Athens, Ga. based Creature Comforts recently teamed up with Austin, Texas' Jester King. The result? Mutualism, a "Southern Style Farmhouse Lager." (Photo Courtesy Creature Comforts)
Athens, Ga. based Creature Comforts recently teamed up with Austin, Texas’ Jester King. The result? Mutualism, a “Southern Style Farmhouse Lager.” (Photo Courtesy Creature Comforts)

Creature Comforts is big into the collaboration game these days.

Earlier this year, the Athens-based brewers teamed up with New York’s Other Half for King’s Ransom Baltic Porter and Grits ‘n’ Greens Pilsner.

More recently, Creature Comforts teamed up with Austin, Texas brewers Jester King.

The result, Mutualism, is a “Southern Style Farmhouse Lager,” with a nice mix of both Creature Comforts and Jester King’s attitudes, approaches and ingredients.

Aaron sat down with Jester King’s Founder Jeffrey Stuffings and Creature Comforts Blake Tyers during their release party earlier this summer.

They talk about how this collaboration came about, the two breweries’ common philosophy, and what’s coming up next for the two.

From Creature Comforts blog:

The base beer for Mutualism is a pilsner brewed using local wheat and grits from Georgia‐based DaySpring Farms. The finished pilsner underwent a secondary fermentation with a blend of both Creature Comforts’ and Jester King’s house-­mixedcultures of yeast and bacteria. The beer was then bottle conditioned for five months.

“We both have a strong admiration for beers that represent a time and a place, so from the beginning we wanted to merge our house flavors to represent our places coming together and the South,” said Wood Cellar and Specialty Brand Manager Blake Tyers. “We decided to blend our house mixed cultures and also use grits, sourced from local Georgia DaySpring Farms, to represent a staple in Southern homes.”

Mutualism is dry, round and defined with a 5.5‐percent ABV. The brew has an aroma of minerality, citrus zest, pear skin, floral hops and rustic grains. The flavor of Mutualism follows the aroma with a light, bright acidity and finishes with minerality and a continental hop bitterness.

“The entire team is super proud of this beer,” said Tyers. “Balanced and complex, yet soft, it’s the beer we dreamed of making,”

Creature Comfort’s year of collaborations continues, by the way. They just partnered with Gilbert (Arizona)’s Arizona Wilderness to come out with Transmission, a citrus saison.

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