Old 121 Brewhouse and Lady Justice Brewing

Beer name: Smooth Crimini-Ale

Beer style: Mushroom West Coast Pilsner

Story behind the collaboration: Annie are you ok? This Smooth Crimini-Ale brings the delicious style of a West Coast Pilsner using Amarillo and Lupomax Columbus hops with the rich and complex use of Crimini and Porcini Mushrooms. The brewers wanted to try some experimental flavors that would be both unique and balanced that would highlight traditional dank, piney, and citrus flavors of hops with the earthy, umami, and slightly spicy flavors of mushrooms

Public Offering Brewing Co. and LUKI Brewery

Beer name: Rising Sun Yuzu Lager

Beer style: Rice Lager

Story behind the collaboration: Inspired to make a light lager for the summer season, the brewers landed on a rice lager and wanted to lean into some typical Japanese flavors and ingredients without going overboard. So they added ginger and lemongrass hot side, fermented with a Sake lager strain and added Yuzu fruit for a touch of citrus. They tried their best to preserve the delicate nature of a rice lager while lightly highlighting the ginger, lemongrass and yuzu flavors

Ramblebine Brewing Company and Base Camp Beer Works

Beer name: Tinky Wink

Beer style: Ube Milkshake IPA

Story behind the collaboration: A unique take on a milkshake hazy IPA with the use of Ube to impart a vibrant purple color along with nutty, vanilla sweetness. As good friends and close colleagues, the brewers love to collaborate and learn from each other to make the Grand Valley beer scene better as a whole

Ramblebine Brewing Company and New Terrain Brewing Company

Beer name: Matcha Man Sandy Ravage

Beer style: Vanilla Matcha Lemonade Fizz Ale

Story behind the collaboration: Fermented with a GMO Chico yeast to add acidity and blended with foeder-aged seltzer and then conditioned on Sicilian Lemon puree and vanilla matcha tea

Second Dawn Brewing Co. and Our Mutual Friend Brewing

Beer name: Future Before

Beer style: American IPA

Story behind the collaboration: This is a hybrid IPA utilizing modern hopping techniques with classic American hops

Station 26 Brewing Company and Lady Justice Brewing Company

Beer name: Neat. No ICE

Beer style: Fruited sour with Tajin

Story behind the collab: A current Station 26 employee interned at both Station 26 and Lady Justice while he was in the Applied Craft Brewing program at Regis University which led to the connection between the two breweries. Aside from using an interesting fruit combination, what makes this beer standout is the use of Tajin for a subtle spicy and chili flavor

The Elizabeth Brewing Company, A Bit Twisted Brewpub and BBQ, and  Urban Animal Brewery

Beer name: Uncharted Waters

Beer style: Bomb Pop Hazy IPA

Story behind the collaboration:This hazy represents one of the brewers’ favorite styles of beer which includes three different flavors to represent each brewer 

The Elizabeth Brewing Company and Kold Prairie Meadery

Beer name: Prairie Walker

Beer style: Scottish Ale Buckwheat Braggot

Story behind the collaboration: The brewers have made a few braggots in the past for fun and this recipe was a favorite. Braggots are not very common in the commercial world, so Collab Fest was the perfect way to show Kold Prairie Meadery to the world as well as share a project that they are incredibly proud of

Verboten Brewing and Gravity Brewing

Beer name: Peanut Butter Sriracha Imperial Porter

Beer style: Imperial Porter

Story behind the collaboration: Brewery friends that came together and said “lets make something weird but not too weird,” thus the idea was born to make a peanut sriracha porter

Wild Blue Yonder Brewing Co., 105 West Brewing Company, Rock Yard Brewing Company, and Los Dos Potrillos

Beer name: Welcome to the Rock

Beer style: Golden Stout

Story behind the collaboration: The Castle Rock brewers went with a golden stout because it attempts to give you the flavors you’d expect in a traditional stout or porter, but without the use of darker roasted malts. It’s a total mind game when you drink one

Woods Boss Brewing Company and Silver Moon Brewing (OR)

Beer name: Stihl Crazy (after all these years)

Beer style: Norwegian Farmhouse brewed with a Ponderosa Pine Tree

Story behind the collaboration: This collab is a revisit from 2019 when Woods Boss cut down a live pine tree and used it in the brewing process. The brewers ran hot wort from the kettle down a channel of a 12′ section of the trunk during the boil to pull in the character of the tree. It will be a citrusy Norwegian Farmhouse/Saison as they are blending a Kveik strain with French Saison Yeast.