The band has taken these similarities between making music and brewing and collaborated with Schirner to make Retro Heartbreak, a white stout celebrating both the band and her brewery.
The beer, which will be released on March 6, is the first addition to Mirror Image’s Klywood Exploration Series, for which the brewery is allowing local home brewers to use the facility to create and release a beer. Retro Heartbreak was produced in collaboration with home brewers Janti Klimecki and Nick Lockwood.
Josh Eherenman, Tony Greco, Bart McCune and Andrew Kunkle of Black & White Motion Picture met Schirner last year during a brewery tour at Mirror Image. Eherenman noticed that her company had named a number of beers after Queens of the Stone Age songs (a citrus IPA named after Into the Hollow, and the Belgian Wit named after “Make It Wit Chu”), and he posed the idea of a collaboration. At the time, the band was gearing up to release its self-titled debut album, and COVID’s effect on
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