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Spotlight: Terrapin Pumpkinfest Cans

Terrapin Pumpkinfest will join the brewery’s can lineup later this year. The brewery is vastly expanding their can lineup to include a few year round offerings as well as seasonal.

Terrapin Pumpkinfest was first released as Side Project #8 in 2009. Continue Reading →

Terrapin Maggie’s Blackberry Cobbler Coming in May

Terrapin Maggie’s Blackberry Cobbler will be the next offering in the brewery’s Special Reserve Series. A sister beer, or at least partially inspired by Terrapin’s Maggie’s Peach Farmhouse Ale. Brewed with fresh blacberries and graham crackers.

Maggie’s Blackberry Cobbler Imperial Farmhouse Continue Reading →

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Terrapin Liquid Lunch Peanut Butter Jelly Porter, Side Project #25

Terrapin Liquid Lunch Peanut Butter Jelly Porter is the brewery’s Side Project #25. The Athens, Georgia based brewery shipped this new offering this week.

Taking a page from another peanut butter offering, Liquid Bliss, the brewing team has made your favorite lunch as a kid, boozy. We are assuming the crusts are cut off. We’re talking raspberries here people.

Cut off the crust and unwrap the flavor of this fruit centric beer. Hand crafted using real raspberries, “Liquid Lunch”  Peanut Butter Jelly Porter combines all the elements of a familiar lunch time snack.

Terrapin Liquid Lunch is now available in 22oz bottles.

Style: Porter (w/ Peanut Butter, Cocoa Nibs, Raspberries.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: 6/11/15 (Shipped)

7.7% ABV

Terrapin Liquid Lunch

by Reid Ramsay
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Terrapin Krunkles Down Under Coming to New Variety Pack

Terrapin Krunkles Down Under is headed to cans later this year. “Captain Krunkles,” the brewery’s fictitious (or maybe not so fictitious) hop loving traveler swings to the South Pacific for his latest offering.

Terrapin Krunkles Down Under features hop varieties from New Zealand and Australia.

Krunkles returns with a new IPA from his time spent on the underside of the world. Brewed with hops exclusively from New Zealand and Australia, this “South Pacific IPA” is packed with so much flavor, it might even make a kiwi say G’Day!

Terrapin Krunkles Down Under will be available in a new IPA Survival Pack this summer. The 12-can variety pack will contain Hopsecutioner, RecreationAle, Hi-5 IPA, and Krunkles Down Under.

Style: IPA
Hops: Moteuka, Pacific Jade, Green Bullet, Topaz, Waimea, Rakau. Dry Hop: Ella, Galaxy

Availability: 12oz Cans, Variety Pack Release
Release: Summer, 2015

6.6% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, New Releases, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin RecreationAle 16oz Cans Arrive this Month

Terrapin RecreationAle 16oz cans are on the out of the Athens, Georgia brewery. Tallboy cans of the session ale were filled this week.

Terrapin RecreationAle was the very first can to join the brewery’s lineup back in 2013.  Its success opened the door for Hi-5 IPA, and ultimately, Terrapin ordering their own canning line. (Two Roads Brewing had been contract canning previously.)

16oz “tallboy” cans roll out this month. The the hoppy session ale is 4.7% ABV.

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Terrapin Beer Company

Spotlight: Terrapin Pumpkinfest Cans

Terrapin Pumpkinfest will join the brewery’s can lineup later this year. The brewery is vastly expanding their can lineup to include a few year round offerings as well as seasonal.

Terrapin Pumpkinfest was first released as Side Project #8 in 2009. The pumpkin beer marries an oktoberfest style beer, with pumpkin spices.

Expect 12oz cans of Terrapin Pumpkinfest late-summer/fall, 2015.

Style: Pumpkin Beer
Hops: Vanguard, Hallertau Hershrucker
Malts: Munich, Vienna, Munich II, Catamunich II, Melanoiden
Spices: Cinnamon, Ginger, All Spice, Cloves PUMPKIN!

6.1% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin Maggie’s Blackberry Cobbler Coming in May

Terrapin Maggie’s Blackberry Cobbler will be the next offering in the brewery’s Special Reserve Series. A sister beer, or at least partially inspired by Terrapin’s Maggie’s Peach Farmhouse Ale. Brewed with fresh blacberries and graham crackers.

Maggie’s Blackberry Cobbler Imperial Farmhouse Ale is made with fresh blackberries and graham crackers for a taste you won’t soon forget. Reminiscent of the smell in Granny’s kitchen on a Sunday afternoon, this beer is liquid dessert after a home cooked meal.

Terrapin Blackberry Cobbler will be available in 22oz bottles in May, 2015.

Style: Farmhouse Ale (w/ Blackberries, Graham Crackers)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft. Limited Release
Release: 22oz Bottles, Draft

5.55% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Terrapin Beer Company

First Look: Terrapin Maggie’s Peach Farmhouse Cans

Above is the very first Terrapin Maggie’s Peach Farmhouse can. The first can pressing started today at Ball Corporation in Colorado.

This year the Athens, Georgia based brewery is aggressively expanding their can offerings this year to include Hopsecutioner, Golden Ale, Maggie’s Peach Farmhouse Ale and more. Maggie’s first appeared as a Side Project offering, and was later upgraded to a seasonal offering.

Terrapin tells Beer Street Journal that Maggie’s Peach Farmhouse Ale cans will ship late-April, early May, 2015.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Don't Miss This, Terrapin Beer Company

First Look: Terrapin Rye Pale Ale Cans

Terrapin Rye Pale Ale will soon launch in 12oz cans. The brewery is actively making a shift cans across the portfolio. By the end of 2015, more more than half of the lineup will be canned.

Today, Dustin Watts, VP of marketing with Terrapin, shot over some of the first shots of the new Rye Pale cans right off the line at Ball Corp. in Colorado. The beer is a year round offering in 12oz bottles and draft currently, that debuted in 2002.

By using an exact amount of rye, a grain seldom found in other micro brewed beers, the Rye Pale Ale acquires its signature taste. Made with five varieties of hops and a generous amount of specialty malts, it offers a complex flavor and aroma that is both aggressive and well balanced – a rare find among beers

Terrapin Rye Pale Ale cans join Hi-5 IPA, RecreationALE, and just released Mosaic in the canned lineup.

Style: Rye Beer (Pale Ale Base)
Hops: Magnum, Fuggle, East Kent Golding, Cascade, (Amarillo – dry hop)
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Munich, Malted Rye, Victory Malt, Honey Malt

Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. 12oz Cans (Soon).
Release: Late March, 2015

5.5% ABV

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Terrapin Rye Pale 2

by Reid Ramsay