Brooklyn The Companion debuts next month

Brooklyn Companion

(Brooklyn, NY) – Brooklyn Brewery has another Brewmaster’s Reserve Series release coming in September.


Per the brewery blog:

“For the past four years, brewmaster Garrett Oliver has been working on a massive project. It’s the ultimate beer collaboration, but it’s not a beer. Published this September by Oxford University Press, it’s The Oxford Companion to Beer, the most comprehensive book on beer ever published, featuring 160 experts covering more than 1,100 subjects. It’s a momentous thing, so Garrett (Editor-in-Chief), Horst Dornbusch (Associate Editor, writer, scholar, man-about-town) and Thomas Kraus-Weyermann (writer and master maltster) hatched a plan. Together, they brewed our next Brewmaster’s Reserve beer, called The Companion.

Thomas created special new floor malts for The Companion, which is brewed in an old style called ‘wheat wine,’ a wheat-based equivalent to barley wine. The floor malts give this beer a juicy malt character of considerable depth, 55% malted wheat gives it a surprising lightness on the palate, while our house ale yeast lends a gentle fruitiness. The Oxford Companion will impart knowledge, while The Companion imparts conviviality. Maybe you really can have it all?”

Also of note, from their newsletter:

“The arrival of 17 new tanks – including a team of 200 barrel fermenters – is the last major step of our expansion here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The completed new brewery is expected to be in full operation by the end of September. Click here to see photos of the project over the last year.”

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