Collaborations

21st Amendment Adds Draft Only Imperial Jack

Here’s a story about a brewery, a pub regular, a homebrew collaboration, and a kindly English grandfather.

Actually the Cliffnotes version: 21st Amendment is brewing Imperial Jack, an ESB, using a recipe they’ve collaborated with a pub regular/ homebrewer Richard Brewer-Hay. Continue Reading →

Funkwerks/Odell/New Belgium Collab

Today Funkwerks announced that brewers from New Belgium and Odell were in house and working on a collaborative beer. This is the 3rd annual Fort Collins collaboration. This year they’re working on a Biere de Garde featuring endive and rose Continue Reading →

Cigar City and New Belgium Cozying Up?

Hmm Peter Bouckaert of New Belgium Brewing and Wayne of Cigar City chatting together about … maybe a collaboration? Stay tuned for more details!

Pictured here is Wayne and Peter Bouckaert, Brewmaster of New Belgium Brewing. Hmm…what could these guys be… Continue Reading →

Posted in 21st Amendment Brewing, New Releases

21st Amendment Adds Draft Only Imperial Jack

Here’s a story about a brewery, a pub regular, a homebrew collaboration, and a kindly English grandfather.

Actually the Cliffnotes version: 21st Amendment is brewing Imperial Jack, an ESB, using a recipe they’ve collaborated with a pub regular/ homebrewer Richard Brewer-Hay. The brew was originally called Grandpa Jack in honor of Richards’s late grandfather, both of whom are from England. Richard and 21st Amendment’s Shaun O’Sullivan came together to make a stronger version, Imperial Jack, and will be traveling back to England together to brew it.

Style: Extra Special Bitter
Availability: Draft

8.5% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Funkwerks, New Belgium, Odell Brewing

Funkwerks/Odell/New Belgium Collab

Today Funkwerks announced that brewers from New Belgium and Odell were in house and working on a collaborative beer. This is the 3rd annual Fort Collins collaboration. This year they’re working on a Biere de Garde featuring endive and rose hips. This is one of many brews that the brewers of Fort Collins will be whipping up for American Craft Beer Week. Stay tuned for more details as they unfold.

Style: Biere de Garde (w/ Endive and Rose Hips)
Arrival: May 2013 for American Craft Beer Week

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Amager Bryghus, Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon

Cigar City & Amager To Collaborate (Plus Collab Review)

Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) are headed to Denmark next month to collaborate with Amager Bryghus. If you look at Amager’s lineup, you can be sure that the result will be a pretty dark beer.

In honor of this meet up, the brewery will be tapping Papsø’s Passion Fruit Porter.  6% ABV beer brewed passion fruit as a nod to Henrik Papso. Henrik is the “inside” guy at the brewery that obtains certain special ingredients over there. A bit like Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption.

Cigar City has been pretty busy with  collaborations too.  Recent ones include:  

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Lost Abbey, Maui Brewing Company

Maui Brewing Collaborates with Lost Abbey

Meet Lemongrass Saison, Maui Brewing’s collaboration with Lost Abbey using 150 lbs of 100% local Maui raised lemongrass. Around 500 barrels were produced and all of Maui’s distribution area should be seeing it in cans and maybe even on draft. According to Maui, the beer pairs well with “chilling outdoors with friends,” which of course is the best pairing of all.

Style: Saison (w/Lemongrass)
Availability: 12 oz cans, Draft
Arrival: Coming Soon

5.5% ABV    

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Cigar City Brewing, New Belgium

Cigar City and New Belgium Cozying Up?

Hmm Peter Bouckaert of New Belgium Brewing and Wayne of Cigar City chatting together about … maybe a collaboration? Stay tuned for more details!

Update: The collab is coming to the New Belgium Lips of Faith Series later in 2013…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Westbrook Brewing Co

Westbrook & Charleston Beer Exchange: Grumpy Old Time

Westbrook Grumpy Old Time

Westbrook Brewing (Mt Pleasant, SC) and one of the United State’s best beer stores The Charleston Beer exchange teamed up on a series of “Old Time” collaborations. Above, is Grumpy Old Time.  Grumpy joins Funky Old Time, in this series of collaborations between the two.

The base beer “Old Time” is a Belgian style dark ale brewed in July, 2011. It was then added to apple brandy barrels. So for nearly a year and a half,  Grumpy Old Time has been funking out with some wild yeasts.  Look for bottles and draft soon. (Draft may already be around)

Style: American Wild Ale (Brandy Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750 ml Bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

11% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Belgium, Yazoo Brewing

Yazoo & New Belgium To Collaborate on a Sour Beer

Yazoo Brewing (Nashville, TN) and New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) have plans on collaborating on a new sour beer in the near future. Brandon Jones & Linus Hall of Yazoo have been busy building out one of the few sour programs in the southeast.

No immediate details are available until the final blends are confirmed – but put this one on your radar. Check out the Beer Street Journal Video on the new Yazoo Sour Program in the meantime.

UPDATE 4/3/13, 6:00 pm: Draft only. Tennessee only.

by Reid Ramsay