Wheat Beer

Posted in Badger State Brewing, New Releases

Badger State Phoenix Rising collab with UW Green Bay returns

Badger State Phoenix Rising Citrus Wheat Ale is available at the brewery starting in mid-June.

Badger State Brewing – in the heart of Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a new collaboration beer available starting this week – Phoenix Rising. The beer is a collaboration with University of Wisconsin Green Bay, whose mascot should be obvious by now – a phoenix. There was a previous version of this beer released as a red lager starting back in 2023.

The 5.2% alcohol by volume wheat ale is lightly hopped with El Dorado, and finished with orange and tangerine peel. Citrus is big in the nose with this beer, as well as the flavor, and very smooth thanks to the wheat.

Badger State Phoenix Rising is available in 16-ounce cans and draft throughout northeast Wisconsin starting in June 2025.

Style: American Wheat Ale
Hops: El Dorado

Availability: 16oz cans, Draft.
Debut: June 2025

5% ABV

PIC: Beer Street Journal

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Oskar Blues Brewing, Headlines

Oskar Blues debuts ‘Mustard Beer’ featuring 150 pounds of French’s

We wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t know that today, August 1st, is National Mustard Day. There’s a “day” for everything. While you are smothering everything in spicy yellow goodness, there’s a craft beer to pair with it. Oskar Blues Mustard Beer.

It’s craft beer, so you know we aren’t kidding. Oskar Blues partnered with French’s on the collaboration, a tropical wheat beer infused with the yellow stuff. 150 pounds of it to be exact. The result is a wheat beer with a yellowish tinge, boasting flavors of lime, lemon, tangerine, and passion fruit to complement the spice and zip added by the mustard.

Last year French’s made a mustard flavor ice cream for the occasion. We never got to try it, but some folks on social media melted down over its mear existence. (One person even called it a slight against God. That might be a little much.)

Oskar Blues Mustard Beer was available to ship on CraftShack.com, but it sold out pretty much immediately.

Style: Wheat Beer (w/ French’s Mustard)
Availability: 12oz Cans. Limited Release.
Debut: 8/1/20

5.2% ABV

Update: Sold out. Everywhere. Next stop, ketchup day. 

by Reid Ramsay