(San Francisco, CA) – Two breweries are collaborating with beer bars on upcoming releases.

Update: Just talked to a beverage lawyer that says he thinks this will pass through.

Here’s a beer called Wet Dream between Denmark’s Evil Twin Brewing and The Trappist that won’t be available until August or September according to the bar’s Aaron Porter.

Rough (Google) translation per Beerticker.dk, “A delicious brown ale boosted with excellent espresso beans and a delicious aroma of citrus – the result is stunning, seductive and fragmented – even your wildest dreams in liquid form. Visualized by artist, John Casey and brewed exclusively for The Trappist. So no monastic order in Belgium, because of course they are quite adept at making beer. But The Trappist beer bar in Oakland, Calif., where the sun shines, the atmosphere is cool, and øludvalget are too sweaty.”

I wonder what “øludvalget” means there?

More interesting is the notion of a company trying to push through approval of a beer called Wet Dream in the U.S. In California, I *believe* a beer must have federal approval in order to be served there (no matter how it is served). It would seem likely that a beer with the name, “wet dream,” would still be ruled as “misleading the presence of health benefits.” We just saw this with Brooklyn’s The Concoction. I would expect this one to come through to the U.S. under a new name but I could be pleasantly surprised.

Even sooner than that, Lagunitas Brewing has a new collaboration coming to taps. On June 6th, Zephyr will debut in Chicago. Here is the scoop:

“Zephyr was conceived of by Michael McAvena (beer director at the Publican), and Ben Fasman & Laurent Lebec (managers and beer directors at Big Star). It was taken out to Petaluma, California to the brewery to be tweaked and brewed. An expected 200 kegs will debut in early June and be served not only in Big Star and The Publican but also at Lagunitas accounts throughout Chicago. The nature of the project has been immensely collaborative from concocting the recipe to the naming of the beer as well as artwork, which is going to be done by well-known tattoo artist Hannah Aitchison of LA Ink fame. When coming up with the concept, Laurent Lebec (Big Star) thought specifically about pre-prohibition lagers, which were classically made with whatever grains were readily available to people back then and in America that meant corn. Corn being the key ingredient in bourbon, this tied the project back again to Big Star’s concept.”

The Ünnecessary Ümlaut is showing the artwork right now.