Elevation Beer Co. to release next round of seasonals this August

Elevation Beer Co. is set to release its next seasonals in its Black Series and Double Black Series of seasonal specialty and barrel-aged beers. Elevation will release its Wild Flowers Imperial Saison in the Black Series, while Fanboy (its virgin oak barrel-aged Double IPA) will be released in its Double Black Series.

“We changed up Wild Flowers this year, using a different Saison yeast strain,” said head brewer and Elevation Co-founder Christian Koch. “This resulted in a drier finish, which has made the beer a tad more traditional to the style.

Elevation was rewarded for this slight change in recipe with a Gold Medal for Wild Flowers in the Saison/Farmhouse Category earlier this month at the U.S. Open Beer Championship, which is its fourth medal in that contest over the past two years. Elevation is also re-releasing Fanboy, which was aged this year in a combination of first- and second-use Virgin Oak barrels custom-made for the brewery.

“Fanboy sat in barrels for eight months before being blended with a fresh Double IPA base and then dry-hopped to give its signature blend of oak, vanilla and citrus. It is a big grapefruit bomb this year, and we are extremely excited for it,” Koch said.

Fanboy is currently rated 92+ on Ratebeer.com and is one of only a handful of virgin oak barrel-aged beers made in the United States. Both beers will be finding their way to liquor stores and beer bars in Arizona, Colorado and Texas starting in August.