This weekend, in collaboration with Whinny City Pony Con 2018 hosted in Schaumburg, Naperville’s own Solemn Oath Brewery will be releasing Whinny City — A Collaboration, an American India Pale Ale with pink guava and edible luster.
Following a trend that swept across the beer world in early March, Solemn Oath is teaming up with a Chicago ‘Pony Con’ to release what seems to be Illinois’ first glitter beer. While 2018 does not mark the first time a brewery has experimented with edible glitter in beer, it does mark a time when brewers are seemingly more willing to go to extremes to produce good looking beer for the sake of producing good looking beer.
The booming popularity of Northeastern-style hazy IPAs in the past couple of years has seen breweries around the world creating beers that are meant to look a certain way. Pioneered by East Coast breweries such as Trillium, The Alchemist and Hill Farmstead, these hazy IPAs are unfiltered to lend a juice-like opacity to the final product. With the trend moving so far away from the crystal clear, filtered West Coast IPAs of days past it seems like the only logical next step is to add some glitter to your snifter… right? We’ll just have to wait and see.
For those interested in the health aspects of edible glitter, Jeff Alworth at the Beervana Blog recently published “Glitter Beer: The Full Report,” which gives an in-depth look at some of the women at the forefront of ‘glitter beer’ and looks at some of the health risks that may or may not be associated with edible glitter.
You can purchase your own glitter beer starting this weekend until supplies last at Winny City Pony Con or Solemn Oath Brewery on Quincy Avenue in Naperville.
