Terrapin Beer Company

CASK ALERT: Terrapin’s Moo Hoo

On Friday, November 12th, Taco Mac Kennesaw turns 3 yrs old.  To celebrate – they will be tapping a cask of Terrapin’s new “Moo Hoo” and a few other goodies.

Tap Rundown:

Terrapin – Moo Hoo CASK.  The new chocolate milk stout, Continue Reading →

The Fred’s 1 Year Anniversary!

Tomorrow, Atlanta’s craft beer speakeasy turns 1!  How do you celebrate?  Craft beer style!  Here’s the lineup…

Terrapin – Moo Hoo CASK! – The first firkin of Terrapin’s newest chocolate milk stout seasonal is tapping @6pm!

Founder’s – Canadian Breakfast Stout Continue Reading →

Beer & Cheese w/ Terrapin Brewing

Tim Gaddis  aka “Atlanta’s Cheesemonger” teams up with Kraig Torres of Hop City this Thursday for a beer/meat/cheese pairing at Abattoir.

The pairing features 5 Terrapin beers, 5 cheeses, 3 cured meats.  The beers – Moo Hoo, Hopsecutioner, Hop Karma, Big Continue Reading →

Terrapin’s Moo Hoo Arrives!

It’s here! After what seems like too long a wait, Terrapin Brewing’s “Moo Hoo Chocolate Milk Stout” is here!

Moo Hoo joins the seasonal release series by Terrapin, along side Sunray Wheat, and Pumpkinfest.  This chocolate milk stout is made with Continue Reading →

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CASK ALERT: Terrapin’s Moo Hoo

On Friday, November 12th, Taco Mac Kennesaw turns 3 yrs old.  To celebrate – they will be tapping a cask of Terrapin’s new “Moo Hoo” and a few other goodies.

Tap Rundown:

Terrapin – Moo Hoo CASK.  The new chocolate milk stout, gravity poured.

Founders – Breakfast Stout. Imperial Stout, XX% ABV.  Popular double chocolate, coffee, oatmeal imperial stout.

Left Hand/Terrapin – Oxymoron. – India Pale Lager, 7% ABV.  Latest edition in the Midnight Project.  Hoppy pale lager.

Brooklyn – Detonation. Imperial IPA.  Part of the Brewmaster’s Reserve Series.  Awesome hoppy DIPA.

Terrapin – Hopzilla.  Imperial IPA, 9% ABV.  Fresh hopped w/ Citra hops – this side project was here and gone quick.

Dogfish Head – Chateau Jiahu. Herbed Beer, 10% ABV.  This beer has an awesome story.  Read up on it.  Beer spotlight soon.

Red Brick – Vanilla Gorilla. Barrel aged Porter, 7.5% ABV.  Porter aged in JD barrels for 6 mos. Vanilla bean added too.

Bell’s – Sparkling Ale.  Tripel, 9% ABV.  Wildly popular seasonal tripel from Bell’s.  Look for it back on shelves soon.

Smuttynose – Really Old Brown Dog. Old Ale, 10% ABV.  One of the best old ales in the US.  The bombers came and went.  Draft is a rare find.

Taps flow Friday, 6 pm!

Taco Mac Kennesaw
600 Chastain Road NW # 600
Kennesaw, GA 30144

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Craft Beer Parties, Founders Brewing, Rare Opportunity, Red Brick, Terrapin Beer Company

The Fred’s 1 Year Anniversary!

Tomorrow, Atlanta’s craft beer speakeasy turns 1!  How do you celebrate?  Craft beer style!  Here’s the lineup…

Terrapin – Moo Hoo CASK! – The first firkin of Terrapin’s newest chocolate milk stout seasonal is tapping @6pm!

Founder’s – Canadian Breakfast Stout – aka CBS.  This is their popular KBS aged in a maple syrup barrel.  Rare.

Terrapin – So Fresh & So Green, Green.  Wet hopped seasonal featuring amarillo hops.

Fred Brick – Steam Beer.  Collaboration between Fred Crudder & Red Brick Brewing.

Rodenbach – Oak Aged Vintage 2007.  Unblended edition of Brouwerji Palm’s Flemish Sour.

Scaldis Prestige – AKA Bush Prestige. Belgian Strong Pale Ale.  13% ABV.  It’s Bush Ambrée aged 6 months in oak instead of steel vats.

Sierra Nevada – Estate Harvest Ale.  IPA, 6.7% ABV. – Fresh hopped 100% organic offering from SN.

In addition- since Matt Deckard departed Taco Mac to start Deckard’s Kitchen & Kegs – a new chef has joined the team  There will be a food spread to show off his talents.  ( Sorry I don’t know his name yet.)

Also, some special taps upstairs at The Prado – Allagash Curieux 2009 Vintage.  Avery Hog Heaven 2009/2010.  Also, St Bernardus Christmas bottles.

It all starts at 5 pm!

