Collaborations

Jester King Teams Up with Live Oak. Check out the Name

First off, lets talk about the full name of this beer. Jester King/Live Oak Kollaborationsbiermittschechischemhopfenundwilderbakterienhefekombination.

Yes, for real.

It means “collaboration beer with Czech hops, wild yeast, and bacteria.”

Jester King (Austin, TX) and Live Oak Brewing Co. (Austin, TX). Kollaborationsbier starts with a Continue Reading →

Hardywood & Cigar City Collaboration: The Milkman

Joining forces for what looks like an incredible dessert beer is Hardywood Park Craft Brewery (Richmond, VA) and Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL).

The duo are creating a milk stout you won’t soon forget – The Milkman.

Hardywood/Cigar City The Milkman features chocolate Continue Reading →

Half Acre Anicca India Pale Ale 2014

Half Acre Brewing (Chicago, IL) and 3 Floyds (Muenster, IN) team up again to bring you Anicca India Pale Ale. The collaboration is built on Mosaic hops, which have really grown in popularity recently.

…Far flung exotic notes of tropical fruit Continue Reading →

Boulevard & Ommegang Release Spiced Saison

Boulevard Brewing Company (Kansas City, MO) is ready to release the fourth offering in their collaborative series. Each of the prior releases features a hand pictured brewery with a unique story. This edition features a another brewery in Boulevard Brewing’s new family, Ommegang. Continue Reading →

Posted in Boulevard Brewing, Coming Soon, Headlines, Odell Brewing

Boulevard & Odell Celebrate 25 Years with a Special Collaboration

2014 marks the silver anniversary for American craft brewers Boulevard Brewing  (Kansas City, MO) and Odell Brewing (Ft. Collins, CO).

On November 17th, 1989, John McDonald sold his first keg of Boulevard beer. One day later, John Odell sold his first keg, kicking off a quarter century of brewing success. To honor the occasion, the breweries are creating Silver Anniversary Ale.

On November 17, 1989 John McDonald loaded a keg of Boulevard Pale Ale into the back of his pick up truck and drove to a restaurant a few blocks down the street. Scarcely 24 hours later and 650 miles away, Doug Odell loaded a keg of Odell Golden Ale into the back of his pick up truck and… You get the idea. They were the first kegs of beer either of them ever sold, but they wouldn’t be the last. This golden copper ale celebrates 25 years of brewing with an ample body of caramel – toffee malt balance by piney hop notes. Here’s a toast to working hard and sticking with it. Cheers!

Both Odell Brewing and Boulevard Brewing are slated to release either own editions of Silver Anniversary Ale. The Boulevard edition depicted here will be packaged in 750ml bottles.

Style:
Availability: 750ml bottles, Draft.
Arrival: TBA

7.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

Jester King Teams Up with Live Oak. Check out the Name

First off, lets talk about the full name of this beer. Jester King/Live Oak Kollaborationsbiermittschechischemhopfenundwilderbakterienhefekombination.

Yes, for real.

It means “collaboration beer with Czech hops, wild yeast, and bacteria.”

Jester King (Austin, TX) and Live Oak Brewing Co. (Austin, TX). Kollaborationsbier starts with a low gravity wort brewed at Live Oak with head brewer Dusan Kwiatkowski. (Decoction mash for those brewers out there.) It was loaded into containers and brought to Jester King. From there it was added to fermentation tanks with Jester King brewer’s yeast, wild yeast, and bacteria.

Jester King/Live Oak Kollaborationsbier will be available in bottles and draft, starting Friday, October 24th.

Style: Farmhouse Ale/American Wild Ale
Availability: 750ml bottles (3,300), Draft.
Arrival: 10/24/14

4.2% ABV, 42 IBUs

 Images via Jester King

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, New Belgium

New Belgium/Perennial Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout Releases

New Belgium / Perennial Artisanal Ales Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout has started making appearances in various markets. The new, drool-worthy creation gracing New Belgium’s Lips of Faith Series is a Belgian-style stout with a touch of chocolate and salt. 22oz of dessert in a bottle.

