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Red Brick Brick Mason #5: The Lost Years

Meet 5th release in Red Brick Brewing‘s (Atlanta, GA) Brick Mason Series – The Lost Years. The base beer is a winter warmer/ American strong ale, aged 8 months in second run Jim Beam barrels. For added flavor, the brewery added bitter Continue Reading →

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Red Brick’s 20th Anniversary To Be Bottled This Month

Red Brick 20th Anniversary

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) will be taking 20th Anniversary Imperial Stout out of the barrels this month and bottling it. This stout is the biggest beer Atlanta’s oldest brewery has ever created, and aging it in Bufflo Trace bourbon barrels (a brewery first).

Look for 20th Anniversary in Atlanta at the anniversary party in late July, and on shelves in August, 2013. Check out Beer Street Journal’s inside look at barrel filling day below. (P.S. It’s also the QR code!)

Style: Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: August, 2013

10% ABV

Inside Red Brick’s Biggest Beer Yet from BeerStreetJournal.com on Vimeo.

by Reid Ramsay
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Beer Street Journal Video: Inside Red Brick’s Biggest Beer

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, Georgia) just brewed their biggest beer to date – 20th Anniversary Imperial Stout.  The beer clocks in at the highest ABV they have ever created – 10.5% ABV.

Instead of doing another American Strong Ale – Garrett Lockhart and Steve Anderson and brew crew went another direction. And big. This boozy imperial stout doesn’t disappoint straight out of the brite tank (finishing tank) and most definitely won’t after 4 months in Buffalo Trace barrels.

In keeping with the past, 20th Anniversary will arrive in 12oz/4 packs and draft. Look for it’s arrival late Summer, 2013.

Read more: Brick Mason Series, Beer Street Journal Video

by Reid Ramsay
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Red Brick’s Black-Eye Rye Arrives in April

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) preps for the 6th release in the Brick Mason Series– Black-Eye Rye. The first black IPA release from the brewery, and the first time making a rye beer.

Black-Eye Rye, the 6th release from Red Brick’s Brick Mason series, is an American-Style India Black Ale brewed with rye. Inspired by one of our favorite beer styles, it is black in color without the heavy chocolate or roasted characteristics that are present in most dark ales. We feature Cascade, Chinook and Citra hops for citrus and piney flavors and aromas. This beer carries a hoppy punch, like a Double IPA with a healthy addition of rye for added complexity.

Style: Black IPA (w/ Rye)
Hops: Cascade, Chinook, Citra
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft

Arrival: April, 2013

8% ABV, 80 IBUs (fairly bitter)

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Red Brick Brewing, Videos

Beer Street Journal VIDEO: Introducing Red Brick’s “The Lost Years”

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) blended their newest brew “The Lost Years” yesterday. In total, 70+  barrels have been aging since last summer. Some of the barrels: straight barrel aged old ale, while others are barrel aged old ale with orange peels and star anise. Blend them all together, you have The Lost Years, a beer sure to warm you up this winter.

Lost will be bottled before weeks end, hitting shelves before the end of the month. Beer Street Journal took some footage back in July, 2012 when The Lost Years was put in the barrels, and yesterday when it was pulled from the barrels. Initial flavor from the first barrel pull? Nice and boozy, with hints of orange and bourbon soaked oak.

Style: Old Ale (w/ Bitter & Sweet Orange Peel, Star Anise)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: Late Jan, 2013

9% ABV 

More: Exclusive BeerStreetJournal.com Video

by Reid Ramsay
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Red Brick Brick Mason #5: The Lost Years

Meet 5th release in Red Brick Brewing‘s (Atlanta, GA) Brick Mason Series – The Lost Years. The base beer is a winter warmer/ American strong ale, aged 8 months in second run Jim Beam barrels. For added flavor, the brewery added bitter orange peel, sweet orange peel, and star anise.

Red Brick will begin blending the 72 oak barrels on Monday. Look for this beer by the end of January.

Style: American Strong Ale (w/ Bitter & Sweet Orange Peel, Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: Late January, 2013

8+% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Red Brick Brewing

Red Brick “The Lost Years” Barrel Aged Strong Ale in 2013

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) will add The Lost Years to the Brick Mason lineup in 2013. Lost Years will be the fifth edition in Red Brick’s lineup. Strong ale in bourbon sound good to you?

Style: American Strong Ale (Barrel Aged, Jim Beam)
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft.
Arrival: 1st Quarter 2013

?? ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Red Brick Brewing

Smoked Vanilla Is Red Brick’s Last Brick Mason This Year

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) will release Smoked Vanilla Gorilla this week. That will be the last Brick Mason release this year. This is at least the second time the brewery has had to shift the Brick Mason lineup.  Copper thieves caused the first change in January.

Old Stock is 100% barrel aged, and in the barrels now (filled in the same barrels used for 17th Anniversary) and is looking to be released in January, 2013.  Pfeffernüsse Porter, and Saison might join Brick Mason in 2013. 

by Reid Ramsay