Barleywine – the hefty, high-ABV style of beer best suited to slow sipping – is the perfect candidate for collaboration between a bottle shop and a craft brewery. Look out this spring for an as-of-yet-unnamed collab from The Wine and Cheese Place and Side Project Brewing; the blend of barrel-aged and double barrel-aged, English-inspired barleywines will be finished on vanilla beans. Side Project also plans to release two other barleywines this spring: Anabasis, an American-style barleywine, as well as a blended, barrel-aged option to be finished on fresh ground cinnamon as well as vanilla.
The Wine and Cheese Place multiple locations, wineandcheeseplace.com
Side Project Brewing 7458 Manchester Road, Maplewood, sideprojectbrewing.com
This article appears in March/April 2021.