Everyone loves malt liquor. Right?

A couple weeks ago we took our fine selves down to Atlantic Station in beautiful Atlanta, GA for the Georgia Craft Brewers Fest.  The event is sponsored by our friends at the Georgia Craft Brewers Guild and showcases over 60 of our state’s awesome breweries.

One of the highlights of the festival is the collaboration competition.  Brewers team up with each other, or maybe with a local restaurant or charity, and brew a collaboration beer to be served at the event and judged by a panel of esteemed judges.

In that spirit we focused on collaboration chat in this episode and, since one of the collabs was a malt liquor, we decided to chat a bit on that as well.  In the first half of the show we sit down with John Doss and Jay Harris from Southern Brewing Co. who partnered up with Akademia Brewing for Eagle Fang malt liquor.  We talk about why you collab, what you get out of it, and veer a bit into lager talk. (Spoiler: We’ll be doing a deep dive lager episode in the future.)

Next up we talk with Craig Mycoskie from Round Trip Brewing and Matt Curling from Variant Brewing Co.  We’ve known Craig for a couple of years and we’ve known Matt from way back in our homebrewing days.  We’ve brewed together a handful of times and went up against each other in homebrew comps.  Matt’s brewery is now one of the best in the state.  Grab some Variant if you get the chance.

We carry on with collab talk with Craig and Matt and get into some talk on Pilsner variations, overcoming language barriers, Rauch IPAs <shudders> and Craig’s brewing background.

Beer label for Free Spirit collaboration brew with a blue background and a cartoon fox on a bicycle. This 5th version of the beer is an Italian Pilsner brewed by Terrapin Beer Co. and Variant Brewing and benefits the Small Dreams Foundation.

Free Spirit Charitable Collaboration

Of all the collabs we talked about on the show, this one is the most special.  The beer is brewed in memory of Britney Fox Watts as a collaboration between Small Dreams Foundation and Terrapin Beer Co.  This year, Variant joined the collaboration brew.   You should definitely head to the website and learn more.

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