The Bruery Releasing New Sours: Rueze & Ichigo Highway 11/9

After a long week of elections and wacky weather we find ourselves back to square one: It’s almost the weekend and we need a beer! Luckily we are sporting one of the most diverse tap lists that we’ve had in a very long time. In addition to some brews being released this weekend, we would love to have you in tonight for our inaugural ‘Meet the Brewer’ night!

Tonight we will be having our first ‘Meet the Brewer’ night. This event, which was created to allow some of our incredibly talented brewers to get wild and crazy in the brewhouse, will be happening about once a month. This month we asked Mike Wooldridge, one of our newest brewers, to come up with a traditionally made cask conditioned ale. Mike took the project to heart and created a specially hopped and extra oaked version of Loakal Red. Only about 5 gallons of this beer was made, so get in early if you want some. Mike will be around to answer any of your questions from 5-6 PM today. We strongly suggest someone ask about his very cool custom RV.

Besides meeting Mike, the big news this weekend is the Friday release of two brand-spankin’-new sour beers. The first beer is Rueuze, our take on the traditional Belgian-style blend of lambics of different ages. We carefully selected a number of oak barrels from our warehouse that have been aging our sour blonde ale to blend this delightfully complex 5.8% ABV beer.

The second beer is Ichigo Highway, a collaborative beer that we created with Hangar 24 Brewing from Redlands, CA. The base style is a sessionable sour red ale that we aged in oak barrels along with a significant amount of strawberries, most of which were picked from the fields besides Hangar 24’s brewery. Aged for approximately 8 months, that beer has developed a pleasant funk and acidity that is balanced by the intensely sweet aroma and flavor of the strawberries as well as a unique dryness achieved by using a sake yeast along with our house strain as well as souring bacteria. Bottles of Ichigo Highway and Rueuze are already available and draft will be available when we open at 2 PM on Friday!
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