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Cigar City Teams Up With Homebrewers

Cigar City Brewing will be tapping beers from homebrew clubs that took part in Hunahpu day 2011.  

This past March we chose a beer from each local homebrew club that participated in the events of this year’s Hunuphu’s Day party Continue Reading →

Uinta Hive Becomes Hyve

In keeping with Uinta Brewing’s rebranding efforts Hive – now spelled Hyve joins the overhaul.  Hyve is a lager brewed with honey.

Hive houses a swarm of flavors compacted into a small vessel. Don’t let the honey fool you. Four+ Hive Continue Reading →

A Bud Light For Your Team

Football is officially back for 2011, and with it comes new sponsorship.  This fall, your football games will be full of AB marketing, replacing Coors in a deal reportedly worth over $1 billion dollars.

In honor of the coming season, Bud Continue Reading →

Three Floyds Zombie Dust To Be Bottled

Three Floyds Brewing is indeed bottling Zombie Dust.  Dust is an American Pale Ale brewed with (getting rare) citra hops.  There was some speculation that this would happen eventually, the issue was fitting this zombie into the schedule.

Style: American Pale Continue Reading →

Posted in Beer News, Cigar City Brewing

Cigar City Teams Up With Homebrewers

Cigar City Brewing will be tapping beers from homebrew clubs that took part in Hunahpu day 2011.  

This past March we chose a beer from each local homebrew club that participated in the events of this year’s Hunuphu’s Day party and we’ve been working together with the brewers of those beers to brew them. Each will be on tap in the coming months in the tasting room for you to try. Once they have all been on tap individually we will put them all on tap together and offer samplers of all 4 so we can get your opinion for a People’s Choice vote. From there we will factor your opinions as we perform our own judging and choose one of the beers to be brewed in a full sized 15BBL batch to be served and to be submitted in the 2012 Great American Beer Festival’s Pro Am Competition. We had hoped to have this ready to go for this year’s competition, but with all that has been going on here at the brewery it has taken longer than we expected so we will be ready to go by next year’s GABF.

The beers and their brewer’s are:

Smoked Jalapeno Ale- Tommy Orr from Special Hoperations

Kumquat Amarillo Wheat Ale- Mark Stober from Tampa Bay BEERS

Belgian Strong Dark Ale- Dave Kmietek from Dunedin Brewer’s Guild

Where’s my Lips Double IPA- Bob Bridges from Pinellas Urban Brewer’s Guild

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Uinta Brewing

Uinta Hive Becomes Hyve

Uinta HyveIn keeping with Uinta Brewing’s rebranding efforts Hive – now spelled Hyve joins the overhaul.  Hyve is a lager brewed with honey.

Hive houses a swarm of flavors compacted into a small vessel. Don’t let the honey fool you. Four+ Hive is a beer for sophisticated beer drinkers wanting an ale with style, punch, and a hint-of-honey finish.

 4% ABV
by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

A Bud Light For Your Team

Football is officially back for 2011, and with it comes new sponsorship.  This fall, your football games will be full of AB marketing, replacing Coors in a deal reportedly worth over $1 billion dollars.

In honor of the coming season, Bud Light in conjunction with the NFL are releasing packaging depicting all the NFL teams. [Note: Not all teams artwork available yet. Still missing Bears, Packers, Vikings, Texans, Panthers, Broncos, Cardinals, 49ers.)

Availability: 12oz cans. Market depending

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in 3 Floyds Brewing, Beer News

Three Floyds Zombie Dust To Be Bottled

Three Floyds Brewing is indeed bottling Zombie Dust.  Dust is an American Pale Ale brewed with (getting rare) citra hops.  There was some speculation that this would happen eventually, the issue was fitting this zombie into the schedule.

Style: American Pale Ale

Availability: 12oz bottles, draft.

Arrival: TBA

 6.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Sierra Nevada

Slight Delay In Sierra Nevada’s Canning Line

The world waits for Sierra Nevada Brewing’s cans.  Bill Manley, SN’s PR lead mentioned on Beer Advocate that 60% of the canning line has arrived, but the filler (the name tells you what it does) is delayed.  ETA now is January, 2012.

We have about 60% of the canning line here at the brewery, but there has been a delay getting the filler here as originally planned. (they’re now saying September.)

I would be surprised to see any cans on the market before January 2012. Once we get the line here and installed, we’ll need a few weeks/months of trials before going full-bore. After that I suspect we’ll do a soft release here in California and then move out to the rest of the country.

We’ll just have to be patient I suppose, although, I’m as eager as everyone else to get cans here ASAP… I love me some canned beer in the summer so we can’t get this up and running soon enough!

 

[Pic is a mock up via CraftCans]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Brewing #1 Craft Beer Offering in San Diego Airport in 2013

Greg Koch from Stone Brewing mentioned on Twitter that the brewery has been chosen to represent the lead beer in the San Diego Airport in 2013.

Flattered & stoked the SanDiego Airport Authority selected @StoneBrewingCo to be the brewery to represent SD #CraftBeer at airport in 2013!

Currently Karl Strauss Brewing has a heavy presence there.  I wonder if there will be a brew pub similar to what SweetWater Brewing has in Terminal B in Atlanta’s airport…

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Russian River Sanctification Home Brew Clone

This is a home brew recipe for Russian River’s Sanctification, straight from Vinnie Cilruzo’s mouth.  He did an interview with embracetheufunk.com. It’s a great interview of course, but the real gem is the recipe. I love the things you find when searching for home brew recipes.  From the interview:

Here are some basics:

85% 2-row Malt
5% Vienna Malt
5% Wheat Malt
5% Acidulated Malt

OG: 1.058
TG: 1.006-1.010
ABV: 6.25%
BU’s: 25ish

Hops:
Styrian Golding 90 minute — beginning of boil
Sterling 15 minutes to go in boil

The yeast is a mix of Brettanomyces and bacteria’s.
50% Brett Brux.
10% Brett Claus.
10% Brett Lambicus
30% Russian River Brewing “Funky Bunch” house yeast culture- mix of Brett, Lacto, Pedio, & other wild yeast

The RRBC house culture we call the “Funky Bunch” could be cultured from a bottle of Beatification.

You’ll see a long lag phase at the start of fermentation and then a slowing of fermentation when it gets to 1.020, from there it has to sit for a couple of months before it gets down to the gravity listed above. Depending on if you bottle or not you will need to make a decision on the final gravity. If you do bottle it has to be bottled at 1.010 or so, but, not above that or the bottles will over carbonate and the bottles might explode.

[EmbraceTheFunk]

by Reid Ramsay