Ska Brewing Co. Beer Blogger Collabeeration Tapping Party

This Saturday, Febrary 13th at 5pm we’ll be tapping the Ska Brewing Co. Beer Blogger CollaBEERation brews at the Ska Brewing Co. tap room.

If you haven’t been following along, Ska Brewing Co. invited myself and the Soggy Coaster of Beer at 6512 to each brew a beer on their 10 gallon pilot system. We both worked with Thomas Larsen, head brewer at Ska to formulate a recipe, brew the beer, dry hop it, and transfer to kegs and carbonate it. Every step of the beer making process.

I chose to make a Belgian-American IPA, we’re calling it BeernBikes Belgian-American IPA. Soggy Coaster made a Double/Imperial Red, Soggy Coaster Imperial Red Ale. I got to taste my beer 3 weeks ago before we added the hops for dry hopping, when we transferred it from the primary fermenter into carboys for secondary fermentation. It was still early in the process but the signs were looking good that it would turn out well. I got to taste Soggy Coaster’s beer this past weekend, it was further along in the process and tasted good.

We didn’t get exact measurements on my beer, but it should come in between 6-7% ABV and around 65 IBU. It’s a hoppy American IPA, with a Belgian yeast.

Here are some links to my past blog entries about this collaboration:

• Collabeeration: Ska Brewing Co. To Team up With Beer N Bikes and Beer at 6512
• Ska Brewing Collaboration: Formulating a Belgian-American IPA Recipe
• Ska Brewing Collaboration Tomorrow, Belgian-American IPA Recipe
• Ska Brewing Collabeeration: Belgian-American IPA Is In The Fermenter

Check out Beer at 6512 for the Soggy Coaster’s take on brewing at Ska Brewing Co. as well.

So come on out this Saturday, Febraury 13th at 5pm to the Ska Brewing tasting room (225 Girard St, Durango CO) to taste our beer.

The Ska brewers have been hard at work experimenting with the 10 gallon pilot system as well. They have a handful of batches of 10 gallon beers they’ve brewed just waiting to go on tap. After these two beers run out they’ll be tapping unique beers made by their brewers on the 10 gallon pilot system every Tuesday. They have a Belgian IPA, a Black Trippel, and a Weizenbock just waiting to go on tap.

Tags: beernbikes belgian american ipa, belgian-american ipa, belgian-american IPA homebrew, brewery homebrew collaboration, homebrew collaboration, ska collabeeration

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