Collaborations

Ska & Oskar Blues To Collaborate on 10 Year Brew

Oskar Blues celebrates 10 years in the industry this month.  As the dust settles from GABF, the brewing team from Ska Brewing (Durango, CO) heads to Oskar Blues to create a collaboration. Details forthcoming.

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Posted in Coming Soon, Oskar Blues Brewing, Ska Brewing

Ska & Oskar Blues To Collaborate on 10 Year Brew

Oskar Blues celebrates 10 years in the industry this month.  As the dust settles from GABF, the brewing team from Ska Brewing (Durango, CO) heads to Oskar Blues to create a collaboration. Details forthcoming.

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Stone Brewing Co., Videos

Ken Schmidt / Iron Fist / Stone Imperial Mint Chocolate Stout [Video]

Home brewer Ken Schmidt rides again with the Stone Brewing Co crew.  This is his latest collaborative brew.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Stillwater Artisanal Ales

Stillwater Launches Special Offerings For Baltimore Beer Week

Stillwater will celebrate the 3rd annual “Stillwater Day” on October 21, 2012.

3rd annual Stillwater Day during Baltimore Beer Week featuring the exclusive bottle release of the ‘Then & Now Project’ this first release is an small run of dry-hopped / brett conditioned Cellar Door sold in pairs (only 100 sets will be available). One bottle is to be enjoyed fresh and hoppy and the other is to be enjoyed 6 months to 1 year later so you can experience the transformation that takes place when the hops fade and the brett develops its wonderful funky, tart flavors.

-BOTTLE SALES START AT 10

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There will also be the usual ‘pop up’ bottle shop featuring many Stillwater rarities and a limited run of bottles from the collaboration with Union Craft titled ‘Hard Times’, an urban farmhouse ale brewed with Plum Wood smoked malt.. all this paired with an insane Stillwater draft selection.

Draft List:
Folklore – Tale of Van Winkle
Debauched (Brunello Barrel Aged)
of Love & Regret
Why Can’t IBU
Hard Times (Union collab.)
Bronze Age (Hoff Ten Dormaal collab.)
25 to One (vintage)
Premium
Cellardoor
Stateside
Existent
Autumnal
Folklore
As Follows
Table Beer
Kopstootje
Perfect Crime European Blonde
Prefect Crime American Blonde
Perfect Crime Smoking Gun
Perfect Crime Hollow Point
Why Can’t IBU (cask)

*NOTE* Out of town visitors can make a weekend of it! As the night before (Oct 20) we will be hosting at Of Love & Regret (www.ofloveandregret.com) the ‘Roast of Casey Hard’ Max’s head beer honcho and the following night (Oct 22) Fleet Street Kitchen (www.fleetstreetkitchen.com) is hosting a upscale 5 course Stillwater Beer Dinner.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Dogfish Head, Seasonal Return

Dogfish Head Positive Contact Will Return in 2013

Dogfish Head Positive Contact

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (Milton, DE) will release another round of Positive Contact next year. The recent release is a cider/beer hybrid, loosly based on a witbier. This fusion is brewed with organic Fuji apple cider, fresh organic cilantro, and dried cayenne pepper.

Bottles were only released in a box set of 6/750mls, recipe pairings and a Dan The Automator record. Next year more bottles (outside of the box set?) and draft will appear- tentatively in March, 2013.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Flying Monkey Craft Brewery

Flying Monkeys & Bare Naked Ladies Create Collab Brew

Flying Monkeys Brewery in Canada is creating a beer with the Bare Naked Ladies dubbed BNL Strong Beer, debuting soon. 

You know the phrase “It never hurts to ask?” Well that’s what Flying Monkey’s Founder Peter Chiodo found out recently. Chiodo reached out to rock band Bare Naked Ladies asking to brew a musical collaboration beer. As you can already deduce, they accepted and brewing commenced. The result is BNL Strong Beer.

BNL Strong Beer is a “fudge-y imperial chocolate stout” that’s a solid 11% ABV. “They were totally involved in the birth of this beer. BNL member Kevin Hearn contributed some great original artwork for the beer’s packaging —quirky, colourful, and perfectly Flying Monkeys — and the guys came to join us for an actual brew day.”

Those American fans – I am going to have to disappoint you. The beer will only be available in Canada, coinciding with the band’s new “Symphony Barenaked” tour.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Chocolate)
Availability: Bottles, Canada only

11% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, New Releases, Ommegang

Ommegang/Duvel Collab “Rustica” Arrives In October

Coming this October is a new collaboration between Brewery Ommegang and Duvel.  Rustica features the best of both worlds. For this collaborative brew, Ommegang changed just one detail about the infamous golden ale by Duvel – the yeast.   Ommegang’s house yeast gives this a fruitier, funkier note.

It’s our first Belgian-style Golden Ale, a elegant ale noted for using simple ingredients to create complex flavors and aromas. We worked closely with Duvel on the recipe and processes, yet added our own signature notes. This Duvel collaboration created a fine ale, one with all the depth and breadth of Duvel’s classic Belgian Golden Ale, along with rustic notes, including fruity esters from our yeast.  RUSTICA is brewed with generous amounts of fine Pils malts, like like Duvel. It’s hopped with Styrian Coldings, like Duvel. It comes in at 8.5% abv, like Duvel. And it offers lively carbonation with a large frothy white head, like Duvel.

Style: Farmhouse Ale
Availability: 750 ml bottles, Corked & Caged. Draft
Arrival: Early October, 2012

8.5% ABV

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Evil Twin Brewing, Stillwater Artisanal Ales, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone, Stillwater & Evil Twin Create “The Perfect Crime”

Recently, Stillwater Artisanal Ales  and Evil Twin Brewing, (2 “gyspy brewers”) travelled to Escondido, California to collaborate with Stone Brewing Co. The triumvirate pulled off The Perfect Crime.  The result is a smokey black saison that really fits the mysterious nature of these traveling breweries.

I first heard the term “gypsy brewer” in reference to Mikkel Borg-Bjergso, back in 2008, when we brewed our very first collaboration beer with Mikkel and Peter Zien of AleSmith. And now we are thrilled to welcome two more famous gypsy brewers to our brewery: Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergso of Evil Twin Brewing ( Mikkel’s brother– hence the name) and Brian Strumke of Stillwater Artisanal Ales. Jenne and Brian have brewed together before, and both have excellent pedigrees in brewing unique Belgian- inspired beers. Their shady influence was felt throughout the brewing of this mysterious block beer, and we were excited to be able to brew it. – Mitch Steele

Style: Saison (Smoked)
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

7.5% ABV

Note: Official PR from Stone forthcoming

by Reid Ramsay