Oskar Blues Releases Music Collaboration Beer, Bayside Black IPA

New York City-based rock act Bayside is collaborating with Oskar Blues to release Bayside Black IPA, to be released August 19. 

According to the wonderfully named Juice Drapeau, head brewer at Oskar Blues Brewery in Lyons, “The challenges of creating a Black IPA is that when creating a recipe one has to be very careful to balance the hop bitterness and malt bitterness. Dark malts can have astringent characteristics to them so the key is to really achieve a clean hop bitterness to compliment the potential malt bitterness. Also, another important aspect of Black IPA's is to layer a variety of crystal malts and dark malts so that the malt character in the beer has lots of depth and complexity.” 

The 7.1% ABV beer will also be sold in a pre-sale bundle with the band's new album, Vacancy. 

“I’ve been a big fan of Oskar Blues for a long time and it’s amazing that we get to collaborate with them," said Bayside guitarist Jack O'Shea. "[Black IPA] is one of my favorite styles of beer and one of my favorite breweries. I can’t wait to try some!” added Bayside guitar player Jack O’Shea.

The beer will be limited to 100 barrels.