Collaborations

Perennial Devil’s Heart Of Gold

The above is the 3rd edition of The Wine & Cheese Place 30th Anniversary celebration.  This year, the well know retailer is releasing a series of barrel aged releases in collaboration with local St. Louis breweries.  This edition a barrel Continue Reading →

Finch’s Threadless Ready To Ship

Finch’s Beer Co (Chicago, IL) is preparing to ship their newest beer – Threadless IPA.  This is a pretty special beer, as it’s a collaboration with Threadless T-Shirt Company.  Last year, the brewery created a hoppy American IPA for Threadless, Continue Reading →

Flying Dog Mixes Chocolate & Hops

Flying Dog is quite active as of late.  The Brewhouse Rarities Series is in full swing, cans coming soon.   Why stop the creative process right?  Enter Chocolate Fever.  An American IPA brewed with real chocolate.   A collaboration with Continue Reading →

Posted in Perennial Artisan Ales

Perennial Devil’s Heart Of Gold

Perennial Devil's Heart Of GoldThe above is the 3rd edition of The Wine & Cheese Place 30th Anniversary celebration.  This year, the well know retailer is releasing a series of barrel aged releases in collaboration with local St. Louis breweries.  This edition a barrel aged version of Perennial Ales Heart Of Gold Wheat Wine Ale.

Style: Wheat Wine (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750 ml bottles, typically limited to around 200 bottles.

10% ABV

Recently released editions are – Schlafly Bourbon Barrel Quad, and 2nd Shift Barrel Aged Liquid Spiritual Delight.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Jolly-Pumpkin, Maui Brewing Company

Maui & Jolly Pumpkin Releasing “Superhuman” Collaboration

Maui Sobrehuman Palena oleMaui Brewing Co (Lahaina, Maui, HI)  has just announced a new collaboration brew with Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales (Dexter, MI).  Sobrehumano Palena ‘ole will be the brewery’s first collaboration in a can.  The name is a blended Spanish-Hawaiian term for “superhuman.”

What’s the beer?
Sobrehumano Palena ‘ole is a red ale brewed with liliko’i (passionfruit) and cherries.   Each brewery will add its own unique spin – as Maui will ferment normally (arriving in cans), and Jolly Pumpkin will make it  a barrel aged sour (in bottles).

Where?
Maui will produce 4,000 cases & 80 barrels, distributed in all 11 states in which the brewery currently ships.   Ed. Note: Jolly Pumpkin most likely will not know yield until barrel blending time.

How Did These Two Find Each Other?
 “John and Garrett were planning their collaborations for 2012 and because John is from Michigan and coming home for the holidays my name came up.  This whole idea came together really fast — just weeks before John’s visit.  It’s been a very challenging blend to develop — I’m super-excited about it and a little intimidated at the same time. I’ve been enchanted by Hawaii for years and it’s been great to work with everyone at MBC and get to know them.  I always enjoy collaborations but this one is something really special.”

Style: Red Ale (Maui) / Ambiguous Style (Jolly Pumpkin)  (w/ Cherries, Passionfruit)
Availability: 12 oz cans, Bottle size TBA
Arrival: June, 2012 (SAVOR)

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in American Craft Beer Week, C.B. & Potts, CooperSmith's Pub & Brewing, Crooked Stave, Equinox Brewing Co, Fort Collins Brewing, Funkwerks, New Belgium, Odell Brewing, Pateros Creek

Colorado Super Collab Planned For American Craft Beer Week

The 2nd Colorado mega collaboration is in the works once again for American Craft Beer Week 2012.  Nine Fort Collins brewers will come together in April to brew up a new Colorado focused brew.  Last year, the 9 breweries created “Collusion Ale.“

C.B. & Potts, CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewing, Crooked Stave, Equinox Brewing Co., Fort Collins Brewery, Funkwerks, New Belgium Brewing Co., Odell Brewing Co. and Pateros Creek will meet at Fort Collins Brewery to create a new beer using as many local Colorado ingredients as possible.

