Crooked Stave Working On Merry New Year Happy Christmas Holiday Ale 1.5 Liter Bottles & Pickle Sour

Today I have a new can coming in 2025 from Crooked Stave Brewing in Denver, CO.

This is Merry New Year Happy Christmas Holiday Ale and it will be a sour ale with juniper berries, spruce tips & raspberries. I’ll admit that this looks a LOT like the yearly beer coming from Anchor Brewing every holiday season, so I’d say either there’s some sort of collab or tribute to Anchor Brewing going on; or there will be a C&D letter coming (assuming there’s even anyone left to send it from Anchor). In any case, this is a 1.5 Liter bottle and the beer will hit 6%-AbV. Stay tuned for more details.

I’ve also added in Pickle Sour Dirty Dill collaboration sour ale (4%-AbV, 16-oz cans) .

 

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Label Text:

“Holiday Ale. Dark fruited Sour Ale with Juniper Berries & Spruce Tips made with raspberries from Leyden, Washington.  A special sour ale, aged in oak with the patience you didn’t have while untangling lights. This winter warmer is for cold nights, evergreen boughs, and surviving family traditions.”

About Crooked Stave Brewing:

Art on the Inside, Art on the Outside.

Before founding Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, founder and brewmaster Chad Yakobson wrote his Master’s thesis on Brettanomyces yeast species and their use in the brewing industry. Wanting to spread the wealth of knowledge, Chad published his research as an open-source website to provide a greater understanding of Brettanomyces yeasts for brewers. Focused on strain-specific fermentations and the major compounds produced during pure culture anaerobic fermentation in wort, the application of these yeasts has proliferated throughout the brewing industry.

Our Story, Our Name.

Founded in Denver, Colorado in late 2010, Crooked Stave is the product of “Brettanomyces Guru” Chad Yakobson’s open source Master’s research, The Brettanomyces Project. Crooked Stave’s progressive brewing approach blends science and art through creativity and passion. The resulting creations, most of which use Brettanomyces yeasts and mature in oak, are beers of extraordinary complexity.

Crooked Stave is a play on the word Stave – one of many strong wooden slats collectively bound together by metal hoops to shape a wooden barrel. Our name is a commitment to how closely we work with each barrel and embodies the love we put into each beer. Wooden barrels are the focal point of our brewery and the beers we brew. We are Crooked Stave by way of origin: unique in our beginnings and set apart from our peers. We set our own path, releasing specialty Brettanomyces-only, wild, sour, and barrel-aged beers.

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