Deschutes Brewery releases Humm Zinger, a kombucha radler collaboration with Humm Kombucha

Deschutes Brewery Humm Zinger

The next beer to appear in cans from Deschutes Brewery isn’t really a beer at all, but a kombucha radler, Humm Zinger, a collaboration with Bend’s Humm Kombucha. Humm is among the largest kombucha brewers in the state (though I don’t know if anyone is tracking commercial kombucha barrelage to know if it is the largest).  For Oregon, and Bend in particular, a komucha/beer blend was simply a matter of time.

Here’s the press release:

Deschutes Brewery introduces Humm Zinger, a collaboration with fellow Bend, Oregon, craft innovator Humm Kombucha. This unique kombucha radler combines Humm’s tangy grapefruit with the iconic Cascade hops, and Pilsner malt that Deschutes Brewery uses in many of its beers. The finished brew has an ABV of 4.3% and 12 IBUs making it a crisp and invigorating fresh twist on a radler, just in time for summer.

Humm Zinger will release later this month in 12-ounce, 6-pack cans with a limited distribution focus in the Pacific Northwest. The idea for Humm Zinger began over three years ago. Three years and one hundred thirty trials later…this zinger is born! Read the full story here on our blog.

The blog post linked in the release has more details, including a bit on the blend: ” using Pilsner malt that we use in many of our beers combined with a kettle sour from the pub combined with a specialty Humm brew that pairs tangy grapefruit with the iconic Cascade hops.”

And… 130 trials might a record? Over the years Deschutes has been offering versions of this on tap at its Bend pub, and occasionally at events. But you have to be pretty dedicated to run through over a hundred versions of it just to get it just right.

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