Fretboard will keep you well-oiled with their Bootsy Collins signature IPA

Bootsy Collins [middle] with the Fretboard Brewing Company team (Image credit: Twitter: Bootsy Collins)

Flamboyant legend of bass guitar Bootsy Collins has teamed up with Cincinnati's Fretboard for a signature IPA, the Bootsy Brewski.

Clocking in at 7 per cent ABV, with citrus notes for the fore, Bootsy's IPA will certainly get you ready – or over-ready – for show time in no time. The beer is debuting on 16 August at Fretboard's Over The Top Festival, the proceeds of which go to Cincinnati community initiative Operation Give Back.

Indeed, some of the proceeds from selling Bootsy's Brewski will go to the Bootsy Collins Foundation.

Over The Top promises two days of beer, arm-wrestling and music, in no particular order. See Fretboard Brewing Company for more details.

Jonathan Horsley has been writing about guitars and guitar culture since 2005, playing them since 1990, and regularly contributes to MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitar World. He uses Jazz III nylon picks, 10s during the week, 9s at the weekend, and shamefully still struggles with rhythm figure one of Van Halen’s Panama.