Melvin Teaming Up With New Belgium For Deep Dark Woods, Buckle Down Brewing For Rumpleweizen & 21st Amendment For O’Brother Stag

This morning I have your first peek at some exciting new collaboration cans coming soon from Melvin Brewing in Alpine, WY.

Deep Dark Woods will be a spruce IPA brewed in collaboration with New Belgium Brewing (7%-AbV), Rumpleweizen will be a dunkelweizen ale brewed in collaboration with Buckle DOwn Brewing (5.1%-AbV, 16oz cans) and O’Brother Stag will be a tangerine Kolsch-style ale brewed in collaboration with 21st Amendment (5.4%-AbV). These are all16oz cans and stay tuned for release details.  zzubreebym

About Melvin Brewing:

Melvin Brewing is a craft brewery known for its bold IPAs and “madness” brewing philosophy, founded in 2009 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and now based in Alpine, Wyoming, with a focus on community, fun, and unique beer experiences.

Here’s a more detailed look at Melvin Brewing:

Origin and Philosophy:

• Founded: 2009, starting as a nano brewery in the back of a Thai restaurant in Jackson Hole.
• Vision: “If your beer is not madness, it’s not beer”.
• Core Beliefs: Respect, Engagement, and Community.
• Location: Alpine, Wyoming, on the shore of the Palisades Reservoir.
• Mothership: The brewery’s main production and taproom location in Alpine.

Brewery and Products:

• Known for: Big IPAs, but also offers a variety of beers, including lighter options, specialty cocktails, wines, and non-alcoholic options.
• Core Series: Includes beers like Melvin IPA, Juice Theorem, and Star Valley.
• Experimental Series: Features innovative and limited-release beers.
• RIIPA Series: A rotational program of fresh, innovative Imperial IPAs.
• Lazy Dog Collaboration: Melvin Brewing is known for their collaboration with Lazy Dog Restaurants, resulting in house beers like Huckleberry Haze IPA and Whoa, Nellie Lager.
• 20,000 sq ft facility: Includes a 30-BBL brew house, a welcoming beer garden, and a taproom.
• Outdoor space: Features lawn games, lush green grass, and live music.
• Indoor space: Includes expressive art, large community tables, and an inviting bar.

Community and Giving Back:

• Community Focus: Melvin Brewing is committed to supporting local nonprofits in Wyoming and beyond.
• Events: Known for throwing unique and memorable events.
• Partnerships: Collaborates with organizations and other breweries to strengthen communities.

Awards and Recognition:

• Great American Beer Festival Awards: Won Small Brewpub of the Year in 2015 and Brewery Group of the Year in 2017.

About New Belgium Brewing

New Belgium Brewing was founded in 1991 in Fort Collins, CO, by Kim Jordan, a social worker, who built her company the only way a social worker would: People first. Over the past three decades, New Belgium has turned that ethos into a unique Human Powered Business model through practices that foster a culture defined by individual empowerment and collaborative action that drives better business results in the long term. New Belgium expanded to Asheville, NC, in 2016 and Daleville, VA, in 2023, and in 2021 acquired Bell’s Brewery, based in Kalamazoo, MI. The business’ people-centric model has led New Belgium to become the most popular and fastest-growing American craft brewer today. New Belgium is famous for Fat Tire Ale and Voodoo Ranger IPA (America’s #1 IPA brand), along with year-round favorites like Dominga Mimosa Sour, La Folie Sour Brown Ale. To learn more about New Belgium, visit http://www.newbelgium.com. To learn more about Bell’s, visit www.bellsbeer.com.

About 21st Amendment Brewing:

In 2000, Nico Freccia and Shaun O’Sullivan founded the 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco’s historic South Park neighborhood. The popular brewpub is now at the heart of the new city center, just south of the financial district and only two blocks from the San Francisco Giants baseball park. In addition to rotating taps of multiple award-winning hand-crafted house beers, the pub has been voted “Best Brewpub”, “Best Burger” and “Best Happy Hour” by the San Francisco press.
Freccia and O’Sullivan met in early 1995 in San Francisco. Both had just moved from southern California to the Bay area when they heard the calling of beer. O’Sullivan, a former photographer and paralegal, “traded his suits for boots and was saved by beer”. He moved to Berkeley and took a job as assistant brewer at the Triple Rock Brewery there. Freccia, a writer, actor and, by extension, restaurant professional, was also an avid homebrewer. Frustrated with the lack of beer culture in the L.A. area, he moved to San Francisco and began writing for the Celebrator Beer News, the west’s largest beer publication. Freccia and O’Sullivan met, became friends and, while sitting together in a summer class on brewing science at UC Davis, hatched their plan for what would become the 21st Amendment.

What is the 21st Amendment?

Around the turn of the 20th century, in the year 1900, there were thousands of small breweries operating across America. When Freccia and O’Sullivan were researching old San Francisco breweries (trying to find a cool name for their new brewery), what really made an impact was the discovery that there were about 40 breweries operating just within the city limits of San Francisco. They realized that the brewery captured the essence of the neighborhoods of San Francisco. They were the local gathering places. Places to exchange ideas, debate politics and philosophy. Places for families to come together on weekends. Places that provided something unique—hand crafted beer that was different at every brewery and that defined the taste of a neighborhood.

In 1920, Prohibition wiped out this culture and put the “local” out of business. For 13 years, social interaction was largely driven underground, to the speakeasies, where regular citizens became a nation of outlaws.

But with the passage of the 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition, we, as a society, were able to begin the slow climb back to reclaiming the essence of the neighborhood gathering place. At the 21st Amendment, they celebrate the culture of the great breweries of old, making unique, hand crafted beers, great food, and providing a comfortable, welcoming atmosphere that invites conversation, interaction and a sense of community.