Bayside Partner with Oskar Blues Brewery for Bayside Black IPA
BAYSIDE PARTNER WITH OSKAR BLUES BREWERY FOR BAYSIDE BLACK IPA
PRODUCTION LIMITED TO 100 BARRELS: PRE-ORDER NOW VIACRAFTSHACK.COM
LYONS, Colo., July 2016 – Bayside, who release their new album, Vacancy, on Aug. 19 via Hopeless Records, have partnered with craft-beer-in-a-can brewery Oskar Blues for a limited edition IPA, Bayside Black.
The beer, which features a malty backbone with bright, citrusy hops, will be limited to 100 barrels and available for a pre-order bundle with the new album via Craftshack(http://craftshack.com/pages/craftshack-delivers-music-and-craft-beer; availability restricted to participating states). The cans will also be available at Total Wine & More, as well as select venues with a special focus on stores/venues along Bayside’s tour (dates below).
“The challenges of creating a Black IPA is that when creating a recipe, one has to be very careful to balance the hop bitterness and malt bitterness,” Oskar Blues’ Head Brewer at Oskar Blues Brewery Lyons Juice Drapeau explains. “Dark malts can have astringent characteristics to them so the key is to really achieve a clean hop bitterness to compliment the potential malt bitterness. Also, another important aspect of Black IPAs is to layer a variety of crystal malts and dark malts so that the malt character in the beer has a lot of depth and complexity.”
“I’ve been a big fan of Oskar Blues for a long time and it’s amazing that we get to collaborate with them. It’s one of my favorite styles of beer and one of my favorite breweries. I can’t wait to try some!” added Bayside guitar player Jack O’Shea.
Bayside “Inside The Track” video for “Pretty Vacant”
Bayside recently shared the official music video for “Pretty Vacant”: http://smarturl.it/prettyvacantas well as the first of a series of behind-the-scenes clips that bring fans inside the studio singer/guitar player Anthony Raneri and O’Shea. The candid clips tackle each of the album’s 11 songs, with the first video available here
Pre-orders for Vacancy are available now (http://smarturl.it/Vacancy), with digital pre-orders offering an instant download of “Enemy Lines” and “Pretty Vacant.” Physical pre-orders, vinyl, cd as well as various merch bundles can be found here: http://bayside.merchnow.com/.
Bayside’s North American tour kicks off on Aug. 11 in Ft. Lauderdale, with The Menzingers and Sorority Noise along as support for the five-week outing. Tickets are available now viawww.baysidebayside.com.
Tour dates:
August 11 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
August 12 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
August 13 Atlanta, GA Wrecking Ball Festival
August 14 Charlotte, NC Amos Southend
August 15 Norfolk, VA NorVa
August 17 Baltimore, MD Rams Head
August 18 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
August 19 New York, NY PlayStation Theater
August 20 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
August 21 Boston, MA House of Blues
August 23 Pittsburgh, PA Spirit Hall
August 24 Cleveland, OH Agora
August 25 Toronto, ON Opera House
August 26 Detroit, MI The Majestic
August 27 Chicago, IL 350 Fest
August 28 Minneapolis, MN Mill City Nights
August 30 Denver, CO Gothic Theatre
August 31 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
September 2 Seattle, WA The Showbox
September 3 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
September 4 San Francisco Regency
September 6 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory
September 7 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theater
September 8 San Diego, CA The Observatory North Park
September 9 Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn Bowl
September 10 Phoenix, AZ The Pressroom
September 11 Albuquerque, NM The Sunshine Theater
September 13 San Antonio, TX Alamo City Music Hall
September 14 Houston, TX House of Blues
September 15 Dallas, TX Gas Monkey Live
September 16 Lawrence, KS Granada Theater
September 17 St. Louis, MO The Ready Room
September 18 Nashville, TN Exit/In
About Oskar Blues Brewery
Founded by Dale Katechis in 1997 in Lyons, Colo., Oskar Blues Brewery launched the craft beer-in-a-can apocalypse with hand-canned, flagship brew Dale’s Pale Ale. Today, Oskar Blues is one of the fastest growing breweries in the country and operates breweries in Longmont, Colo. and Brevard, N.C., while producing 192,000 barrels in 2015. The original canned craft brewery continues push innovation with the announcement of an Austin, Tex. brewery in April of 2016 and creations like The Crowler while it distributes to 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., as well as parts of Canada, Sweden, Australia and the U.K.
In 2013, Oskar Blues founded the CAN’d Aid Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that offers grassroots grants to those making a difference in the areas of community, the environment, music, and more. In 2015 alone, CAN’d Aid partnered with 52 organizations and raised $2 million to date. CAN’d Aid’s “do-goodery” efforts include:
* Towns – building strong communities
* Tunes – for your eyeholes and earholes
* Treads + Trails – get outside and get after it
* Love Yur Mama – save the blue marble
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