Collaborations

Posted in Brewdog, Cool Stuff

No Boys Allowed for this Beer at Brewdog

In response to the continual sidelining of women in the craft beer industry, the ladies of Brewdog decided to take matters into their own hands. On January 28th only the women staff will be locking themselves in and brewing a beer “worthy of any BrewDog tap … a secret recipe for a beer we’d love to drink”

The ladies of Brewdog, or #BrewBirds, have decided to make 2013 the year women begin to take the helms of craft brewing.

“We are tired of being told that our beverage of choice is not for us, of being offered a mediocre wheat beer with a slice of orange when we ask at the bar what beer they’d recommend.” Preach ladies!

Style: ??
Availability: ??
Arrival: TBA (UK Only)

Read more: Badass Women In Beer 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in B. Nektar Meadery, Cigar City Brewing, Videos
Posted in B. Nektar Meadery, Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon

Cigar City & B. Nektar Create “Camp Braggot Ghost Stories”

Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) recently opened a Cider & Mead division of the brewery. Meet the first collaboration – Camp Braggot Ghost Stories. teaming up with B. Nektar Meadery (Ferndale, MI) the team has created a lager/mead hybrid, with a host of ingredients, including coconut, cacao nibs, tea, and oak chips.

Scary things live in the dark. Full of unknown ghosts and ghouls. Surprises behind every tree. It might scare you, or it might make you laugh, but it’ll break eery preconceived notion you may have. 

Style: Lager (Mead) w/ Coconut, Honey, Tea, Oak Chips, Cacao Nibs
Availability: 750 ml bottles. In Cigar City distro only.
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV 

Read more: Cigar City Brewing, Collaborations

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada Making Plum Quad Addition to Ovila

Sierra Nevada’s Ovila series will see a new addition in 2013 – an Abbey Quad brewed with plums grown by the monks at the abbey. The Ovila series is a collaborative effort between Sierra Nevada and the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Style: Quadrupel (w/ Plums)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

 10.2% ABV

Read more: Sierra Nevada Ovila Series

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Barrier Brewing, Beer News, Blind Bat Brewing, Blue Point Brewing Company, Great Cause, Great South Bay Brewery, Greenport Harbor Brewing, Long Ireland Beer Co., Port Jeff Brewing Co, Spider Bite Beer Co

Beer Community Comes Together for Hurricane Sandy Victims

Sandy Relief Ale

In the wake of the devastation of hurricane Sandy, 8 breweries in Long Island came together in an effort to aid those in need. Barrier Brewing, Blind Bat Brewery, Blue Point Brewing, Great South Bay Brewery, Greenport Harbor Brewing Company, Long Ireland Beer Co, Port Jeff Brewing Co, and Spider Bite Beer Co each donated an ingredient to create their Surge Protector IPA. Profits from the sale of the final product will be donated to Long Island Cares and to help Barrier Brewing Co. rebuild.

Style: IPA
Availability: 22 oz bottles Arrival: 1/22/13

5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer Here Brewing, New Beers

Beer Here Brewfist Caterpillar Pale Ale

Beer Here Brewfist Caterpillar Pale Ale

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

Stone/Two Brothers/Aleman Team Up For Dayman IPA

Following their 2012 Iron Brew Competition, Stone Brewing Co. will be pairing up with Chicago’s Aleman Brewing and Illinois Two Brother’s Brewing to create their 2013 collaboration beer Dayman Coffee IPA. The winning beer recipe is a coffee IPA and will feature coffee beans roasted by Aleman and Two Brothers with the beer itself being brewed at Stone’s headquarters in California.

Jim Moorehouse, Nate Albrecht and Brad Zeller, three pals planning to open a Chicago brewpub under the moniker of Aleman, won first place at last year’s Iron Brew homebrewing competition in the Windy City (judged by none other than Greg Koch,Jason Ebel of Two Brothers Brewing, and celebrated Chicago brewer, designer and author Randy Mosher). Their style-bending IPA artfully married the assertive tropical bite of Citra hops with amazing coffee flavor and aromatics to create something truly unique and exceptional. Serendipitously, Two Brothers recently kicked off a new adventure roasting their own coffee beans, and provided just-in-time freshly roasted lava for the brew. The result is an innovative IPA that’s well balanced and intensely flavored thanks to the felicitous blend of hops and fresh roasted coffee. “

Style: IPA (w/ Coffee)
Availability: 22oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay