(San Francisco, CA) – Russian River Brewing is leading the efforts in one of this year’s Craft Brewers’ Conference Symposium beers.

The 2011 edition of the annual conference will be held in San Francisco next month. Per the CBC site:

This year’s attendees will enjoy four CBC Symposium beers! […] The team at Russian River bottled one a couple of weeks ago and it’s now conditioning in large pallet cages in the brewery before labeling.

This sour brown ale was made by Russian River with Sierra Nevada, using the latter’s Keller Weise yeast for the primary fermentation, and barrel aged with Russian River’s house “bugs and critters” in wine barrels from Fritz Maytag’s York Creek Vineyards. Sampling his creation two weeks after bottling, Russian River’s Vinnie Cilurzo reports: “The bottle I opened had a giant Cabernet Sauvignon characteristic.”

Sierra Nevada, Founder/Owner, Ken Grossman and Anchor Brewers Chairman, Fritz Maytag, will be delivering the keynote address this year.

Stay tuned for details on the other three beers.