In this Issue: GABF Award, 5th Anniversary Brew, Fall Festbier, Pinstripe Fest Preview, On the Road with BPB, We Care Wednesday View this email in your browser Silver Medal at GABF!

The biggest news in our young brewery's existence - our Dortmunder Adambier was awarded a Silver Medal for Historical Beer Styles at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival! This marks our first medal at the festival and the first medal awarded to an Alabama brewery since 2010. In fact, in all the states we distribute, only one other brewery won a medal. It's quite an honor and a nice pat on the back and testament to all the work that our brew team and master brewer Weedy have done for the quality of the beer that we are creating. The Adambier takes about a year to make, but we still have some bottles at the tap room if you need a taste. It's been five years since we first opened our doors and started distributing beer and to celebrate we took an opportunity to brew the hoppiest beer we've ever made. We lucked into an opportunity to get fresh wet hops right out of the field, Chinook. We partnered with Hop Head Farm in Michigan and they drove them down the very day they were picked. While they were driving we mashed in an 11% ABV grain bill for our Triple IPA and loaded up the wort with our recently acquired Mandarina Bavaria hops (we're a big fan of these lately). We had to get the timing just right because at the end of the boil we added the wet hops to the mash tun and pushed the wort back over to use it as a hop back. From there it went into the fermenter and as a special touch we dry hopped it with more Mandarina Bavaria and Cascade Hops. As brew master Weedy put it "It was a long day, but its worth it when you are doing something as exciting as this". We're excited to be able to bring such a crazy unique beer to North Alabama. The bombers will hit the store this week and we will have it on draft at the tap room for our anniversary, Thursday October 1. Like I said, we are pretty excited about getting our hands on Mandarina Bavaria hops. We had a brainstorm. German hops... wouldn't they go great with the malt profile of our traditional Oktoberfest? Thus, Fall Festbier was born. It would be a great beer in six packs, but we're forced to stick with bombers for this limited release. Look for it mid October. Lots of great beers ready soon.