Collaborations

Foothills & Wicked Weed Create “Batch 69”

Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC)  and Foothills Brewing (Winston-Salem) have teamed up to create a collaboration dubbed Batch 69. The beer is Wicked Weed’s first collaboration with another brewery. Wicked Weed founder Walt Dickinson was contemplating Continue Reading →

Aleman, Begyle, and Stone Team Up [VIDEO]

Chicago’s Aleman (you know it from another Stone Brewing Co. collaboration), Beguyle Brewing and Stone Brewing Co. have a “Hoppy Red Saison” coming soon. Chicago only release. Check out this little Beastie Boys teaser.

Posted in Beer News, New Releases, Trillium Brewing

OneBoston IPA to Raise Money for Boston Victims

Trillium Brewing in conjunction with The Publick House, BeerAdvocate, and Valley Malt have come together for the greater good of a hurting city. The outcome is OneBoston IPA, with 100% of proceeds going to One Boston, a charity that directly benefits the families of victims who were killed and those most seriously affected by the horrible Boston Marathon disaster.

OneBoston will be released on Wednesday, June 5th at 5pm at The Publick House in Brookline, Mass. The beer will also be available for growler fills at the brewery, at  in Boston, starting on June 6th at 4pm.

Style: IPA
Availability: Draft
Arrival: June 2013
Hops: Columbus, Chinook, Falconer’s Flight

7.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Widmer Brothers Brewing

Widmer Bros and Cigar City Gentlemen’s Club Ready to Launch

Widmer Brothers and Cigar City Brewing invite you to take a step back to another time. Their collaboration beer, Gentleman’s Club, drew inspiration from the classic Old Fashioned cocktail recipe and of course the Gentlemen’s Clubs where said cocktail was first served over 100 years ago. Using an Old Ale recipe as the base beer, Gentlemen’s Club was brewed with cherries and oranges and aged in 3 different barrels for 3 separate beer releases: bourbon barrel, rye whiskey, and new oak spirals. Each beer features its own unique Art Deco roaring 20’s inspired label. The first release of this beer will take place during Portland Beer Week followed be a few special releases from both breweries.

Style: American Strong Ale (w/ Cherries, Oranges, Lemons, Oak Aged)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: Coming Soon

9.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Foothills Brewing, New Releases, Wicked Weed Brewing Co

Foothills & Wicked Weed Create “Batch 69”

Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC)  and Foothills Brewing (Winston-Salem) have teamed up to create a collaboration dubbed Batch 69. The beer is Wicked Weed’s first collaboration with another brewery. Wicked Weed founder Walt Dickinson was contemplating brewing something special to brew for Asheville Beer Week (May 25th-June 1st). An admiration for the established and creative Foothills Brewing prompted a phone call to T.L. Adkisson, Foothills’ head brewer.

The two breweries combined Wicked Weed’s Freak Double IPA and Foothills Sexual Chocolate to make Batch 69. 

As Dickinson puts it, “It’s ideally going to be a drier beer, but with a lot of chocolate complexity, with a nice, bright, citrus finish on it.” Adds Adkisson, “the beer’s designed to have a chocolate profile, but tilt heavily toward an orange, almost tangerine flavor.”

The name? Dirty? No. Purely coincidental. It was the 69th batch of beer brewed at Wicked Weed. Batch 69 uses Guatemalan organic cacao nibs were hand-roasted by French Broad Chocolate in Asheville especially for this beer.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cocoa Nibs. Blended w/ Imperial IPA)
Hops: Simcoe, Citra, Amarillo
Availability: Draft only, Asheville Beer Week, 2013.

?? ABV

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

Aleman, Begyle, and Stone Team Up [VIDEO]

Chicago’s Aleman (you know it from another Stone Brewing Co. collaboration), Beguyle Brewing and Stone Brewing Co. have a “Hoppy Red Saison” coming soon. Chicago only release. Check out this little Beastie Boys teaser.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Brooklyn Brewing, F.X. Matt Brewing, Ommegang

Artwork: New York Limited (A SAVOR Collaboration)

The 2013 SAVOR collaboration teams up Brooklyn Brewery, Saranac and Ommegang to create New York Limited. The beer is a bottle conditioned white lager, brewed with a plethora of New York state ingredients including, lemon verbena, honey, state grown hops. Brewed at Brooklyn with a lager yeast, bottle conditioned with an ale yeast.

Style: Lager (w/ Lemon Verbena, Honey, Spices)
Availability: 750 ml bottles. Corked & Caged. SAVOR attendees only

8.5% ABV

Tickets to SAVOR 2013 in New York are still available. Check out the gallery from New York Limited Bottling Day

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Dogfish Head

Final Ingredient Selected for Dogfish American Beauty

After nearly 1500 submissions to Dogfish Head’s American Beauty contest (beer inspired by the Grateful Dead) a winner has been selected. The winner, Thomas Butler, shared the story of his first Dead concert involving his dad throwing him over the fence to skirt admission, wet t-shirt clad ladies, and shared ‘cigarettes’ as well as he and his father’s love of brewing beer. His ingredient suggestion? Granola.

Granola as it was a staple ingredient in many shared parking lot meals at Dead shows. Plus the components of granola make for a great addition to beer. In May, Thomas will join Sam and Grateful Dead audiovisual archivist David Lemieuxbrew a test batch of American Beauty with granola.

The production batch is expected to hit taps and shelves throughout Dogfish’s 27-state distribution network in October 2013.

Style: Imperial Pale Ale (w/ Granola)
Availability: 22oz bottles
Arrival: October 2013

9% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon

Metal Collaboration: Cigar City & GWAR

Another in the line of metal inspired brews is Cigar City Brewing & GWAR’s Impaled Pale Ale. For those of you that don’t know, GWAR is a satirical metal band founded in Virginia in the 1980’s. They are pretty damn metal.

Well hold on to your souls. GWAR has teamed up with Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing for a new liquid track. Impaled Pale Ale will be brewed this summer we’re told, and canned for the GWAR-B-Q festival in Richmond, Virginia this August. Tickets for that go on sale June 6th.

Hide yo kids, Hide Yo Wife…

 

by Reid Ramsay