Brewery Ommegang & Prison City Brewing Collaborate On Neon Riot

This morning, I have a new collaboration beer coming from Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, New York. This is Neon Riot, and it will be a collaboration with Auburn, New York’s Prison City Brewing. This OMG Series beer will be a Belgian-style IPA that will hit 7,7%-AbV, and you’re looking at the 16-oz can. Stay tuned for release details.

Label Text Brewery Ommegang Neon Riot:

“Introducing Neon Riot, an expressive Belgian-style IPA brewed in collaboration with our friends at Prison City Brewing. Built on a smooth, silky base of pilsner malt and oats, this beer lets the hops break free, skipping the kettle entirely and making a bold escape straight to the fermenter. An explosive charge of six different hops unleashes tropical waves of stone fruit and citrus. A lively Belgian yeast strain threads gentle spice and bright esters through the hop intensity, finishing dry, silky, and smooth. Bold yet balanced, Neon Riot is a celebration of two breweries pushing flavor to the edge, and giving hops the freedom to run.”

About Brewery Ommegang:

A Tradition Born in 1549
Holy Roman Emperor King Charles V visited medieval Brussels in 1549 with hundreds from his Royal Court. To welcome the King, merchants, vendors, cooks, brewers, musicians, theater troupes, dancers and more lined up around the city walls and joined in a celebration as his entourage passed by. That parade became known as the “Ommegang,” a word that variously means “coming together” and “walking about.” The Brussels Ommegang Festival continues to this day.
 
The First Farmhouse Brewery in America in 100+ Years
Belgian breweries Duvel Moortgat, Affligem, and Scaldis join with importers/entrepreneurs Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield to build an authentic Belgian-style farmstead brewery in Cooperstown, NY. They locate this cultural transplant on an old 140-acre hop farm in the Susquehanna River valley, in a part of upstate New York once known as Nova Belgium.
 
Our First Beers
We open in winter with Ommegang Abbey Dubbel, an 8.5% ABV traditional Trappist-style dark ale. Brewed with a complex array of spices and packaged in 750ml bottles, Abbey breaks the mold of the emerging American craft beer scene.
 
Our Portfolio (and Reputation) Grow
We expand our offerings with Hennepin Farmhouse Saison, Rare Vos Amber, and 12oz bottles. High-end culinary magazines and restaurants across the US take notice.
 
Ponder the Profound
Responding to a fan’s fantasy of “the perfect beer,” we introduce Three Philosophers, a Belgian-style quadrupel ale. A touch of Belgian kriek – a cherry beer – makes it distinctive, and offers a delicate note of dark fruit.

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