The next up in SweetWater Brewing’s Dank Tank is an imperial porter dubbed “Mean Joe Bean”. The peeps over at SweetWater are keeping it local by using coffee from Java Vino in Poncey-Highlands in Atlanta. JavaVino is not your usual Continue Reading →
SweetWater Brewing’s 2nd Annual “Brew Your Cask Off” getting closer. The event is scheduled for March 5th, 2011. Check out the press release:
SWEETWATER BREWING COMPANY PRESENTS 2nd ANNUAL “BREW YOUR CASK OFF” FESTIVAL
80+ Guest Brewers Create One-of-a-Kind Casks for Festival Attendees to Sample & Crown a People’s Choice WHAT: SweetWater Brewing Company’s “Brew Your Cask Off” Cask Ale Festival WHEN: Saturday, March 5, 2011 TIME: 6â€10 p.m. WHERE: In Front of SweetWater Brewery | Ottley Drive NE, Atlanta Georgia 30324. COST: $35 in advance, $40 at the door TICKETS: Tickets are available online at www.brewyourcaskoff.com
ATLANTA — Celebrate cask ale at its finest with SweetWater Brewing Company’s “Brew Your Cask Off” Cask Ale Festival! Putting an intriguing spin on standard cask ale festivals and beer fests in general, SweetWater Brewery has once again invited 80+ special guest brewers, including local retailers, home brewers, and charities to create their own one-of-a-kind cask for festival attendees to sample and judge, crowning their fest favorites.
You know the year is drawing to a close when SweetWater Brewing’s Happy Ending arrives. This years edition finds this imperial stout in new wax capped bombers. SweetWater describes this big beer:
This award-winning (Silver Medal Winner at the World Beer Continue Reading →
Today only, SweetWater Brewing is offering you something special. Brew your cask off is coming up March 5, 2011. Tickets official go on sale today. Also, since it’s Wednesday there is a brewery tour today. The first 25 people Continue Reading →
SweetWater Brewing’s Festive Ale has arrived in bombers, with a sexy new bottle design. This years bottles abandoned the traditional paper labels and are now painted – like the Dank Tank bomber series. Pretty snappy indeed.
Atlanta’s popular winter warmer by SweetWater Brewing – Festive has arrived for 2010. Brewed for “winter coat season” as they describe it, this beer gets a lot of people in a festive mood. This beer is brewed only one day Continue Reading →
The next up in SweetWater Brewing’s Dank Tank is an imperial porter dubbed “Mean Joe Bean”. The peeps over at SweetWater are keeping it local by using coffee from Java Vino in Poncey-Highlands in Atlanta. JavaVino is not your usual coffee house. They are the “evolution of the traditional coffee house”. JV combines two beverage flavor adventures under one roof – coffee & wine.
JavaVino offers coffee & wines all over the world and boasts a true “seed-to cup experience”. Their favorite beans are grown by Heddy Kühl the co-owner’s family in Nicaragua. The Kühl Family picks the coffee beans, exports, imports, roasts and brews them on site at Java Vino.
SweetWater and Java Vino are bringing you a true bean-to beer experience. The beans in Mean Joe Bean are from JV’s “Dirty Nekkid” series, specifically – “Dirty Nekkid Man”. Dubbed “Nekkid” (the Southern derivation of “naked”) because the natural sugar isn’t stripped off the beans in the natural process. The result is a semi-sweet, bold cup off coffee.
Something even more interesting about this new Dank Tank release is that the beans were actually soaked in the whirlpool for about 5 minutes, really enhancing the coffee flavor. I’m already thirsty for it.
SweetWater Brewing’s 2nd Annual “Brew Your Cask Off” getting closer. The event is scheduled for March 5th, 2011. Check out the press release:
SWEETWATER BREWING COMPANY PRESENTS 2nd ANNUAL “BREW YOUR CASK OFF” FESTIVAL
80+ Guest Brewers Create One-of-a-Kind Casks for Festival Attendees to Sample & Crown a People’s Choice WHAT: SweetWater Brewing Company’s “Brew Your Cask Off” Cask Ale Festival WHEN: Saturday, March 5, 2011 TIME: 6â€10 p.m. WHERE: In Front of SweetWater Brewery | Ottley Drive NE, Atlanta Georgia 30324. COST: $35 in advance, $40 at the door TICKETS: Tickets are available online at www.brewyourcaskoff.com
ATLANTA — Celebrate cask ale at its finest with SweetWater Brewing Company’s “Brew Your Cask Off” Cask Ale Festival! Putting an intriguing spin on standard cask ale festivals and beer fests in general, SweetWater Brewery has once again invited 80+ special guest brewers, including local retailers, home brewers, and charities to create their own one-of-a-kind cask for festival attendees to sample and judge, crowning their fest favorites.
“We’re looking forward to see some of these “inspired” creations come to life. It’s incredible working with all these folks who sell our beer, to now be a part of them creating their own,” says SweetWater’s Brewmaster Mark Medlin, who will be overseeing all of the casks to make sure the final products are as tasty as the inspired recipes these amateur brewers imagined them to be.
