.  Things couldn’t be better.  Now the Rue family has a choice to make.  Build a bigger brewery, incur debt, and bring in outside investments, or keep the brewery a small, family owned business.  Of course, they are choosing the later.  A couple of changes are going to be made.  Recently The Bruery leased a warehouse to fill with thousands of oak barrels. More barrel aged beers will hit the market.  Sadly, Orchard White is no more.  The newsletter I received earlier today says it all:

To all the loyal fans and retailers of our beer,

As we approach our 3rd anniversary, it’s incredible to look back at the journey of these last few years. Our growth has been of a magnitude that we never could have imagined when brewing our first 15-barrel batch. As you might already know, we’ve been operating at capacity for over the last year and a half; a near doubling of capacity in January of this year has been a mere drop in the bucket. We’ve reached a fork in the road. One path is to open a much larger brewery that would satisfy demand over the long term, and accumulate millions of debt and bring on outside investors to get to that point. The other path is renewal of our original vision: a small, family-owned business making some of the most interesting, highest-quality specialty beers available in the market in our own unique way. After much debate, research and soul-searching, we’ve chosen the latter path — but on a grander scale.

We have just leased a temperature controlled warehouse space that we will be filling with thousands of oak barrels, allowing us to create some of our favorite beers such as Oude Tart, Melange #3, and a variety of other delicious and innovative beers. We’re extremely excited for this cellar expansion both because it will allow our creativity to shine and because it will help us get our favorite beers into more glasses in more cities. Since day one at The Bruery, we’ve been making barrel aged ales with an eventual goal to fill shelves with these complex and full-bodied beers. Until now, we have only been able to do this on a limited basis, primarily reaching only those in our Reserve Society. This new investment will allow us to brew more, distribute more and get more specialty beer into the marketplace.

With this change, we have had to make room in our brewing schedule to brew the beers that we’ll be barrel aging. Unfortunately, Orchard White is the victim. While we have great love for Orchard White, we feel there are many great witbiers available and believe our limited resources are best spent elsewhere. Further, Rugbrød will now only be available in the fall and winter, with Hottenroth taking it’s place in the spring and summer beginning in 2012.

As a company focused on quality over quantity, and founded on the basic fact that making beer is fun, we’re excited to continue brewing up our dream. We won’t be putting down our mash paddles in place of mechanized processes, we won’t be switching our khaki shorts for navy-blue suits and most importantly, we won’t be sacrificing our original vision for any reason whatsoever. Simply said, we are growing at our own pace.

Thank you all for the support these past three years. It’s your love of style-bending beers that have helped us, and breweries like us, to grow and will keep us growing in the years to come. If you can make it, we’d love to see you at our 3rd Anniversary Beer Festival on May 29th to help us celebrate our future!

Cheers,
Your Friends at The Bruery

 

by Reid Ramsay