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Whenever beer talk turns to Denver, one of the first breweries you hear about is Bierstadt Lagerhaus. Now you can taste why as they have collaborated with our own Enegren Brewing.
If that pilsner tastes half as good as it looks in that glass, then it will be a treat. Enegren is shipping in California too.
Put together two sour blenders with great pedigree and you just might come up with something like Big Mood, a combo of BarrelWorks and Sante Adairus. Then French Oak and apricots to go along with the wine grapes.
This label design goes a little Oregon settler but any time a coffee IPA hits town, I will mosey to a bar stool to try it. Especially since Modern Times does have a bit of bean roasting experience. And Stone has brewed a few hoppy beers. The only issue that exists is that this sub-style can drift too far to coffee or too far away when a happy medium needs to be found.
Yeah, Guild beers bring together a lot of breweries but I saw something more eclectic in this list for the 2020 Zwickelmania collaboration….
Allegory Brewing • Ambacht Brewing • Baerlic • Bend Brewing Company • Bent Shovel Brewing • Binary Brewing • Boneyard Beer • Breakside Brewery • Buoy Beer Company • Coin Toss Brewing • Deschutes Brewery • Ecliptic Brewing • Gigantic • Golden Valley Brewery • GoodLife Brewing Co. • Grixsen Brewing Co. • Heater Allen Brewing • Hopworks Urban Brewery • Laurelwood Brewing Co. • Leikam Brewing • Little Beast Brewing • Lucky Labrador • Ninkasi Brewing Company • Running Dogs Brewery • Sasquatch Brewery • Stickmen Brewing Company • StormBreaker Brewing • Vanguard Brewing Company • Von Ebert Brewing • Wild Ride Brewing
There are (3) breweries based in my college town of McMinnville on this list. You have old school like Lucky Lab and Ninkasi. You have super new like Leikam, Binary and Grixsen. Keep in mind, Oregon has a lot of breweries and to get this type of size and style and geographic diversity is excellent. I will be looking for this beer when I am in Oregon this month.
The clock has struck 8 and Sierra Nevada and Russian River are releasing the 2020 version of Brux, a Wild Domesticated Ale. This is a treat to see this get the yearly release special treatment. If you have not had this before, this will be a fun taste experience.
For those who have not had Utopia from Sam Adams, well this is new collaboration with business partner, Dogfish Head might be a close approximation for you to try. Not that World Wide Stout is something to sneeze at.
Highland Park is close to Pasadena, so it seems right to have Craftsman Brewing do the team up thing with Highland Park Brewery. Below is the newsletter news…
“Earlier this year we inherited a wine foudre from Craftsman, so obviously we wanted our first brew into it to be with Mark & the gang! We brewed a beer & then transferred it into the foudre to ferment away fora while. In that foudre we used wild yeast propagated from acorns that came from Mark’s backyard!”
This news will keep me searching for when it gets tapped or bottled for sure.
Mikkeller SD beer looked north to Washington States Fremont Brewing for a new Mexican lager by the name of Operador Suave. What makes this an interesting fall choice is that corn tortillas were part of the ingredient list.
The Helpful SoCal Allagash Brewing crew paid a visit to Highland Park Brewing to do up a collaboration and come October, you can taste ½ of it. Below are the details from HPB…
“We got together & brewed up a hoppy lager using Loral hops as well as Roy Farms 1940 hops. Part of this brew will get canned & kegged for a future release. Another part of the brew will be put into oak barrels to finish fermentation there. Keep your eyes peeled for this beer to get released sometime in October.”
The California Craft Beer Summit started yesterday but the first full day of events in Long Beach start today and to celebrate 30 years of California brewing, there is a celebratory beer, 30 Years Strong brewed with a group led by Three Weavers.