Staff of the Lake Placid Pub & Brewery, Big Slide Brewery & Public House and Great Adirondack Brewing Company toast with Symbiosis, their new Brett IPA and the first beer the Lake Placid institutions have collaborated on. Pictured from left are (top row) Kevin Litchfield, Catherine Ericson, Clint Green and Jason Scull, and (bottom row) Chris Ericson, T.J. Myers and Rob Kane. (Photo provided)

LAKE PLACID — What happens when iconic Lake Placid breweries team up for the first time? A limited-release sour India pale ale in honor of National IPA Day.

Brewers at the Lake Placid Pub & Brewery, Big Slide Brewery and Great Adirondack Brewing Company partnered to brew Symbiosis, a Brett IPA. It’s a limited-release sour IPA described as “slightly tart, straw-colored with a blend of two Brettanomyces strains, and a bountiful addition of modern American hops. Notes of lemon and grapefruit cohabiting with subtle hints of apricot and melon.”

The beer was tapped at Big Slide Brewery & Public House and Great Adirondack Brewing on Thursday in celebration of National IPA Day. Both breweries will feature the beer at Lake Placid Brewfest on Saturday, Sept. 23.

Lake Placid Pub & Brewery and Great Adirondack Brewing Company were founded during the mid-1990s microbrewery movement, which started to shift American beer drinkers away from the oligopoly in which a few large beer companies controlled the national market. Lake Placid Pub & Brewery grew out of P.J. O’Neill’s pub, and Great Adirondack from the Great Adirondack Steak & Seafood restaurant.

Lake Placid Pub & Brewery started mass-distributing its beer in 2001, and Great Adirondack now does so as well. In 2015, the Lake Placid Pub & Brewery opened Big Slide Brewery as a second location with different food and beer varieties.

“Since the mid-’90s, our breweries have been producing world-class beers about a mile from each other here in Lake Placid,” said Chris Ericson, owner and founder of Lake Placid Pub & Brewery and Big Slide.

“And we thought it was time to collaborate on a beer to celebrate our brewing heritage,” he continued. “Our companies have always had a strong respect for each other, and we share an unyielding passion for consistent, high-quality, great-tasting craft beer. It was a pleasure working with the staff at Great Adirondack, and we are thrilled with the beer.”

“We were excited to put all of the brewers together in a room to design and then brew this unique IPA”, said Great Adirondack Brewing Company owner Rob Kane. “When we both opened, there were less than 40 breweries in New York, and now there are over 360. We believe that our brewing teams are making some of the best beers in New York.”