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Update: Seattle Beer Camp starts tomorrow
This summer, Beer Camp is hitting the road on an eight-city festival tour, and every craft brewer in America is invited to join. Sponsored by the local craft brewers’ guilds in each city, festivals feature live music, street artists, food trucks and hundreds of beers for tasting including pours of the Beer Camp Across the World Collaboration.
Tour Dates: (Get your tickets)
- Austin: June 24 – www.tiny.cc/beercampaustintx
- Long Beach, CA: June 24 – www.tiny.cc/beercamplongbeach
- Seattle: June 30 – www.tiny.cc/beercampseattle
Important Links + Social Media:
- Link to the Tiny CC URL for event tickets in your city
- Include the date of your local festival in the post/caption
- Use #beercamp
About Beer Camp Across the World Collaboration 12-pack:
Beer Camp Across the World is an evolution of the concept started by Sierra Nevada in 2013 to celebrate the spirit of craft and independence through collaborations with like-minded brewers. This year, 12 breweries representing unique geographies and brewing styles were tapped to participate in a one-time collaboration pack that includes the following. The full tasting notes are available on subsequent pages.
- Atlantic-Style Vintage Ale brewed with Fuller’s Brewery of London, United Kingdom.
- Campout Porter featuring manuka wood and honey from our friends at Garage Project in Wellington, New Zealand.
- Dry-Hopped Barleywine-Style Ale, combining two classic barleywines from Sierra Nevada and Avery Brewing Co. of Boulder, Colorado.
- Hoppy Belgian-Style Golden, a hop-forward rendition of the golden ale style that is classically Duvel from Puurs, Belgium.
- Dry-Hopped Berliner-Style Weisse brewed with Saint Arnold Brewing Company of Houston, Texas.
- Dunkle Weisse brewed in collaboration with Ayinger Brewery of Aying, Bavaria, Germany.
- East Meets West IPA is an unfiltered, golden IPA from the pioneers of the New England style, Tree House Brewing Company in Monson, Massachusetts.
- Ginger Lager is a bright, crisp flavor bomb made with the good folks at Surly Brewing Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Raspberry Sundae boasts raspberry, cocoa and vanilla in an ultra-complex beer from The Bruery in Placentia, California.
- Thai-Style Iced Tea is a nod to our globetrotting friends from Mikkeller Brewery in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- West Coast-Style DIPA is an intense Double IPA created with the hopheads at Boneyard Beer of Bend, Oregon.
- White IPA with Yuzu is a hopped-up White Ale with bright tartness from our friends at Kiuchi Brewery in Naka-shi, Ibaraki, Japan.
About Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Founded in 1980, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is one of America’s premier craft breweries, highly regarded for using only the finest quality ingredients. The pioneering spirit that launched Sierra Nevada now spans both coasts with breweries in Chico, California and Mills River, North Carolina. Sierra Nevada has set the standard for craft brewers worldwide with innovations in the brewhouse as well as advances in sustainability. It is famous for its extensive line of beers including Pale Ale, Sidecar®, Torpedo®, Tropical Torpedo®, Hop Hunter® IPA, Nooner® Pilsner, Otra Vez™, Kellerweis®, Porter, Stout and a host of seasonal, specialty and limited release beers.
