New Belgium, Odell tap winter seasonal beers

Old favorites from Fort Collins craft breweries New Belgium Brewing and Odell Brewing are back in stock for the winter months.

New Belgium's Accumulation White IPA returns for the fifth straight year. The 55-IBU wheat beer is dry-hopped with Mosaic and Amarillo varieties.

"Dark beers tend to dominate the winter months, but we like to buck the trend with an IPA that’s bright and refreshing,” said New Belgium public relations director Bryan Simpson in a press release.

Accumulation is available in 12-ounce bottles and on draft. New Belgium distributes to all 50 states.

After nearly a year hiatus, Odell has re-released its chocolate milk stout called Lugene. 

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The 2017 version comes aged for six months in rye whiskey barrels with a 10.5 percent ABV. The beer is made with dark chocolate and lactose.

Lugene is distributed throughout Odell's 15-state footprint in 12-ounce bottles.

“Since the last run of Lugene, we’ve gotten a ton of emails and phone calls asking when we’d be brewing it again,” said Odell's marketing director Alex Kayne in a press release. “When that time finally came, we knew we had to do something special."

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Lugene was first brewed in 2013. It is named after Fort Collins dairy farmer Lugene Saas, who has collected Odell's spent grain for cattle feed the past 23 years.

Odell also recently released the latest from its Cellar series: A Huckleberry wild ale called Ten Paces.

The sour beer will be the last Odell 750-ml bottle offering, as the series will next shift into 12-ounce bottles.  

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