Best Collaboration Beers

Super IPA (Alpine & NB) definitely.

Collage (Deschutes & HOTD) was pretty good too.

 

A great thing about Super IPA was that it was basically a straight Alpine beer being brewed on a much larger scale. NB has dedicated a couple of the Lips series to doing this.

My personal favorite collaboration was Depth Charge...

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2372/52535

 

Any Grassroots beer.

Also Lawsons Double Dose was pretty good.

 

My favorite in recent memory was Limoncello IPA by Grassroots Brewing and Mikkeller. It is also listed as being a collaboration between Hill Farmstead, Mikkeller, and Siren brewing (grassroots is a subsidiary of Hill Farmstead apparently).

The commercial description is "Brewed in Collaboration with Mikkeller for the Ratebeer European Summer Gathering. Made with lactose, oats, wheat, and pilsner malt. The beer underwent a 12 hour sour mash to add a little tartness. Hopped with Citra and Sorachi ace. Dry hopped with Sorachi Ace and Centennial along with 1kg of fresh lemon peel."

Had it on tap in Waterbury, VT. It was beyond Thunderdome

 

That beer is phenomenal. I knew it had to have been soured, because I was describing it to people as a sour IPA. This needs to happen more often. Such a unique beer, would love to see it emerge as like a sub-style or something because I want more of it.

I would add Double Dose and most of Stone's collaborations, especially Dayman.

 

Half Acre & Three Floyds: Anicca IPA is single hopped snake juice showcasing the Mosaic hop, a plant throwing off a cornucopia of fruit flavors. Bitter sweet and full of force, this IPA bends your brain into a tropical storm of writhing glory.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/18006/90597

 

Stone, green flash, and pizza port highway 78 scotch ale... Or any of the Q.M series they put out with the old gaurdians... Also Westbrook and the charleston beer exchange old time beers. Rummy was the best out of that, with only 216 bottles produced

 

Heard some people say the rummy is pouring flat. You pop a bottle yet?

 

Jester King/Mikkeller "Rodeo" series (Beer Geek Rodeo, Weasel Rodeo, Whiskey Barrel Rodeo).

New Belgium/Alpine Super IPA.

Dogfish Head/Sierra Nevada Life & Limb (1 & 2)

 

I really enjoyed Otter Creek/Lawson's Double Dose DIPA

 

Dayman

 

I'm still a big fan of Life and Limb.

 

I'll pile on and say New Belgium/Alpine Super IPA as well...That bottle art drew me in, then the price made it even sweeter. Once I cracked it open it was a done deal. Great beer.

Would also give mention to New Belgium/Brewery Vivant's Escoffier.

 

Anything with Cigar City and Lips of Faith. (Don't get much collabs in Savannah )

 

Yeah I drank it tht month... No point in saving a bottle you could only get one of and don't know what it tastes like... It was a little flat, but I think that's how they intended that to be. Kind of like lost abbey does with their beer. My angels share though was carbonated as hell

 

I still have some grumpys... That might have been the best overall beer from that series, had a little bit of everything... So many different undertones and characteristics!!! Belgian dark strong ale, barrel aged in Apple brandy barrels, with three wild yeast strains added...

 

I have only had one and it was darn good. Heavy Seas and Devil's Backbone Land Ho.

 

The only one that comes straight to mind is Green Flash/Cigar City Candela

 

Yeah.. I hate I missed that release. I could have easily gotten a full allotment. Now I'm stuck without anything
The Grumpy and Funky sounded best to me.