NORWOOD, Massachusetts – After enduring the storm of a worldwide pandemic, provide chain nightmares, and rampant inflation, one native brewery is discovering a cause to have a good time.
December eleventh marks seven years since Fort Island Brewing opened the doorways to their Norwood brewery. To commemorate the milestone, Fort Island is releasing SEVEN, a barrel-aged brown ale brewed with candy potato.
The recipe for SEVEN relies off the corporate’s candy potato brown ale, Candy Brown, which Fort Island has been releasing each fall since 2016. This yr’s classic obtained an anniversary-worthy twist, getting older in quite a lot of rum barrels for greater than eleven months.
“We’ve had an affection for Candy Brown happening a very long time now, and we wished to offer it this particular remedy to have a good time,” says Matt DeLuca, Head Brewer and Fort Island Co-Founder. “We chosen three types of rum barrel and blended all three collectively to create a complex-but-familiar twist on considered one of our most beloved seasonal releases.”
Fort Island, like many different breweries throughout the nation, has confronted a myriad of challenges within the final yr in what Founder Adam Romanow describes as a “COVID hangover.”
“In some methods 2022 has been even tougher than the 2 years earlier than it,” says Romanow. “The fixed onslaught of latest challenges has saved us on our toes, at all times ready for the subsequent one to pop up. However our crew has remained resilient and centered, and we’re grateful to be celebrating one more yr of Fort Island development.”
SEVEN shall be out there on draft and in four-packs of 16-ounce cans on the brewery’s Norwood and South Boston areas beginning this weekend, with preorders starting tomorrow, December seventh. The corporate shall be celebrating with an anniversary celebration on Saturday, December tenth, from 12pm-10pm, at their Norwood Taproom that includes particular draft choices, a sustainable beer-jewelry pop-up store and dwell music all day.
Observe the occasion on the corporate’s Fb web page (castleislandbeer), Instagram (@cibrewing), and Twitter (@cibrewing).
Fort Island has areas in Norwood, Mass. and South Boston, Mass., each of that are open to the general public for on-site taproom gross sales and cans to-go. Hours and extra details about the brewery, together with an inventory of retail areas close to you, might be discovered on the corporate’s web site.
About Fort Island Brewing
Fort Island is an award-winning brewery devoted to the concept beer needs to be inclusive, approachable, and wonderful. Greatest identified for his or her flagship Keeper IPA and charity-focused Fiver Hazy IPA, Fort Island has developed a deep bench of kinds and a fame for consistency, high quality, and worth. You could find Fort Island beer all through Massachusetts and Rhode Island in cans and on draft, in addition to at their very own brewery and taproom areas in Norwood, Mass. and South Boston, Mass.
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