Thanks to Upland sending beers L.A.’s way, I might see what could be super expensive but would be an epic sour collaboration with Cascade that also uses rarely used in sours fruits. Pears and paw-paw that is aged in oak barrels.
Modest Proposal – Collaboration Fest
I know that I alternately bemoan the amount of festivals and then call for more. But what I call for are specific and niche festivals.
Pilsner Fest, Fruit Beer Fest and others are in Portland. And another good idea that I think would work here in Los Angeles would be a Collaboration Fest.
The Colorado Brewers Guild has such a festival where every beer has at least one foot in their Guild. And it ticks a lot of boxes for me….the most important being….
One Place Puts hard to get / can’t get breweries in one place as well as the beers in one place. With a resurgence in collaborations, one would have to drive from place to place to place to keep up. Putting them together, even for just one yearly event would be great.
Attach the word “rare” to it and the Whale Hunters would buy tickets. Perhaps organize by style or state where the “other” collaborator is from.
Ocean Bird
The folks at El Segundo have ticked off another bucket list collaboration partner (at least in my mind) with their latest DIPA with Pizza Port.
Day One is November 3rd and the brewery taproom will have special beers going or you can find bottled that day bottles to-go at reputable craft beer stores.
Long Distance Brew Bro’s
Sierra Nevada does more collaborations in a year than most breweries do in five and they have another on in the pipeline. This time with the famed German brewery, Weihenstephaner. Looks to me that this might be a beer style that is tweaked.
Electric Collab
Chico’s Sierra Nevada has teamed with Reno’s The Brewer’s Cabinet for a new IPA that is electric, or Electrum which is a naturally occurring alloy of silver and gold. In this case the two ingredients are Amarillo hops and Simcoe powder.
Kick It
The Beer Bros. are at it again as El Segundo Brewing has reached out to Alvarado Street for some hoppy kicks…
Sidekicks drops tomorrow.
Or Another
When sour titans like Cascade and Bruery Terreux tag team on a beer with an Oregon fruit – marionberries and a California fruit – Meyer lemons, does that mean the resulting beer will be twice as sour?
And do you buy a bottle of the Cascade version and the Terreux version and blend them?
An Epic King
Steep Faces IPA 16oz is a trio of collaborators from King Harbor Brewing Co., Epic Brewing, and Stumptown Roasters. Only 130 cases of cans were made of this CIPA (coffee IPA) that was hopped with Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado then Stumptown Roaster’s Colombian El Jordan cold brew coffee was added in. You can buy by the case or 4-pack.
Karl in the Sierra
Two old school breweries have collaborated (with hops of course), Sierra Nevada from the North and Karl Strauss from the South have a new beer in the pipeline, NxS.
Speaking of Monkish
Some crazy artwork from the most recent collaboration between Monkish Brewing and Jolly Pumpkin of Michigan. Looks fruity….
Hopefully, some of these bottles will make their way to SoCal.