The Fred Bar
5600 Roswell Rd
Atlanta, GA 30342

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Tastings, Terrapin Beer Company

Beer & Cheese w/ Terrapin Brewing

Tim Gaddis  aka “Atlanta’s Cheesemonger” teams up with Kraig Torres of Hop City this Thursday for a beer/meat/cheese pairing at Abattoir.

The pairing features 5 Terrapin beers, 5 cheeses, 3 cured meats.  The beers – Moo Hoo, Hopsecutioner, Hop Karma, Big Hoppy Monster, Rye Pale Ale.   Cost – $30

RSVP on Facebook –> http://bit.ly/cohhL1

Abattoir – 11/4/10, 7 pm
1170 Howell Mill Road NW
Atlanta, GA 30318

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin’s Moo Hoo Arrives!

It’s here! After what seems like too long a wait, Terrapin Brewing’s “Moo Hoo Chocolate Milk Stout” is here!

Moo Hoo joins the seasonal release series by Terrapin, along side Sunray Wheat, and Pumpkinfest.  This chocolate milk stout is made with real chocolate, chocolate malt, and oats to create a nice, silky, chocolaty mouthfeel.   The cocoa nibs & shells come from Olive and Sinclair Chocolate Company in Nashville, Tennesee.

Style: Milk Stout/Sweet Stout
Hops: Nugget, Willamette
Malt: 2 Row Pale, Flaked Oat, Chocolate, Crystal 85, Carafa III Special, Roasted Barley
Choco Nibs, Coco

Taste Expectations: Sweet and roasty malts, with chocolate & cocoa shining throughout. This sweet stout is milky, and smooth – almost creamy.

Availability: 12oz/6 pks.  Draft.   Winter seasonal.  Inaugural release.

6% ABV

Looking for this? Tower in Buckhead.  Green’s Beer. Hop City!

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Terrapin Beer Company

COMING SOON: Terrapin’s SP#13 Big Daddy Vlady

Terrapin Brewing is having a busy year!  The Georgia Theatre benefit series, Side Projects, tap takeovers, and most recently their newest annual release – wet hopped “So Fresh & So Green, Green”.  Well, no rest for the weary.  Side Project #13 is currently in the works and will be here soon.

“Big Daddy Vlady” gives aways the style – a Russian Imperial Stout. A heavy hitter too.  From the label:

“Terrapin’s “Big Daddy Vlady’s” Russian Imperial Stgout is Number 13 in our Side Project series of beers.  Brewed under the strictest of Socialistic guidelines, this Imperialistic Stout will be carefully monitored and allocated accordingly.  Black as the coldest Siberian winter’s night, this colossal, viscous, elixer will bring the hammer and sickle down on your little girly man’s palet.”

Style: Russian Imperial Stout

Arrival: Late November/December 2010

10% ABV (or higher)

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin’s So Fresh & So Green, Green Arrives!

Without further ado, Terrapin Brewing’s fresh hopped IPA is here.  This the first release of this beer that will now come out annual each fall.   Each year it will feature a different “wet” hop.

Terrapin’s Description:
Amarillo hop goodness is what this beer is all about! Twelve thirty pound boxes of Amarillo flown in overnight from the Yakima Valley in Washington State…to be exact.  This is a beer that celebrates the hop! Made with freshly picked, whole leaf, “wet hops” these off the vine beauties will encourage you to drink fresh, drink local and drink now!

Beer Rundown:
Hops: Fresh, wet Amarillo
Malts: 2 Row, Marris Otter, Best Munich, Honey, Fawcett Crystal

Taste Expectations: Unbelievable fresh hop flavor.  Very floral.  Balanced with a nice light malt finish.

Availability: 22oz bombers. Draft.  Seasonal brew. Different hop in 2011

Cellar? NO! It’s a fresh hop beer.  As Terrapin says – Drink fresh, drink now!

6.7% ABV

Looking for this? 10/14, 2pm @ Greens on Ponce

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Terrapin Beer Company

COMING SOON: Terrapin GA Theatre Sessions #4

The last edition in Terrapin’s Georgia Theatre Sessions beers is coming soon.  These beers (4 in all)  are meant to commemorate the beloved Athens, Georgia landmark, and benefit it’s rebuild.   Each beer in this series has highlighted a part of the theater’s history – from when it was a YMCA, a movie theater, and it’s current fame – a music venue.  This last beer “Hoptaneous Combustion” remembers the fire that gutted it.  Hoptaneous will be a smoked imperial IPA.

Smoke?  Yes.  According to the brewery, this ipa will have some smoky flavor/malts.  It already sounds interesting.  Also, this beer will have a lucky golden ticket like it’s predecessors. The ticket give the holder and a guess free entry to the rebuilt Georgia Theatre for life!

Style: Smoked Imperial IPA

Availability: 22oz Bombers.  Bottles are hand numbered & boxed.  Rare casks.

Arrival: December 2010

by Reid Ramsay