Epic & Ska Introduce New Skeptic Peach IPA Coming 3/19

Is it good to be a Skeptic?

      Do barrels, hops and peaches go together?

Skeptic? Epic? Ska? Really?

Did I hear it right? Are Epic Brewing

and Ska Brewing collaborating to

make a beer that focuses on their

combined strengths of hoppy IPAs,

fruit beers and barrel-aging?

Are they friends? Why? Can some old

skate punks from Durango and some

sinners from the land of saints and

salt lakes really come together to

make a decent beer? Isn’t Epic from

Utah? What’s up with that? Are they

even allowed to drink there? But wait,

don’t they also have a brewery in

Colorado? Am I confused? Do those

guys down in Durango get off the

slopes or their mountain bikes often

enough to even make beer?

And what’s this about combining bright, fresh hop flavors and barrel-aging? Isn’t that a bad idea? Aren’t those

flavors mutually exclusive? Could you actually make that combo great by making two versions of a 7% beer,

one aged in peach brandy barrels from Peach Street Distillers and one heavily hopped with Nelson Sauvin,

then blending them together? What? And why the hell would you add fruit to that mix? Could a subtle touch

of peach actually highlight the almost stone fruit flavors and aromas of those hops?

Where would you be crazy enough to debut such a concoction? Has anyone heard about the Collaboration

Fest put on by the Colorado Brewers Guild? Steve who? Will a portion of all sales go to the CBG? Is that crazy

event on March 19th at that big football stadium in Denver? I wonder if after that you could find the crazy

concoction across Colorado and in select locations around the country?