original watercolor and ink illustration
Yep, more beer art.
Back in August, when Drywell Art was in LA for Renegade Craft show, Benjamin at The Bruery was ridiculously kind enough to give us a personal tour of the brewery in Placentia. While we were there, he mentioned that they had begun a collaboration with Dogfish Head Brewery, another crazy inventive beer place, to create a Japanese-inspired beer. He sent me the ingredient list and told me to get cracking on new art for them. (Not really, Ben is way to nice to say that).
Fast forward to this week, and the collaboration beer, “Faster, Bigger, Better, Bolder (Gradually, Quietly, Steadily)” was released at Far Bar as part of LA Beer Week. The beer is inspired by Japanese shichimi togarashi, 7-spice powder. The traditional version includes black and white sesame seeds, cayenne pepper, seaweed, orange rind, ginger, and either poppy seeds or hemp seeds.(If you haven’t used togarashi powder on your popcorn before, you are seriously missing out. Go, right now. Make it happen.) This collaboration beer uses kumquats instead of the dried orange rind, and sake yeast.
This beer is also a fundraiser, with $1 of each bottle sold going towards Japanese relief efforts for this year’s tsunami and earthquake. AND, it sounds pretty delicious.
