Chicago! You Ready To Get Your First Taste Of The New Belgium Fat Tire & Friends CollaBEERation Series?

By Sponsor in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 9, 2016 5:00AM

This Saturday, June 11th, from 6-10pm, New Belgium Chicago is celebrating all things collaboration at Galerie F for the Art Bike Program. The event features Sick Fisher with an after-party at Emporium Arcade Bar. Tickets are still available HERE.

For the 25th Anniversary of their flagship Fat Tire Amber Ale, they’ve invited a few of their brewing friends to help them celebrate the beer that helped change American craft forever with a special variety 12-pack, with 5 variations of the amber ale, including:

• Allagash Brewing Company (Portland, ME) - Fat Funk Ale features a De Dolle house Belgian yeast strain,which adds pear, banana and spice to Fat Tire’s malty goodness. Expect notes of stone fruit, sweet tart and peppercorn.
• Avery Brewing (Boulder, Colo.) - Fat Wild Ale focuses on a fruit-forward hop bill featuring Huell Melons and a dose of brett evoking notes of apricot and pineapple.
• Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, CA) - Fat Hoppy Ale focuses on what Firestone Walker does best - big beautiful hop forward ales. Fat Hoppy has a light malty sweetness initially, with a subtle bitterness in the middle that lingers ever-so-slightly.
• Hopworks Urban Brewery (Portland, OR) - Fat Sour Apple Ale starts out with a snap of tartness, courtesy of Lactobacillus and apple juice, then gets balanced with Fat Tire-inspired malty sweetness and slight herbal bitterness.
• Rhinegeist Brewery (Cincinnati, OH) - Fat Pale Ale focuses on two components: Rhinegeist Brewers’ malt interpretation of Fat Tire married with the fruity, wild, almost wine like character of Fiction. Together they offer up a slightly bready, biscuity and slightly toast malt backbone combined with fruity Southern Hemisphere hops and abundant fruity esters from the strain of Belgian yeast that Rhinegeist used.

Not only is New Belgium unveiling their new beers, but they're also introducing the Chicago muralist and painter, Sick Fisher. Fisher has partnered with the brewery to create the one-of-a-kind 2016 Detroit Bike New Belgium Cruiser Art Bike & the Tour de Fat mural. Come out, enjoy some beers, win cool stuff, watch the short documentary on Fisher's relationship with Chicago, and view some of his beautiful work.

Tickets are $15, which gets you beer samples, a raffle ticket, and a gift from New Belgium. Proceeds go to support Active transportation Alliance.

The raffle offers a chance to win a brand new 2016 Brewing Detroit Bike Cruiser, a Sick Fisher painting, and a gift card from Galerie F! The raffle winners will be announced at 10:30pm at Emporium in Logan Square.

Additional raffle tickets will be available at Galerie F and at the Emporium Arcade Bar after-party.

Grab your tickets today!
*Must be 21 to participate

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