You could probably safely, have a blog dedicated just to collaboration beers. I feel that 2018 has set a new mark for duo brews. And here is another with the local Smog City crew heading from Torrance to Hawaii to make Star Maps Kolsch. This Kolsch is brewed with starfruit and rises to a fairly high for the style 6.1% ABV.
I will assume that it will pour at Smog City taprooms and that it will probably still be warm in LA when it comes out.
Colorful Collaborative Cans
Not a huge fan of returning to the ’80s but I do like the idea of having a West-Coast forward, 22oz bomber forward brewery teaming with a haze forward, crowler brewery to learn new tricks. All in a VERY colorful way.
State Brewing and El Segundo Brewing are going all Vice and Versa on October 13th, here are the beer details:
“It’s two breweries, one hop profile and two different styles of IPA. State showed us the way of the Hazy, we showed State the way of the West Coast and we’re each doing simultaneous can releases.”
Check their websites and social media for music, shuttle and food details.
Powerful
The latest 22oz hop bomber from El Segundo Brewing is a coming,
Power Shower is a collaboration with recent GABF medal winners Noble Ale Works that will be released on October 5th. The premise is that the beer is half Noble Showers DIPA and half El Segundo Power Plant and will probably live up to the 8.8% abv.
A Gregarious Collaboration
Maybe this collaboration will mark a comeback of the now, gasp, traditional San Diego / West Coast IPA?
If not, it shows that both of these breweries are still kicking and scratching for our hop attention.
The Breakside of Maui
If you had told me that Breakside and Maui Brewing were to collaborate, I would have guessed some fruit sour of some sort using fruits from both states. I certainly would not have guessed a Belgian Pale Ale.
I hope it comes SoCal way because there are not enough Belgian hoppy beers being done.
FW Invitational – 1 Week Out
Now, let’s talk about this year’s collaboration beer for the fest….
This year’s beer started at the festival, last year as Creature Comforts and Firestone Walker came together to brew up what would become Mother’s Milk, a barrel-aged imperial milk porter.
Mother’s Milk is a bigger beer at 11.6% ABV. It was “aged for nearly a year in rye whiskey barrels inherited from a premium spirits producer” with added oats, lactose sugar and sea salt.
12-ounce bottles ($10.99) will also be available for a limited time at all Firestone Walker locations starting on June 2. A mere 300 cases (12 x 12-oz bottles) were produced.
We Are Golden
As Fallon and Timberlake would say, Heading on down to LagerVille….
I have previously posted about this festival and now a collaborative beer is added to the goodies!
Nearby Enegren Brewing has taken their Germanic touch to Figueroa Mountain for a new lager that will show up on 5 19.
Would Zlatan drink it?
New Belgium is kicking a World Cup collaboration beer into cans in advance of the U.S. absent soccer tournament.
The Colorado brewery has teamed up Adnams (England), Baird (Japan), Bodebrown (Brazil), Devil’s Peak (South Africa) and Primus (Mexico) to create an easy drinking kolsch that includes chamomile (which apparently is the national flower of Russia) and lemongrass, because you can’t add artificial turf to a beer.
The other five breweries will brew and distribute their version of Bicycle Kick in their respective markets. You might have to do some serious traveling to collect them all.
Big Cats
Featured Review – Brought A Jacket Didn’t Need It from Mumford
Up there with the great beer names that I have run across is the new session IPA collaboration from DTLAs Mumford Brewing and Cerebral Brewing.
Definite hazy aroma, almost like lupulin powder (if that was used). Has that hazy scrape on the tongue. Finishes a bit watery though so that scrape isn’t full. The can art and design s really cool. The beer itself looks like grapefruit juice. Dank bitterness taste lingers for awhile. First time I have seen Enigma hop broadcast as a selling point. Grassy more than citrus.