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Tattersall Distilling and Bauhaus Brew Labs are teaming up on a new whiskey collaboration using Bauhaus Brew Labs’ Stargrazer.

Bauhaus co-owner Mark Schwandt posted a photo on Facebook of the fully fermented (but uncarbonated) beer being transferred to Tattersall’s distillery where it will be distilled into malt whiskey. The whiskey will age in barrels for around a year, says Tattersall co-owner Dan Oskey. “Due to the nature of the beer, we’re thinking it’ll age pretty quickly.”

The collaboration between Bauhaus and Tattersall has been in mind for a while, according to Schwandt. “We feel like both [Tattersall and Bauhaus] share similar characteristics when it comes to how we approach our individual crafts,” says Schwandt. “We were trying to find a way to partner and Dan and I discussed creating a whiskey made from a lager beer base.”

Stargrazer, a German-style schwarzbier, was selected for its lower IBU and its clean fermentation. “I’m interested to see how the hops affect the distillation,” says Schwandt. After the stripping run, the first step in distilling a low-alcohol beer into a high-alcohol whiskey, Oskey said he was “actually shocked at how much of the Stargrazer character came through.”

Tattersall will finish cutting the final spirit this week and the whiskey will begin it’s year-long hibernation in barrels, which will then be passed to Bauhaus to age a beer for later release.