Terrapin / BFM Spike & Jerome’s Collaboration Ale Available Now

The original label and details are here, and today comes news of the release of Terrapin Beer / BFM Jerome & Spike’s Collaboration Ale.  Details from Terrapin:

(Athens, GA, 12 Sep 2012/mbb/) – One of the most anticipated beers in Terrapin cellar was finally released from its conditioning tank and bottled last week at Terrapin Beer  Co. in Athens GA. The beer, a Barley Ryne that had been aging on oak and bourbon wood for almost a year, is the product of a 2011 collaboration between Terrapin and Swiss brewery Brasseries Des Franches-Montagnes (BFM).

In 2011, Terrapin brew master Brian “Spike” Buckowski traveled to the Swiss Alps to visit and brew with Jérôme Rebetez, brew master of BFM. The resulting 10.0276% ABV Barley Ryne, simply called spike & jérôme’s Collaboration Ale, was released in the US earlier this year to the great joy of all who were lucky enough to score one of the 11.4 oz flip-top bottles.

But the story does not end there. The collaboration had been such a success that later in September of 2011, while Jerome was traveling in the US, the two recreated the collaborative Barley Ryne brew day at the Terrapin Beer Co. brewery in Athens, GA. After almost a year in matured bourbon barrels the resulting limited-edition ale has finally been released under the name jérôme & spike’s Collaboration Ale 2011.

As the label says, these beers will age well and our money is on a side-by-side tasting in 2016… you choose which country.

ABV: 10.0276%
IBU’s: 63
O.G.: 23
Hops: Bravo, Columbus, U.S. Golding, Amarillo
Malt: 2-Row, Rye, Munich, Carapils, CaraAroma, Caramunich III, Melanoidin

Jérôme & Spike’s Collaboration Ale 2011 has been released in 22oz bottles and 1/6 barrel kegs in Terrapin’s nine-state distribution range including: GA, FL, TN, AL, NC, SC, VA PA and NJ.