When Kansas City and Tampa were set to compete in the biggest football game of the year, our head brewer set up a friendly wager with an old classmate from his days at brewing school in Germany who is now the operations manager at Cigar City Brewing in Tampa. The bet was simple: the brewery whose team wins the game would earn the right to select a style of beer for the other brewery to brew — and name the beer after the winning team’s victory.
Unfortunately, we didn’t win, and while our opponents celebrated their victory with a boat parade through downtown Tampa, we got to work brewing our first-ever beer using ingredients other than water, yeast and imported German malt and hops.
This imperial stout has several ingredients forbidden by the Reinheitsgebot (German Beer Purity Law of 1516) — the guiding principle at the very core of our brewery — including unmalted barley, oats, vanilla beans and cacao nibs. It’s rich, sweet, and tastes like defeat. Bottles of Boat Parade are now sold out.
A portion of bottle and draft sales will be donated to Operation Breakthrough to support children in underserved Kansas City communities. Thank you for your support!
| ABValcohol by volume | IBUbitterness | Color |
|---|---|---|
| 12.5% ABV | 40 |
