(Georgetown, DE) – The latest update from 16 Mile Brewing Co., as excerpted from Monday’s email newsletter…

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The biggest news coming out of Georgetown is actually about Newark. What? That’s right, we recently announced the opening of the 16 Mile Taphouse on Main Street in Newark, Delaware. 16 Mile Brewing has partnered with The Graceland Group to produce the first of possibly more taphouses designed around the 16 Mile brand. Our first location will be the former Stone Balloon Winehouse near the University of Delaware. You can expect great food paired with your favorite 16 Mile beers (and a few special ones only found here) as well as the same great wine list you have come to expect at The Stone Balloon Winehouse. Expected to reopen on July 11th.

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Our latest collaboration brew is Long Ben ESB. For this collaboration we partnered with some of the finest chefs from the northern part of Delaware and the charity that benefits from it will be Meals on Wheels Delaware.

The brew itself started as traditional ESB style that we developed with the help of our good friends Copper Dragon Brewery from Yorkshire England. The first thing we did to spice things up a bit was to add 20 chopped pineapples and 25 chopped mangoes to the mash. While we were mashing in we also added a couple pounds of a newer hop that is known for its tropical flavors. Adding all of this during the mash really added to the tropical aroma of the beer. Once we hit our mark in fermentation, we added a little more pineapple and mango juice for a hint of tropical flavor and a nice elderberry slurry for just a touch of tartness. We wanted to give it one last little hint of spice, so we tossed in some oak that had been soaking in some white rum that came from our buddies over at the Delaware Distilling Company.

The result? A slightly hoppy but easy drinking ESB with a wonderful tropical aroma and just a hint of tropical flavor just in time for summer.

For those of you wondering about the name, it comes from Delaware’s most famous pirate. John Avery served for the British navy before turning to the life of a buccaneer. Avery, known to his brethren as Long Ben or The King of Pirates, fled the British and landed in Rehoboth where he settled on 300 acres of land. This would become the final resting place for Avery. We created this beer as tribute to the brew that “Long Ben” would have brought with him on his way up the old Caribbean trade routes from the islands to the New World.