Odell Brewing Co.

American Craft Beer Week!

Amanda — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:04:48 +0000

May 14-20 Marks the “Mother of All Beer Weeks” with Celebrations in All 50 States!

With craft beer delighting the palates of Americans nationwide, beer enthusiasts and beginners alike will come together to toast the seventh annual American Craft Beer Week (ACBW). This year, ACBW also coincides with Colorado Beer week.

Odell Brewing will join with the fun by tapping a new brew each day! We’ll also be a part of the Northern Colorado Brewery Bingo. Check out this LINK for our complete list of ACBW events, and join us as we celebrate our craft beer independence!

Summer lovin’

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:55:55 +0000

I love this time of year around the brewery. Bay doors open up, nights are warmer, the sun is already coaxing the cellar awake before the morning coffee starts to drip, and calves start to peak out of shorts. Lots of very exciting things, to be sure. A new seasonal kicks into gear, as well. We took cues from the great rock troubadours of all time who changed tempo during their epic opuses for inspiration. You need look no further than Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, and of course, Lionel Richie’s Say You, Say Me, to fully appreciate why we too must change with the times. The first 300BBLs of St. Lupulin are packed and on their way to adoring hopheads looking for a good hammock sipper.

- A Quality Guy

National High Five Day!

Amanda — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:51:49 +0000

Did you know that the third Thursday of every April is National High Five Day? That’s today! And we’ll be celebrating 5 Barrel style…

Swing by the Tap Room today. We’ll be giving away free high fives, and if you purchase a 5 Barrel Pale Ale pint, we’ll let you keep the glass as well!

OR, swing by Rox Bar & Grill in Littleton for a High 5 Barrel and 90 Shilling promotion and giveaway from 7-9pm. Make sure you hit Derek up top!

Conor O’Neills Boulder joins the fun as well with a High 5 Barrel promo 4-6pm – See if Brian is down low, too slow!

Odell Outreach is on the Move!

admin — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:25:58 +0000

We invite you to join our mission to serve our community! We’ll start in Fort Collins and grow into our farther reaching distribution areas. Please, join us! You can join our Odell Outreach Facebook Group to watch for event postings and the latest haps. We’ll have volunteer opportunities, contests, and of course, rewards!

Our first community volunteer event is coming up quickly. Join us on Saturday, April 14th, from 9:30am – 1:30pm. We’ll be doing some heavy lifting and cleaning for Turning Point with lunch and refreshments to follow at the brewery. If you’d like to help us out, please RSVP HERE!

We have seen a lot of action in the tap room and around the brewery this Spring with fundraisers in the way of silent auctions (the Growing Project), raffles (the Environmental Learning Center and Take Back the Night), a fabulous Trivia Night (hosted by the Education and Life Training Center), and last but hardly least, the Sharin’ O’ the Green 5K that raised over $75,000 for Partners Mentoring Youth! We had over 4,000 people here at the brewery on St. Patrick’s Day at 8:30 in the morning for a jog and a beer!

Our Charity of the Month program continues to thrive and we love seeing our guests gain pertinent knowledge about the organizations we represent:

January 2012 – TIPS: Adaptive Ski Trips for Big Thompson Schools

Foothills Gateway (Fort Collins)

Association for Community Living (Boulder County- in Longmont)

February 2012 – Tips: Rocky Mountain Field Institute

Poudre Wilderness Volunteers (Fort Collins)

Soaring Eagle Ecology (Red Feather Lakes)

March 2012 – TIPS: Birthday in a Box

Partners Mentoring Youth (Fort Collins)

Smart-Girl (Denver)

April 2012 – TIPS: Feeding the Families (Happy Heart Farms 501c-3)

Habitat for Humanity (Greeley)

Habitat for Humanity (Northern Arizona)

For more information on our charitable program, please see our philanthropy webpage!

- Karla

YOU pick the Pilot Brew

Amanda — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:15:15 +0000

That’s right, we want YOU to help us pick one of the Pilot Brews we’ll pour at this year’s Small Batch Festival (Saturday, May 26th 3-7pm)! Check out the descriptions below, and vote for your favorite on our Facebook page. The winner will be announced on May 1st!

Thanks for playing!

Addil-Weissen 4.8% ABV: A light, refreshing, traditional Bavarian Hefeweizen with light banana and clove aromas. The flavor matches the aroma, with bananas, cloves and bread like characteristics.

