Pearl Jam and Dogfish Head brewery have teamed up to produce a beer honoring the pioneering grunge band.
Named Faithfull, the beer hits taps at the brewery on October 19, and the rest of us can expect to see it on store shelves in the following weeks.
The release of this specialty beer coincides with PJ20, a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Pearl Jam’s iconic debut album Ten back in 1991, which includes a Cameron Crowe-directed documentary, retrospective book, and 10-date Canadian tour.
“To me, Ten is the perfect example of a record-lover’s-record. The whole thing rocks… As an off-centered brewery, we believe in celebrating the breadth of our whole portfolio and we feel an affinity for Pearl Jam a long-player band in a singles-obsessed world,” Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione wrote on the brewery’s blog.
The Dogfish Head blog also describes the Pearl Jam-inspired brew as a “Belgian-style golden ale delicately hopped to 20 IBUs and fruit-forward from 10 incremental additions of black currants over a one-hour boil. Faithfull will clock in at 7% ABV.”
Could the 10 berries be a nod to the album?
This is not the first dip into rock n’ roll for Dogfish Head.
2010 saw the release of Bitches Brew, a tribute to the 40th anniversary of Miles Davis’ jazz fusion breakthrough, and earlier this year Hellhound on my Ale was brewed in time for the 100th birthday of jazzman Robert Johnson.
In keeping with Pearl Jam’s activist leanings, Calagione has decided to donate $20,000 to Nature Conservancy.
