Denver’s Spangalang Brewery & North Carolina’s Fullsteam Brewery Make Super Bowl Beer Wager

Losing Brewery Must Brew a Beer Designed by the Winning Brewery

In advance of the upcoming Super Bowl between the Denver Broncos and the

Carolina Panthers, Spangalang Brewery (Denver, CO) and Fullsteam Brewery

(Durham, NC) are entering into a wager on behalf of their respective NFL home 

teams.

The terms of the wager are significant for the brewers and their fans.

The losing brewery will have to brew a special batch of beer from a recipe

chosen by the winning brewery. The beer recipe must include indigenous

ingredients from the winner’s state and will be named by the winning brewery.

On tapping day the losing brewery must hang the winning team’s flag and fly it

for one week or until the beer is gone, whichever comes first.

"That Panthers flag,” says Sean Lilly Wilson, founder of Fullsteam Brewery, “is

going to look great hanging in the Spangalang tasting room. But we’ll send a

beer recipe with some choice Carolina ingredients and flavor to help ease the

pain of Denver’s loss.”

“It will be interesting to see if Cam Newtown can sport his 1000-watt smile with

Von Miller in his face,” says Spangalang co-founder and brewer Darren Boyd.

“I’m thinking ‘Cam’s Kryptonite’ would be a good name for the beer recipe we

send to North Carolina.”

Each brewery will be asking its social media followers to suggest beer styles,

local ingredients and names for the winning beers.

On February 5, the Friday before the Super Bowl, each brewery will release a

special pre-game beer to rally local fans.

Spangalang will bring back Orange Crushsicle, which it debuted prior to the

Broncos defeating the New England Patriots to win the AFC crown and a place in

the Super Bowl. The beer equivalent of the Dreamsicle frozen treat, Orange

Crushscicle is a citrus session ale enhanced with orange juice, sweet and bitter

orange peel and vanilla. Its name pays tribute to the past and current defense of

the Broncos and predicted the creaming of the Patriots by the Broncos.

“Broncos fans came out in droves to try the beer last weekend,” says

Spangalang brewer and co-founder Taylor Rees. “Our tap room will be a sea of

orange jerseys when we tap it again.”

Fullsteam will release Bless Their Heart, a twist to its recent collaboration with

Charlotte-based Free Range Brewing. The beer is made with foraged juniper,

North Carolina Frasier fir, and an addition of chokeberry syrup. “We thought

chokeberry would be a good ingredient to use in this beer,” Wilson says, “due to

Manning’s history of choking in the Super Bowl.”

No matter which team wins the game, the rival brewers are comfortable with the

wager. “The worst that can happen,” Boyd says, “is we let a like-minded, quality

obsessed craft brewer take the lead on a beer of ours. So this is a good bet to

make. Although the Panthers flag in our brewery would make us all sick.”