Fort Collins brewers got together and made these 4 beers

Twenty brewers walk into a bar. There’s no punchline, it's what a collection of Fort Collins craft brewers did Monday afternoon.

The group — technically competitors — were celebrating American Craft Beer Week by tapping and toasting four beers that they made together. They were shuttled around town by Magic Bus Tours.

“It’s sort of the spirit of Fort Collins beer,” said Joe Bowden, brewer at C.B. & Potts.

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It was the seventh straight year that Fort Collins brewers collaborated in honor of the annual week-long craft beer celebration.

All four of the new beers — a hoppy amber lager, a witbier, a Belgian chaud blanc and an Americanized ESB — are on tap at D.C. Oakes Brewhouse & Eatery, 3581 E. Harmony Road, which will soon become the town’s newest craft brewery.

Each of beers are also on tap at where they were brewed. New Belgium, CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewing, McClellan’s Brewing and Gilded Goat Brewing hosted.

“You get different cooks in the kitchen,” said Peter Bouckaert, New Belgium’s brewmaster. “Everybody brings a little different input. It is always fun to put it all together.”

This year’s beers were created over a series of meetings. Each brewery operates on different equipment.

“You get so many different minds together and creativity explodes,” said Colin Westcott of Equinox Brewing. “It is fun to see what we can do together...Each beer is something completely different.”

Magic Bus Tours, which offers Fort Collins brewery tours, also shuttled the brewers around on the brew day.

Many Fort Collins brewers also now make an annual February retreat to Austin, Texas together.

“We are all good friends with each other,” Westcott said. “We like to celebrate our beers and our friendship.”

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2017 Collaborations

Ride Along. A hoppy amber lager brewed at CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewing with Intersect Brewing, Maxline Brewing, Jessup Farm Barrel House, Odell Brewing and C.B. & Potts.

Cloud River. Brettanomyces-fermented, dry-hopped witbier brewed at Gilded Goat Brewing with Pateros Creek Brewing, Rally King Brewing, D.C. Oakes Brewhouse and Three Four Beer Co.

Chaud Blanc. A Belgian-style wheat white ale brewed at New Belgium Brewing with 1933 Brewing, Soul Squared Brewing, Black Bottle Brewery, Zwei Brewing and Fort Collins Brewery.

Americanised ESB. English-style ESB with eight American hops brewed at McClellan’s Brewing with Equinox Brewing, Funkwerks, Horse & Dragon Brewing and Snowbank Brewing.