Smuttynose / Stone Brewing Cluster’s Last Stand Coming 7/19

Smuttynose / Stone Brewing  Cluster’s Last Stand updates:

So last month, Greg Koch from Stone Brewing Company joined us to brew 30 barrels of Cluster’s Last Stand, a beer that recreates the original, right-after-Prohibition Ballantine IPA recipe, as found in Mitch Steele’s, epic book on India Pale Ales.  You can see from the ingredient list below that Cluster’s Last Stand truly isn’t your everyday IPA, but we just drank some during the bottling run and it’s just as delicious as anything out there on the market today.

Smuttynose DoBrO David Yarrington (L) and Stone CEO and Founder Greg Koch (R) mashing in Cluster’s Last Stand

We are releasing our small allotment of bottles at Smuttynose on Friday, July 19 in conjunction with our brewery tours.  We’ll sell them until they’re gone….  $9 a bottle.  We do take reservations for tours and bottles will be available for folks that don’t take the tour, starting at 5:30.  That being said you really should see this place before we shut the doors later this fall.

If you can’t make it to Heritage Avenue on Friday, there are other options. Boston’s take place on the 23rd at Craft Beer Cellar from 5pm-7pm where bottles will be available on a first-come, first-served basis and then on to Lord Hobo for a keg tapping.  We’re curious to see how long it will take to kick.  Smuttynose’s DoBrO David Yarrington will be on hand for both events with Stone’s Jeff Nelson and Smutty’s Joe Grotto. 

Attendees at the Southern New Hampshire Brew Fest will also be able to sample Cluster’s Last Stand at one of New Hampshire’s best beer fests, put on by the good folks at White Birch Brewing.  It’s on July 26-27.

8.3% abv  62 IBU’s
Malts: North American 2-Row, Flaked Maize, Munich 10L, C-60
Hops: Bittering-Cluster, Flavor- Brewers Gold and East Kent, Dry Hop- Bullion
Yeast: White Labs WLP-001 American Ale (widely rumored to be the original Ballantine strain)
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