{"id":488,"date":"2008-05-07T14:17:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T19:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2008-05-07T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T19:17:28","slug":"stranahans-colorado-whiskey-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/stranahans-colorado-whiskey-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beer and whiskey mix<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s a story with a happy ending.<\/p>\n

Back in December we reported that Flying Dog’s decision to shutter its Denver brewery – and relocate its beer-making operations to Maryland – had put Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey in a jam. The tiny Denver maker of super-premium whiskey had been relying on neighboring Flying Dog for its “distiller’s wash,” a custom-made, fermented liquid that’s based on a proprietary recipe made just for Stranahan’s. Stranahan’s owner Jess Graber was forced to find a new source for the wash.<\/p>\n

As luck would have it, he’s rounded up a new partner in the form of Oskar Blues Brewery, the Lyons craft beer maker known for its Dale’s Pale Ale packaged in cans.<\/p>\n

“When I heard that Flying Dog was leaving, I immediately called (Stranahan’s) and offered our service,” says Oskar Blues spokesman Marty Jones, noting that he’s a “big fan” of the whiskey.<\/p>\n

Jones calls Graber “a pioneer.”<\/p>\n

“He’s\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0doing for\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0whiskey what craft brewers have done for beer,” Jones says. “He and his little team have\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0defied the status quo and the Goliaths of the distilling world and\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0shown that spine-tingling\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0whis key can be made by daring individuals right in one’s own community.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oskar Blues will soon begin trucking more than 5,000 barrels of wash a year to Stranahan’s from the beer maker’s new Longmont brewery. The deliveries will be made weekly. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.<\/p>\n

Graber, for his part, is one happy whiskey maker.<\/p>\n

“They’re a really good company and they make a really good beer,” he says of Oskar Blues. “We want to maintain our quality, and we don’t think we could have done any better than hook up with these guys.”<\/p>\n

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Beer and whiskey mix Here’s a story with a happy ending. Back in December we reported that Flying Dog’s decision to shutter its Denver brewery – and relocate its beer-making operations to Maryland – had put Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey in a jam. The tiny Denver maker of super-premium whiskey had been relying on neighboring Flying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,97],"tags":[185,2035,2054,184],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}