Rhode Island-based brewery Narragansett is launching a line of beers influenced by legendary horror fiction writer, H.P. Lovecraft. According to Boston Magazine, the company will release their Lovecraft Honey Ale — the first of the four-part beer series — on January 19, the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, one of Lovecraft's biggest influences. For the Honey Ale — which is brewed with two kinds of hops, honey, and five types of malt — Narragansett collaborated with fellow Rhode Island company, Revival Brewing.
It's also fitting that Lovecraft himself was a Rhode Island native, and was born the same year as Narragansett was founded. The series is in celebration of the brewery's 125th anniversary. Next up in the series is Innsmouth Old Ale — which is inspired by the novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth — that will be released in April.
Narragansett has a history of partnering up with other Rhode Island companies to create beers. Last summer, the brewery teamed up with Del's Lemonade to create a shandy, and this winter to create a milk stout with Autocrat Coffee Syrup.