lcbw – Blue Stallion Brewing

9 Medal-Winning Beers and Goodbye to LCBW 2015

Today marks an end to another Lexington Craft Beer Week. It was an incredible week filled with great craft beer events throughout the city. Again, LexBeerScene.com did a great job sponsoring the week-long event.

Alltech Craft Brews and Food

The week was full of awesome happenings for Blue Stallion as well. One of the last big events of the week was Alltech’s Craft Brews and Food Fest. We were excited to hear our beers brought home 9 medals in all, 4 silver and 5 bronze! That’s in addition to the 4 medals our beers brought home last year.

Silver Medals:

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Blue Stallion Oatmeal Stout
Blue Stallion Munich Helles
Blue Stallion Doppelbock
Blue Stallion Irish Red

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Bronze Medals:

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Blue Stallion Maibock
Blue Stallion German Pilsner
Blue Stallion Smoked Lager
Blue Stallion Wee Heavy
Blue Stallion Märzen

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Test Batch Takeover

One of the most popular events we held all week was the Test Batch Takeover. We had 14 small batch experimental beers on tap at one time! You can see the full list here. Several Lexington homebrewers helped us with five of the brews, and they were fantastic. Some favorites of all 14 included:

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P.B. & Stout (peanut butter chocolate stout)
Bourbon Ball (nitro imperial stout)
Wet T-Shirt Contest (watermelon wheat ale)
Badger Blood (Belgian wheat ale w/ tart cherries)
El Diablo es Verde (cream ale w/ cilantro, lime & habaneros)

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We got a lot of good feedback on the beers and we’re putting a lot of consideration into bringing a couple back at the production level. Thanks for making it such a great day!

New Beer Releases

We released a whopping 4 beers during Lexington Craft Beer Week (not counting the Test Batch Takeover). The response has been great to all of them. If you haven’t had a chance to try them, you need to get down to the taproom soon. Here’s a list:

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Maibock
Equuleus (old ale – Ethereal collaboration)
Lightringer ESB (extra special bitter)
Bourbon Barrel-Aged Doppelbock

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Until next year, Prost!

Blue Stallion & Ethereal Collab Beer – Equuleus Old Ale

Equuleus Old Ale – Collaboration Brew for Lexington Craft Beer Week

Lexington’s two newest breweries, Blue Stallion and Ethereal, are teaming up for a collaboration brew for Lexington Craft Beer Week called “Equuleus”, an Old Ale. Equuleus, Latin for “little horse”, is a constellation in the northern hemisphere said to represent Celeris, Pegasus’ brother. The name is a great melding for Blue Stallion and Ethereal, referring both to the horse and the heavens.

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Old Ale falls into the “Strong Ale” category and the malty goodness is going to shine with this one. With Ethereal’s help we even made up a batch of dark candi syrup just for this brew.

Equuleus will be on tap Wednesday May 13th in the Blue Stallion taproom. We’ll also have limited edition pint glasses on sale for $2 with the beer and $3 by themselves.

It’s also Wednesday Night Live, so we’ll have music from The Swells starting at 8pm. Lyles BBQ will be here at 5pm with their delicious smoked meet dishes.