Rumor Mill: Rye Bread Beer In Beer City/ Grave Beer Festival Incites Outrage

American Craft Beer|October 1st, 2021|

UK beer festival sparks outrage and two Michigan companies join forces to make some “bread.”

A Grave Beer Festival in the UK

The vicar in the UK is facing a backlash after his rural church hosted a four day beer festival in it’s graveyard and online images surfaced of beer fans leaning on headstones and using graves as tables.

According to The Times “photographs of the event at St Mary the Virgin church in Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham, triggered anger among the local community with parishioners criticizing the event for being disrespectful and irreverent.”

Rev Martin Anderson, who was feeling considerable heat, defended his decision to host the event in the church’s graveyard, adding that the beer festival had been staged to raise money for the church’s clock to be repaired….

Words to Drink By

“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” – Tom Waits, American singer, songwriter and actor

(Courtesy Perrin Brewing)

A “Beer City” Beer Bread Beer Collaboration

Two Grand Rapids, Michigan-based companies have joined forces to create a new beer that combines what they both do best.

Beer City Bread Co. products are developed from craft beer and natural European sourdough starters that are cultivated daily as the foundation of each bread batch. Each dough is aged over 24 hours, then processed using their unique “stress-free” handling bread line before baking, allowing true artisan qualities to develop in every product.

And Perrin Brewing is using their beer-infused bread to craft Beer City Rye IPA, a resinous 8% ABV India Pale Ale which showcases notes of biscuit and caraway seed from toasted rye bread added directly to the mash.

“Craft beer comes full circle in Beer City Rye IPA,” said Senior Marketing Manager Lindsey VanDenBoom. “Perrin beer first goes into making Beer City Bread Company’s toasted rye bread. Then, that toasted rye is used to lend spicy depth of flavor to Beer City Rye IPA.”