Curious what beers are going to be debuting at Collab Fest this year? Look no further, we will be posting regular updates on all of the fun beers here!

Collab Update #1

A Bit Twisted Brewpub & BBQ and Monolith Brewing

  • Beer style: Experimental Stout
  • Beer name: Smoked Pulled Pork Stout
  • Story behind the collaboration: For this collaboration, smoked pork shoulder from A Bit Twisted will be tossed into the whirlpool portion of the brewing process. The breweries will be using smoked grains from Troubadour Maltings located in Fort Collins. This will be the same collaboration recipe as last year, but instead of using smoked brisket they will be using smoked pork

 

Elevation Beer Co. and Salida Brewing Co

  • Beer style: Munich Dunkel
  • Beer name: Uncouth Spunding
  • Story behind the collaboration: A love of dark lagers and classic styles brought this beer to life

 

Mad Macks Brewing and Iron Rail Brewing (KS)

  • Beer style: Cream Ale
  • Beer name: Orxata Cream Ale
  • Story behind the collaboration: Horchata is a fine balance of cinnamon, sweet, cream. This will bring Horchata to beer life

 

Primitive Beer and Brewery Novalis (NY)

  • Beer style: SponSponBingBong Finished in Earl Grey Gin Casks
  • Beer name: Human Construct
  • Story behind the collaboration: Human Construct is Primitive’s Golden Blend, a multi-year ensemble with a weighted average age >34 months at bottling, finished in Earl Grey Gin Casks from The Family Jones Distillery. Longtime friends Brewery Novalis in NY came out to select specific barrels for this collaboration. The brewers chose to blend puncheons of extra mature spon from batches that utilized high hopping rates and extra long marathon boils (>12hrs boil time) to match caramelization flavors of burnt honey, toasted orange peel, and toffee, to meld with finishing cask notes reminiscent of bright and lively candied lemon, spicy black tea, and undertones of cedar and smoke. When you bring fellow blenders of SponSponBingBong together, magical mixtures emerge, as arbitrary boundaries are just a Human Construct!

 

Primitive Beer and Cohesion Brewing

  • Beer style: SponSponBingBong Dry Hopped with Žatec Saaz
  • Beer name: Stable of Stars
  • Story behind the collaboration: Primitive Beer presents Stable of Stars, a very special collaboration with their best friends Cohesion Brewing Company. Departing from Primitive’s traditional recipe, they brewed a 100% malted barley and Czech Saaz hopped wort for inoculation in our koelschip and two years of barrel maturation on lees. Stable of Stars was dry hopped with Czech Saaz cones prior to packaging and conditioned with fresh barley wort at a weighted average age of 24 months. Inspired by a unique spontaneously fermented all-barley beer released by our favorite Lambic producer in the city of Brussels and directed by the beautiful lucidity of Czech Pale Lager, Stable of Stars is a great addition to any gathering, even if there’s no, like, cute restaurants in the neighborhood

 

Prost Brewing and Templin Family Brewing (UT)

  • Beer style: Pilsner
  • Beer name: Wet Hop Pilsner
  • Story behind the collaboration: For this brew, the brewers used wet hop Spalter Select hops from a farm in Germany. The process will be open fermented, horizontally lagered, naturally carbonated and polish filtered. Templin Family Brewing and Prost both specialize in traditional brewing and this was an excellent opportunity to showcase that shared love for a clean complex lager bier

 

Telluride Brewing and Good People Brewing (AL)

  • Beer style: West Coast Pils 
  • Beer name: Moe’s Original GoodRide Lager
  • Story behind the collaboration: West Coast Pils brewed with Cryo-Columbus, Krush and Nectaron. This is a celebration of Telluride Launching distribution in Alabama, Western Georgia and the Panhandle of Florida!