Ei8ht Ball celebrating with barrel-aged beer release

Ei8ht Ball Brewing is turning two. To celebrate, the Newport brewery is planning a limited release two barrel-aged beers.

Reintarnation, the brewery's bourbon barrel-aged golden ale, and Rye’ld, a rye whiskey barrel-aged English mild, will be released at 5 p.m. Friday in the taproom. Only 100 bottles ($12.99 each; limit two per person) of each will be available on a first come, first served basis.

Reintarnation is Ei8ht Ball’s Tarnished golden ale aged in New Riff Distilling’s nine-year-old O.K.I. straight bourbon whiskey barrels. It won a bronze medal at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival competition and took gold at the 2014 Festival of Wood and Barrel-Aged Beers.

Rye’ld is Ei8ht Ball’s spring seasonal, Queen, a mellow easy drinking mild, aged in O.K.I. rye whiskey barrels.

Ei8ht Ball Brewing, 95 Riviera Dr. (inside the Party Source), Newport. 859-291-0036 or http://ei8htballbrewing.com/.