Friday, March 20, 2015

Celebrate Collaboration Fest


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.

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