The enviable guest brewers, including our friends at Taco Mac, Brick Store Pub, Mac’s Beer and Wine, Midway Pub, Atlanta Humane Society, Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Beer Connoisseur, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and many more, will be given a cask recipe form and work again with Hop City, a local package store and home brew shop, to pull together their master list of ingredients to go in their casks. They will have access to a diverse amount of yeast strains, spices, fruits, dozens of varieties of hops, and a plethora of offbeat adjuncts and additions, as they create their masterpieces at the brewery a few weeks prior to the festival. All entries will be judged the day of the festival by a handpicked group of judges from the Atlanta scene and the winning casks will be announced during the festival. In addition to scoring bragging rights, the judges’ top four casks as well as the people’s choice winner will have their casks recreated and served at the 2011 SweetWater 420 Fest in Candler Park April 15th-17th.
All of the cask ales, which are unfiltered or unpasteurized beers that are conditioned and served straight from the casks without additional filtration or external CO2 pressure, will be available for festival goers to sample and vote for the People’s Choice Award for the top pick beginning at 6pm the night of the fest. Beer loving guests can also enjoy SweetWater’s award-winning array of brews, groove to a music stage, snack from a variety of food vendors and take a guided tour of the brewery we all know and love.
All attendees must be 21 and up with a valid form of ID. Pets are not allowed at “Brew Your Cask Off,” but feel free to bring your friends, friends of friends, relatives, neighbors, teachers, etc. Sponsors include Great Western Malting, Grandstand Sportswear & Glassware,, Draft Magazine, All About Beer. Tickets are on sale now and available online at www.brewyourcaskoff.com for $35 in advance, or $40 at the door.
About SweetWater Brewing Company: SweetWater Brewing Company is an Atlanta-based craft brewery specializing in aggressive West Coast style beers. SweetWater’s brews are unpasteurized and designed to be consumed fresh so distribution is limited to the Southeast. The award-winning lineup of year-round brews includes SweetWater 420, IPA, Sch’Wheat, Blue and Georgia Brown. SweetWater also features a Catch and Release series of beers available on a limited basis throughout the year, and an experimental, one-time-only Dank Tank series. The SweetWater Brewery, open for tours every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2:30 p.m., is located at 195 Ottley Dr NE, Atlanta GA 30324. For more information about SweetWater Brewing Company, please visitwww.sweetwaterbrew.com.
You know the year is drawing to a close when SweetWater Brewing’s Happy Ending arrives. This years edition finds this imperial stout in new wax capped bombers. SweetWater describes this big beer:
This award-winning (Silver Medal Winner at the World Beer Cup) Imperial Stout offers a robust blanket of roast, chocolate, coffee, plums and raisins that will sink into your taste buds. An explosive burst of citrus hops complement the warm rich flavors and will send you over the top. This year leaves something of a surprise for all of us, as the 22oz bottles are printed with 2010, but the beer won’t be showing up till early 2011. Let’s chalk it up to a true Happy Ending to one hell of a year!
From the bottle: Rub Figured A Hopped Roll By Dry Balanced Will Stiffy Body In Ending A Explosive Lube Stout Finish The Huge Full On Resulting A Mom
Today only, SweetWater Brewing is offering you something special. Brew your cask off is coming up March 5, 2011. Tickets official go on sale today. Also, since it’s Wednesday there is a brewery tour today. The first 25 people to buy tickets AT the brewery get 10 dollars off their Brew Your Cask Off ticket.
Featured today also on tour are 2 casks!
Brown Sugar Brown Now – Georgia Brown with brown Sugar & amarillo Hops
Exodus Porter – Fresh blueberries added
Tickets on sale today! –> http://www.xorbia.com/tickets/brewyourcaskoff/
Tours at SweetWater are Wed-Fri starting at 5:30pm, Saturday @ 2:30 pm
SweetWater Brewing’s Festive Ale has arrived in bombers, with a sexy new bottle design. This years bottles abandoned the traditional paper labels and are now painted – like the Dank Tank bomber series. Pretty snappy indeed.
Beer Rundown: Style: Winter Warmer Hops: Centennial, US & UK Golding Malts: 2 Row, Munich, 40L, 70/80, Carapils, Chocolate, Black
Taste Expectations: Dark malts, roasty. Touch of chocolate mixed with cinnamon spice. Sweet notes, tasting like brown sugar or toffee. Clove. ABV hides well.
Atlanta’s popular winter warmer by SweetWater Brewing – Festive has arrived for 2010. Brewed for “winter coat season” as they describe it, this beer gets a lot of people in a festive mood. This beer is brewed only one day a year!
Commerical Description: A strong ale brewed with generous amounts of rich malt, coupled with a taint of cinnamon, and mace to keep you warm and toasted all winter long. We Double Dog Dare You
Beer Rundown: Style: Winter Warmer Hops: Centennial, US & UK Golding Malts: 2 Row, Munich, 40L, 70/80, Carapils, Chocolate, Black
Taste Expectations: Dark malts, roasty. Touch of chocolate mixed with cinnamon spice. Sweet notes, tasting like brown sugar or toffee. Clove. ABV hides well.
The next up in SweetWater Brewing’s Dank Tank is an imperial porter dubbed “Mean Joe Bean”. The peeps over at SweetWater are keeping it local by using coffee from Java Vino in Poncey-Highlands in Atlanta. JavaVino is not your usual coffee house. They are the “evolution of the traditional coffee house”. JV combines two beverage flavor adventures under one roof – coffee & wine.
