Collaborations

Lonerider E’s First Rodeo

Lonerider Brewing Company (Raleigh, NC) has released a new imperial IPA collaboration with Bottle Revolution (bottle shop in Raleigh) – E’s First Rodeo.

E’s First Rodeo represents our Double IPA beer, featuring four distinct varieties of carefully selected hops, including 2013 Continue Reading →

Half Acre & Mikkeller, Round 2

Half Acre Brewing (Chicago, IL) and Mikkeller (Um, everywhere) collaborated on Guest Lager once before. The collab is touted as an “ode to all things nonsensical.” This hoppy lager is available in both draft and 16oz cans.

At 8% ABV, clean, Continue Reading →

Posted in Cigar City Brewing, New Beers

Cigar City Operation Homefront IPA

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Baxter Brewing Co, DC Brau Brewing Co, Headlines, New Releases

DC Brau & Baxter Brewing Create New Can Collab

Lewiston, Maine’s Baxter Brewing and DC Brau (Washington D.C.) have teamed up on a new collaboration beer – Daughters of Poseidon. A stout/ipa hybrid brewed with oysters.

Brandon Skall, founder of DC Brau and Luke Livingston of Baxter Brewing met a couple of years ago at the American Craft Beer Festival in Boston. Their breweries were founded about a year apart, and both can their offerings. Both breweries are even close to the ocean. Why not collaborate?

The result is a unique recipe, more like a dark IPA than a stout, brewed with precisely the same ingredients at both DC Brau and Baxter. Except that the DC version uses locally sourced Rappahannock Oyster Co. Olde Salt oysters, and the Maine version uses oysters from Glidden Point Oyster Company in the Pemaquid (ME) area.

The duo spent time each oysters on the water in Boston during their time at the festival. A perfect way to remember their meeting was to add oysters to the collaboration. 800 pounds worth, to be exact. DC Brau/Baxter Daughters of the Poseidon will be available in 16oz cans for a limited time.

Style: Stout (w/ Oysters)
Availability: 16oz Cans
Arrival: May 8th, 2014

Release Events:

Meridian Pint (Washington D.C) 5/8, 5 pm
Deep Ellum (Boston, MA) – 5/29
American Craft Beer Fest – 5/30 – 5/31

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Lonerider Brewing Company, New Releases

Lonerider E’s First Rodeo

Lonerider Brewing Company (Raleigh, NC) has released a new imperial IPA collaboration with Bottle Revolution (bottle shop in Raleigh) – E’s First Rodeo.

E’s First Rodeo represents our Double IPA beer, featuring four distinct varieties of carefully selected hops, including 2013 crop Amarillo, Dark crystal and Vienna malts support the hop profile and provides the coppery amber appearance. A gutsy beer for the gutsy lady this is made for!


Lonerider E’s First Rodeo is available in limited quantity in 22oz bombers and draft.

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Limited release.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Collaborates with Musicians in New Imperial IPA

Music and craft beer are on a roll. There are so many brewers collaborating with musicians. Coming soon to Stone Brewing Co.’s Collaboration Series is Collective Distortion IPA. This future offering is the brainchild of Kyle Hollingsworth of The String Cheese Incident, and Keri Kelli of Alice Cooper. Together they created an imperial IPA brewed with elderberries and coriander.

In bringing together artisans front disparate aural planes, one might expect an offbeat, feedback-warned cacophony,shrill to the point of unlistenable. Yet, by inviting Kyle Hollingsworth, keyboardist for eclectic, Jam-prone sextet, The String Cheese Incident, and Karl Kelli, wailing rock guitarist of Slice Cooper fame, we were able to make truly beautiful music. Turns out, these musicians have a great deal in common, both with each other and with Stone. We all enjoy turning things up toll, and that is represented in this collaborative offering, an imperial India pale ale ably backed by Nugget, Comet and Calypso hops, and amplified care of a generous dry-hopping with Vic’s Secret, a new Australian hop, adding citrus and tropical fruit oomph.To give this modern masterpiece some soulful, classic character, we traced the roots of brewing to the days when Old World herbs were used to spice beers, adding in coriander and, a first for us, elderberries. To stand up to that sumptuous spice and blaring bitterness, we added golden naked oats, which are lightly roasted and add body and enhanced mouthf eel to the brew like a steady, unbreakable backbeat to an incendiary ram solo. Sit back, crank the volume and get lost in this operatic incarnation of genres combined in the name of invention.

Kyle Hollingsworth has done another craft heer collaboration with Boulder Beer Company – Hoopla. Look for Stone Collective Distortion IPA in 22oz bottles and draft.

Style: Imperial IPA (w/ Elderberries, Coriander)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

9.2% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Green Flash Brewing, Headlines, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin & Green Flash Creating Tangerine Dreamcicle

East coast meets west coast in this soon to memorable collaboration. Terrapin Beer Co. (Athens, GA) and Green Flash (San Diego, CA) have already brewed together in California, and the left coasters will find their way to Athens, Georgia next week to create Tangerine Dreamcicle.

Tangerine Dreamcicle is a tangerine cream IPA. Got your attention? Good. Beer Street Journal will be filming the brew day next week.

Style: iPA (w/ Tangerines)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft.
Arrival: May, 2014 (Tentative)

6.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Boneyard Brewing, Headlines, New Releases, Widmer Brothers Brewing

Collaboration: Widmer Brothers & Boneyard Beer

A new collaboration is on the way in the craft beer industry. This year Widmer Brothers Brewing (Portland, OR) celebrates 30 years of craft brewing. To celebrate, the brewery is collaborating with a few special people. (Six to be exact.)

Coming soon is Blacklight IPA, brewed with Boneyard Beer from Bend, Oregon. Widmer Brothers brewer Ben Dobler has known Boneyard’s Tony Lawrence for 17 years, making this first collaboration an easy choice.

Read more: Widmer Brothers 30 Beers for 30 Years

Blacklight IPA is a meld of the two breweries styles. A hop forward, sessionable 4.2% abv black ale with dark roasty notes.

Brewed with a heavy dose of five different hops varieties and stained black as night with cold-steeped dark malts, this beer hits huge with hop flavor and aroma without the heavy roast and harsh bitterness suggested by its color.

Widmer Brothers/Boneyard Beer Blacklight IPA will be available in 22oz bombers in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Minneapolis, New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia.

Style: Black IPA
Hops: Alchemy, Nelson Sauvin, Amarillo, Summer, Citra
Malts: Two Row Pale, Midnight Wheat, Special Aromatic, Flaked Barley, Caraffa III, Caravienne

Availability: 22oz Bombers
Arrival: April, 2014

4.2% ABV

pic via Widmer Brothers

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Half Acre Brewing, Mikkeller, Seasonal Return

Half Acre & Mikkeller, Round 2

Half Acre Brewing (Chicago, IL) and Mikkeller (Um, everywhere) collaborated on Guest Lager once before. The collab is touted as an “ode to all things nonsensical.” This hoppy lager is available in both draft and 16oz cans.

At 8% ABV, clean, Pilsner and Vienna malts, support a lager masquerading with the hop kids. Falconer’s Flight and Nelson Sauvin serve up a dank, orange blossom mouth fantasy that’ll hide your shoes under the bed and ask you to stay awhile.

Grab this special offering in the tap room starting today.

Style: Lager
Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft
Arrival: 4/4/14

 

by Reid Ramsay