Someone at Johnson City Brewing's Downtown taproom apparently spent some amount of time developing a house-made chai concentrate. That is, on its own, a slightly unusual amount of effort for a beer that only exists as a very limited batch.
Chai Lager is exactly what it sounds like: a lager brewed with that in-house chai concentrate, coming in at 4.5% ABV, on draft at both the Walnut Street and Boones Creek locations starting Wednesday, July 29th. The brewery is treating it as a one-off rather than a flagship, so there is no five-paragraph backstory here, just a taproom manager who made a concentrate good enough to build a beer around. Johnson City also runs a quarterly "beer poking" event, where a red-hot fire poker gets plunged straight into a mug to caramelize the sugars, which is a considerably higher-effort tradition than most breweries bother with.
Available now through the last week of July, at both locations, while the keg lasts.