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This past weekend, in preparation for our upcoming release of Mountain Standard Reserve ’10, A Double Black IPA, we filled a couple Subarus with brewers, beer and camping gear, and set off on a little trip through the hop growing regions of Palisade, Montrose, and Paonia Colorado. With these small artisan farmers growing high quality Organic Hops right here in Colorado, we could not pass up the opportunity to meet the growers, visit their fields, and enjoy some beers with the fine folks who work to produce the ingredients we use to craft our beer. We stopped by a farm we have selected hops from before; Glenn Fuller’s Rising Sun Organic Farms, www.coloradoorganichops.com to see his mature Cascades. We made our way to Montrose to meet with Randy at San Juan Hop Farms, www.sanjuanhopfarms.com, and were very impressed by his beautiful Chinooks. Lastly, we visited the new kid on the block… or rather a new school teacher on the block… Hippie Chicks Organic Hop Farm in Palisade. Julie, with the help of her volunteer Hippie Chicks, is in her first year and is already off to a beautiful start. We were so impressed with her operation that we decided to set up our sleeping bags right in her field and wake up amidst the hops to Palisade’s “Million Dollar Breeze.” We are really looking forward to working with Julie and the Hippie Chicks’ hops in our beers. Check out their story and photos of their “girls” (read: hops) at:
http://hippiechicksorganichops.tumblr.com
And… If you ever find yourself in Palisade, make sure to check out the delicious offerings at Palisade Brewing Co. and Peach Street Distillers… Those Palisade Peaches aren’t bad either. So, after spending the weekend walking through Glenn, Randy, and Julie’s fields of high quality, mature hops we selected beautiful Chinook and Cascade varieties that we contracted from each grower for this and next year. We will be using these hops in our upcoming Mountain Standard Reserve ’10, Double Black IPA. Our motivation with our Mountain Standard Reserve offering is to brew an inspiring beer that uses ingredients from Colorado craft farmers, whenever supplies and quality permit, as well as to support these local craft farmers and ensure the sustainability of hop farms throughout Colorado’s western slope. We had a lot of fun picking these hops and having a beer with these growers, we hop(e) you enjoy our upcoming Double Black IPA which will use these special hops!
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What a week this past week was! As a crew from Odell Brewing Co. spent the past Monday through Saturday rolling out Odell beers to the Twin Cities you greeted us with empty pint glasses ready to be filled. 12 Odell co-workers hosted over 30 events during those 6 days, we tapped 7 extremely limited release firkins, and hosted 1 amazing beer dinner. The amount of people who followed us throughout the week via Twitter makes recapping each event a bit redundant, however, I do want to reflect on a few moments that stood out during the week and provide you with a few photos, because a picture is worth a million words and its a lot easier to look at “a million words” then to read them. For a snapshot of the our MN release party read on…
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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!
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For those lucky enough to attend the Inaugural Boulder Sour Beer Festival held by our good friends at Avery Brewing Co. you may have been fortunate enough to taste a very rare unblended version from the Odell Brewing Co. Second Golden Ale Pilot Beer, simply referred to as Golden. Golden has been spending time in our new Barrel Room within the comforts of a delicious French Oak Cabernet Barrel awaiting the correct time to be blended into our final offering. For the rest of you who did not have that chance, this photo will have to do for now.
Cheers!
Joe & Zach
As De Oogst (the first pilot beer for the Strong Belgian Golden project) is being enjoyed by you fine supporters of the liquid arts in the Odell Brewing Co. tap room, we brewers have reached for our mash paddles and brewed a second pilot batch. Number 2 has been fermenting along nicely and is about ready to take the next step in its journey and be transfered into oak barrels and inoculated with those delicious little single cell miracle workers; Brettanomyces, Pediococcus, and Lactobacillus.
