Southern Tier Brewing

Seasonal Return: Southern Tier Oat

Southern Tier Brewing’s early winter seasonal Oat is back for another season.  Since it so happens to be International Stout Day,  and getting chillier by the day, Oat is welcome back with open arms, and empty glasses.

Commercial Description: 
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Pumpkin Beer Ice Cream

This recipe via Modern Domestic.  Have some Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin, Southern Tier Pumking, or Dogfish Head Punkin lying around? Save a bit for this ice cream.   MD amended the recipe to use beer instead of bourbon. (hell, use both!)

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Southern Tier 2X… Milk Stout?

Coming up next by Southern Tier is a big Double Milk Stout called 2X Milk Stout.  The stout was brewed with 3 different hops, 4 malts, and lactose sugar.

Style: Double Milk Stout

ABV: 8%

Availability: 12 oz. bottles

Southern Tier’s Trashy Pilz

Southern Tier Brewing’s newest pilsner offering, Eurotrash Pilz .  A soon to be seasonal offering.  Brewed with 2 hops, 2 malts.

Availability:  12oz bottles, Draft.

Arrival: TBD

5% ABV

Posted in Coming Soon, Southern Tier Brewing

Oak Aged Edition Of Southern Tier Backburner

Southern Tier Oak Aged BackburnerSouthern Tier’s Backburner is exquisite.  It’s the first brew of the new year for the brewery.  It’s malty, and boozy, a great beer to help you through the winter months.  This season, a oaked edition of Backburner is looking to make an appearance. It’s everything you have come to know and love with the barleywine – with a little oak for character.

Long ago, British farmhouse brewers made special ales using the first runnings of the mash. These beers, now called barley wine, are brewed in the tradition of days past. At Southern Tier this long awaited brew is placed on the back burner until the start of the new year. Back Burner Barley Wineis a celebration of things to come and things remembered. It’s conceived in three small batches, using voluminous amounts of barley and hops. The process starts early in the morning and ends late into the night. We hope this rare brew reignites your spirit for another trip around the sun. 

Style: Barleywine (oak aged)
Hops: Kettle — Chinook.  Aroma — Willamette.  Dry Hop — Amarillo, Centennial.
Malts: 2 Row Pale. Light & Dark Caramel

Availability: 22oz Bombers. Seasonal.

9.6% ABV


by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Seasonal Return, Southern Tier Brewing

Seasonal Return: Southern Tier Oat

Southern Tier Brewing’s early winter seasonal Oat is back for another season.  Since it so happens to be International Stout Day,  and getting chillier by the day, Oat is welcome back with open arms, and empty glasses.

Commercial Description: 
This beer begins in spring when oat seeds are sown as soon as the soil can be worked. Meanwhile, select types of barley are planted with hopes that Mother Nature will be kind. Our brewers wait patiently until the legumes are mature and ready for the scythe. Upon delivery to the brewery, these ingredients are mixed together in the mash tun where they steep, creating a rich molasses-like liquid. Spicy hops are boiled with the thick brew, giving balance and complexity. Brewers yeast feasts upon the rich sugars, concluding its transformation into oatmeal stout. Pour Oat into a snifter, allow its thick tan head to slowly rise, releasing unbridled aromas. The color of Oat is as dark as a moonless night. The first sip reveals Oat’s thick and nourishing taste. Like a haversack to a horse, a bottle of this stout is a meal in itself. Enjoy responsibly.

Style: Imperial Stout
Hops: Columbus, Willamette
Malts: 2 Row Pale, Oats, Caramel Malt, Barley flakes, chocolate malt, black malt

Taste Expectations: Oat is creamy, roasty & smooth.  Look for malty chocolate flavors, with sweet notes of molasses.  Subtle coffee notes. Oats make the mouthfeel silky.

Availability: 22oz bombers.  Draft. Early winter seasonal.

11% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Dogfish Head, Recipes, Southern Tier Brewing

Pumpkin Beer Ice Cream

This recipe via Modern Domestic.  Have some Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin, Southern Tier Pumking, or Dogfish Head Punkin lying around? Save a bit for this ice cream.   MD amended the recipe to use beer instead of bourbon. (hell, use both!)

Pumpkin Beer Ice Cream

Adapted from Williams-Sonoma 
Makes one quart.

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
3⁄4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
5 egg yolks
1⁄2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1⁄2 tsp. ground ginger
1⁄4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup canned unsweetened pumpkin puree
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3/4 cup pumpkin beer

In a heavy 2 quart saucepan, combine 1 cup of cream and 1/2 cup of the brown sugar. Warm over medium heat, until small bubbles form at the edges of the mixture — around 5 minutes.

In a medium bowl, combine the egg yolks, ginger, salt, and remaining 1/2 cup cream, and the remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar. Whisk until smooth.

Remove cream mixture from heat. Very slowly add about 1/2 cup of the hot cream mixture to the egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly. Pour the egg yolk mixture into the sauce pan. Cook over medium heat until mixture thickens and coats the back of a spoon (if you run your finger through the mixture on the spoon, it should leave a clean trail). Do not let the custard boil.

In a bowl, whisk together the pumpkin puree and vanilla. Cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours or up to 8 hours. Strain through a fine mesh sieve into a medium bowl. Cool custard mixture over an ice bath.

When cool, whisk the pumpkin, vanilla, and pumpkin beer into the custard. Cover with plastic wrap, placing the plastic directly on the custard’s surface (this will prevent a skin from forming). Refrigerate until chilled — preferably overnight.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Southern Tier Brewing

Southern Tier 2X… Milk Stout?

Coming up next by Southern Tier is a big Double Milk Stout called 2X Milk Stout.  The stout was brewed with 3 different hops, 4 malts, and lactose sugar.

Style: Double Milk Stout

ABV: 8%

Availability: 12 oz. bottles

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Southern Tier Brewing

Southern Tier’s Trashy Pilz

Southern Tier Brewing’s newest pilsner offering, Eurotrash Pilz .  A soon to be seasonal offering.  Brewed with 2 hops, 2 malts.

Availability:  12oz bottles, Draft.

Arrival: TBD

5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Southern Tier Brewing

Southern Tier’s Iniquity Also Getting 12oz Treatment

Southern Tier’s Iniquity is getting the 12oz treatment.  This big black IPA is one of the best in the states that you now don’t have to make a full 22oz commitment each time you drink.  Unearthly IPA is also headed for 12oz bottles.

Style: American Black Ale (Black IPA)
Hops: Chinook, Cascade (kettle), Willamette (hopback), Cascade, Centennial (dry hop)
Malts: 2 Row Pale, Debittered Black Malt

Availability: Currently 22oz, draft.  Soon 12oz.  Year round.

9% ABV 


 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Southern Tier Brewing

Southern Tier Unearthly Headed For 12oz’ers

Southern Tier Brewing (Lakewood, NY) will be putting Unearthly IPA into 12 oz bottles for the first time.

At the Southern Tier Brewing Company, vigorously hopped beer is our standard and inspiration. We continue a commitment to innovation with our most aggressive offering yet. Unearthly is a manifestation of the brewer’s craft; skillfully balancing art and the forces of nature to produce a divine liquid. Delicately pour a taste into a fluted glass. Smell the enchanting aromas of the hops waft forward as your first sip divulges this beer’s fervent soul. To underestimate Unearthly is to trifle with the mysteries of the universe, so please consume wisely.

Style: Imperial IPA
Hops: Chinook, Cascade (Kettle), Styrian (Hopback), Cascade, Chinook, Centennial (Dry hopped)
Malts: 2 Row Pale, Cara pils, Red Wheat
Availability: 22oz, 12oz, draft bottles

11% ABV

by Reid Ramsay