Entries by Scott Hickman

Creature Comforts Brewing Co. – Something To Say

The South definitely has something to say with this anniversary beer brewed for Creature Comforts’ 8th year in business. It features a serious hop load and saturated flavor. Consisting of HBC586, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo, Mosaic Incognito, Strata, one of our favorite expressive ale strains and featuring beautiful Southeastern malts, this one is truly a feast for the palate.

We’re especially proud of the all southern grain provided by Riverbend Malt House. The first craft malt house east of the Mississippi River,

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Donate to Ukrainian Refugees By Drinking This Beer

Donate to Ukrainian Refugees By Drinking This Beer.

 

That’s the purpose of our latest collaboration with Hi-Wire Brewing, and the simple and effective sentence also happens to be the name of the resulting pale ale that taps at all seven Hi-Wire taprooms beginning in the brewery’s three Asheville locations on Friday, April 29— and then rolling out to the remaining four taprooms in Durham, N.C., Knoxville, Tenn., Wilmington, N.C.,

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Brew Your Own: Brew Like It’s 1850

It’s not every day you find a functioning brewery in a museum; no less one that utilizes craft malt.

Brew Your Own Magazine just profiled our customers The Carillon Brewing Company at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. Carillon uses our base malt to produce their own toasted and crystal malts in-house.

Click here to read about their toasting regimen, and so much more.

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Fifteen Southeastern Craft Breweries Customize Riverbend Malt House 10 Year Harvest Beers

 

The first craft maltster in the Southeast, Riverbend Malt House, celebrated a decade in business by embarking upon a year-long campaign highlighting the cultivation, malting, and brewing of their 10th grain harvest. From said harvest Riverbend produced a specialty 10 Year Anniversary Malt, Sunset Wheat, that 15 world-class Southeastern breweries showcased in beers ranging from Hefeweizen to New England IPA. 

Overall, most of Riverbend’s growers reported high test weight and above average yields from the 2021 harvest,

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Booneshine Brewing Company – Nuclear Seahorse

As elusive as the Hellbender and as rare as the Pegasus, our Nuclear Seahorse is a hazy celebration of all things hoppy. Harnessing its power from local barley, toasted oats, and new school American hops, this unique Hazy emerges from the depths with aromas of white grapes, floral tea, and ripe tangerine. This radioactive sea puppy is so smoothly hoppy its practically hazardous material.

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Building a Custom Malt for International Women’s Brew Day, and more Pink Boots Beers to try

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Happy Women’s History Month!

Thank you to the many women who incorporated Riverbend craft malt into their recipes in celebration. It was exciting to see Riverbend go into so many Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day brews across the Southeast. Here are a few beers to track down, made in support of Pink Boots Society.

Have You Hurd? 

We also had our friends from the newly formed Athens Pink Boots Society chapter to select flavors in a custom batch of malt that we made them for their Pink Boots brew,

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Riverbend Craft Malt Makes Award-Winning Beers and Spirits; 2022 Best Florida Beer Championship and San Diego Wine & Spirits Challenge

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Craft malt makes the difference, especially when it comes to beer and spirits competitions. Congratulations are in order to two of our customers for some recent big wins.

Our friends at Crooked Can Brewing in Orlando cleaned up at the Best Florida Beer Championship with five medals. Among the winners was the Common Ground California Common that Crooked Can made to celebrate our 10 Year Harvest.

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Vine Pair: Brewing Team Spirit

 

New Belgium’s Old Tuffy Premium Lager made in collaboration with North Carolina State University continues to make headlines.  A portion of sales of this light lager supports the university’s fermentation sciences program. According to New Belgium’s COO  Joe Davis, using our malt in this beer deepens the “connection with the university and the state.”

Read on about Old Tuffy and more craft beer and university collaborations in this Vine Pair article by our friend Joshua Bernstein.

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