TASTING NOTES
Avery Brewing Co. – Dry-Hopped Barleywine-Style:
Colorado’s Avery Brewing Co. and Sierra Nevada both make American-style barleywine ales verging on the hop extreme. For this collaboration—dubbed “Big Hog” as an homage to the two beers that inspired it— we recreated both barleywine recipes and then blended the beers into a new hop-heavy creation. It features rich, bittersweet malt character with notes of caramel and toffee balanced against a massive wall of hop flavor and is bottle conditioned for longevity.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 9.4%
Bitterness Units: 90
Beginning Gravity: 21.5° Plato
Ending Gravity: 5.0° Plato
Color: Amber
Bittering Hops: Zeus, Chinook
Finishing Hops: Zeus, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook
Dry Hops: Zeus, Centennial, Chinook
Torpedo Hops: Zeus
Malts: Two-row Pale, Caramel
Yeast: Ale yeast
Ayinger Privatbrauerei – Dunkle Weisse
Bavaria’s Ayinger are legends in the brewing industry, known for their love and perfection of classic German beer styles. Playing off their background, we came together to create this dark twist on the Bavarian-style wheat beer. This beer features layers of wheat malt flavor and was handled through traditional open fermenters to highlight Ayinger’s famous hefeweizen yeast character.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 5.7%
Bitterness Units: 10
Beginning Gravity: 14.2° Plato
Ending Gravity: 3° Plato
Color: Hazy Brown
Bittering Hops: Tradition
Finishing Hops: Tradition
Torpedo Hops:
Malts: Two-row Pale, Wheat, Acidulated, Carafa III
Yeast: Hefeweizen ale yeast
Boneyard – West Coast DIPA
“We just love brewing hoppy beers” is the way Oregon’s IPA masters at Boneyard Beer kicked off our collaboration talks. Well, as it turns out we do, too, so we went all out on this intensely hop-heavy West Coast Double IPA. It’s bright golden, crisp and brimming with intense citrus and herbal hop flavor, just how we like ‘em.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 8.3%
Bitterness Units: 65
Beginning Gravity: 18.1° Plato
Ending Gravity: 3° Plato
Color: Golden
Bittering Hops: Cascade
Finishing Hops: Mosaic, Citra, Centennial, Simcoe
Dry Hops: Citra, Centennial, Simcoe
Torpedo Hops: Citra, Centennial, Simcoe, Mosaic
Malts: Two-row Pale, Pilsner, Munich, Acidulated, Flaked Barley
Yeast: Ale yeast
Duvel Moortgat – Hoppy Belgian-Style Golden Ale
Belgium’s Duvel are the masters of the golden ale—a beer style they helped create—so it was a natural fit for our breweries to combine that style with Sierra Nevada’s hop-forward fanaticism. The resulting beer is bright golden and brimming with hop flavor, with a pop of bright lemon, and perfectly accented by the fruity and complex character of Duvel’s signature yeast.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 8.0%
Bitterness Units: 35
Beginning Gravity: 16.2° Plato
Ending Gravity: 1.5° Plato
Color: Golden
Bittering Hops: Magnum
Finishing Hops: Saaz, Styrian Celeia
Torpedo Hops: Cashmere, Calista, El Dorado
Malts: Pilsner, French Pilsner, Wheat
Yeast: Belgian yeast
Other: Lemon Peel
Fuller’s Brewery – Atlantic Vintage Ale
Fuller’s brewery in London has been producing some of the UK’s finest ales since the mid-19th century. Together we created a new recipe for an Atlantic Vintage Ale—a robust beer, perfect for aging, and brewed with plums for a touch of rich fruit flavor that both mimics and enhances the natural yeast-driven aromas.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 8.5%
Bitterness Units: 40
Beginning Gravity: 19.4° Plato
Ending Gravity: 4.2° Plato
Color: Amber
Bittering Hops: Magnum
Finishing Hops: Centennial, Loral
Torpedo Hops: Centennial, Loral
Malts: Two-row Pale, Caramel
Yeast: Ale
Other: Plums
Garage Project – Campout Porter
In honor of Beer Camp, our friends at New Zealand’s Garage Project brewery wanted to carry the camping theme straight through to the flavor of our beer. Featuring a unique malt smoked over Manuka wood, rare Manuka honey and vanilla beans, this robust porter has sweet notes reminiscent of marshmallows toasted over a campfire.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 7.7%
Bitterness Units: 32
Beginning Gravity: 18.3° Plato
Ending Gravity: 4.7° Plato
Color: Dark Brown
Bittering Hops: Southern Cross
