Terrapin Beer Company recently retired Sunray Wheat in lieu of new Easy Rider. This new pale ale is a flavor packed beer with a low ABV beer. Easy Rider boasts 5 different hop varieties and just one type of malt. Continue Reading →
Terrapin Beer Co (Athens, GA) just threw a party this past Saturday for their 10th Anniversary. This week (okay pretty much today), the brewery debuts 1oth Anniversary Ale.
What’s in the beer? Chouffe yeast, coriander, 2 types of orange peel, chamomile, nelson sauvin Continue Reading →
Terrapin celebrates 10 years this Saturday. On the eve of their anniversary, the brewery is in the process of expanding the overall capacity. The expansion doesn’t come a minute too soon, as the brewery hasn’t been able to keep up.
Over Continue Reading →
Terrapin Beer Company will release a draft only beer in April dubbed “Tree Hugger.” There’s a little backstory on this one.
Terrapin’s Spike Buckowski got pretty friendly with the altbier style on a recent trip to Germany. Altbiers originated in Dusseldorf, Continue Reading →
Terrapin Beer Co celebrates 10 years in April, 2012. As promised by the brewery, the label contains a mathematical equation. The guy you see there is Leonard Euler, and his equation, Euler’s Identity. Many mathematically inclined tout his identity Continue Reading →
Terrapin has begun shipping two seasonal beers this week – Hop Karma and Hopzilla.
This is Hopzilla’s second appearance, this time as a part of Terrapin’s Monster Beer Tour, in 12oz/4 packs. It’s full of citra and centennial hops for a Continue Reading →
Video details of an upcoming collaboration between Terrapin Brewing and Nogne-O (Grimstad, Norway). The beer will be brewed in Norway – a rye imperial porter. No word on United States release. Video via Owen Ogletree.
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Terrapin Beer Company recently retired Sunray Wheat in lieu of new Easy Rider. This new pale ale is a flavor packed beer with a low ABV beer. Easy Rider boasts 5 different hop varieties and just one type of malt. The beer makes its debut Terrapin’s home state of Georgia.
Style:
Hops: Galaxy, Bravo, Zythos, Centennial and Amarillo
Malts: Marris Otter, 2-Row, Crystal 24L
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft. Summer seasonal
4.5% ABV
Terrapin Beer Co (Athens, GA) just threw a party this past Saturday for their 10th Anniversary. This week (okay pretty much today), the brewery debuts 1oth Anniversary Ale.
What’s in the beer? Chouffe yeast, coriander, 2 types of orange peel, chamomile, nelson sauvin hops.
Style: Belgian Golden Ale
Hops: Nelson Sauvin
Availability: 22 oz bombers, Draft
9.969% ABV
Terrapin celebrates 10 years this Saturday. On the eve of their anniversary, the brewery is in the process of expanding the overall capacity. The expansion doesn’t come a minute too soon, as the brewery hasn’t been able to keep up.
Over dinner last fall, I asked John Cochran about the state of affairs at the brewery. The orders for Terrapin products are nearly 1/3 more than they were currently producing. Crude numbers looked like this – Production 19,000 barrels. Demand: Close to 30,000 barrels. Not a bad position to be in.
The Terrapin family is around 30 employees. The brewery expansion will require 30 more jobs to be added, in the brewhouse and packing lines.
New Equipment.
Eight 200-barrel fermenters are on order, along side a shiny new brewhouse. When the expansion is complete, the brewery should be able to produce nearly 40,000 barrels (1,240,000 million gallons) of beer annually. The 10th Anniverary Carnival is this Saturday in Athens, Georgia. (P.S. Almost sold out.)
Terrapin Beer Company will release a draft only beer in April dubbed “Tree Hugger.” There’s a little backstory on this one.
Terrapin’s Spike Buckowski got pretty friendly with the altbier style on a recent trip to Germany. Altbiers originated in Dusseldorf, Germany and are malty-nutty in flavor. Tree Hugger will play off this style, but a little hoppier. A hoppy altbier.
Some of the proceeds of Tree Hugger will benefit Decatur Green Fest. The fest is a free concert on the Decatur Courthouse Square featuring local and regional musical artists benefitting the Dogwood Alliance and the Oakhurst Community Garden Project.
Style: Altbier
Availability: Draft only
Arrival: April, 2012 (Tentative)
?? ABV
Terrapin Beer Co celebrates 10 years in April, 2012. As promised by the brewery, the label contains a mathematical equation. The guy you see there is Leonard Euler, and his equation, Euler’s Identity. Many mathematically inclined tout his identity equation as one of the most beautiful in the world. Beautiful? Totally. Euler’s Identity combines 5 math constants, and 3 arithmetic operations. It’s pretty fascinating if you’re into that kind of thing. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to do the math as you can see.)
Here’s the beer equation: Chouffe yeast, coriander, 2 types of orange peel, chamomile, nelson sauvin hops. You’ll see it around Terrapin’s Carnival time.
Style: American Strong Ale
Hops: Nelson Sauvin
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft. Limited Release.
Arrival: April 2012
9.969% ABV
The quote on the label is actually by Benjamin Pierce, speaking about Euler’s Identity. The actual equation looks like this. 
The gif below demonstrates the equation.
It is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
Terrapin has begun shipping two seasonal beers this week – Hop Karma and Hopzilla.
This is Hopzilla’s second appearance, this time as a part of Terrapin’s Monster Beer Tour, in 12oz/4 packs. It’s full of citra and centennial hops for a citrusy/pineapple hop punch. Hopzilla! Doesn’t lay off when it comes to malt. 100% marris otter malt gives this hoppy reptile a honey like mouth feel. Hopzilla has body for sure!
Hop Karma was shifted to seasonal status starting this year. Steve Hayes describes this beer like this:
Hop Karma Brown IPA (or dark, hoppy goodness as I like to call it). You probably remember this beer, as it was once part of our year-round offerings, but it has now been moved into the Seasonal Sessions line because we simply couldn’t keep up with production all year long. The dark roasted, coffee-like flavors of the Chocolate, Crystal, and Dark Munich malts give way to piney and cirtus flavors from Spike’s combination of flavorful, American hops…yum
Video details of an upcoming collaboration between Terrapin Brewing and Nogne-O (Grimstad, Norway). The beer will be brewed in Norway – a rye imperial porter. No word on United States release. Video via Owen Ogletree.
