What's a Coolship?
Using a centuries-old Belgian brewing tradition, we're able to achieve a complex, and delicious, style of beer with the help of wild yeast floating in the Maine air.
How We Brew Coolship Beer
Wild Friendship Blend
Barrel-Aged Blend of Spontaneously Fermented Beer
Our friendship with California’s Russian River Brewing Company and Belgium’s Brasserie Cantillon goes back a long way. While Allagash and Russian River kicked off the tradition of brewing spontaneously fermented ales in the U.S. only relatively recently, Cantillon has been brewing their own take on the style since 1900.
In 2015, we chose to celebrate our deep connections—and the style itself—by blending our own versions of spontaneous ale and blending them together into an intercontinental ale we call Wild Friendship Blend. Each brewery sent the others a shipment of its spontaneous beer, and each brewery made its own blend of the three, with the promise that the finished beer would only be poured and enjoyed at each brewery and not sold to-go.
Five years later, in 2020, we created a second version, commemorated with an event at Novare Res Bier Cafe in Portland, Maine. Since then, these special bottles have been opened at each brewery as a special celebration of continued camaraderie and respect among our breweries. Three cheers to friendship!
6.3% ABV
KEY DETAILS
Grains: Pilsner Malt, Raw Wheat
Hops: Aged Whole Leaf Hops
Spices/Other: A blend of One, Two, and Three Year Old Batches
Yeast: Wild
Time to Fermentation: Three years
Serving Temp: 40-50°F
Ideal Within: Four years
First Released: 2015