Finishing Hops: Southern Cross, Pacifica
Malts: Two-row Pale, Manuka Smoked Malt, Chocolate, Midnight Wheat, Munich
Yeast: Ale
Other: Manuka Honey, Beachwood Honey, Tahitian Vanilla
Kiuchi Brewery – White IPA with Yuzu
Japan’s Kiuchi Brewery, makers of the Hitachino Nest beers, have an elegant take on classic beer styles with a uniquely Japanese influence. They suggested adding yuzu—an Asian citrus fruit—to a hazy white IPA and we jumped at the chance. What emerged is a hoppy yet refined version of the style with a bright citrus flavor and a spicy finish.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 7.0%
Bitterness Units: 20
Beginning Gravity: 15.9° Plato
Ending Gravity: 3° Plato
Color: Hazy Straw
Bittering Hops: Centenial
Finishing Hops: Comet, Centennial, Citra, Eureka
Yeast: Belgian yeast
Other: Coriander, Nutmeg, and Yuzu
Mikkeller Brewery- Thai-style Iced Tea
Denmark’s Mikkeller brewery is famous for pushing the boundaries of beer, so when we decided to partner we knew the result would be a wild ride. This beer was inspired by flavors of a classic Thai iced tea. It’s sweet and rich, with warming spice notes and delicate fruit flavors that maintain a drinkability from the use of black tea in the finish.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 7.2%
Bitterness Units: 12
Beginning Gravity: 18.1° Plato
Ending Gravity: 5° Plato
Color: Amber
Bittering Hops: Magnum
Finishing Hops: Mandarina Bavaria, Tettnanger
Malts: Pilsner, Wheat, Puffed Red Rice, Oats, Acidulated
Yeast: Ale yeast
Other: Lactose, Sweet Orange Peel, Star Anise, Tamarind, Ceylon Black Tea
Saint Arnold – Dry-Hopped Berliner Weisse
Texas’ Saint Arnold Brewery takes a broad view of beer styles, mastering everything from traditional German-inspired recipes to big experimental creations. Together, we teamed up to brew this dry-hopped Berliner Weisse. Featuring a fruit-forward hop character backed up by a snap of mild tartness, it boasts a flavor that’s complex, compelling and very drinkable.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 4.2%
Bitterness Units: 10
Beginning Gravity: 9° Plato
Ending Gravity: 2.1° Plato
Color: Hazy Blonde
Bittering Hops: Saaz
Finishing Hops: Saaz
Torpedo Hops: Amarillo
Malts: Two-row Pale, Wheat, Munich
Yeast: Hefeweizen ale yeast
Surly Brewing Co. – Ginger Lager
The abrasive attitude of Minnesota’s Surly Brewing Co. brings an aggressive yet refined approach to creating recipes. We came together to create this easy-drinking but complex ginger-infused lager. It’s brewed with hot ginger and a pinch of cayenne to spice up the heat and then dry hopped with an inclusion of oak for a touch of woody vanilla to round out the flavor.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 6.2%
Bitterness Units: 20
Beginning Gravity: 13.7° Plato
Ending Gravity: 2.6° Plato
Color: Golden
Bittering Hops: Sterling
Finishing Hops: Sterling
Torpedo Hops: Sterling
Yeast: Lager yeast
Other: Ginger, Cayenne, Oak Honeycombs
The Bruery – Raspberry Sundae Ale
The Bruery in Orange County is famous for its experimental, Belgian-style and barrel-aged beers, and this release fits nicely in their wheelhouse. Inspired by the flavors of an ice cream sundae, this rich blonde ale features notes of chocolate, vanilla and raspberry, with lactose added for extra creaminess. Now you can have your dessert and drink it, too.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 8.0%
Bitterness Units: 10
Beginning Gravity: 18.5° Plato
Ending Gravity: 4° Plato
Color: Red / Amber
Bittering Hops: Magnum
Malts: Two-row Pale, Wheat, Pilsner, Flaked Oats, Chocolate
Yeast: Ale
Other: Cocoa, Vanilla, Raspberry, Lactose
Tree House – East Meets West IPA
In just a few short years, Tree House has made a big impact on the beer scene with their approach to the IPA—low bitterness, intense juicy hop flavor and unfiltered haze. As fellow lovers of the IPA, we combined our styles—the classic American IPA malt body and the New England approach to hopping—resulting in lightly bitter, unfiltered beer with huge hop flavor.
SPECS AND INGREDIENTS
ABV: 7.0%
Bitterness Units: 40
Beginning Gravity: 16.1° Plato
Ending Gravity: 3.2° Plato
Color: Hazy Golden
Bittering Hops: Simcoe
Finishing Hops: Citra, Mosaic
Torpedo Hops: Citra, Mosaic
Malts: Two-row Pale, Caramel, Acidulated
Yeast: Ale yeast