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Abita’s Bourbon Aged 25th Comes To Town

Abita Brewing is now shipping a bourbon barrel edition of their 25th Anniversary Ale to Atlanta.  Released a little over 4 months ago, 25th is a double edition of Turbodog, brewed with vanilla beans.  The bourbon edition has spent over 5 months in Continue Reading →

12oz Bottles For Euforia, Hellrazer

Duclaw Brewing will be debuting HellRazer & Euphoria in 12oz bottles…

HellRazer
A medium-bodied, golden IPA that gets in your face from first sweet sip to crisp, dry finish with the exotic tropical fruit flavors and aromas of New Zealand Motueka hops. With Continue Reading →

Pliny The Younger Releases February 3rd

One of the worlds top 10 most highly rated beers makes it’s seasonal return on 2/3/12.  Straight from Russian River Brewing:

Pliny the Younger is still scheduled for release at our brewpub on Friday, February 3rd! Here is the scoop: the Continue Reading →

Posted in Beer News, New Breweries, Pipeworks Brewing

Pipeworks Brewing Company Joins Chicago Beer Scene

This week Chicago welcomed its seventh microbrewery to the city, Pipeworks Brewing Company.  Pipeworks came to be when two friends working at Chicago’s famed West Lakeview Liquors, Beejay Olson and Gerrit Lewis, decided it was time to make this “pipe” dream a reality.  In 2009 Olson and Lewis began an apprenticeship in Belgium with De Struise where they were able to learn and hone their craft as they learned what it takes to run a brewery and create brewed masterpieces.  Upon their return, they raised over $40,000 through kickstarter.com to put their dreams into motion and several years later, they have brewed their first official batches.

Pipeworks Brewing Company brewed their first official batch this week after getting approval from the state of Illinois.  The first brew was a smoked porter.  Future releases include Glaucus – Barley Wine, Abduction – Imperial Stout, Last Kiss – Wee Heavy, Learning to Fly – Berliner Weisse, and Bottled Up – Baltic Porter.  All will be available at the brewery.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Abita’s Bourbon Aged 25th Comes To Town

Abita Brewing is now shipping a bourbon barrel edition of their 25th Anniversary Ale to Atlanta.  Released a little over 4 months ago, 25th is a double edition of Turbodog, brewed with vanilla beans.  The bourbon edition has spent over 5 months in barrels.

About 25th:
The robust dark ale has flavors of chocolate, toffee and vanilla. It’s brewed with generous amounts of pale, caramel and chocolate malts and Willamette hops. Whole natural vanilla beans are added during the aging process. 25th Anniversary Vanilla Doubledog is packaged in a commemorative, 22-ounce bottle illustrated with a design inspired by classic New Orleans wrought iron. This Doubledog brew is a tribute to Abita’s Turbodog, which was originally created as an anniversary beer in 1989. Today, Turbodog is an Abita Flagship brew and sold year-round.
Abita produced around 10 barrels (310 gallons) of this beer.  Sold in 7.75 gallon kegs, thats around 40 purported floating around in the wild.

Style: American Strong Ale (Barrel Aged)
Additions: Vanilla Beans
Availability: Draft only. One time brewed.

7% ABV

Already slated to receive in ATL:

The Fred Bar
Deckard’s American Tavern

There are 4 more kegs headed to taps. More tappings to follow.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Elevation Beer Co, New Breweries

Elevation Beer Company Brings New Barrel Aged Beer To Colorado

Elevation Brewing LogoElevation Beer Company is set to start brewing at their new 7,400 square foot facility in Poncha Springs, CO the second week of February.  Founded by four friends, Carlin Walsh, Christian Koch, Sheila Bustamante, and Xandy Bustamante, Elevation won’t be your run of the mill brewery.  They will be an artesian microbrewery that focuses on seasonal barrel aged beers brewed on a 15 barrel system.  Head brewer Christian Koch says “We are focusing on brewing the type of beers we love to drink”.

Elevation’s beers will be based on three different series named for the ski slope rating system: Blue Square – easy drinking beers, Black Diamond – bold beers, Double Black Diamond – adventurous barrel aged beers.  Blue Square series beers will only be available on draft.  Both Black Diamond and Double Black Diamond beers will be available on draft and in 750ml corked and caged champagne style bottles.

On their first releases, Koch says:

“Our first Black Diamond Series release, will be Apis IV, a Belgian Quadrupel made with caramelized honey, and our first Double Black Diamond Series release, will be Signal De Botrange, a farmhouse ale brewed with brettanomyces and aged in Napa Valley Chardonnay barrels. We are brewing beers for beer geeks just like us.”

Look for Elevation Beer Company’s beers in the state of Colorado.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Brooklyn Brewing, Sam Adams

New York Bar Bans Sam Adams During Super Bowl

Foley’s Pub & Restaurant in New York City has made a statement about who they are rooting for during the Super Bowl.  Samuel Adams beer is officially banned during the Super Bowl.  Instead, the bar is urging it’s drinkers to order beers from Brooklyn Brewing.

