Two Northern Kentucky breweries to be featured in KDA’s October Kentucky Proud Beer Series

Crafting Kentucky Proud beers with Kentucky agricultural merchandise is as soon as once more the main target of this yr’s Kentucky Proud Beer Collection, the Kentucky Division of Agriculture has introduced.

Every October, Kentucky Proud companions with the Kentucky Guild of Brewers and craft breweries throughout the state to create thrilling, restricted launch beers made with domestically grown components. Now in its seventh yr, the Kentucky Proud Beer Collection showcases the range of Kentucky agriculture by the creativity of the Commonwealth’s brewers.

“Kentucky’s craft brewers will use domestically grown merchandise to brew one-of-a-kind beers and produce customers the various flavors from Kentucky’s farms,” Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles mentioned. “The Kentucky Division of Agriculture (KDA) is happy to collaborate with the Kentucky Guild of Brewers once more on what has develop into a staple of Kentucky’s fall calendar.”

“The Guild is worked up to as soon as once more accomplice with the KDA to function new Kentucky Proud beers,” mentioned Jessy Harding, Government Director of the Kentucky Guild of Brewers. “What might be higher than native beer made with native components? Nothing, when you ask us. Be a part of us in elevating a glass or two of the commonwealth’s most modern industries, craft beer and agriculture.”

This yr, for the primary time, the Kentucky Proud Beer Collection will span the whole month of October. This prolonged interval will enable for staggered releases to offer the general public extra probabilities to style these domestically grown beers. The KDA labored with the Guild to match craft brewers with Kentucky Proud producers to create the limited-release beers. All the things from domestically grown grains, honey, butternut squash, paw paws, blackberries, jalapenos, and way more can be infused into these distinctive beers to create that particular fall taste for the seventh annual collection.

Native breweries will launch their Kentucky Proud brews to the general public beginning on Oct. 3. Every collaborating brewery will give away commemorative Kentucky Proud and Kentucky Guild of Brewers branded koozies to the primary 100 clients buying its restricted launch Kentucky Proud beer.

Search for the Kentucky Proud Beer Collection brand at collaborating breweries.

Brewers collaborating within the 2022 Kentucky Proud Beer Collection embrace:

For extra details about the 2022 Kentucky Proud Beer Collection, go to kyproud.com.

Kentucky Division of Agriculture