New Terrapin Beer Made With Honey From MLB Ballpark Bees

Most Major League Baseball beers are usually straightforward lagers and none of them are made honey from a bees that were collected at Atlanta’s Truist ballpark.

But now the honey from bees captured at an Atlanta Braves game on June 2^nd has become part of a Terrapin Beer (a Belgian Tripel!) which became available at the ballpark and also at the brewery’s taproom in August.

This unlikely collaboration beer began when Brian Grant and his sons, who started Grant Boys Honey in 2020 noticed a swarm of bees while they were attending a home game and decided to lend a hand.

Fashioning a beehive out of a cardboard box they were able to capture the queen and the swarm which they safely transported back to their beehive and honey business in Athens GA which is also home to Terrapin Beer.

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One thing led to another and an unlikely collaboration was born after Grant and Terrapin hatched the idea that the honey from the captured ballpark bees deserved to be in a ballpark beer, but not just any beer, a massive 9.3% ABV Belgian Tripel!

Terrapin Tripel Buzz is a deep, gold-colored Belgian ale that’s light bodied and effervescent, Crouch explained to Beer & Beyond. “Its honey sweetness – from honey malt and 20 pounds of Grant Boys Honey – is balanced by the flavors imparted by Belgian yeast, including banana, clove and a bubblegum.”

Beekeeper and Atlanta Braves fan Grant thinks it’s the perfect intersection of everything…

“I drink mostly Coors Light and Miller Lite. I like Terrapin’s Los Bravos and Blue Moon, as well,” he says. “I’m looking at Tripel Buzz and it looks similar.”

“Tripel Buzz will also help bring visibility towards the Grant Boys Honeybee Foundation, which educates people about the important role bees play in our ecosystem. Honeybees help produce a third of our food supply, and they play an integral role in creating fibers, oils and medicine.”

Grant was grateful the Braves staff allowed him to trap the bees rather than spraying and killing them, which is how many grounds keeping staffs might deal with a honeybee swarm.

And the fact that Grant and his son’s efforts led to a new Terrapin beer, following an Atlanta Braves championship season in 2021, even better!

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