It's called Pulled Porter, and it's a bacon-and-hickory-smoked porter created by Sweetwater Brewing Co. in collaboration with Justin and Jonathan Fox of Atlanta's wildly popular Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q .
The latest edition in Sweetwater's large format, one-off Dank Tank series, which has been on hiatus since April 2014, Pulled Porter will hit bars, restaurants and retail on Monday, in 22-ounce bottles and on draft.
But if you want to get an early taste, Sweetwater is having a bottle release party at the brewery on Sunday from 2:30-4:30 p.m., with pulled pork sandwiches from Fox Bros and Sailing to Denver playing on the patio, plus the first 200 folks through the door will "snag proper glassware." Admission is $10 at the door.
Here's the rundown on the creation of Pulled Porter lifted from the label:
El Danko finally sobered up just long enough to get back in the brewhouse after a 2-year bender! He teamed up with the bros of Fox Bro's BBQ (Justin and Jonathan Fox -- the gents you see above) to come up with a smoked bacon porter, Pulled Porter. Over the course of three days, the crew from Fox Bros. smoked one ton of malt on their wood-burning Lang smokers, using nothing but hickory. Each batch of malt smoked for 5 hours at 250 degrees to get a nice toast and plenty of good smoke without burning it. To add that extra bit of oink, we tossed racks of bacon in the smoker to infuse the smoking malt.
Read the AJC Fall Dining Guide, Atlanta Around the Clock, here .
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