Collaborations

Perennial & Penrose Brewing Team Up

Perennial Artisanal Ales (St. Louis, MO) is teaming up with future brewery – Penrose Brewing Company (Geneva, IL). We’ve reached out to Perennial for more info.

Style:
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

9.3% ABV

 

Half Acre & New Belgium Team Up

Half Acre Beer Company (Chicago, IL) and New Belgium (Fort Collins, CO) have teamed up to create two different beers. Each of the releases is motivated by a trip to the other’s brewery. New Belgium has already been to Half Continue Reading →

Redhook & Hilliard’s Celebrate Weed

Redhook Brewery has just announced a new beer celebrating the legalization of marijuana in Washington State.  The hemp beer brewed in collaboration with Seattle’s Hilliard’s Beer, aptly named “Joint Effort.” Hilliard’s Beer opened in 2011 in the same Continue Reading →

Posted in Coming Soon, Midnight Sun Brewing

Girl Power: Midnight Sun & Pink Boots Team Up

Midnight Sun Joan of Arctic

Girl Power. Midnight Sun Brewing Co (Anchorage, AK) has a new collaboration in the works. Midnight Sun brewmaster Chelsea Hendricks pairs up with Stone Brewing Co’s Jessica Gilman to created Joan of Arctic. An ale brewed with rubarb and honey. These talented women are a part of the Pink Boots Society, an organization of over 900 beer professionals.

At Midnight Sun, we take pride in developing our employees; supporting local community and promoting craft beer. All of these facets come together in loan of Arctic Ale, a collaboration beer designed and brewed by Midnight Sun’s Chelsea Hendricksand Stone Brewing’s brewer Jessica Gilman. Here’s to camaraderie in the brewing industry as well as, well. yin power. Visit pinkbootssociety.org.

Style:   (w/ Rhubarb, Honey)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: TBA

6.3% ABV, 40 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Penrose Brewing Company, Perennial Artisan Ales

Perennial & Penrose Brewing Team Up

Perennial Hereafter

Perennial Artisanal Ales (St. Louis, MO) is teaming up with future brewery – Penrose Brewing Company (Geneva, IL). We’ve reached out to Perennial for more info.

Style:
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

9.3% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Smuttynose Brewing, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone & Smuttynose Create Small Batch “Last Stand”

Stone Smuttynose Custer's Last Stand

Stone Brewing Co (Escondido, CA) and Smuttynose Brewing Company (Portsmouth, NH) have teamed up to create just 30 barrels (930 gallons) of Custer’s Last Stand. Stone’s founder Greg Koch joined Smutty in the brew process in New Hampshire, where they made – don’t be surprised – an IPA. Not just any IPA though, a “right-after-Prohibition Ballantine IPA” as mentioned in Stone’s Mitch Steele’s book on IPAs.

Tappings of this beer continue in August. If you’re around New England, look out for tappings – found here. Bottles will go on sale on July 19th at Smuttynose. $9

Style: IPA
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft. Very Limited

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada to Team Up with 12 Breweries

Sierra-Nevada-Logo2To celebrate the opening of the North Carolina brewery, Sierra Nevada Brewing is scheming up some beers featuring revered craft brewers across the country. One beer per brewery will be released in the summer of 2014 in a variety 12 packs. This will also include festivals with no specific path determined yet. The following breweries will be visiting Chico to develop recipes and brew:

“We want to highlight the success of craft beer, not just our own next step. Craft brewers are a close bunch, and we’ve all helped each other get to this point. This is a fun way to showcase even just a fraction of the talent that’s out there, and somehow 12 beers doesn’t feel like enough. If this weren’t already a logistical mammoth, we’d brew with even more of our great peers.” Ken Grossman, Sierra Nevada’s founder.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Stone Brewing Co., Videos

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This is a collaboration you don’t want to miss…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Half Acre Brewing, New Belgium

Half Acre & New Belgium Team Up

Half Acre New Belgium Soft Sour Ale

Half Acre Beer Company (Chicago, IL) and New Belgium (Fort Collins, CO) have teamed up to create two different beers. Each of the releases is motivated by a trip to the other’s brewery. New Belgium has already been to Half Acre, and in August the crew will head to Colorado to create their own iteration.

Beer #1: 2023m2 Soft Sour Ale. Designed to highlight the “soft complexity” of New Belgium’s brews. 2023 was slightly soured in the kettle, with Maresh and Sumac spices. Half Acre hopes to brew it again in 2023 and send it to Mars. (Probably not a joke).

Those close to Chicago will be pleased to know it launches July 19th. 22oz bottles, and growlers will be available.  We will update you on the brew day in Colorado in August.

If you go: 

  • Release Date: Friday, July 19, 2013
  • 6% ABV
  • 64 oz. growler refill: $16 *
  • 32 oz. growler refill: $9 *
  • 16 oz. draft: $5
  • 22 oz. bottle: $8.99 (limit 3) 

*limited to 64 ounces of growler beer total per person

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Hilliard's Beer, Redhook

Redhook & Hilliard’s Celebrate Weed

Redhook Joint Effort Tap

Redhook Brewery has just announced a new beer celebrating the legalization of marijuana in Washington State.  The hemp beer brewed in collaboration with Seattle’s Hilliard’s Beer, aptly named “Joint Effort.” Hilliard’s Beer opened in 2011 in the same area where Redhook got their start in 1981.

So… onto this “legal” beer. Joint Effort is a session ale brewed with hemp seeds, and aggressively dry hopped. The says Effort is “the perfect brew for hanging with your buds, grabbing some munchies and enjoying a beer. Look for draft starting in mid-July, and bottles starting in October, 2013. To our knowledge, the tap handle seen above is not a working bong.

Style:              (w/ Hemp Seeds)
Hops: Zeus, Cascade, Summit
Availability: Draft (July), Bottles (October)

5.6% ABV

* Initiative 502, passed by voters in November 2012, legalized possession and use of moderate amounts of marijuana in Washington State.

by Reid Ramsay