Ska Brewing & Swedish Brewery Nynashamns Angbryggeri Co-Brewing Wipa Snapa White IPA

Here’s a new co-brew coming from Ska Brewing and Nynashamns Angbryggeri in Sweden.   The beer is called Wipa Snapa and it’s a White IPA brewed with Juniper Berries, Sea Buckthorn and local Colorado hops from Highwire Hops Farm.  Look for Wipa Snapa to be packaged in 22oz bottles and come in at 6% ABV.   This from Ska:

Ska Brewing is hosting brewers from Sweden’s Nynäshamns Ångbryggeri at Ska’s World Headquarters in Durango this week. Lars "Lasse" Marcus Ericsson and heat traveled to Colorado on Monday to brew a collaborative beer with Ska, a White IPA called WIPA snapA. The international collaboration comes less than a year after Ska brewers and Representatives traveled to Nynäshamns, a city south of Stockholm , to brew a collaborative beer there called Skatkobben. While Skatkobben which released only in Sweden, the new WIPA snapA collaboration will be released here in the U.S., after a sneak preview at the Colorado Brewers Guild "Collaboration Festival" on March 22, and on official release party at the Craft Brewer’s Conference in Denver April 9th.

The Ska / Nynäshamns relationship flourished after Ska attended the Stockholm Beer and Whisky Festival in 2011, and Realized thatthey shared a love of the outdoors and general adventure With Their counterparts from Nynäshamns. It is heat and Ericsson’s first trip to the U.S., though They Both speak English fluently. After a 26-hour travel day on Monday, They arrived at Ska Tuesday morning energetic and ready to brew. Ska Representatives are sharing a little Colorado mountain culture by taking heat Ericsson and skiing at Durango Mountain Resort, after at early-morning duck hunting outing. At the end of the week theywill travel to Denver with Ska’s Arlo Grammatica to visit other breweries and take part in a "Pints ​​and Pipes" promotion at Denver’s Cheba Hut. With a U.S. craft beer scene so that many Consider to be setting the standard for innovation and quality worldwide, many European brewers and consumers are looking to the U.S., Both for existing beers and for new ideas. This turns the old dynamic-In Which Europeans were known for Producing quality, flavorful beers, and the U.S. what Widely mocked for our dedication to mass-produced light camp-on its head. "Craft beer is becoming very popular in Sweden, like here , and Swedes are very curious about new beers, "Said Nynäshamns’ Head Brewer Lasse Ericsson. "In the U.S., many brewers started in the 80’s, and in Sweden it was not until the 90’s, so Swedish brewers are looking to the U.S. BECAUSE YOU ARE about ten years ahead of us as far as the craft beer scene." The Swedish brewers so Collaborated with Dogfish Head, a Delaware-based craft brewing powerhouse-In Their hometown load-year, producing a beer called Kvasir, part of Dogfish Head’s popular "Ancient Ales" series. The official release party for WIPA snapA will feature Representatives from ska, as well as Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione, pouring Both WIPA snapA and Kvasir. The White IPA style is a hybrid of the Belgian witbier and India Pale Ale styles, Resulting in unfiltered to and well-carbonated beer brewed with a large proportion of wheat, and featuring spices and a strong hop presence. "Wit" means "white" in English, so-called Because of the unfiltered yeast and wheat proteins did give synthesis beers a hazy, white color. The WIPA snapA features ingredients from Both Colorado and Sweden, including Sea Buckthorn berries-a tart, refreshing berry native to Scandinavia and Chinook hops from Paonia, Colorado’s High Wire Hop Farms. The beer brewed with juniper berries so what, Representing the high desert south and west of Durango, and Substituting for the orange peel and coriander spices Traditionally used in Belgian wit biers. WIPA snapA, When completed, is projected to come in at 6% ABV.
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