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Super Furry Animals may currently be on an extended hiatus, but the Welsh psych rock icons are aiming to be top of the hops with the launch of their own beer.

Produced in conjunction with the Celt Experience Brewery, members of the band will be stirring up a storm when their new beer – named Fuzzy (after their debut album Fuzzy Logic) is unveiled at a special event next month.

Those who love their beers can taste the new brew at the one-night only Fire Festival on Saturday, February 1. Billed as ‘a celebration of innovative craft beer, art and smokey food’, it will be held to celebrate the Celtic Experience’s new village development at its brewery on the Pontygwindy Estate in Caerphilly.

The Festival will include free samples of the brewery’s acclaimed craft beers and a live performance from the Super Furry Animals – a live brewing performance that is.

Gruff, Guto, Cian, Daf and Bunf – who have been pursuing their own projects since they released their last album Dark Days/Light Years in 2009, will put the finishing touches to their own collaborative beer, which will be available in pubs around Wales and chosen outlets in London in March.

Fuzzy Beer, follows the launch of Goldie Lookin’ Ale – a collaborative beer between Welsh rappers Goldie Lookin’ Chain and Newport-based Tiny Rebel Brewery last year.

“We’re making it with our own specially formulated recipe, although I can’t tell you what that is,” laughs Furries keyboard maestro Cian Ciaran.

“Me and Daf (SFA drummer Dafydd Ieuan) met Tom who owns the brewery last year and we all thought it would be a good idea to make our own Furry brew.”

Although the band won’t be playing live, several members of the group will DJ on the night.

Hang Fire Smokehouse will be selling American Southern-style barbecue food, and the festival will climax with a fire performance art display to wow guests at midnight.

Tickets cost £10 via www.celtexperience.com and will include samples of The Celt Experience’s craft ales, as well as the opportunity to enter competitions on the night.

Minibus transport from Cardiff Central station to Caerphilly is available, but requires advance booking.

Meanwhile, the collected members of the Furries are busy with their own projects, not least Cian Ciaran – who is arguably the hardest working man in Welsh music right now.

Alongside his brother and fellow Furry Daf Ieuan they're putting the finishing touches to the second album from Daf's rock 'n' soul outfit The Earth, due for release before summer.

The SFA synth man is also readying the new EP – out in February - from Baby Queens, the all-girl group from Cardiff who he manages, as well working on the debut long-player from Gulp – the electro pop outfit consisting of Furry bass player Guto Pryce and his partner Lindsey Leven – with the album due for release in the coming months.

Ciaran is also producing a new album from Swansea psych rockers White Noise Sound as well as working on his new as-yet-untitled solo album, the follow-up to last year's critically acclaimed They Are Nothing Without Us.

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