As part of the release celebration for the Spire’s End Special Edition next spring, Solemn Oath Brewery and I are planning a special Spire’s End beer for the event, tentatively a pale ale brewed specifically for the collaboration.

Marge Merriwether made her debut in Maren’s Collection, the bridge expansion between Hildegard and Spire’s End: Volume 1, worth checking out if you haven’t already.

Marge felt like the natural choice for the collab. She’s already an accomplished cook for the Baroness, so apparently adding brewmaster to her résumé wasn’t much of a stretch.

For the occasion, Bertho Horn created a special piece of artwork just for the can.

A quick note on what you’re seeing below: this is the first draft of the label, not final production artwork. Planning meetings have already taken place and the collaboration is very much in motion, but there’s still plenty of work between now and next spring. The artwork, copy, beer itself, can size and format, and other production details may all evolve as the final release comes together. Solemn Oath and I want the creative freedom to make the finished beer exactly what it needs to be.

The artwork is wonderfully cheeky, completely in the spirit of the brewery celebration, and I figured: why not make a card out of it too?

Only a small number of backers will be close enough to Chicago to experience the release celebration in person, so I wanted there to be a little piece of the event that could make its way to everyone who helped make the Special Edition happen!

So, if we make it all the way to $125,000, I’ll add this alternate Marge character card to the Special Edition as a memento of the Solemn Oath celebration and one last toast to the campaign.

Let’s make it a full round. Drinks are on Marge ~Greg