Yesterday our distributer partners from the greater Twin Cities area were in town at the brewery, and we put them to work! Our friends traded in their slacks and loafers for work pants and rubber boots and helped us brew a Black IPA on our Pilot Brewhouse, fill firkins with 3 very special beers for our Minnesota release week, and followed Brewers and Packaging Team members around as they worked hard handcrafting our unique beers. By the end of the day we ended up with a new Pilot Beer in the fermenter, 4 firkins filled with a very special variation on our upcoming Woodcut #4 release with Brettanomycees that we developed while innovating our to be released Woodcut #4 recipe (so special only those who make it to the tapping of one of these will get to try it. Not even us at the brewery are going to have the opportunity to have it on tap this time), 3 firkins of our Rich and Roasty Imperial Stout before it gets that famous Bourbon Barrel Treatment, and 1 super special blend of our Raspberry-Cherry-Lambic, known as Friek. This blend of Friek has been blended by our brewers with the help of our friends from Original Gravity Distribution from four different Friek barrels, ranging from 6 months old to 3 years old. Only 1 firkin of this Brewer’s Blend ’10 Friek has been filled, and only 1 firkin will ever taste like this particular blend. I must say that after tasting this blend it is worth doing whatever it takes to make it for the tapping of this extremely limited offering. Thanks to our friends from Minnesota for all your hard work here at Odell Brewing Co. in helping get our Black IPA brewed and these firkins filled! Check out our events schedule and follow us on Twitter as we update the firkins and events throughout the release week, and most importantly get out and firkin celebrate with us in the Twin Cities!