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Cigar City Brewing El Dorado Samiam

Four Tampa Bay breweries team up to create beer for Samiam

What is the result when three of Tampa Bay’s finest breweries team up with Slim Pickens Cider and Mead to brew a beer for the band Samiam?  A tasty beer, in this case it is called “El Dorado.”

Cigar City Brewing El Dorado SamiamFrom the Cigar City Newsletter:

A perennial favorite among the Cigar City staff, Berkeley, California’s long-running punk rock band Samiam sees heavy rotation not only around Cigar City but around many other Tampa Bay area breweries. When the opportunity presented itself to brew a beer with Samiam for The Fest in Gainesville and Pre-Fest in Tampa, we knew a few other aging punk rockers (aged, actually) in the Tampa Bay brewing community who would want to be a part of the action.

Along with our friends at Coppertail Brewing Co., Tampa Bay Brewing Company and Slim Pickens Cider and Mead, we developed this recipe with the guys from Samiam in honor of one of our favorite hops and favorite Samiam songs, El Dorado. The hop’s characteristic apricot and pear flavors are supported by a simple malt bill that allow the uniqueness of El Dorado to shine.

Look for Samiam’s El Dorado around Ybor City bars like Crowbar, The Orpheum, The Bricks and Cigar City Cider and Mead during Pre-Fest on October 26th and 27th and at venues throughout Gainesville during The Fest on October 28th, 29th and 30th.

This is the second time that Samiam has teamed up with Tampa Bay’s brewers and cidermakers, the first time was Capsized Cider.

Members of Tampa’s brewing community team up for Samiam

It is often said that brewing a beer is a lot like writing a song. Vocals, percussion, guitars, instruments, timing, and countless other ingredients are combined, dissected, recombined, and reinvented while forming the perfect formula for a music that expresses exactly what the artist envisioned. The same could be said for an excellent ale or lager: in order to illicit the best flavors, the brewer combines the exact amount of the precise ingredients he or she desires to make the best representation of the brewer’s art.

It is in the spirit that breweries and musicians collaborate, and it is this spirit that formed three new beers for Samiam, a punk band that has been playing, working, and touring since 1988.

Cigar City Cider’s cider guru Todd Strauss is stoked for the release of his Samiam project, Capsized Cider:

…being the luckiest guy in the world, I get to work with some really creative minds in the brewing industry. Which to me, making a cider and brewing a beer is like writing a song. There are so many layers to brewing, just like music.

I’ve been a Samiam fan since 1993, I jumped at the chance to make something for them.

Four breweries were involved in the making of three liquids: Cigar City Brewing, Cigar City Brewpub, Cigar City Cider, and 7venth Sun Brewery all teamed up on the project. Together they made two beers, dubbed Mud Hill Stout and Sunshine Ale, and a cider called Capsized Cider. All of these libations will be released on October 29th at The Bricks of Ybor in Ybor City, with bottles of Mud Hill Stout being released at the Cigar City Brewpub.

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