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Cigar City brews with GWAR

It’s not a new ingredient that Cigar City Brewing is using, instead it is a satirical metal band from Virginia that enjoyed a CCB beer and asked for more.

Port Richey Homebrewer and Gwar fan Rob Chalmers brewed a beer for the band, and they liked it so much that they gave him permission to use the band’s logo and imagery, then asked for some more of the beer. Chalmers contacted Cigar City when the band asked for more than he could make, and together Chalmers and brewer Josh Brengle came up with the beer’s current incarnation.

Gwar Impaled Ale will be released at GWAR-B-Q Saturday at the Crow Bar in Ybor City. GWAR themselves will not be present, but a GWAR cover band and several other metal bands will perform and free samples of Impaled ale will be handed out.

Via Tampabay.com

Cigar City adds to its army of fermenters

Tampa- Either one of two events is now probable: scenario 1 is that Cigar City Brewing is pressing hard to reach 60,000 barrels of fermentation capacity, or scenario 2 is that the Tampa brewery is breeding an army of robots disguised as fermenters. In either case, the brewery has three new recruits on route to Tampa from Portland.

The three new 120-barrel fermentation vessels are scheduled to arrive on Monday, 5 August 2013, and will assist Cigar City Brewing in keeping up with their thirsty patrons in the Sunshine State.

Cigar City expects to brew around 25,000 barrels of beer in 2013, up from the 17,000 barrels that they brewed in 2012.

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More details on Cigar City & New Belgium collaboration

Today Beerpulse.com posted the newly approved label for Cigar City and New Belgium Brewing’s collaboration beer. According to the label description:

We’re about to light up Florida with this Cigar City collaborative brew. Our Belgian yeast tangos with Anaheim and Marash peppers along with loads of citrusy hops to create an ale full of spice. Aged on Spanish cedar to salute our mutual love for wood!

Since New Belgium launched in Florida beginning Monday 29 July, the collaboration beer is definitely going to be available in the Sunshine State.

News via Beerpulse.com and image via TTBOnline.

El Catador sells out online in under 30 minutes

Tampa- It took less than a half an hour after Cigar City Brewing posted “GO!” on Facebook for them to reach the 500 mark of emails from hopeful out-of-area El Catador prospects.

The brewery posted the rules for online El Catador signups at 4:26pm and had hopeful folks who wanted to join wait until 8pm EST GMT to send an email. When the brewery posted that club memberships were full the clock read 8:27pm.

El Catador statistics: It took 27 minutes to sell 500 memberships to people from outside of Tampa, and five days (Sunday until Thursday) to sell 1,000 memberships to locals via the Cigar City Tasting Room. Now 1,500 people are members of the club; since Catadors get one bottle of five different beers that means 7,500 bottles of Cigar City beer are pre-destined for club members.

No word yet on what the beers of El Catador Club will be, but the brewery is working with the twitter hashtag #elcatadorclub and the twitter handle @elcatadorclub to communicate directly with members.

Cigar City Brewing’s collaboration-palooza

Tampa- Fresh off the heels of releasing their collaboration beer with Portland, Oregon’s Widmer Brothers Brewing (called The Gentleman’s Club), Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing has announced that they are not slowing down on the collaboration beers. Two more major collaborations have been announced this week, as Cigar City works with two national breweries that helped define craft beer: Chico, California’s Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and Fort Collins, Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing Company.

Cigar City will be one of twelve breweries across the United States to collaborate with Sierra Nevada on their variety twelve-pack, to be released in the summer of 2014. The brewery then plans to tour the brewery folks to festivals across the country touring from Chico to Asheville, North Carolina, where their new Sierra Nevada brewery will open.

“We want to highlight the success of craft beer, not just our own next step,” said Ken Grossman, Sierra Nevada’s founder. “Craft brewers are a close bunch, and we’ve all helped each other get to this point. This is a fun way to showcase even just a fraction of the talent that’s out there, and somehow 12 beers doesn’t feel like enough. If this weren’t already a logistical mammoth, we’d brew with even more of our great peers.”

The specific travel path for festivals is a work in progress, but in spring 2014, these breweries will visit Chico to develop recipes and begin brewing:

Allagash Brewing Company, Portland, ME
Ballast Point Brewing Company, San Diego, CA
Bell’s Brewery, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI
Cigar City Brewing, LLC, Tampa, FL
Firestone Walker Brewing Co., Paso Robles, CA
New Glarus Brewing Company, New Glarus, WI
Ninkasi Brewing Company, Eugene, OR
Oskar Blues Brewing Company, Longmont, CO
Russian River Brewing Company, Santa Rosa, CA
Three Floyds Brewing, LLC, Munster, IN
Victory Brewing Company, Downingtown, PA
Local brewing community in Asheville, NC

Cigar City is not standing still after announcing this beer: a collaboration on a national scale. They also announced a collaboration with New Belgium Brewing Company of Fort Collins, Colorado. That beer will be a part of the New Belgium Lips of Faith Series, and will be distributed through New Belgium into Florida once it is available. The details on the beer itself: “it has a Belgian yeast, tons of citrus hops, some peppers and Spanish cedar.” More details on this beer will be posted as they emerge, but the best news is that this beer will be available at stores in Florida, no trading or travelling required.

Cigar City improves El Catador signup

Tampa- Tomorrow is the day that hundreds of Floridians were planning on to sign up for Cigar City Brewing’s Reserve Society, El Catador Club. Alarm clocks were set and many folks were hoping to be in line long before the 5pm selling start. Then the clock struck 9pm on Saturday evening.

Cigar City Brewing posted a change to the agenda: there is now no limit to the amount of memberships sold in person on Sunday, July 21st. While one person can only buy one membership, no one will be turned away because of a quota or cap on membership. Anyone who shows up between 5pm and 11pm in person at the old Sears building across the street from Cigar City Brewing (look for the “Cigar City Parking” sign) is guaranteed a membership. That’s right, guaranteed a membership. There is no longer a cap at 1,000 people.

The brewery tasting room will be open normal hours, but will not handle a single signup, all of that will take place at the Sears building across Spruce street (see the graphic for details).

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Web sales will still take place with details to follow.

Cigar City Brewpub & Cigar City Cider brew a Fountain of Sin

The announcement a few days ago that Cigar City Cider and Mead will be collaborating with Cigar City’s Brewpub brought questions about what liquid offspring will emerge from the minds of these two savants.

More information was posted recently about this collaboration: namely that the recipe will include blending with the brewpub’s wheat beer, Fountain of Youth. The post on July 10th simply stated the intention to blend “forbidden fruit with some apple making Fountain of Sin.” Tim Ogden of the Cigar City Brewpub added that the beer will be, ” A special batch of Fountain of Youth blended with a special batch of hard cider. Once you taste it you will have knowledge…that you want more.”