Auburn's Prison City Pub & Brewery will have an early Christmas present for the region's craft beer fans.
The 28 State St. brewpub announced Thursday that it will release its next batch of Mass Riot India pale ale — the beer that of the style this summer — Thursday through Sunday, Dec. 15 through 18.
Each day, Prison City will sell 60 Crowlers (32-ounce cans) of the coveted IPA for customers to take home. It will also tap two kegs of the beer for draught servings each day.
Monday, Paste Magazine released the results of its annual blind-tasting and ranking of Ameri…
This month's will be the third Mass Riot release for Prison City since the hazy, New England-style IPA beat out 246 other beers for the top spot in Paste's rankings. The first release, which took place Sept. 11, saw for 120 Crowlers of Mass Riot. The second, two weeks later, saw a draught-only release due to the demand.
People are also reading…
Prison City also announced three other beer releases in December. Dec. 7, it'll release brewer 's new Cascade-orade, a 4-percent sour ale dry-hopped with cascade and chinook hops from Ledyard Farms. The next week, on Dec. 13, it'll release Maeso's Straight Outta LoCash porter, as well as a Christmas version, Straight Outta No-Po, that adds coffee and candied ginger.
The releases coincide with , which started Thursday. Having bought the basement space below it, the brewpub is setting up fermenters, a dedicated barrel-aging area and more in the 1,000-square-foot addition. Prison City co-owner Marc Schulz told мÓƶà¶à¿ª½±¼Ç¼ in November that the expansion should triple its production, from 300-400 to 900-1,200 barrels annually.
December will also see Prison City celebrate its second anniversary. It'll host a party Dec. 15 with more than 10 house beers on tap, including Mass Riot, its Great American Beer Festival silver medal-winning Bleek Worden Belgian pale ale, limited release barrel-aged and cask beers, sours and more.
Gallery: Crowd lines up for release of Prison City Pub & Brewery's Mass Riot IPA
On Sept. 11, 2016, Prison City Pub & Brewery in Auburn re-released its Mass Riot, the India pale ale that . The brewpub previously announced that only 120 Crowlers (32-ounce cans) of Mass Riot would be available at noon, and a line formed outside Prison City's State Street doors in anticipation of the release.
Lake Life Editor David Wilcox can be reached at (315) 282-2245 or david.wilcox@lee.net. Follow him on Twitter .