Our 'Brothers from another Mother' recently paid us a visit for our annual Extreme Beer Fest brew day. Through the laughter and stories of past EBF encounters, we actually found time to brew.

The beer is a beautifully F’ed up Export Style Stout (usually a drier more lean version of an Imperial Stout, but still, an Imperial Stout). We added roasted buckwheat and Chinese heirloom forbidden rice to the mash, and the ever-omnivorous Chico yeast was used for fermentation. 

Clocking in at 9% ABV, this brew comes in fairly low on the IBU scale at 25, allowing the specialty ingredients to really shine through.  Sounds interesting enough, right? Well, this is where things get really interesting …

• - Post-fermentation the beer is split between two previously used oak wine barrels—one red, one white. 
• - The red wine barrel is dosed with Blueberries, Blackberries, Zante Currants, Pluots, Mission Figs and Aseel Dates.
• - The white wine barrel gets Mango, Kiwi, Papaya, Pineapple and Calypso Hops.

Both versions will premier at the Extreme Beer Fest pre-party, Black Is The New Black, on March 19, 2015, at Olde Magoun's Saloon in Somerville, Mass. They'll of course be poured at EBF on March 20 and 21, too.

In honor of this annual fest we thought it would be downright cool if the naming of the beer came from the same community of beer lovers who have made EBF such a successful experience. After receiving and reviewing hundreds of submissions, Sam, Jason, and Todd were able to find the perfect pair of names.

Congrats to Konrad, who submitted: ExtRemus (red) & ExtRomulus (white)!

Big thanks to everyone who submitted an entry. We appreciate your support, creativity and passion.

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the pre-throwdown and EBF.

Cheers!