Collaborations

145 Brewers Create Centennial Pale Ale

Each year, a special commemorative beer is released for The Craft Brewers Conference.

This year’s beer features a collaborative project of 145 Colorado Craft Brewers Guild brewers. You’ll know it as Centennial Pale Ale in honor of Colorado being the Centennial Continue Reading →

Collaboration: Jolly Pumpkin & Anchorage

Love it when craft brewers collaborate? Then get behind this. Alaska’s Anchorage Brewing and Jolly Pumpkin (Dexter, MI) have created Calabaza Boreal.

Keeping with Jolly Pumpkin’s tradition of funky beer, this Belgian style beer is aged in oak barrels with grapefruit, Continue Reading →

Upland & New Belgium Team Up On Wild Collab

When Upland Brewing and New Belgium Brewing get together, you can be sure something funky will come out of it. Namely – Darksynth.

Darksynth is a blend of some special offerings from each collaborator’s repertoire:

New Belgium’s Oscar, an ale aged in Continue Reading →

SweetWater & Breckenridge Collaborate

SweetWater Brewery (Atlanta) and Breckenridge Brewery (Denver, CO) have a very special collaboration tapping later this month.

The recipe is based on the 16th Anniversary Ale from SweetWater, a red wheat wine ale and Breckenridge’s new spring seasonal Ophelia Hoppy Wheat Continue Reading →

Evil Twin & Perennial Collab?

A collaboration teaser… This one will most likely be limited to Evil Twin’s Torst in New York City. Either way, be aware something is up with these two. Perennial Artisanal Ales is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Great talking with @EvilTwinBrewing Continue Reading →

Posted in Don't Miss This

145 Brewers Create Centennial Pale Ale

Each year, a special commemorative beer is released for The Craft Brewers Conference.

This year’s beer features a collaborative project of 145 Colorado Craft Brewers Guild brewers. You’ll know it as Centennial Pale Ale in honor of Colorado being the Centennial State.

Ball Corporation’s new Dynamark™ Variable Printing Technology, a collection of the 19.2oz cans that will be given to CBC attendees will spell “CBC Colorado 2014.”

A few notes about Centennial Pale Ale:

  • Colorado is known as the Centennial State.
  • First ever CBC Collaboration brew with 100% ingredients from the host state.  Brewed with Colorado ingredients including Colorado grown Centennial Hops.
  • The Centennial Pale Ale demonstrates the innovative nature of Colorado’s craft beer culture by being the first ever CBC collaboration beer to be packaged in a can.
  • The beer will be packaged in 19.2 ounce single serve cans, first introduced in 2013 by Ball Corporation.
  • The Centennial Pale Ale will be the first American craft beer to use the Ball Corporation’s new Dynamark™ Variable Printing Technology.
  • Centennial Pale Ale was brewed and canned at Oskar Blues Brewery in Longmont, Colorado on Monday, February 24 @ 10:00 am.

 

Beer Ingredients: All ingredients and supplies were donated by the following companies.

Colorado Malting Company – Malt
Colorado Hop Yard – Hops
Rising Sun Hop Farms – Hops
High Wire Hops – Hops
Todd Hopps – Hops
Oskar Blues Hops and Heifers Farm – Hops
New Belgium Brewing – Hops
The Brewing Science Institute – Yeast
Ball Corporation – 19.2 ounce cans and Dynamark™ Variable Printing Technology
Oskar Blues Brewery – Host Brewery
Strange Brewery – Brewed test batches on pilot system

Find Centennial Pale Ale Everwhere During the Craft Brewers Conference Week in Denver.

Wednesday April 9th – Star Bar – CANARCHY  http://www.starbardenver.com/

Friday April 11th – Fresh Craft – Extrava CANza   http://freshcraft.com/

Saturday April 12th – Star Bar – CBC Encore  http://www.starbardenver.com/

On Draft & Cans at:

Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Taproom – http://brew.oskarblues.com/breweries/longmont/tasty-weasel/
Falling Rock Taphouse – http://fallingrocktaphouse.com/
Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House – http://luckypiepizza.com
Hyatt Regency – http://denverregency.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Jolly-Pumpkin

Collaboration: Jolly Pumpkin & Anchorage

Love it when craft brewers collaborate? Then get behind this. Alaska’s Anchorage Brewing and Jolly Pumpkin (Dexter, MI) have created Calabaza Boreal.

Keeping with Jolly Pumpkin’s tradition of funky beer, this Belgian style beer is aged in oak barrels with grapefruit, grapefruit juice, and peppercorns. The name is a mash up of the two brewery’s identities – “boreal” or northern region and “calabaza” meaning pumpkin.

When introspection fails, it’s time to look outward for inspiration. Perhaps Northward! One of the people who inspired me this past year is my friend Gabe Fletcher. of Anchorage Brewing Co. We brewed this beer together. I hope it inspires you.

