Beale St. Brewing Co. is starting up a small-batch beer project called the Tiny Brew Desk Series, and the first beer from the series is dropping today, April 19, on the eve of 4/20.
“Where’z Da Bud,” 5.5% ABV, is a dank, hemp-infused pale ale that will be sold exclusively in the taproom of Soul & Spirits Brewery, where Beale St. Brewing has been contract brewing.
Where’z Da Bud was brewed with hemp seed, but the added Skywalker OG “terpenes” really take things up a notch, adding pungent aromas of cannabis and citrus.
The beer was dry-hopped with Simcoe and Meridian hops and fermented with a Chico yeast strain, which is one of the most widely-used craft yeast strains on the West Coast.
Where’z Da Bud was canned Thursday and goes on sale today at 4:20 p.m. at Soul & Spirits. Beale St. Brewing founder Kelvin Kolheim is throwing a release party there — a “mental staycation,” he’s calling it — to celebrate the beer and high holiday.
“We want to have a three-day mental staycation. You know, celebrate 420, relax and enjoy yourself. Just be kind, be good. Just take care of you,” Kolheim told Memphis Beer Blog.
Only seven barrels, or 217 gallons, of Where’z Da Bud was brewed.
The beer will be available on draft at Soul & Spirits, 845 N. Main, and four-packs of 16-oz. cans will also be sold there to go.
Where’z Da Bud gets its name from the early 1990s Memphis-grown pot anthem, “Where’s Da Bud,” from Lord Infamous, which later landed on Three 6 Mafia’s 1997 album, The End. The song’s piano riff samples Issac Hayes’ “Ike’s Mood I” from 1970.
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