Someone drink one (or ten) for me... --- Chuckanut Brewery invited Icicle Brewing to their Skagit Valley brewery back in March to collaborate on a lager. The two breweries decided to make a Franconian Lager style of beer for a June release. Collaborations are fun and informative for brewers as they get to talk about recipe development and share brewing processing ideas as well as catching up on life. Franconian Lager is a very creative beer capturing the essence of beers from the Franconian region of Germany (in the northern part of Bavaria). This particular lager rendition is brilliantly clear, golden and smooth with a bready malt character and a polite hop finish. A very refreshing crisp beer for drinking on its own or with food. Franconian Lager is on tap and in cans at Chuckanut Brewery's Tap Room but an official tapping will take place in Leavenworth at the Icicle Brewpub on June 5th, Friday at 5:30pm followed by live music at 6pm. Everyone is invited to enjoy this tapping event in the German style town of Leavenworth in the mountains outside Seattle! Franconian Style Lager uses Bamberger Pilsner and Weyermann Barke Vienna malts. The hops are a combination of Spalt and Hersbrucker German hops. It's a fabulous beer to enjoy with any roast pork dishes or roasted root vegetables like carrots, beets, onions and parsnips. You will find it especially refreshing with any kind of bbq! Find it at the Chuckanut Tap Room in Skagit Valley or up in Leavenworth and the east side of the Cascades. Available in cans and on draft! Chuckanut Brewery brews award winning Lagers and Ales and has won Large Brewery of the Year at WA Beer Awards 2017, 2019 and 2021 and Small Brewery at the GABF 2009 & 2011. The production facility and Tap Room is in Skagit Valley at 11937 Higgins Airport Way, Burlington, WA. Chuckanut welcomes guests of all ages and has indoor and outdoor seating! Check out additional information about Chuckanut at chuckanutbrewery.com ###
Cnut has also done recent collabs with a couple notable alums, Josh Pfriem of Pfriem Brewers, and Kevin Davey of Gold Dot/Heater Allen.
Being the cynic that I am, the thought occurred to me that collaborations with such notable breweries probably don't require the sort of promotion that a collaboration with Icicle would seem to require.
Yeah, Cnut just posted them on FB. As good as Icicle is, I'm a big fan, they don't carry the same cachet as Pfriem or H-A.
