Crooked Stave Denvel location and next release

Got this email today

I want to thank all the members that made it out this past Saturday and Sunday. It was a great turn out and I hope everyone enjoyed their time! I plan to make this a quick update..
This week we will be signing a lease for our Denver "Barrel Cellar" and bottling warehouse. I'll send out an update with the location once all the details are finalized and the date of the next release. This is great for us as we will have 100% of our equipment now located in Denver and will be bottling more often. As well we will be brewing all the future beers in Denver so there should be more Crooked Stave in the next couple of months! We plan to get a bottle shop set up quickly and all future releases will be held at the "Barrel Cellar". Any members not able to make it out for the initial releases can stop by our shop at their convenience to be able to pick up their allotment and we'll have more bottles and merchandise available very soon.
The next Cellar Reserve release is Batch #1, and is already in bottles, and bottle conditioning. This is the very first batch I brewed for Crooked Stave and to make it true to Crooked Stave style it was brewed straight into freshly emptied red wine barrels. The beer was inoculated with 3 different strains of Brettanomyces and aged in the red wine barrels for 15 months. I then blended the barrels together and added raspberries to give a great fresh fruit character on top of the oak tannins and Brettanomyces characteristics. The raspberries also add a nice tart acidity as this beer as it was not soured previously to adding fruit. I have put bottles of Batch #1 up on the store website for any members wanting to purchase additional bottles.
Our next beer which is being released throughout our normal Colorado front range distribution foot print is Surette Reserva. Surette Reserva is not the Chardonnay barrel aged version which is still aging and part of this years Cellar Reserve membership. This is a whole new batch which we soured in our foeder for a few months till it was ready to release. This batch has picked up a great lemony acidity with the Brettanomyces just starting to come on. I have also put bottles of this beer up on the store website for all Cellar Reserve members to get first shot at bottles and with your discounted price.
The release date for Batch #1 and initial pickup for Surette Reserva is still being decided on and should be in the next couple of weeks once we are all set up in Denver. I will send out a newsletter with more information soon. For both beers available on-line there is no bottle limit so members are welcome to purchase as much as they like until it sells out.
Cheers,
Chad

 

that would be Denver location