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Odell Brewing Introduces Brett Golden Ale

Named for the Colorado gold rush of 1859, Fifty Niner is a golden ale conditioned with Brettanomyces, “a yeast as wild as the new frontier.”

Jul 8, 2014 - 2 min read

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Odell Brewing is getting ready to celebrate the release of its latest Cellar Series beer: Fifty Niner.

"This is a complex and fun beer,” Odell Brewing’s QA/QC Manager Eli Kolodny says. “It’s a golden ale brewed with Belgian Candi sugar and fermented with our house ale strain. The first hundred barrels were conditioned in a stainless fermentor that had staves hung in it. Suspending the staves directly in the fermentor allowed for a much faster extraction of the wood character while maintaining the quality of the finished beer.”

Odell Brewing selected oak staves with a light-to-medium toast to give the beer hints of vanilla, almond, graham cracker, and wafer. The initial batch was aged for more than a month and then blended with a fresh batch just before packaging. The beer was then keg- and bottle-conditioned with a special strain of Brettanomyces that Odell Brewing grew in its lab. Fifty Niner was aged in-house for eight weeks and is ready to drink upon release, but it will also continue to evolve over time. The brewer suggests that you can cellar it for up to a year.

Odell Brewing will celebrate the release of Fifty Niner in the Tap Room on July 11–13, and Fifty Niner will be available in 750ml, cork & cage-finished bottles throughout the brewery's eleven-state distribution footprint: Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.

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