Dessert is best poured. And the brewers at Perennial agree. So we dreamt up a beer that would bering together chocolate sweetness, Belgian yeast, deeply roasted malts and just the right shake of salt to pour a creamy stout worth of a cherry on top.

New Belgium/Perennial Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout is available in 22oz bombers and draft for a limited time.

Style: Belgian-Style Imperial Stout (w/ Chocolate, Salt)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft.
Arrival: Late September/October, 2014

9% ABV

Image via New Belgium

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, Headlines

Hardywood & Cigar City Collaboration: The Milkman

Joining forces for what looks like an incredible dessert beer is Hardywood Park Craft Brewery (Richmond, VA) and Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL).

The duo are creating a milk stout you won’t soon forget – The Milkman.

Hardywood/Cigar City The Milkman features chocolate malts, cocoa nibs and milk sugar (make the beer creamy and smooth), finishing at a whopping 13.5% ABV.

Hardywood proudly combines forces with Cigar City Brewing of Tampa, Florida to bring you a whole new milk stout experience, Hardywood’s Milkman Chocolate Milk Stout packs a full body and palate coating viscosity. Heaps of chocolate malts and a massive addition of gourmet cocoa nibs meld with a generous dose of milk sugar to satisfy the biggest chocolate craving. 

This boozy chocolate beer will release in 750ml bottles.

Style: Imperial Milk Stout (w/ Cocoa Nibs. Lactose)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Arrival: TBA

13.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in 3 Floyds Brewing, Half Acre Brewing, Seasonal Return

Half Acre Anicca India Pale Ale 2014

Half Acre Brewing (Chicago, IL) and 3 Floyds (Muenster, IN) team up again to bring you Anicca India Pale Ale. The collaboration is built on Mosaic hops, which have really grown in popularity recently.

…Far flung exotic notes of tropical fruit and electric pine squat on shoulders of chewy grain. With some semblance of balance, the mighty Mosaic pounds its chest above all. In the end, this is raw, unmodified fire water rumbling the furthest reaches of your inner caves.

Half Acre/3 Floyds Anicca India Pale Ale returns September 19th, 2014 at 12 noon in the brewery tap room.

Style: IPA
Hops: Mosaic

Availability: 22oz Bombers. No growler fills
Arrival: 9/19/2014

7.3% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Don't Miss This, Evil Twin Brewing, Prairie Artisanal Ales

800 Bottles: Prairie/Evil Twin Coolship Truck

Prairie Artisan Ales and Evil Twin Brewing started this project late last year.

The two breweries co-brewed a new American wild ale, using a coolship on wheels (in a truck.) A coolship is a basically a shallow tub that allows for a lot of surface area exposure for hot wort. The wort cools overnight, while collecting airborne yeast that will spontaneously ferment the beer.

Last month, Prairie tweeted that around 800 bottles of Coolship Truck have made it into existence.

To the best of my knowledge, the bottles have not been released yet. There are some Untappd ratings from the tap room .

Style: American Wild Ale
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Limited.
Release: TBA

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Boulevard Brewing, Don't Miss This, Ommegang

Boulevard & Ommegang Release Spiced Saison

Boulevard Brewing Company (Kansas City, MO) is ready to release the fourth offering in their collaborative series. Each of the prior releases features a hand pictured brewery with a unique story. This edition features a another brewery in Boulevard Brewing’s new family, Ommegang. Both breweries are part of the Duvel Moortgat family, after Boulevard was purchased by the parent company last year.

Boulevard Collaboration No. 4 Spiced Saison was brewed at Boulevard Brewing, featuring their house yeasts. Spiced Saison was split into two fermentation tanks, one with Boulevard’s Belgian yeast, and one with Ommegang’s house yeast. The two beers were blended together during filtration.

Collaboration No. 4 will be bottled in 750ml bottles, and draft for a limited time.

Style: Saison (w/ Sweet Orange Peel, Lemon Peel, Coriander, Grains of Paradise)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft. (1/6 kegs)
Arrival: TBA

7.3% ABV

Previous Collaborations:

No. 1 – Imperial Pilsner, with Belgian brewer Jean-Marie Rock
No. 2 – White India Pale Ale, with Deschutes Brewery
No. 3 – Stingo, with Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project

by Reid Ramsay