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Stone / Drake’s Co-Brew Celebrating 25th Anniversary of Celebrator Beer News Underway Today

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Our pal Mitch Steele is starting off the new year right by working with Drake’s Brewery to co-brew a beer celebrating the 25th anniversary of Celebrator Beer News.  The beer will be a Session Ale using El Dorado hops…so I can’t wait for more details on this one…

Photos below courtesy of Drakes and @HoppyDave.
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This beer will be featured at the closing event of SF Beer Week, so as a gift to all of our livers, Mitch and Alex decided a session beer was in order. 

For this brew we have chosen to use some of the new and exciting El Dorado hops we just received from the 2012 harvest. This'll be both Alex and Mitch's first time using the El Dorado hops.  Says Alex, they're "very fruit-forward, but without a lot of citrus. Not the typical American hop profile, and it even has a little mint." Think strawberries, melon, and cantaloupe. Mitch added "it's amazing because it has that really high alpha content, but the aromatics are just incredible."  It'll be double dry-hopped, rounded out with Centennial hops, and should clock in at about 4.4% ABV and 43 IBUs.

Here's hoping you'll be just as excited about this brew as we are. Your first chance to try it, as well as pick the brains of Mitch & the Drake's crew, will be at The Brewing Network's Winter Brews Fest, January 26th at Todos Santos Plaza in downtown Concord.
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