Ever since they announced their collaboration with Sierra Nevada in July of 2013, fans of Cigar City Brewing have been wondering exactly what kind of beer that these two stalwart brewers would create. The answer arrived in the Sierra Nevada newsletter:
If only our pilot brewery had a saloon door. It would have swung nonstop in January as one talented craft brewer after another visited us to dial in Beer Camp Across America recipes. We’re almost ready to taste Ninkasi’s foreign cream stout (with coffee from their stomping grounds!) and Cigar City’s tropical Maibock.
Once this project is finished, Sierra Nevada will release a mixed twelve-pack of beers with one collaboration beer from each of the eleven collaboration partners, plus a twelfth collaboration with homebrewers from the area of their new brewery in North Carolina.