Many thanks to all who came out the celebrate the second annual release of Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout this past Saturday. We still have plenty of bottles available in the tasting room and they should also be finding their way to accounts though out our distribution footprint beginning this week.

Last week we put the Smoked Jalapeno Red Ale on tap in the tasting room. This was a collaboration with Tommy Orr, a member of Special Hoperations Homebrew Club of Tampa. His is the first of 4 very special beers we will be releasing in the next few months all brewed with members of local homebrewing clubs.

Here's how it all started:
This past March we chose a beer from each local homebrew club that participated in the events of this year's Hunuphu's Day party and we've been working together with the brewers of those beers to brew them. Each will be on tap in the coming months in the tasting room for you to try. Once they have all been on tap individually we will put them all on tap together and offer samplers of all 4 so we can get your opinion for a People's Choice vote. From there we will factor your opinions as we perform our own judging and choose one of the beers to be brewed in a full sized 15BBL batch to be served and to be submitted in the 2012 Great American Beer Festival's Pro Am Competition. We had hoped to have this ready to go for this year's competition, but with all that has been going on here at the brewery it has taken longer than we expected so we will be ready to go by next year's GABF.

The beers and their brewer's are:

Smoked Jalapeno Ale- Tommy Orr from Special Hoperations

Kumquat Amarillo Wheat Ale- Mark Stober from Tampa Bay BEERS

Belgian Strong Dark Ale- Dave Kmietek from Dunedin Brewer's Guild

Where's my Lips Double IPA- Bob Bridges from Pinellas Urban Brewer's Guild

Look for these beers to be on tap in the coming months and be sure to let us know what you think! When we are ready to put them all on tap together we will update you with another blog post so you can come try them all and give us your official vote.


Cheers!
The CCB Crew