New Belgium Brewing Fat Tire & Friends CollaBEERation at Saraveza

Bottles of Fat Tire and Friends from New Belgium Brewing. (image courtesy of New Belgium Brewing)
Bottles of Fat Tire and Friends from New Belgium Brewing. (image courtesy of New Belgium Brewing)

Earlier this year New Belgium Brewing teamed up with five other well-known breweries to brew five new reinterpretations of its classic Fat Tire Amber Ale as one way to celebrate its 25th anniversary. To honor its flagship Fat Tire the brewery partnered with some of its friends at Allagash Brewing Company (Portland, ME), Avery Brewing (Boulder, Colo.), Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, CA), Hopworks Urban Brewery (Portland, OR) and Rhinegeist Brewery (Cincinnati, OH) on this mixed 12 pack.

“In the early days we used to say that if we could just sell 60 cases of beer a week we’d be a success,” stated co-founder, Kim Jordan in a news release. “It’s a different landscape these days yet the things that make our work meaningful – community, camaraderie, creativity – are still alive and well. Working with so many great friends and talented brewers while reimagining Fat Tire is the perfect way to celebrate all the things we love most about our craft.”

Here is more about each beer with its descriptions from New Belgium.

For the mixed 12-pack, Allagash is producing a version of Fat Tire using a Belgian yeast sourced from the Poperinge region and a touch of the Allagash house Brettanomyces – expect notes of stone fruit, sweet tart and peppercorn; Avery will focus on a fruitier hop bill also with a dose of brett evoking notes of apricot and pineapple; Firestone Walker is creating a west coast interpretation of Fat Tire with an assertive hop profile and a light lager yeast; Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) is creating a tart Fat Tire bringing in apple and lactobacillus to help highlight that beautiful green apple snap inherent to the original Fat Tire; and Rhinegeist has transformed Fat Tire into a Belgian XPA, combining a fruity Belgian yeast strain with bready-sweet European and Colorado malts for a beer to please hopheads and wine drinkers alike.

On Thursday, July 21, Saraveza will host New Belgium Brewing Fat Tire & Friends CollaBEERation that will take place from 6:00 to 9:00pm. Look for all five new renditions and the original Fat Tire on draft. Cheers to 25 years!

Saraveza
1004 North Killingsworth Street
Portland, OR 97217