Collaborations

Terrapin & Twains Collaborate [PICS]

Chase Medlin, head brewer at Twain’s in Decatur, Georgia, is good friends with Terrapin Beer Company’s co-founder “Spike” Buchowski. Out of that friendship, (and Spike’s penchant for collaborations) came this new brew – Azaccattack! Single Hop Rye Session IPA.

Both Chase and Continue Reading →

New Holland Announces Carhartt Collaboration Brew

A little while back, New Holland Brewing (Holland, MI) announced a very special collaboration/partnership with work clothes producer Carhartt.

This fall, the collaboration comes together in a craft brew dubbed The Carhartt Woodsman. Woodsman is a session-strength pale ale, aged in Continue Reading →

The Story of Class of ’88 [VIDEO]

Goose Island Brewing (Chicago, IL) and Deschutes Brewing (Bend, OR) celebrate 25 years of brewing in a very special collaboration – Class of ’88. Each brewery has released an edition of the beer across their own markets.

Almost every beer has Continue Reading →

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 →

Posted in Don't Miss This, New Releases, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin & Twains Collaborate [PICS]

Chase Medlin, head brewer at Twain’s in Decatur, Georgia, is good friends with Terrapin Beer Company’s co-founder “Spike” Buchowski. Out of that friendship, (and Spike’s penchant for collaborations) came this new brew – Azaccattack! Single Hop Rye Session IPA.

Both Chase and Spike love using rye malt, so that came first. Spike contributed a new hop neither has used before, Azacca. This new hop gives beer a bright, tropical, citrusy flavor.

Azaccattack! will be released at Twain’s on Monday, May 12th to kick off American Craft Beer Week.

Style: Pale Ale
Hops: Azacca
Availability: Draft only

5.6% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, New Holland Brewing, New Releases

New Holland Announces Carhartt Collaboration Brew

A little while back, New Holland Brewing (Holland, MI) announced a very special collaboration/partnership with work clothes producer Carhartt.

This fall, the collaboration comes together in a craft brew dubbed The Carhartt Woodsman. Woodsman is a session-strength pale ale, aged in bourbon barrels.

This beer is not only a celebration of Carhartt’s 125th anniversary, it’s first and foremost a salute to hard-working men and women who deserve a refreshing reward after a long day’s work,” said Tony Ambroza, senior vice president of marketing at Carhartt. “A flavorful Carhartt ale from an authentic partner like New Holland is the perfect way to honor our consumers and the hard work they do each day.”

New Holland Carhartt Woodsman is brewed with Michigan Cascade hops that blend well with the barrel aging. Look for 12oz bottles of this offering in all of New Holland’s distribution states.

Style: Pale Ale (Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Hops: Cascade

Availability: 12oz Bottles. All New Holland Markets
Arrival: October, 2014

4.5% ABV

Fun Fact: The Tin Woodsman, from The Wizard of Oz, was penned in Holland, Michigan by L. Frank Baum in 1899. Carhartt was already ten years old.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Deschutes Brewing, Don't Miss This, Goose Island Brewing, Videos

The Story of Class of ’88 [VIDEO]

Goose Island Brewing (Chicago, IL) and Deschutes Brewing (Bend, OR) celebrate 25 years of brewing in a very special collaboration – Class of ’88. Each brewery has released an edition of the beer across their own markets.

Almost every beer has a story. Is is Class of ’88 as told by brewers who created it.

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by Reid Ramsay
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