AURORA | For some, beer and bong rips are like peanut butter and jelly — they seem to compliment each other so well.
The folks at Dad and Dude’s Breweria and Dude’s Brews, their packaged-beer arm, have never shied away from their fondness for that combo, serving up pot-themed pizzas and brews over the years.
Now, the brewery near East Arapahoe Road and Parker Road in Aurora is taking the pairing a step further.
This week they announced plans for a cannabis-infused line of beers to be released this fall. The “Canna-Beer Series” — beers be heavily dosed with cannabidiol extracted from the cannabis plant — will be available during the 2015 Great American Beer Festival.
The first two beers to be released in the series are the Sativa IPA and Indica Double IPA.
“Finding a legal hemp oil was difficult,” owner Mason “Dude” Hembree said in a news release. “Locally cultivated cannabis is not legal for brewers, yet.”
Head brewer Brian Connery said in the release that the beers are “the final word” in Colorado-style session IPAs.
“It not only smells like the good stuff, but it has it in there, too,” he said.
A couple Aurora-area brewers and several other Colorado beer makers will be part of a corn hole tournament this weekend at Two Penguins Tap & Grill in Centennial.
The event’s special tap list will include Dry Dock Brewing Co. 2014 Ambassador Sour Ale and Double IPA, as well as Copper Kettle Brewing Co. Helles Lager and Brett Golden Ale, aged in red wine barrels. Other brewers at the event — which is set for 5 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Two Penguins, 13065 E. Briarwood Ave. — include Fort Collins Brewery, Epic Brewing Co., Chain Reaction Brewing Co. and Renegade Brewing Co.
Here are some of the brews flowing this weekend in Aurora:
At Coda Brewing Co., the Strawberry Dragondeer Tart Saison will be tapped Friday for the Dragondeer concert, which starts at 6 p.m.
At Dry Dock, the LocALE pale ale with packed with honey is flowing Friday evening, and at Copper Kettle, the toasted coconut milk stout is tapped.
And last, at Mu Brewery, they have something particularly interesting. Owner and brewer Nathan Flatland said Mu’s Beer-a-mu-su is tapped, a blonde ale Flatland says “tastes identical to tiramisu.”