The rivalry gets even deeper.  Shaun Clancy, owner of Foley’s has a bet with Ken Casey of McGreevy’s in Boston, similar other recent beer wagers by breweries.  Loser has to wear the other teams jersey, WHILE working a shift at the bar.  [CBSNews]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Duck Rabbit Brewery

12oz Bottles For Euforia, Hellrazer

Duclaw Brewing will be debuting HellRazer & Euphoria in 12oz bottles…

HellRazer
A medium-bodied, golden IPA that gets in your face from first sweet sip to crisp, dry finish with the exotic tropical fruit flavors and aromas of New Zealand Motueka hops. With just enough malt character to keep the aggressive hop presence in check, and an unruly 7.5% abv, this brew was seemingly born to kick ass. And RAZE HELL!

EuForia
A creamy, medium-bodied, dark brown pint of liquid bliss that combines a creamy mouthfeel, smooth drinkability and a relaxing 5% abv, with a jubilant swirl of caramel, almond, and toffee flavors to leave you in a state of ecstasy.

Arrival: February, 2012

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Toast Guinness, Be A Fado VIP

Fado loves Guinness.  I’m sure you do too.    You have a chance to win a VIP table a Fado for your very special Guinness Toast.  They throw one hell of a St Patrick’s Day party.  Want to be a VIP on the greenest day of the year?  Read on.

Once a year, we raise our pints to celebrate the Black Stuff.  This year, we are going big and giving our Guinness adorers the chance to win a St. Patrick’s Day VIP table (good for you and up to 5 your friends!).

How To Play:  Order a Guinness between now and Feb 17th and you’ll be entered into the raffle drawing. The Party — On Feb 17 at 9 p.m. we’ll Toast Guinness. The winner of the best Toast (see details below) will be named the Toast Master!  Sometime before 10pm, we’ll pull the winner of the raffle. You must be present to win, so round up your friends and make a night of it! DJ at 10:00 p.m.

TOASTMASTER CONTEST: To Submit Your Toast for chance to win a VIP party for you and 5 of your friends on St Patrick’s Day, RSVP yes to this event and write your toast on our Facebook wall. We’ll pick our winner by Wednesday, Feb 15th. The esteemed winner of Toastmaster will read their winning Toast aloud the night of our event …of course to a rowdy pub and thunderous applause.

Fado Irish Pub
273 Buckhead Ave
Atlanta, GA 30305 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, New Releases, Russian River Brewing

Pliny The Younger Releases February 3rd

One of the worlds top 10 most highly rated beers makes it’s seasonal return on 2/3/12.  Straight from Russian River Brewing:

Pliny the Younger is still scheduled for release at our brewpub on Friday, February 3rd! Here is the scoop: the pub opens at 11am at which time we will be seating everyone in an orderly and civilized fashion. We are reserving the dining room and board room for folks who are eating, but there is plenty of space at the bar for those interested in just imbibing. Younger will be served in a 10 ounce glass for the same price as last year and the year before- still a good deal! As you probably already know, there will be no growlers or bottles, as usual. We want you to enjoy Younger from the source at its absolute best! Like all fresh food products, this beer has a very short “shelf” life and is meant to be consumed only when in season (February, early March)! There will be a certain number of kegs allotted each day for 14 days, wrapping up 2 weeks of Younger on February 16th. We will begin distribution to our local (Bay Area) accounts on February 6th.  Our distributors (all 7 of them) will begin picking up their allocation that week and the following week. If you live in one of  the few markets where we distribute, they should be getting their Younger within that time frame. One note- we do not dictate where our distributors choose to send Pliny the Younger. That is completely up to them and we trust their decisions!

What can you expect if you come to our brewpub? Last year we had a line out front everyday for 2 solid weeks, rain or shine! On the weekends (particularly the first weekend) the wait was up to 3 hours.   And sometimes you could walk right in.  We will be queing up at the 4th Street entrance so we can count bodies as they enter.  This city is rather strict about occupancy and I’m sure they will be visiting us a few times during those 2 weeks.  There are 2 notable differences this year: 1. SF Beer Week launches on the 10th, one week after we release Younger (it was the same day we released Younger last year). 2. We were able to make a little more for the pub, meaning we hope to run out later each day. Last year there were a couple of days we did not run out at all!  You can also expect to have about 17 other beers on tap, most of which are available by the bottle or in growlers to go.  And it’s quite the line-up of some of the old standards and new and exciting brews!

 We are looking forward to your visit to our newly and beautifully remodeled pub! If you can’t make it to the pub, we do hope you can at least enjoy our new website.

 Cheers!

Natalie, Vinnie, and the Crew

 

by Reid Ramsay