Cigar City Brewing announced on Sunday that it will brew a collaboration beer with The Bruery. From the blog: “[…] it will be a beer which melds the approach and style of both breweries. It will include two different fruits and it will be aged in unspecified barrels. It has been tentaively planned for an October/November brew date in Orange County with Wayne Wambles and the staff from the Bruery working together. Given the time this beer will take to create it will, again tentatively, likely be availible in July or August of 2010 […]” The beer is expected to be distributed in The Bruery’s markets including Florida (they’re coming soon!).

Cigar City also announced that it has procured ten Laird’s Apple Brandy barrels and will eventually fill them with Warmer Winter Old Ale among other brews.

As another collaboration is born, another has been retired. Kabert, the collaboration between Struise and Portsmouth Brewery announced one year ago, came and went on tap this weekend. Another stealth keg of Portsmouth Kate went on tap the following day. It was a good time to be in Portsmouth this past weekend; the beers kicked in less than 24 hours so you’re out of luck now.

Port Brewing just went through its annual gauntlet according to Tomme Arthur’s latest blog post. The brewery did its annual fresh hop brewing of Port High Tide IPA late last week. Arthur gives a detailed account of the chaos during this time. “In our first year, we produced one 30 bbl batch of the beer. The next year, we tripled that number and kicked out 90 bbls of the beer. Last year, we jumped up to 210 bbls of production. This year has us scurrying around the brewery to produce 270 bbls of this resiny nectar.”

Finally, Stone Brewing announced last week on its Facebook page that Aloha Plenty will be released on Monday, Sept. 21st.