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Sly Fox Brewing debuts a beer and punk rock tour dedicated to just-retired craft beer pioneer Carol Stoudt

March 2, 2020Pretty Much a Press Release

Carol Stoudt

Punk isn’t a music category, it’s a state of mind. Punk attitude can be injected into any endeavor. You see it all the time in business. Misfits who defy the industry standard carve out their own defiant path. They’re the ones you remember — the needle movers, the groundbreakers, the disrupters, the punks of the industry who advance and innovate.

In that spirit, Sly Fox Brewing is letting it be known that one such craft beer revolutionary, Carol Stoudt, the first female brewmaster in Pennsylvania since Prohibition, retired in February. Enjoy this career retrospective and word of a cool beer / concert tour collaboration dedicated to her this year.

1987: What a time to be alive!

Stoudts Brewing Company, nestled in the quiet farmlands between Philadelphia’s northwestern suburbs and Lancaster, became a 30-barrel destination brewery including indoor and outdoor biergartens, a bakery, a cheese-making facility, and a 70,000 square foot antique mall. They were innovators in many respects, and brewers that followed learned from Carol Stoudt who, along with her supportive husband Ed, built a regional brewery based on German authenticity.

Throughout the years, Stoudts has been a friend in the brewing community, and Carol personally provided encouragement and tangible support to many startups including Sly Fox Brewing Company.

“The brewing community is full of great people,” reflects Sly Fox founder Pete Giannopoulos, “but Carol is a gem among gems.”

2020: The End of an Era

Carol Stoudt announced her retirement in February. Stoudts Brewing Company will continue to brew beer for their restaurant, but Carol is officially out of the game.

“I did my part. Now it is up to the new generation to continue the tradition of innovation that defines craft beer.” she said

Under Carol’s leadership, Stoudts Brewing became synonymous with quality and is one of the most awarded craft breweries in the industry. Carol and her team at Stoudts brewed an impressive portfolio of beers in the time-tested German tradition of Reinheitsgebot, only using the purist minimal ingredients.

“Coming up as a craft brewery in the 90s, we looked up to Stoudts and admired their attention to detail and passion for the craft.” continued Pete Giannopoulos.

Tribute Collaboration

To celebrate Carol and the storied history that is Stoudts Brewing Company, Sly Fox recently collaborated with the Adamstown brewery on a special tribute beer.

“We teamed up with the original beer rebels at Stoudts to create a beer that bucks current trends and pays homage to the rich history of craft lagers in southeast PA spearheaded by Carol and her brewing family,” offers Tim Ohst, Sly Fox Brewing Company Director of Brewery Operations. “What’s more punk rock than a black lager in a simply labeled sixteen ounce can?”

Stoudts and Sly Fox drew upon years of lagering experience to develop the collaborative beer, a schwarzbier simply called Black Lager. Pouring a brilliant jet black thanks to additions of Midnight Wheat and de-husked roasted malts, this lager is balanced and crisp with an incredibly clean finish. These sessionable pounders come emblazoned with graphics paying homage to the punk spirit of yore.

Black Lager is currently available in kegs and cans throughout Pennsylvania and Maryland.

The Punks of Beer Tour

To celebrate and promote the release of the collaboration, the team booked a series of punk shows at some of their favorite live music venues known for championing craft beer. Line-ups at the energetic concerts– where Black Lager flows like London Calling into Brand New Cadillac– feature regional acts that still define the spirit of punk rock.

“In a world of mass-produced music and corporate IPAs, you can still find people pushing the envelope,” says Corey Reid, Sly Fox Sales Manager and veteran punk drummer.

Reid’s band Big Green Limousine is one of several on the Black Lager Punks of Beer Tour that has touched down at Johnny Brenda’s and Milkboy so far with stops at the Parks & Wreck Fest at Lancaster’s Chameleon Club and West Reading’s Nitro Bar still to come. Other bands on the dynamic bill have included Urinal Cake and Dead Belly.

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