Tampa's Cigar City Brewing has been chosen as one of 12 breweries throughout the nation to be featured in a variety 12-pack by Sierra Nevada next summer.

The 12-pack will be created in celebration of Sierra Nevada's multi-weekend, west-to-east tour of regional festivals ending with the summer 2014 opening of a new brewery in Mills River, N.C.

Each of the 12 breweries will create a special beer - one beer per brewery for the pack - when Cigar City Brewing and 11 others will visit Chico, Calif., where Sierra Nevada is based, for a "beer camp" where they'll begin crafting their special brews in the spring of 2014.

In addition to Cigar City, other featured breweries will include:

  • Allagash Brewing Company, Portland, ME
  • Ballast Point Brewing Company, San Diego, CA
  • Bell’s Brewery, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI
  • Firestone Walker Brewing Co., Paso Robles, CA
  • New Glarus Brewing Company, New Glarus, WI
  • Ninkasi Brewing Company, Eugene, OR
  • Oskar Blues Brewing Company, Longmont, CO
  • Russian River Brewing Company, Santa Rosa, CA
  • Three Floyds Brewing, LLC, Munster, IN
  • Victory Brewing Company, Downingtown, PA
  • Local brewing community in Asheville, NC

“We want to highlight the success of craft beer, not just our own next step,” said Sierra Nevada founder Ken Grossman. “Craft brewers are a close bunch, and we’ve all helped each other get to this point. This is a fun way to showcase even just a fraction of the talent that’s out there, and somehow 12 beers doesn’t feel like enough. If this weren’t already a logistical mammoth, we’d brew with even more of our great peers.”

For more information, visit sierranevada.com.