Extra Special Barney

This was the first of this year's Brewer's Share beers by Full Sail Brewing Company of Hood River, Oregon. (I blipped the second beer a few weeks ago).

For those of you who can't be bothered to click on the above link, here's Full Sail's explanation of the Brewer's Share Series.

In 2008 we created our small batch Brewer's Share series as an opportunity for each of our individual brewers to express their creations to be shared on tap exclusively in our pub. Since our crew came up with so many great beers, we decided to share a selection of them with beer lovers everywhere.
 
Our Brewer's Share small batch offerings will be available in 22oz. bottles and on draft. The beers in our 2012 line-up include Extra Special Barney, Phil's Existential Alt, Chris's Summer Delight Berliner Weiss and Big Daddy J's Malt Liquor. 

With each Brewer's Share series beer each brewer picks a local charity or organization to receive a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the beer. We will release one Brewer's Share at a time and a new beer will be released for each season.

Barney Brennan, the creator of this special brew, has chosen to support Columbia Gorge Arts in Education, an organization which provides visual, literary, and performing arts education to local kindergarten through 12th grade students .

After working in the yard this sunny afternoon, Barney's ESB was a real treat.

Good job, Barney!