Ol' Leghorn

Description

What’s better than drinking with friends? Brewing with friends, each year Brewmaster Matt Brynildson collaborates on a special beer, inspired by the Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest. This year’s collaboration with 3 Floyd’s has deep roots in Chicagoland where Matt Brynildson & Nick Floyd first home-brewed together back in the early days of craft beer. The result of a friendship started long ago, Ol’ Leghorn is more than just a beer, it’s a time-machine.
The beer was then racked to a combination of retired bourbon barrels and new American oak wine barrels for aging at Firestone Walker Brewing Company. In fearless 3 Floyds fashion, another batch of dry-hopped Ol’ Leghorn was recently brewed for blending into the aged beer, to add a fresh, hoppy layer to the more intense spirits barrel and oaky character of the initial batch.
The result is a staggeringly hoppy blonde barleywine that will first be unveiled at the 2014 Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest.
The name Ol’ Leghorn is a nod to Old Foghorn, the original iconic American barleywine made by Anchor Brewing, by way of Foghorn Leghorn, the wisecracking Looney Toons rooster.