Image credit: Funky Picnic Brewery & Café. It will be available in Denver later this year. That version is currently undergoing a mixed fermentation in oak barrels with kveik yeast and TRVE's house strain. The two parties also brewed a beer at TRVE using Colorado corn (instead of tortillas). After that, look for the beer to be available at retail in six-packs of 12-ounce cans. Seven Serpent will debut on Saturday, June 1, as part of Armadillo's Brewery and Taproom One Year Anniversary Party. "It was the best-smelling brew day ever!" "When we were making Seven Serpent, the brewery smelled like tacos and beer," adds Arestis. With respect to the beer's sensory experience, Arestis describes it as sessionable with the flavor of corn tortillas backed by a little salt and lime. Based on that, we are calling the beer 'Seven Serpent,' which is the English translation for Chicomecōātl, the Aztec goddess of corn, food, and drink." "They worshiped corn and thought it to be the source of life (they believed man was created from corn). "This beer highlights masa, which originates back to the Aztecs," explains Arestis. And while the metal pedigree might be a bit off-brand, Seven Serpent stays true to Armadillo's longstanding commitment to the use of new and innovative ingredients. On top of that, the beer is fermented with a Scandinavian kveik yeast - because, Mullins declares, it's metal AF. Seven Serpent, that is, a golden ale brewed with 700 pounds of corn tortillas, lemon and lime peel, and salt. "We recently reconnected while Zach was in town visiting family and agreed to do a collaboration."Įnter the Serpent. "I met TRVE's head brewer and Denton native Zach Coleman in the early days of Armadillo," says Mullins. So, how did such a night and day coupling come together? Not exactly a natural fit next to Armadillo-named brews like Brunch Money, Honey Please and Quakertown, but that didn't stand in the way of co-founders Yianni Arestis and Bobby Mullins when the opportunity arose for Armadillo to explore a different direction. With selections like Seitan, Scorn, Cursed and Exhumation, TRVE's lineup reads like a dark passage delivered from the depths of hell. This, of course, all set to a soundtrack of brutal beats streaming from the sound system. Inside it's dark (in more ways than one) and generally crowded, with most patrons attired in obsidian tones. TRVE, for those that don't know, is a small brewery located south of Downtown Denver. If you need help summoning a Serpent, who better to call upon than Colorado's most metal brewery? Indeed, Armadillo Ale Works of Denton has done just that in collaborating on a new beer with Denver-based TRVE Brewing Co.
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