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Last month, Birdsong Brewing’s Conor Robinson made the drive up to Asheville to brew a collaboration beer with Hi-Wire Brewing. That beer — a peated Wee Heavy ale called “Bird on a Wire” — will be released at both breweries this Friday, March 13. They will retail for $8 a 22-ounce bottle, with a two-bottle limit per person.

Employees from the two breweries met last year at the Craft Brewers Conference in Denver. Robinson and Luke Holgate, the head brewer at Hi-Wire, were at Great Divide Brewing Co. discussing what they had learned at their seminars when they realized they had very similar brewing styles. They even talked of doing a collaboration, though at the time it was more of a joke since both breweries were at capacity and doing everything they could to brew their own beers.

A few months ago, though, the breweries got back in touch and decided it was time to revisit the idea of a collaboration beer. Both Robinson and Holgate are Scotch drinkers, and so the decision to brew a Wee Heavy — and especially one with some peaty notes — was an easy one.

The beer will be on draft and available in bottles at 4:30 p.m. this Friday when Birdsong opens their doors. It will also hit local accounts closer to Charlotte Craft Beer Week, which runs March 20-28.