What's better than having numerous quality breweries in Denver and the surrounding areas? When these breweries come together, blend one-of-a-kind brews and are all under one roof - and that is Collaboration Fest! The second annual event, sponsored by Colorado Brewers Guild and Imbibe Events, takes place tomorrow, March 21, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium. Here are the collaboration projects, courtesy of
Collaboration Fest:
4 Noses Brewing, Big Choice Brewing and Wonderland Brewing
Beer Name: Bazinga!
Beer Description: This ménage a trois collaboration starts with a Belgian wit base recipe. After adding loads of lemongrass and rose hips to the mash and boil, each brewery used different yeasts to impart a distinctly different flavor. To top it all of, a modest dose of vanilla beans were added during conditioning to get the flavor explosion.
Bootstrap Brewing and Walnut Brewery
Beer Name: NutStrap Imperial Coffee Stout
Beer Description: Imperial Stout with Ozo coffee
Breckenridge Brewery and MadTree Brewing
Beer Name: Saison Ridge
Beer Description: Saison made with Colorado spruce tips, Colorado honey and Ohio spice bush berries. Look for a dry, refreshing, spicy and drinkable saison with subtle and complex flavor nuances from these native ingredients...and, of course, the signature hint of bubble gum from the farmhouse yeast.
Breckenridge Brewery and Starr Hill Brewery
Beer Name: Snow Your Oats
Beer Description: Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. Starr Hill Brewer, Robbie shipped ahead malt and barley used in Dark Starr, Little Red RooStarr and other great Starr Hill stouts, and he brought some locally sourced Virginia oats. Breckenridge Brewery threw in 200 pounds of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (of Durango, CO) dark chocolate to round out the 50 bbl brew.
Comrade and Crooked Stave
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: Imperial Wit
Comrade and Hogshead
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: English IPA
FATE Brewing Company and Lost Highway Brewing Company
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: German style pilsner with Barke Heirloom Barely and Polaris and Sorachi Ace hops.
FATE Brewing Company and Yak & Yeti
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: Belgian Style Cherry Dubbel
FATE Brewing Company and Cannonball Creek
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: German Style IPA
Eastside Nano Collaboration: FATE Brewing Company, BRU and Wild WoodsBeer Name: TBD
Beer Description: Three different versions of a hoppy belgian golden strong ale, all brewed with the Wyeast 1388 yeast strain, Saaz and Styrian Goldings hops. Each beer is between 9-10 percent alcohol by volume and 40-50 IBUs.
Epic Brewing Company and Devils Backbone
Beer Name: Midnight Mischief
Beer Description: This is a non-traditional American hopped black lager Schwarzbier.
Fiction Beer Company, Chain Reaction Brewing and Cerebral Brewing
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: Farmhouse ale with Cascara and plum fermented with Brett.
Grimm Brothers Brewhouse, Loveland Aleworks, Verboten, Crow Hop, Big Beaver and Buckhorn
Beer Name: Anything for Love
Beer Description: Belgian Quad
Grist Brewing Company and No Label Brewing Company
Beer Name: Skiing in Jeans
Beer Description: This is a traditional German bock using all German malt and hops with the addition of Colorado wildflower honey and Texas pecans. The nutty flavor and residual sweetness from the honey shine through on this perfect-for-spring beer.
Mockery Brewing, River North Brewing, Our Mutual Friend Brewing, Zephyr Brewing, Beryls Beer Co., Brew 'n Q Homebrew Shop
Beer Name: RyeNo Cluster Fuggle
Beer Description: 51 percent rye beer with roasted barley (roasted at Our Mutual Friend), Belgian house yeast from River North Brewing.
Mockery Brewing and Baere Brewing
Beer Name: Brevis and Butthead
Beer Description: Kettle Sour Pale Ale
Powder Keg Brewing Company and Avery Brewing Company
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: Powder Keg and Avery will be blending various vintages and styles from selected sour barrel projects at both breweries.
Renegade Brewing Company and Sanitas Brewing Company
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: Triple Saison
River North Brewery and Red Leg Brewing Company
Beer Name: West of Ardennes
Beer Description: Rye barrel fermented Belgian Imperial Brown
Ska Brewing and Stone Brewing Collaboration
Beer Name: Mighty Mighty Bastogne
Beer Description: Triple Tripel or Hoppy Belgian Tripel
Ska Brewing, Wynkoop Brewing Company and Reel Big Fish
Beer Name: Reel Big Stout
Beer Description: Oak aged imperial stout
Station 26 Brewing Co. and Call to Arms Brewing Company
Beer Name: Schwarzbier
Beer Description: Schwarzbier is an easy drinking German black larger.
Station 26 Brewing Co. and Cigar City
Beer Name: White IPA
Beer Description: White IPA brewed with wheat, oats and orange peel and hopped with Amarillo, Citra, Lemondrop, Mandarina Bavaria, and Summer.
The Very Nice Brewing Company and Twisted Pine
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: Midnight Wheat, Cherry, Sage, Saison
The Very Nice Brewing Company and Strange Craft Beer Company
Beer Name: TBD
Beer Description: Chickory Black IPA
Twisted Pine and Blind Tiger
Beer Name: Twisted Tiger
Beer Description: Weizenbock
Verboten Brewing and New Belgium Brewing
Beer Name: Top Bunk-Bottom Bunk
Beer Description: Collaboration in a glass: Black and Tan, Peppermint Stout called Top Bunk and a Chocolate Brown named Bottom Bunk. Stout will float on brown.
Wynkoop and Tivoli
Beer Name: Double OG aka D.O.O.G
Beer Description: Imperial Malt Liquor
Zwei Bruder and Tivoli
Beer Name: Pass the Buck
Beer Description: Resurrected the original Sigi's beer recipe.
