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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.

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.

New Belgium: The first two days

New Belgium is coming to Florida. The signs and posters are out and prominent in many craft beer bars and retailers from Pensacola to the Southernmost Point. The red bikes are out and around, but the question remains: who will be the first to launch New Belgium in Florida?

Here are some of the accounts planning launch parties or events in the first two days New Belgium arrives (Monday 29 July and Tuesday 30 July):

Orlando:

*Redlight Redlight will begin a launch at 5pm on 29 July.
*World of Beer UCF, Clermont, Viera, Altamonte Springs, and Dr. Phillips will also have events beginning at 5pm on 29 July.
*Fiddler’s Green in Winter Park will have an event on 30 July.
*Raglan Road Pub in Downtown Disney will have an event on 30 July.
*Broken Barrel Tavern in Palm Bay will have an event on 30 July.
With many other events to follow on 31 July and beyond.

Tampa:
*Mellow Mushroom (location uncertain) will have an event on 30 July.
*O’Toole’s in Brandon will have an event on 30 July.
*Coppertop in Tampa will have an event on 30 July.
*Prime Bar in Wesley Chapel will have an event on 30 July.
*International Beer Garten in Lutz will have an event on 30 July.
*Tavern on the Green will have an event on 30 July.
*The Independent in Seminole Heights will host a sampling and event on 30 July at 6pm.
*Z-grille in St. Petersburg will have an event on 30 July.
*Dunedin House of Beer will host a keep the glass event on 30 July.
*World of Beer St. Petersburg will host a keep the glass event at 7pm on 30 July.
*World of Beer Westchase will host an event at 7pm on 30 July.
*Total Wine Tampa will host a sampling from 12-2 on 30 July.
*Total Wine Clearwater will host a sampling from 12-2 on 30 July.

*Stein and Vine in Brandon will a New Belgium event on 31 July.
*O’Briens Pub in Tampa will have an event on 31 July.
*Skippers in Lutz will have an event on 31 July.
*World of Beer Land O Lakes, Carrollwood, and South Tampa will have events on 31 July. 
*Brass Tap Carrollwood will host an event on 31 July.
*New World Brewery in Ybor City will host an event on 31 July.
*James Joyce Pub in Tampa will host an event on 31 July.
*Brewburgers (location uncertain) will host an event on 31 July.
*Palm Harbor House of Beer will host an event on 31 July.

Daytona:

*World of Beer in Daytona is hosting an event on 29 July.
*House for Beer is hosting an event on 31 July.

Jacksonville:

*World of Beer Southside is hosting an event from 5:30pm-6:30pm on 29 July.
*Mellow Mushroom Southside is hosting an event from 7:00pm-8:00pm on 29 July.
*European Street on the beach is hosting an event from 5:30pm-6:30pm on 30 July.
*Mellow Mushroom on the beach is hosting an event from 7:00pm-8:00pm on 30 July.

Panhandle:

*Hopjacks of Pensacola Downtown is hosting an event at 12:01am on 29 July.
*Seville Quarter of Pensacola is hosting an event at 6pm on 29 July.
*Wood Shed of Pensacola is hosting an event at 8pm on 29 July.
*Fish Ale of Panama City is hosting an event at 12:01am on 29 July.
*Kwicker Liquor of Panama City is hosting an event on 12:01am on 29 July.

*Hopjacks of Pensacola Downtown is hosting an event at 6pm on 30 July.
*World of Beer Pensacola is hosting an event at 8pm on 30 July.

Gainesville:

*Brass Tap Gainesville will host an event at 7pm on 29 July.

*World of Beer Gainesville will host an event at 7pm on 30 July.

South Florida:

*Pub Naples will be hosting an event at 4:30pm on 30 July.
*Vine and Barley in Palm City will host an event on 30 July.
*Taps (location uncertain) will host an event at 5:30pm on 30 July.
*World of Beer Fort Myers will host an event at 6pm on 30 July.
*Landsdowne Street Pub in Bonita Springs will host an event at 7pm on 30 July.
*Total Wine (location uncertain) will host a sampling at 12pm on 30 July.

Remember- this is just the first two days that New Belgium will be in Florida. There are many more events after this, and copious amounts of Fat Tire to drink.

Special thanks to New Belgium for helping to compile this list.

New Belgium release details

The wagon to welcome New Belgium Brewing Company into the state of Florida will be a long one, and several markets have already set their sites on launch parties. Details of launch parties will be posted as they become available.

New Belgium will be launching their beer statewide for retailers to order from them on the 29th of July, and the beer should be delivered on the 30th of July. That beer will initially come in the form of 22oz bottles, and limited cans of Shift lager.

The rollout will include:

*Fat Tire Amber 22oz
*Ranger IPA 22oz
*Sunshine Wheat 22oz
*Trippel 22oz

Also entering the market are limited amounts of:

*Cascara Quadrupel
*Paardebloem
*Pluot
*Feijoa Trippel
*Shift 12oz cans

More New Belgium bottles, cans, and seasonals should arrive in mid-September.

Details on release events for each Florida market should follow shortly.

Thanks to J.J. Taylor for helping with this article.