The Deal Breaker 6.9% ABV: Golden in color, a subtle bitterness, and a nice, crisp hop finish. For those that shy from the predisposed notion of “heavy” craft beer, this is the anomaly – our attempt to convert seasoned light beer drinkers into craft beer fanatics. This is…The Deal Breaker.

Green Chili Ale 6.4% ABV: Light in body brewed with New Mexico green chili’s; very subtle spice but big chili flavor.

Tiger Blood Session IPA 4.5% ABV: Big hop aroma and bitterness are well balanced with a light bodied, easy drinking malt character. It’s an IPA for those who like hops and good times.

Roll out the barrel Boise…5 Barrel that is!

Amanda — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:44:21 +0000

5 Barrel Pale Ale will be available in the Boise area beginning in April! Join us as we celebrate the kick-off with a variety of events:

Monday April 2^nd

Cheerleaders 5:30 – 7:30
Parilla Grill 7:30 – 9:30

Tuesday April 3^rd

Bittercreek Alehouse 5:30 – 7:30
Kahootz Steak & Alehouse 5:30 – 7:30
Falcon Tavern 7:30 – 9:30

Wednesday April 4^th

Bar Gernika 5:30 – 7:30
The Piper Pub & Grill 7:30 – 9:30

On Tap!

Amanda — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:17:32 +0000

Here’s what we’re pouring in the Tap Room this week (link)!

PILOT & CO-PILOT TRAYS

The Return of Double Pilsner

admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:12:58 +0000

Last night we knocked out our second 100 barrel batch of Double Pilsner. Every other drop of beer that goes through our 12 ounce bottle line has the same yeast, except for our Double Pilsner. It’s the only lager we make in our 50 barrel brewhouse. As a true lager, it has twice the conditioning time as any other production beer, most of which is spent slowly chilling down. It’s amazing to me that lagers in general became so popular en masse with the big brewers. You know, the guys (and gals) that brew millions of barrels a year and have Super Bowl commercials. We can brew at least twice as many ales in the time it takes to traditionally lager the same amount of beer. So, from a bean counter perspective, it makes a ton more sense to make ales. Which is what most craft brewers start doing. However, in last last five years or so, we have seen a resurgence of lagers in the craft beer industry. And they rock. It’s one of the oldest recipes around and it’s refreshing to see what craft brewers can do with them. The time and care that we, as small brewers, can afford to put into our lagers combined with the billions of dollars of research the big brewers did, can come together to produce some astounding beer. We humbly submit Double Pilsner as the People’s Exhibit “A”. You can find it locally when the weather starts to warm up.

- A Quality Guy

Shenanigans baby – yeah!

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:24:23 +0000

Trial and error = #EpicWIN

We like to have fun experimenting on our Pilot Brewing playground… Like, a lot. So much so that we consider play one of our secret ingredients. Enter Shenanigans, a beer that was never meant to be. We were working on a Woodcut project, and a few barrels weren’t exactly what we were looking for. They were still awfully yummy, so we inoculated them with a little bit of this and a little bit of that. It was about that time when things went deliciously wrong. Pineapple juice married with spicy phenols emerge first from the glass. Followed by the full malt body of a 9.1% crimson ale, and rounding out the tail end the oak tannins battle for supremacy with the tart finish provided by just a dash of lactobacillus. Try a bottle for yourself and savor the complexity and subtle nuances of our brewery shenanigans. (Join us Saturday, March 24th for the Tap Room Release Party!)

- A Quality Guy

Emersum Oyster Stout (our collaboration with Jax Fish House)

Amanda — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000

If there is one thing we love more than craft beer, it’s crafting a beer with new friends. Last month, we paired up with the fine folks of Jax Fish House to create a special brew in honor of their new Emersum Oysters and Oyster Month (March). Naturally, we decided to make an oyster stout. Jax provided their proprietary mollusks for the beer, and everyone had a blast brewing. The beer is a classic dark stout brewed with generous amounts of roast. We added shucked oysters to the mash in the lauter tun and let them soak with all of the delicious sugars of the wort for a bit. Once we got the wort from the mash/oyster mixture, we boiled our wort for about 90 minutes. We then added unshucked oysters to the kettle and boiled them to extract as much as possible. Once that was complete, the wort went to a fermenting vessel for conditioning. Check out this great video of our brew day!

We’ll help kick off Oyster Month and the new brew with a celebration in the Tap Room on Thursday, March 1st. Guests can enjoy samples of the beer as well as complimentary Emersum oysters (while supplies last). Jax will also be selling some additional tasty dishes. Emersum Oyster Stout will be limitedly available on draft at the brewery and all three Jax locations (Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver).