Breweries

Iron Hill Brewery launches hazy ‘Dankonia’

Iron Hill Brewery releases Dankonia, a New England-style IPA location wide today. 

Each location will have a special small bite available to pair with the first pours of Dankonia. Additionally, Dankonia IPA posters will be available while supplies last. 

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Posted in Guinness, Seasonal Return

Guinness Gingerbread Stout returns to shelves

Guinness Gingerbread Stout

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Monday Night Brewing, Seasonal Return

Bring a sweater. Monday Night Cardigans of the Galaxy returns

Monday Night Cardigans of the Galaxy imperial IPA makes an October return. 

This 9.5% alcohol by volume IPA delivers big on hops: Columbus, Mandarina Bavaria, Simcoe, Citra, Ekuanot, Mosaic, Comet, and Galaxy to be exact. The “secret sauce” according to the brewery is the extra-dry finish and the “big citrusy melony nose”.

16-ounce cans and draft of Monday Night Cardigans of the Galaxy will be available across the brewery’s distribution footprint again this month. 

Style: Imperial IPA
Hops: Columbus, Mandarina Bavaria, Simcoe, Citra, Ekuanot, Mosaic, Comet, Galaxy

Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft.
Debut: 9/27/18
Latest Return: October 2021

9.5% ABV, 95 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Iron Hill Brewing

Iron Hill Brewery launches hazy ‘Dankonia’

Iron Hill Brewery releases Dankonia, a New England-style IPA location wide today. 

Each location will have a special small bite available to pair with the first pours of Dankonia. Additionally, Dankonia IPA posters will be available while supplies last. 

It’s a whole vibe of intense pineapple and tropical fruit notes-plus a big ol batch of dry hops.

Iron Hill Dankonia IPA is available in 16-ounce cans and draft starting October 7th. 

Style: Hazy IPA
Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft. 
Debut: 10/7/21

7.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Creature Comforts, Headlines, Seasonal Return

For the hardcore Tropicalia fans: Creature Comforts Imperial Trop Haze returns

A spin on one of Georgia’s most popular India pale ales returns this month – Creature Comforts Imperial Trop Haze.

Tropicalia, Creature Comfort’s year-round IPA has truly made a name for itself in the southeast. Building on that popularity, the Athens, Georgia-based brewery has released a few variants – including Tropicalisma, and Double Dry Hop Trop into a small-batch “Trop” inspired family. Imperial Trop Haze is truly the icing on a very hoppy cake for Creature fans.

Trop Haze is built on the same hop base as Tropicalia, with Citra, Centennial, and Galaxy hops – but way hazier, and a much bolder 8% alcohol by volume. 

Creature Comforts Imperial Trop Haze is available in 16-ounce cans and draft, starting October 12th. 

Style: Imperial IPA
Hops: Citra, Centennial, Galaxy
Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft. Limited Release.
Debut: 10/12/18
Latest Return: 10/12/21

8% ABV

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Orpheus Brewing

Orpheus releases Do or Die Oatmeal Cream Stout year-round

Orpheus Brewing Do or Die Oatmeal Cream Stout debuts at the Atlanta-based brewery this week. 

Coming down from the brewery’s “Year 7” anniversary that featured nearly a dozen imperial stouts, is an Orpheus beer a little smoother and far less boozy. The brewing team was inspired by a simple English milk stout, heavy on oats, chocolate, and wheat malts. “We love making stouts and wanted to brew one you can have pints of, instead of tasters,” per the brewery. 

The oatmeal cream stout (thanks to a dosing of lactose milk sugar) has chocolate and coffee aromas and finishes with hints of caramel and toffee. 

UPCOMING EVENT: BURNING MOUTH 2021 at ORPHEUS BREWING

Orpheus Brewing Do or Die Oatmeal Cream Stout is available starting this week in 12-ounce cans and draft year-round, everywhere the brewery distributes. 

Style: Oatmeal Stout (w/ Lactose)
Hops: Columbus
Malts: 2-Row Malt, Simpsons Golden Naked Oats, Crisp Pale Chocolate Malt, Simpsons Crystal Extra Dark, Crisp Crystal Extra Dark 120, Simpsons Black Malt, Crisp Torrified Wheat, Flaked Oats

Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft. Year-Round
Debut: 10/6/21

6.1% ABV

Image: Orpheus Brewing

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Tucker Brewing Company, Coming Soon

Tucker Brewing Lowlands Schwarzbier to be canned in October

Tucker Brewing Lowlands Schwarzbier is coming to the Georgia brewery’s lineup in October. 

Schwarzbier – a black lager, is a German-born beer style that dates back as early as the 14th century. Tucker Brewing’s take on the style will be available in 12-ounce cans and draft in October 2021. 

Style: Schwarzbier
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft. Seasonal Release. 
Debut: October 2021

5.8% ABV, 28 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Tucker Brewing Company, Don't Miss This

Tucker Brewing takes home Georgia’s 1st lager gold in 30 years

Georgia’s Tucker Brewing Company just took home Great American Beer Festival Gold in the Light Lager category. In an American landscape of nearly 10,000 breweries, that’s not an easy feat. 

American craft beer is in a bit of a “lager renaissance” of sorts it’s finally normal [again] to see a lager on tap at a brewery. Hell, just a few years ago in Georgia folks were all but drowning in a sea of IPAs and stouts, but now – the Peach State is home to at least three lager-focused breweries. We’d like to extend a personal thank you that no one has tried to make a milk lager. (Yet.)

Tucker Brewing’s Lager, aka Tucker Lager, is barely four years old. The brewery’s appropriately named head brewmaster Tucker Eagleson (purely coincidental) was brewing at Heavy Seas in Baltimore, Maryland when he stumbled across the head brewer job at Tucker Brewing on ProBrewer. His name naturally got his foot in the door. 

One of the conditions of getting the job was that Eagleson had to have at least two lager recipes ready for the brewery’s upcoming Tucktoberfest that year. Within weeks of landing in Georgia, he had a märzen and Honeysuckle Helles Lager, that would eventually be Tucker Lager ready to go. 

The märzen is seasonal, but Lager immediately became year-round. “The recipes for either beer never really changed after the fest,” Eagleson says. It was just a series of [a thousand] different tweaks and sensory panels to improve the beer,” he adds. 

Light Lager may sound like a common beer, but it’s unforgiving if you don’t know what you’re doing. A stout or porter might hide imperfections or off-flavors, but a lager is like changing clothes in the front yard. You see everything. 

Here in 2021, Eagleson figured it might be time to enter it in GABF, which still held the competition despite canceling the public festival for the second year in a row. Last Saturday morning, Eagleson woke up to a text from brewery co-founder Ashley Hubbard that out of 137 category entries, Tucker Lager won gold. “It took a second for it to set in,” he says. 

It’s actually the first gold medal for a lager in Georgia in more than 30 years. A medal that’s well deserved. The all-German hop and malt lager is about as clean and crisp of a beer as you’ll find anywhere. 

Taking home gold for a light lager on your first try is no easy feat I say to him. Eagleson smiles and simply replies. “I’ll drink to that.”

by Reid Ramsay