Press Release:
(Orange County, CA) – The Bruery® & Bruery Terreux® are set to launch statewide distribution in Kentucky starting June 8 through Heidelberg Kentucky. This will be the first time their portfolio of experimental and barrel-aged beers will be available in the state. Kentucky is the 28th state to be added to the company’s national distribution footprint.
Sr. Director of Operations Jonas Nemura will be present at launch events in Lexington, Louisville, and Bellevue. Nemura has headed distribution at the company since its beginnings in 2008. “After many years of sourcing bourbon barrels from Kentucky, we’re looking forward to sending our beer into the market,” commented Nemura. “Heidelberg came highly recommended from our brewer friends, and after speaking with them about beer and strategy, I’m confident we’ve found a great partner.”
“We are both proud and excited to be appointed as the wholesale partner for The Bruery in the Commonwealth of Kentucky,” expressed Chris Emmons, Director of Craft at Heidelberg Kentucky.
The Bruery & Bruery Terreux have gained notoriety in the craft beer industry for their clean and sour barrel programs. Collectively housing one of the largest barrel cellars in the nation, the company has long used cooperage sourced from Kentucky, without their beer being available in the state. This made the growth of distribution into the market a natural fit.
“The desire to bring our beers to Kentucky is largely selfish— I’m a huge fan of bourbon, so much so that we age a good portion of our beer in over 2,000 bourbon barrels that were sourced from the Bluegrass State,” said CEO & Founder Patrick Rue. “There also happens to be many great beer bars and retailers where I think our beers would fit right in,” he added.
At launch, fans can expect to find several distributed beers from both The Bruery & Bruery Terreux in local craft beer establishments. Among the beers coming to market will be Jardinier™, The Bruery’s hoppy and sessionable Belgian-style table beer made with noble hops (90 Pts. Wine Enthusiast) and Poterie™, the solera-blended eighth anniversary ale 100% aged in bourbon barrels. Bruery Terreux brands at launch include Saison Rue®, an effervescent farmhouse-style ale brewed with rye and Brettanomyces (98 Pts. Wine Enthusiast) and Frucht™: Passion Fruit, a limited release sour aged in one of Bruery Terreux’s massive 250 BBL oak foeders, with passion fruit added.
For updates about launch events and beer releases, follow @thebruery and @brueryterreux on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
ABOUT THE BRUERY & BRUERY TERREUX
The Bruery was founded in 2008 by Patrick Rue, now a Master Cicerone®, after he found homebrewing to be of greater interest than a career in law. Innovation has driven The Bruery to create one-of-a-kind barrel-aged, sour, and experimental beers since its inception. In 2015, The Bruery moved its sour beer production to the Bruery Terreux co-brand based in Anaheim, while The Bruery continues to craft non sour and spirit-barrel aged beers at its original site in Placentia. Rue’s award-winning beers range from high-ABV spirit barrel-aged specialties, like their coveted Black Tuesday®, to light and sessionable homages to historical styles, such as Hottenroth® Berliner Weisse.
Fans of The Bruery & Bruery Terreux can look for these beers in the state of Kentucky starting June 8th:
from The Bruery
Jardinier™, Belgian-style hoppy pale brewed with noble hops
Or Xata®, horchata-inspired blonde ale with cinnamon, vanilla, rice, lactose
White Oak, bourbon barrel-aged wheatwine-style and golden ale blend
Poterie™, eighth anniversary bourbon barrel-aged old ale blended using the solera method
from Bruery Terreux
Saison Rue®, farmhouse-style ale brewed with rye and fermented with Brettanomyces
Gypsy Tart™, tart and malty Flemish-style brown ale
Humulus Terreux™, hoppy and funky pale 100% fermented with Brettanomyces
Tart of Darkness®, sour stout aged in twice-used bourbon barrels
Frucht™: Passion Fruit, tart wheat beer aged in an oak foeder with passion fruit added
Draft specialties only at launch events include:
Humulus Lager®, hoppy lager brewed with rice and three pounds of hops per BBL
Mash™, bourbon barrel-aged English-style barleywine
Mélange No.3™, blend of bourbon-barrel aged imperial stout and bourbon-barrel aged wheat-wine
Confession™, sour blonde with Riesling grapes from Fess Parker Vineyards
Tart of Darkness® with Cherries & Vanilla, barrel-aged sour stout with cherries and vanilla
Saixon™, farmhouse-style ale with Brettanomyces and three generations of German hops