Hardywood Tests Your Palate with Chocolate Heat
105 days agoIn less than a week, Hardywood (Richmond, VA) will give your sweet and and heat tooth (WTF) a challenge with Chocolate Heat. Does a double chocolate milk stout with chile peppers sound like it could suck? Didn’t think so.
Luscious yet piquant, sultry yet fiery, Hardywood Chocolate Heat melds the dichotomy of semi-sweet chocolate and hot chile peppers into one insatiably seductive libation. Brewed with heaps of cacao nibs, some milk sugar and chocolate malts… Read the rest
Maui Brewing Intros Aloha B’ak’tun To Finish Off 2012
142 days agoMaui Brewing Co. introduces that last canned seasonal of 2012 - Aloha B’ak’tun. B’ak’tun refers to the end of the 3000 year Mayan Calendar. The beer? A Belgian style stout with chocolate, chipotle chilies, and cinnamon.
Sure.. the scientists have published essays, the philosophers poems, the naysayers flyers.. but here at the center of the Maui Brewing micro-verse, we are publishing the ultimate in doomsday aloha – this year’s last canned seasonal, Aloha B’ak’tun! The word aloha conveys both greeting and goodbye in the Hawaiian language and B’ak’tun refers to … Read the rest
Lost Abbey Launches Mayan Themed Judgement Day
156 days agoAs the world spirals towards its last days, it’s a perfect time for The Lost Abbey to tweak their Judgement Day recipe. The original recipe is a quadrupel brewed with raisins. The label features the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This edition features the Mayans. Dried chiles, cinnamon, and tamarind join raisins for this, the end of days.
Five thousand years ago the Mayan Calendar last turned over. Since then, Nostradamus. The Book of Revelations and random Shaman have all prognosticated … Read the rest
It’s Hunahpu Brew Day!
179 days agoDrool a little bit stout lovers. Cigar City Brewing is busy in Tampa, Florida brewing one of the America’s top rated imperial stouts – Hunaphu’s Imperial Stout. This, the regular edition of Hunahpu is brewed with Peruvian cacao nibs, ancho & pasilla chiles, Madagascar vanilla beans, and cinnamon.
The 4th annual Hunahpu release day is March 9, 2013 at the brewery. Last year Cigar City also hosted a Barrel Aged Hunahpu Day, aka clusterfest, 2011. (Click for pics). A new barrel aged edition of Hunahpu is in the works – Brandy Barrel Aged Hunaphu. No ETA on that release.… Read the rest
Mikkeller & Boxing Cat Team Up To Make “Bruce ChiLee IPA”
193 days agoBruce Lee is kicking ass again in the form of a beer collaboration. Danish brewer Mikkeller and Beijing, China’s Boxing Cat Brewery … Read the rest
Odell & Rio Grande Create Pumpkin Chili Stout
199 days agoOdell Brewing (Fort Collins, CO) recently collaborated with Rio Grande Mexican Restaurants to create a chili pumpkin stout dubbed La Calavera. Calavera (aka The Skull) will tap at the brewery Rio Grande Restaurants in Fort Collins, and El Monte Grill & Lounge.
Tapping parties occur today in honor of Halloween. Proceeds from the beer at Rio benefit the Food Bank of Larimer County.
“La Calavera is a medium bodied stout with nice roast character,” … Read the rest
Cigar City Announces 4th Hunaphu’s Day: March 9th, 2013
228 days agoCigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) has announced the next Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout release will be March 9, 2013. … Read the rest
Duclaw H.E.R.O. 2012: Chocolate Chipotle Stout
230 days agoMeet the winning beer in Duclaw’s H.E.R.O. homebrew competition. A chocolate chipotle stout. It’s a feel good beer too. Every penny from the beers sold goes to charity. Last … Read the rest
The Inspiration Behind Widmer’s New SXNW [Video]
250 days ago
Widmer brewmaster Joe Casey explains the inspiration behind SXNW… Read the rest
NoDable Release: Randalizing Ghost Peppers
270 days ago
NoDa Brewing (Charlotte, NC) is randalizing Ghost Hop with ghost peppers… Read the rest
Jester King/Mikkeller Weasel Rodeo Released
275 days agoJester King’s collaboration with Mikkeller – Weasel Rodeo has shipped … Read the rest
