On June 13th, Widmer Brothers, in Portland, Oregon,  introduced Gentlemen’s Club, a special collaboration beer that was brewed with Tampa, Florida’s Cigar City Brewing.  According to the Widmer Brothers website, these beers draw “inspiration from an Old Fashioned cocktail recipe and the Gentlemen’s Clubs where the cocktail was first served over 100 years ago… Using an Old Ale recipe as the base beer, Gentlemen’s Club “Old Fashioned Style Ale” was brewed with cherries and oranges, Alchemy, Sorachi Ace and Pacifica hops, and hand-selected specialty malts to mirror the qualities typically found in an Old Fashioned cocktail. The beer was aged on three different woods: bourbon barrels, rye whiskey barrels and new oak spirals, resulting in three unique versions of the beer, each offering a slightly different take on the same age-old recipe.”

I’m looking forward to getting some bottles and trying these beers.  Let the beer-cache hunt begin.