It can be hard to find the perfect coffee to add to a beer. You have to find a roaster who understands and like to work in the beer realm, you have to taste different coffees and blends and then you have to choose how to add the coffee to the beer. Now imagine doing that ten times in ten different cities.
That’s what Epic Brewing Company has done. Created a coffee collaboration “with 10 coffee roasters in 10 states for limited-release stouts brewed to showcase individual coffees roasted on the lighter end.”
Each java collaboration beer will be made available where the coffee is roasted and sold, sold under the Son of a Baptist name to echo the bigger and barrel-aged Big Bad Baptist coffee stout.
Each of the ten “Sons” “will be numbered and stamped and shipped to the roaster’s home market where the beer and the coffee can be sampled side-by-side.”
Here are the 10 roasters participating in the Son of a Baptist collaboration:
Stauf’s Coffee Roasters – Columbus, Ohio
Novo Coffee – Denver
Rowster Coffee – Grand Rapids, Mich.
Red e Café – Portland, Or.
Cultivar Coffee – Dallas, Texas
Caffe Ibis – Logan, Utah
Conduit Coffee – Seattle, Wash.
EVP Coffee – Madison, Wisc.
Snake River Roasting Company – Jackson Hole, Wy.
Misha’s Coffee – Alexandria, Va.