Colin Westcott, owner of Equinox Brewing:

A rough sketch of the recipe includes honey from Wellington, Colorado-grown hops, locally grown unmalted spelt and some snow from the high country.

Availability: Draft Only
Arrival: Week of May 14th, 2012
Where?  Each of the 9 Colorado breweries

Update 4/9/12: Press Release

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Jester King Brewery, Mikkeller

Jester King/Mikkeller Collab: Beer Geek Rodeo

Jester King Beer Geek RodeoBeer Geek Rodeo is a peppery, coffee laden collaboration between Mikkeller and Jester King

Beer geeks and rodeos don’t often go together, but if ever there were a place where the two would meet, it would be Denmark No one from Jester King has ever been to Denmark, but our friends Mikkel and Thomas tell us the entire country is inhabited by craft beer drinking, spicy food loving Viking cowboys and cowgirls, and we think that sounds awesome. So as they say in Danish, bunden i vejret eller resten i haret, which we believe is pro-nounced “Yee-haw!” Jester King Craft Brewery is an authentic farm-house brewery in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, on the outskirts of Austin. We brew what we like, drink what we want and offer the rest to those who share our tastes.

Style: Imperial Stout (Chipotle Peppers, Coffee, Brown Sugar)
Hops: Millenium, Saaz, Cascade, Columbus
Malts: Flaked Oats, Roasted Barley, Maris Otter, Dark Crystal, Brown, Chocolate, Smoked, Pale.

Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

10.1% ABV, 53 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Finch's Beer Co

Finch’s Threadless Ready To Ship

Finch’s Beer Co (Chicago, IL) is preparing to ship their newest beer – Threadless IPA.  This is a pretty special beer, as it’s a collaboration with Threadless T-Shirt Company.  Last year, the brewery created a hoppy American IPA for Threadless, leading them to want to can the beer and share with the world.  One problem.  Artwork was needed.  Threadless took it to the people.  169 designs were submitted to be voted on.  The above design was the clear winner.

Our Threadless/Finch collaboration IPA is a balanced experience of both perceived hoppiness and true bitterness. It pours a darker amber color and finishes with a citrus flavor, and when combined, will require this to be the last IPA you ever drink! Well, maybe, we realize you will probably drink more, but the result of this recipe clearly evolves into a very balanced IPA. The grain bill on this big pale includes melanoidin and Victory malts. We hop it up before the boil starts with some Columbus first wort hopping, then add a bunch more for bittering.

Style: IPA
Availability: 16 oz cans
Arrival: April 2012

6% ABV

pic via Finch’s

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Maui Brewing Company

Maui Brewing Creates Special Beer For Sheraton Resorts

Maui Brewing Company and Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa have teamed up to make an exclusive beer to be served exclusively at the resorts pool bars and hotel lounges.   The beer is Black Rock Lager, a dark lager.

The lager is named after the legendary lava rock formation on Ka’anapali Beach which Hawaiians believe is one of three `uhane lele, a place where souls of the dead leap from earth into their ancestral spirit land and where only a person with great spiritual strength can enter that world and return.

Style: Lager
Availability: Draft, at Sheraton Resorts

5.5% ABV, 25 IBUs 

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Flying Dog Brewing

Flying Dog Mixes Chocolate & Hops

Flying Dog Chocolate FeverFlying Dog is quite active as of late.  The Brewhouse Rarities Series is in full swing, cans coming soon.   Why stop the creative process right?  Enter Chocolate Fever.  An American IPA brewed with real chocolate.   A collaboration with The Perfect Truffle in Frederick, Maryland.

“I was worried about the backside, but I kept that part discreet.” – Ralph Steadman

Style: IPA (w/ chocolate)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

7.3% ABV 

note: The above is tentative.  Subject to change at whim of the brewer, the beer, or the barrel.

by Reid Ramsay