Jolly Pumpkin & Anchorage Calabaza Boreal will be available in 750ml bottles.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Grapefruit, Grapefruit juice, Peppercorns.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Arrival: TBA

7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, New Belgium, Upland Beer

Upland & New Belgium Team Up On Wild Collab

When Upland Brewing and New Belgium Brewing get together, you can be sure something funky will come out of it. Namely – Darksynth.

Darksynth is a blend of some special offerings from each collaborator’s repertoire:

New Belgium’s Oscar, an ale aged in the brewery’s oak foeders (60%)
Upland Dantalion Ale (American Wild Ale, Red Wine Barrels) (40%)
Raspberry Lambic (Oak Aged, Raspberries) (10%)

Upland/New Belgium Darksynth will be released in 750ml bottles, by Upland Brewing Co.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Raspberries. Wine Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750ml Bottles

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Breckenridge Brewing, Don't Miss This, SweetWater Brewing

SweetWater & Breckenridge Collaborate

SweetWater Brewery (Atlanta) and Breckenridge Brewery (Denver, CO) have a very special collaboration tapping later this month.

The recipe is based on the 16th Anniversary Ale from SweetWater, a red wheat wine ale and Breckenridge’s new spring seasonal Ophelia Hoppy Wheat Ale.  If you weren’t aware, SweetWater founder Freddy Bensch came from Colorado to Georgia to start the brewery. He has been friends with Breckenridge founder J. Todd Usry for years.

“I really enjoyed our 16th Anniversary Red Wheat Wine Ale and I think this brew is going to pair well with the Mosaic hops and malted Buckwheat, two ingredients we’ve never worked with before,” said SweetWater Head Brewer Nick Nock. “I’m looking forward to getting back up there to get my hands, and lips, on it!”

You will know this beer “O’ Tay”, limited to draft only in Colorado, with special tappings during the Craft Brewer’s Conference.

Style: Wheat Ale
Availability: Draft Only. Limited to Colorado

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If you go: 

Wednesday, April 9, the Ale House at Amato’s will be tapping the collaborative brew and hosting a full tap takeover featuring Breckenridge Brewery and SweetWater Brewery beers.  The night will also honor the late Curtis McArthur of SweetWater Brewery with a toast at 4:20 p.m. Brewer friends of McArthur, Upslope Brewing Company and Crooked Stave, will be in attendance with a few of their beers to pour as well.

Thursday, April 10, the two breweries will embark on a crawl to seven Denver bars including: Scruffy, Murphy’s, The Lobby, Star Bar, Lucky Pie, Blake St. Vault, Pour House,  and Strata Bar at the Hyatt Regency.

Each account will carry the collaboration beer and an additional unique beer from each brewery. Follow @BreckBrew and @SweetWaterBrew on Twitter and Instagram to locate the crew and join the crawl yourself.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Evil Twin Brewing, Perennial Artisan Ales

Evil Twin & Perennial Collab?

A collaboration teaser… This one will most likely be limited to Evil Twin’s Torst in New York City. Either way, be aware something is up with these two. Perennial Artisanal Ales is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, Midnight Sun Brewing

Chocolate & Chilies: Midnight Sun Modern Romance

Midnight Sun Brewing is celebrating chocolate as much as equality in Modern Romance.

The beer first and foremost is a chocolate ale, brewed with cocoa nibs and a series of spices, including cinnamon, maca. Heat is provided by the addition of chilies. A collaboration with Anchorage, Alaska’s Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge.

…In an exciting collaboration. Midnight Sun and Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge —a local artisan chocolatier— designed and brewed a very special dark ale that celebrates our strengths — and weaknesses sensuous chocolate, warm spice, fiery chili, provocative character and amorous mood…

Style: American Strong Ale  (w/ Chocolate, Maca, Cinnamon, Chilies)
Availability: 22oz Bombers
Arrival: TBA

9.3% ABV

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Breakside Brewery, Coming Soon, Headlines, Widmer Brothers Brewing

Widmer Brothers Collaborates with Breakside Brewery

While craft breweries are popping up across the U.S., some breweries have been doing this for 30 years. Widmer Brothers Brewing (Portland, OR) has been at it for three decades, setting new standards for craft beer in the world. A series of collaborations is planned to mark the occasion, like this new saison.

Widmer Brothers Saison à Fleurs is brewed with Portland’s Breakside Brewery. The farmhouse style ale features chrysanthemum, jasmine, and Szechuan peppercorns.

Inspired by the vibrant late spring and early summer seasons, Saison Fieurs Is a lively farmhouse style ale brewed with Chrysanthemum, Jasmine and Szechuan Peppercorn.  A collaboration between Portland’s Breakside Brewery and Widmer Brothers Brewing, Salson a Fieurs Is a unique take on a traditional farmhouse style, marrying rich floral and tropical notes and white pepper yeast character with distinctive spice flavors of the Far East.

Widmer Brothers Saison a Fleurs will be available in 22oz bottles across currently serviced markets.

Style: Saison (w/ Chrysanthemum, Jasmine, Szechuan Peppercorn)
Availability: 22oz Bombers
Arrival: TBA

6.7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay