Collaborations

Jester King Teams Up with Off Color Brewing

Jester King Radiolaria is a new collaboration with Chicago, Illinois based Off Color Brewing. The resulting beer, as the label states, is a “conflagration of wild yeasts.”

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Old Chicago & Summit Brewing Team Up

Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom is a staple out west. The restaurant got its start back in 1976 in Boulder, Colorado, bringing pizza and beer to a cold hungry city. The restaurant has grown ever since.

Keeping in touch with their Continue Reading →

Perennial & Cigar City Team Up On Philly Taco

Perennial Artisan Ales (Saint Louis, MO) will debut a new collaboration with Cigar City Brewing dubbed Philly Taco in May. The offering will be a Belgian-style brown ale with Brettanomyces (wild yeast).

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Quest Brewing & Burial Brewing Team Up

Greenville, South Carolina’s Quest Brewing Company has partnered with Asheville, North Carolina’s Burial Beer Co. to create a new collaboration for Greenville Craft Beer Week.

Don Richardson of Quest Brewing, and Tim Gormley created Calumet, a strawberry rhubarb grisette style beer.

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Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

Jester King Foudreweizen, A Live Oak Collab [PICS]

Jester King Foudreweizen is the second collaboration Jester King has done with Live Oak Brewing Co. Both breweries are based in Austin, Texas.

To create Foudreweizen, Jester King transferred Live Oak Hefeweizen wort (boiled, but not yet fermented beer) from the brewery across town and brought it to Jester King to slowly ferment in their in house oak foudre. The yeast and bacteria in the oak walks of the foudre went to work.

After two months in the foudre, a tartness began to emerge as lactic acid producing bacteria began to convert organic compounds into organic acids. Finally, Foudreweizen continued to develop more funk and acidity as it matured in bottles, kegs, and casks during the two months prior to release.

Jester King Foudreweizen follows the first collaboration with Live Oak, Kollaborationsbier. For both releases, the breweries took wort and let a mix of wild yeast and bacteria decide what the beer becomes.

Brewed in January of 2015, Jester King Foudreweizen was bottled in March. Nearly 3,000 bottles will go on sale Friday, May 22nd, 2015.

Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged)
Availability: 750ml bottles. 3,000 produced.
Release: 5/22/15

5.6% ABV, 11 IBUS

Images via Jester King

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery, New Releases, Off Color Brewing

Jester King Teams Up with Off Color Brewing

Jester King Radiolaria is a new collaboration with Chicago, Illinois based Off Color Brewing. The resulting beer, as the label states, is a “conflagration of wild yeasts.”

Jester King travelled to Chicago with a blend of Texas yeast and bacteria, and combined it with Off Color’s house microbes. The base beer is loosely based on Off Color’s Apex Predator, a farmhouse ale. The blend of both breweries funky mixed cultures give Jester King Radiolaria is unique flavor profile.

Jester King Off Color Radiolaria will be available in the Chicago area. Due to restrictive Texas laws, the beer will not be available in Texas.

Style: American Wild Ale
Hops: Sorachi Ace
Availability: 750ml bottles. Chicago distribution.
Release: May, 2015

4.5% ABV

Images via Jester King

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, New Releases, Summit Brewing Co

Old Chicago & Summit Brewing Team Up

Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom is a staple out west. The restaurant got its start back in 1976 in Boulder, Colorado, bringing pizza and beer to a cold hungry city. The restaurant has grown ever since.

Keeping in touch with their Colorado roots, a craft beer destination, Old Chicago Pizza & Tap Room doesn’t hesitate to collaborate with local craft breweries whenever possible. That’s where St. Paul, Minnesota’s Summit Brewing came into the picture.

Old Chicago’s desire to give the customer a unique experience lead the duo to team up on Old Chicago/Summit Brewing “Cracking Wit.”

Folks at Old Chicago recently spent the day brewing at Summit, aiming to create a unique beer perfect for drinking in (FINALLY) warmer weather, and of course, with their legendary pizza.

Cracking Wit is of course a witbier, brewed with coriander and Equinox hops. Instead of orange peel, the team decided to use lemon peel to brighten up the citrusy pop of Cracking Wit.

Want to try Old Chicago/Summit Cracking Wit? While Old Chicago has 100 taprooms around the United States, only a lucky 47 will get the draft only offering. If you are one of the lucky 47 Old Chicago locations, Cracking Wit hits taps starting May 20th.  The beer is truly a unique offering, and once it’s gone, it’s gone.

Check out the gallery below of scenes of the brew day, and a list of the locations to get Old Chicago/Summit Cracking Wit.

Style: Witbier (w/ Coriander, Lemon Peel)
Availability: Draft Only
States: Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and of course, Minnesota.

Release: 5/20/15

5% ABV, 32 IBUs

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Ecliptic Brewing, Stone Brewing Co., Wicked Weed Brewing Co

Stone Points Unknown IPA with Wicked Weed & Ecliptic Ships

Stone Points Unknown IPA, a three-way collaboration featuring Ecliptic Brewing (Portland, OR) and Asheville, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed Brewing has hit shelves.

if you know anything about these three breweries, then the result of the collaboration will make perfect sense. Not one style was going to to properly envelop these brewery’s styles, so they brewed two beers. Stone Points Unknown IPA is a double IPA, blended with a barrel aged Belgian-style tripel.

In creating our latest collaboration beer, It wasn’t easy deciding how best to pool the resources of brewers from three spatially distant points within the brewing universe: Portland, Oregon brewing legend and Ecliptic Brewing founder John Danis, and Luke and Walt Dickinson, the hop-and-funk brewmaster duo behind Asheville, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed Brewing. It seemed no single beer could adequately convey all that they and Stone Brewmaster Mitch Steele bring to the brewhouse. So, this veritable triad of power opted to brew TWO beers: a traditional Belgian-style tripel and a West Coast imperial IPA. Doing so allowed them to work within the parameters of all styles while taking things in interesting directions, adding a touch of Southern Califomia style and petting into the spirit! The tripelwas transferred into barrels that originally housed red wine before finding a second life as vessels for aging tequila. Four months later,that beer was excavated, then blended at a one-fifth to four-fifths ratio with the freshly brewed double IPA to create the beer you now hold: a hind of the traditional and the new, presenting a variety of diverse flavors that coalesce into something more unique than any one beer our trio could have conceived. Its eventual flavors were a mystery to even the group of master brewers who created it, but now they await the palates of those thirsting to venture to points unknown within the rapidly expanding craft beer galaxy. In other words: You.

Stone Points Unknown IPA is now available in 22oz bottles and draft.

Style: American Strong Ale (Barrel Aged. Tequila.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Distribution: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA and Puerto Rico.

Internationally: Australia; Alberta and British Columbia, Canada; Japan; Singapore; Sweden; and United Kingdom
Release: Mid-May, 2015

9% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Brewdog, Coming Soon, Deschutes Brewing

Deschutes Collaborates with Brewdog in Scotland

Bend, Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery has recently been brewing with Scotland’s Brewdog. The two teams (seen above) created a new beer in the spirit of The Abyss – a “big bad imperial porter”.

The beer has yet to be named. No mention of any kegs coming to the United States at this time.

Image via Brewdog

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon, Perennial Artisan Ales

Perennial & Cigar City Team Up On Philly Taco

Perennial Artisan Ales (Saint Louis, MO) will debut a new collaboration with Cigar City Brewing dubbed Philly Taco in May. The offering will be a Belgian-style brown ale with Brettanomyces (wild yeast).

You “foodies” need to know what the “Philly Taco” actually is. In Philadelphia food terms, the Philly Taco is a Jim’s South Street Philly, wrapped in a steak inside a slice of Lorenzo & Sons’ pizza (according to legend of where this gut bomb got started). Or at least some fat ass inducing combination of such.

Perennial/Cigar City Philly Taco will be 7% ABV.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Burial Beer Co, Coming Soon, Quest Brewing

Quest Brewing & Burial Brewing Team Up

Greenville, South Carolina’s Quest Brewing Company has partnered with Asheville, North Carolina’s Burial Beer Co. to create a new collaboration for Greenville Craft Beer Week.

Don Richardson of Quest Brewing, and Tim Gormley created Calumet, a strawberry rhubarb grisette style beer.

…Grisette, a cousin of the Saison, is a style that not many are familiar with, but both Don and Tim were intrigued by. This deaden style was known in its prime as the drink of the Belgian miners, while its close cousin, the Saison , was known as the drink of the Belgian farmers. Both brewmasters were inspired with reviving a style that beer consumers may not have come in contact with before.

Calumet, translated to ‘peace pipe’ in Cherokee, will be available to the public for the first time on April 23rd at Quest Brewing Company. Burial will taps kegs in their tap room as well.

Additionally, there will be a limited VIP pre-tasting at Barley’s Taproom & Pizzeria of Greenville, in their private tasting room on Monday, April 20th for 14 people. To purchase a ticket, please contact Barley’s of Greenville at 864.232.3706.

Style: Grisette (w/ Strawberries, Rhubarb)
Availability: Draft Only

Arrival: April 2015

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay