Red Brick Brewing
Red Brick 22nd Anniversary Double India Pale Ale
Red Brick 22nd Anniversary Double India Pale Ale
Red Brick Session IPA Cans Launch in Late April
Red Brick Session IPA will release in cans by the end of the April. The brewery has created a lower ABV “session” IPA just in time for the summer heat.
Red Brick Session IPA will be the second completely new package offering, just behind Red Brick Hibiscuwit that shipped in March.
This easy drinking IPA packs a flavorful punch without the bitterness. Casual Session IPA is a beautiful, light bodied ale loaded with juicy, tropical hop flavor thanks copious additions of five different hops during the dry hopping process. This beer is ideal for any activity at any time of day!
Red Brick Session IPA will be available not only in 12oz cans, but 12oz bottles, and draft.
Style: IPA
Hops: Jarrylo, El Dorado, Calypso, Citra, and Nugget
Availability: 12oz Cans, 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: Late April, 2015
4.5% ABV, 36 IBUs
Red Brick Hibiscuwit Launches in Cans In March
Red Brick Hibiscuwit is coming to 12oz cans in mid-March. What was once a draft only offering last year is getting an upgrade to package.
The recipe is the brainchild of the brewery’s Tyler Cates. He entered Hibiscuwit into Red Brick’s quarterly Employee Brew-Off, and found his kegs were the first to go.
Red Brick Hibiscuwit is a Belgian-style wheat beer, brewed with organic hibiscus, sweet orange peel, and cinnamon. Hibiscuwit will be one of the first two core beers the brewery has released, after Laughing Skull launched last year.
Expect a Mid-March shelve date in Georgia, the brewery’s other states, by April, 2015.
Style: Witbier (w/ Hibiscus, Cinnamon, Orange Peel.)
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft.
Release: Mid-March, 2015
5% ABV
Red Brick Hoplanta Cans Coming Soon
Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is scaling up their new canning line as your read this. The first cans of Laughing Skull are already on the market.
Coming soon are some beers from the brewery’s core lineup, including year round IPA, Hoplanta.
Red Brick as partnered with can manufacturer Novelis for the brewery’s can production, using the company’s evercan, an even more “green” aluminum based product.
The brewery tells Beer Street Journal there ware more details coming, and special release events in the works.
Style: IPA
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft. (Current). 12oz cans (Soon)
Release (Cans): TBA
6.8% ABV
Read more: Canned Craft Beer
Red Brick Imperial Stout (in Bourbon), February 7th
Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is taking a hint from the lovers of 20th Anniversary Imperial Stout, when it comes to their February Imperial Stout release.
The 20th Anniversary release (imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels) was one of the brewery’s fastest selling, and most desired barrel aged beers to date. This February, the brewery will launch another rendition of the stout offering.
The Red Brick brewing team recreated the base imperial stout, and has been aging half of it in oak bourbon barrels.
It features big notes of dark chocolate and espresso beans with a mild oak character.
Look for Red Brick Imperial Stout to hit shelves after the February, 2015. Part of the brewery’s Brick Mason Series.
Style: Imperial Stout (50% Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. Limited release.
Release: February 7th, 2015
10.% ABV, 60 IBUs
Red Brick & Max Lagers Atomic Frog Coming to Bottles
Back in August, brewer John Roberts at Max Lager’s (Atlanta, GA) released a hoppy India pale lager dubbed Atomic Frog in time for DragonCon. (Not a nerd? Look it up.) The beer was a cross-town collaboration with Red Brick Brewing.
It hit taps first at Max Lagers, with Red Brick Brewing adding bottles this winter. Atomic Frog is design is a “double india pale lager”, that features hops notes of lime zest, mango, guava, and melon.
Red Brick/Max Lager’s Atomic Frog will be available in 22oz bombers in their 7 state distribution soon.
Style: India Pale Lager
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft.
8% ABV
Exclusive First Look: Red Brick Brewing To Start Canning
Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) will be spending the rest of the year installing a new canning line. Laughing Skull Amber Ale, is slated to be their first canned offering.
Beer Street Journal met with head brewer Garett Lockhart and Tyler Cates to discuss the brewery’s can plans. The picture above is the first prototype of the cans, they hope to debut in late November, 2014.
Once the canning line is up and running, the new approach will be to can the core offerings (Laughing Skull, Hoplanta, etc) and bottle seasonals and smaller runs. Although, I would note that Lockhart is thinking about canning other offerings like Sacred Cow Milk Stout, or even a barrel aged offering along the way.
Laughing Skull accounts for about 60% of the core brand sales. The shift to cans could increase that volume even more.
With Red Brick’s canning line addition, the three largest craft breweries (in volume) in Georgia now offer cans. Terrapin Beer Co. launched cans in early 2013, and SweetWater Brewing launched 12oz and 16oz cans earlier this year.
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