{"id":3784,"date":"2011-08-26T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:25:13","slug":"city-provisions-beer-collaborations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/city-provisions-beer-collaborations\/","title":{"rendered":"City Provisions Beer Collaborations: A Cherry Dunkelweiss & Homebrewing Meets the Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City Provisions beer collaborations scheduled for the future are on point.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We stopped by City Provisions<\/a> in Ravenswood this week, taken in by the opportunity to drink a nanobrewed cherry dunkel weiss created in conjunction with the proprietor, Cleetus Friedman, and the folks at Flossmoor Brewing Company. We came in looking for beer. We left with the promise of future master-crafted “homebrewing” swirling through our heads.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with the beer.<\/p>\n

Called the Kirsch von Blucher, the brew is a mellow and muddy beer with a gentle cherry sweetness in the background while up front, the beer is a synesthesia of autumn browns and maroons. I tasted the color of early fall. It’s a solid first start, but it’s not the beer that really excites us, it’s the concept.<\/p>\n

Restaurants and providers have been doing collaboration beers and one-off experiments in conjunction with breweries for some time, but this series seems to us to take things to a new level. Not just nanobrewing or creating beers to pair with dishes, the future CP beers marry what we love most in beer – passion, creativity, and a WTF kind of sensibility. It also pairs the skills of hardened production brewers with the “fuck it, let’s see what happens” attitude of homebrewers. “Happy accidents” is a phrase I hear come up a lot around homebrewers, and I can’t wait to see what kind of “accidents” come from the pros as guided by the passionate outsiders.<\/p>\n

Here’s what’s coming up, per an email exchange with CP’s PR:<\/p>\n