Dayton Beer Company announces collaboration beer

The Dayton Beer Company next week will unveil a new limited-release beer in collaboration with The Requarth Co. in downtown Dayton.

The DBC “Requarth Co. Upright Kolsch” will be released Wednesday, July 20 at both DBC locations, in downtown Dayton and in Kettering. The following week, it will become available in cans at retail locations throughout the Dayton area.

DBC founder and brewmaster Pete Hilgeman described the beer as a “hoppy German kolsch” that pays homage to both family-owned companies’ German roots while adding “a little modern day twist with a light dry hopping to lend notes of pine, berry, and fruitiness.”

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“We wanted to do something outside of the box with this collaboration,” Hilgeman said. “Requarth helped to build our brewery and has been a family run business for over a century. We share similar company cultures even though we are in quite different areas of business.”

Requarth was founded in 1860 and sold lumber to the Wright Brothers. The beer’s name comes from Orville Wright’s journal, in an entry on Jan. 19, 1904, in which Orville wrote, “Bought lumber for making ribs and uprights from Requarth Co.”

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Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006.