--- title: Ben & Jerry's Is Making Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Beer description: Ben & Jerry's announced that it will team up with New Belgium Brewing to produce a Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ale canonical: https://time.com/4378109/ben-and-jerry-cookie-dough-beer-new-belgium/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-22T15:03:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:38.343Z og:title: Ben & Jerry's Is Making Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Beer og:description: A new way to consume a pint og:url: https://time.com/4378109/ben-and-jerry-cookie-dough-beer-new-belgium/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt898120d18c33e5d1/698898ef428a9ea489cd323c/ben-jerrys-beer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2389 og:image:height: 1344 og:image:alt: Ben-Jerrys-Beer og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ben & Jerry's Is Making Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Beer twitter:description: A new way to consume a pint twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt898120d18c33e5d1/698898ef428a9ea489cd323c/ben-jerrys-beer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ben & Jerry's Is Making Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Beer > Sponsored content. 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It’s also no shock that the company will use their new product to benefit a cause they care about: $50,000 of the proceeds from their Cookie Dough Ale will go to [Protect Our Winters (POW)](http://protectourwinters.org/), which advocates for climate change action. “Working with New Belgium Brewing and Protect Our Winters to be able to impact climate was a highlight of 2015, and so, we’re doing it again,” [said Jay Curley,](http://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/cookie-dough-beer) Senior Global Marketing Manager of Ben & Jerry’s. “This new beer is delicious and unique and the issue of climate change is still increasingly urgent.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4378109/ben-and-jerry-cookie-dough-beer-new-belgium/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4378109/ben-and-jerry-cookie-dough-beer-new-belgium/"},"headline":"Ben & Jerry's Is Making Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Beer","datePublished":"2016-06-22T15:03:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:38.343Z","description":"A new way to consume a pint","url":"https://time.com/4378109/ben-and-jerry-cookie-dough-beer-new-belgium/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Beer","Companies","Food & Beverage"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt898120d18c33e5d1/698898ef428a9ea489cd323c/ben-jerrys-beer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt898120d18c33e5d1/698898ef428a9ea489cd323c/ben-jerrys-beer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ben-Jerrys-Beer","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4378109/ben-and-jerry-cookie-dough-beer-new-belgium/","name":"Ben & Jerry's Is Making Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Beer"}}]}] ```