Collaborations

New Belgium Releases Dieu Du Ciel! Collab

The first Lips of Faith releases in 2013 are now arriving. Heavenly Feijoa Tripel, a collaboration with Montreal’s Dieu du Ciel! is ready to kick off your new year. Heavenly is brewed with Coffee cherries, dates, feijoa and hibiscus.

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Mikkeller Jams Out with Ring Them Bells

Mikkeller teams up with up-and-coming Danish band Ring Them Bells to bring you a coffee porter appropriately named Ring Them Bells. With the purchase of your bottle you receive a download code for their mp3, but unless you enjoy getting Continue Reading →

Metal Band Sepultura Gets Signature Beer

To celebrate 25 years of general bad-assery, Sepultura will be launching their own signature beer appropriate called Sepultura Weizen. With this release Sepultura will join the likes of Motorhead and AC/DC who already have their own beers.

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Posted in Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!, New Belgium, New Releases

New Belgium Releases Dieu Du Ciel! Collab

The first Lips of Faith releases in 2013 are now arriving. Heavenly Feijoa Tripel, a collaboration with Montreal’s Dieu du Ciel! is ready to kick off your new year. Heavenly is brewed with Coffee cherries, dates, feijoa and hibiscus.

Heavenly Feijoa Tripel combines Dieu du Ciel!’s love of hibiscus flowers with New Belgium’s passion for strange and worldly fruit. Feijoa, also known as pineapple guava, has a sweet, aromatic flavor, which makes the aroma of Heavenly Feijoa Tripel luscious and tropical. The beer has Belgian yeast and Nelson Sauvin hops, combining to make a sweet fruit taste, mild spicy tones and a sharp bite. Hibiscus adds a cranberry tartness and an ambrosial quality to the color.

Style: Tripel (w/ Feijoa, Hibiscus, Coffee Cherries)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: January, 2013

9% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Brewery Expansions, Brooklyn Brewing, New Breweries

Brooklyn Heads To Sweden For New Brewery Restaurant

Brooklyn Brewery, D. Carnegie & Co., and Carlsberg Sweden announced the launch of a new brewery and restaurant in central Stockholm, Sweden. The new digs face Stockholm’s waterfront, and will have a 8,000 barrel capacity.

The Brooklyn Brewery will manage and operate the project through a Swedish subsidiary, and the U.S. brewing team will travel to stockholm to brew in the future.

“We love Stockholm, and the whole Brooklyn brewing team is looking forward to their stints at Brooklyn-New Carnegie. We’re going to have a lot of fun brewing and creating beers with our Swedish team,” said Oliver.

Other interesting things to note – Brooklyn Brewery collaborated with Carnegie on a bourbon barrel version of Carnegie Porter for the 175th Anniversary of Carnegie Brewery. Carnegie Porter has been distributed in New York by Brooklyn a few years ago. Brooklyn Lager and East India Pale Ale are currently available throughout Sweden.

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Mikkeller

Mikkeller Jams Out with Ring Them Bells

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Mikkeller teams up with up-and-coming Danish band Ring Them Bells to bring you a coffee porter appropriately named Ring Them Bells. With the purchase of your bottle you receive a download code for their mp3, but unless you enjoy getting Rick Rolled I would advise against attempting to redeem it. The label, which some have described as ‘creepy’, features artwork from Ring Them Bell’s first single.

P.S. Have you heard Ring Them Bells’s first single I Ride Alone? It’s definitely worth a listen!

Style: Imperial Porter (w/ Coffee) Availability: 9.4 oz bottles
Arrival: TBD

10% ABV

Read more: Mikkeller, Music Collaborations

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in 3 Floyds Brewing, Coming Soon

3 Floyds Rocks Out with Toxic Revolution Stout

3 Floyds Toxic Revolution

Brewers sure do love to collaborate with bands, and Three Floyds is no different. Their latest work-in-progress, Toxic Revolution, was co-brewed with metal band Municipal Waste. Three Floyds isn’t known to disappoint, and with a bad ass label like this you can be sure to expect something hardcore.

“This Stout Ale is the combined efforts of Municipal Waste and Three Floyds to create a black liquid wall of death in your mouth.”

Rock. On.

Style: Stout
Availability: 22oz bottles
Arrival: TBD

?? ABV

Read More: Three Floyds, Music Collaborations

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Metal Band Sepultura Gets Signature Beer

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To celebrate 25 years of general bad-assery, Sepultura will be launching their own signature beer appropriate called Sepultura Weizen. With this release Sepultura will join the likes of Motorhead and AC/DC who already have their own beers.

This wheat beer is described as “a turbidity caused by natural yeast in suspension”  with “aroma and flavors of banana and clove from a special strain of yeast that produces the chemicals that lead to these perceptions.”  One would expect them to launch something a little … heavier … given their style of music, but it seems that these metal bands love to show their softer sides with their choices in beers.

Style: Wheat Beer
Availability: 750mL bottles
Arrival: TBD

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Ommegang

Ommegang to Launch Game of Thrones Inspired Beers

Brewery Ommegang and HBO are teaming up for a series of beers inspired by HBO’s Game of Thrones. Iron Throne, a blonde ale, is the inaugural beer in the series and the result of a creative collaboration between Brewmaster Phil Leinhart and HBO.

Unlike previous efforts by brewers which were typically executed as ‘brewed under license’ arrangements or straightforward product placement pushes, the collaboration between Ommegang and HBO is focused on developing unique beers that are named and crafted to directly tie into themes and nuances of the medieval-like fantasy realm of Westeros and the surrounding kingdoms, where the competition to sit on the Iron Throne is fierce and deadly.

Iron Throne will be nationally available on draft and in 750ml bottles, for the suggested retail price of $8.50 per bottle, beginning in mid- to late-March and will be followed by the launch of additional beers.

Style: Blonde Ale
Availability: 750mL bottles, draft
Arrival: Mid to Late March 2013

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in 3 Floyds Brewing, Coming Soon

Metal Collab: Three Floyds “In The Name Of Suffering”

Three Floyds In The Name Of Suffering

So metal.Then again, it’s Three Floyds Brewing (Muenster, IN) what did you expect?  In The Name Of Suffering is a “New Orleans-Style” take on the black IPA. Brewed with the NO based band EyeHateGod.

This Black India Pale Ale is loaded with hops balanced with deliciousness maltiness. It was brewed with out friends from the great city of New Orleans in the band EyeHateGod. 

Style: IPA (Black IPA)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV 

by Reid Ramsay