Brewed in collaboration with Perennial Artisanal Ales, this saison features heirloom Violetta barley, Abruzzi Rye, and soft red wheat locally grown in the southeast and malted by Riverbend Malt. The enigmatic Sacc Trois yeast strain creates a bright, fruity, citrus nose with a balance of black peppercorn and a creamy, silky body with a refreshing dry finish.
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Beer Us! In this episode of DC Beer‘s Beer Me podcast, we dive into our #Riverbend10 film, sustainable practices, and a little malt production 101. Listen in!
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Chesapeake Pilsner Malt
Produced using 2-Row barley sourced from Virginia, Chesapeake Pilsner was another malt— like Cumberland Pilsner— created out of our custom craft malt program. It gives a nicely balanced mix of bread crumb and honeysuckle, and is just a touch sweeter than our original 6-row Pilsner. Chesapeake Pilsner’s light color allows for inclusion across a wide range of styles and creates a subtly unique flavor.
Chesapeake Pilsner is a favorite among our customers,
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We love Arches Bohemian Riot! Uproxx recently asked us about our favorite easy-sippers, and this craft lager made the cut among some other world-class craft beers like Bibo Pils by Creature Comforts and La Petite Prince by Jester King.
This Pilsner first crafted by Arches Brewing in Hapeville, Georgia in 2019 has grown in popularity and availability over the years, reported Beer Street Journal.
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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.
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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Our #Riverbend10 film is live on YouTube!
This film documents a decade of craft malt at Riverbend Malt House. Thanks are in order to our friends at DSSOLVR, Fullsteam, and Fonta Flora Brewery, and the Asheville Brewers Supply homebrew shop who let us crash their work days with our cameras.
Catch this film at our Craft Brewers Conference BrewExpo booth,
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.
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,
Chesapeake Pilsner wins Bronze at the Malt Cup Awards!