DURANGO, Colorado – This vacation season, Ska Brewing will give grown ups a drinkable model of their favourite childhood vacation recollections with the discharge of Peppermint Bark Stout. This Milk Stout, made with peppermint bark from Durango’s native Animas Chocolate Firm™, debuts on the brewery World Headquarters on Friday, November 4.
This new launch marks a decade of Ska Brewing’s seasonal Stout experimentation– which has included Hibernal Vinifera, Autumnal Molé, Estival Cream, and Vernal Minthe Stout. The brewery’s extremely embellished Metal Toe Stout dates again even longer, and holds medals in all the main world beer competitions, together with the Nice American Beer Competition®, World Beer Cup®, Stockholm Beer and Whiskey Competition, European Beer Star, and the Australian Worldwide Beer Awards, amongst others. It goes with out saying that Ska is all in on Stout.
Now Ska’s analysis and improvement on Milk Stout model yields a brand new expression of the model that may hit cabinets in excellent timing for Peppermint Bark Day on December 1, and vacation festivities basically.
Peppermint bark was invented by Williams Sonoma in 1998. “Seems we opened the brewery earlier than peppermint bark was formally a factor, however the chocolate and sweet cane mixture goes again so long as most of us can bear in mind,” says Ska Brewing Co-Founder and CEO Dave Thibodeau. “Doing R&D for this vacation ale introduced dwelling a lot nostalgia.”
True to Ska vogue, Peppermint Bark Stout is a product of native collaboration. It was brewed with precise peppermint bark (white chocolate, darkish chocolate, and sweet canes) made in Durango by the Animas Chocolate Firm, owned by Marc Snider (who directed the notorious Brew Minions video) and his spouse Carley since 2011. Its sweetness from peppermint bark and chocolate-forward malts is balanced with cocoa nibs and a touch of mint. The addition of lactose makes for a creamy, easy end.
Peppermint Bark Stout might be out there completely in Colorado in extraordinarily restricted portions whereas provides final. Discover it on faucet at Ska Brewing, and in canned, 12 oz. 4-packs that embody a QR code linked to a playlist of Thibodeau’s favourite vacation jingles. This beer would be the first from Ska to be packaged with paperboard rings, supporting the brewery’s long-term effort to eradicate all plastic. Come spring of 2023, all of Ska’s beers might be packaged with these can holders.
Animas Chocolate Firm may also serve Peppermint Bark Stout as a part of their alcohol and chocolate pairings for the vacation season. Their employees has chosen the Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk cookie, the The Nugget Truffle (a single origin 75% darkish chocolate truffle made with the identical cacao nibs included into the Stout), and naturally, their handcrafted peppermint bark, as pairings.
ABOUT SKA BREWING
Primarily based in Durango, Colorado, Ska Brewing was based in 1995 and produces greater than a dozen award-winning beers fueled with Ska music, and many it. Pioneers within the canned craft beer motion, Ska Brewing is thought for an array of kinds in 12 ouncescans that embody True Blonde, Modus Hoperandi and Rue B. Soho.
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