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The Bruery Forms “Bruery Terreux”

The Bruery (Placienta, CA) has just announced they are splitting into two business units. They are forming Bruery Terreux, a new brand that will focus solely on farmhouse ales and American wild ales. The name – translates to “Earthy Bruery.”

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The Bruery Rum Barrel Black Tuesday Released to Reserve Members

The Bruery’s Black Tuesday is a legendary offering in craft beer.  A new variable of the massive imperial stout debuted at the Great American Beer Festival – Rum Barrel Aged Black Tuesday.

The annual release is aged in bourbon barrels. As a part of the 2014 Bruery Reserve Society, members are allocated two bottles of each, with no additional sales available.

This variation of Black Tuesday was aged in previously used rum barrels for an extended period of time.  Still rich in notes of caramel, toasted malt, vanilla, burnt wood an anise, this variation has additional fruit and spice notes from the rum barrels.

The Bruery Rum Barrel Aged Black Tuesday is a part of the October allocations.

Style: Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged. Rum.)
Availability: 750ml bottles. Limited to Bruery Reserve Society.
Release: October, 2014 (First release)

18.9% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, New Releases, The Bruery

The Bruery & Smog City Team Up on Atomic Kangarue

Those that can’t get enough of two breweries collaborating, add this to your radar. The Bruery Atomic Kangarue, a collaboration with Smog City Brewing (Torrence, CA).

Atomic Kangarue is a complex beer for sure. The base is a Belgian-style golden with two grape varieties, then fermented with Brettanomyces, and house strain yeast. Finally, Atomic Kangarue blended with a sour blonde ale and dry hopped again with Amarillo. I told you it was complex.

We’ve been friends with the folks at Smog City for many years and getting to brew a beer with them was a dream come true. Truly, only the world of dreams could this remarkable beer have been manifested. A Belgian-style golden ale, brewed with Semillon and Viognier grapes plus three types of hops, fermented with Brettanomyces Trois as well as our house yeast strain, then blended with a sour blonde ale and finally dry-hopped with Amarillo hops. This beer couldn’t be more complex and we couldn’t be more proud of it. 

The Bruery/Smog City Atomic Kangarue will be available in 750ml bottles. Reserve/Hoarders society release only.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Grapes)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, The Bruery

The Bruery Smokey and The Bois For Rare Beer Members

If you are a member of The Rare Beer Club, you have a special treat in store. The Bruery has created a one-off for the club -Smokey and The Bois.

A smokey edition of The Bruery’s fifth anniversary offering Bois.

Smokey & The Bois is a bourbon barrel aged, with cacao nibs and vanilla beans and a whopping 15.5% ABV.

Check the club for future details. This offering will obviously a bit rare.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Bruery Terreux, Headlines, The Bruery

The Bruery Forms “Bruery Terreux”

The Bruery (Placienta, CA) has just announced they are splitting into two business units. They are forming Bruery Terreux, a new brand that will focus solely on farmhouse ales and American wild ales. The name – translates to “Earthy Bruery.”

Bruery Terrerux will take its guidance and inspiration from the earth, creating and presenting flavors as the earth intended. Wort will be created on the brewery’s new GEA CRAFT-STAR brewhouse, then transported to their own facility down the road. All barrel aging and fermentation will take placed at the brand new Bruery Terreux facility.  A new tap room for Bruery Terreux will open in 2015, in Anaheim, California.

Wild ale/sour brands that The Bruery currently brews – Oude Tart, Saison Rue, Hottenroth, and others will transition to Bruery Terreux. The recipes will remain the same.

More to follow…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in 3 Floyds Brewing, New Releases, The Bruery

Rare Collab with 3 Floyds & The Bruery On Sale

A rare offering went on sale today at Three Floyds Brewpub in Muenster, Indiana- Rue D’Floyd.

A mash up of the two brewery names (Three Floyds & The Bruery), Rue D’Floyd is a porter, aged in bourbon barrels. $30 dollars per 750ml bottle.

Style: Porter (w/ Vanilla Beans, Cherries. Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 750ml bottles. Brewpub only

?? ABV 

pic via Three Floyds

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, The Bruery

The Bruery Couverteur Coming to Preservation Series [UPDATE]

The Bruery’s new concoction featuring cocoa nibs and vanilla beans- Couverteur. Part of the Preservation Series.

Couverteur is a Belgian-style Dubbel that has been fermented with cacao nibs and vanilla beans, adding a layer of chocolately complexity to the malt rich ale. Couverteur is best enjoyed fresh. 

The Bruery Converteur will be available in 750ml bottles.

Style: Dubbel (w/ Cocoa Nibs, Vanilla Beans)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: May, 2014

8% ABV

Update 6/25/14: The Bruery has issued a recall on Couverteur, after variations in pH indicating potential infection. 

“Your satisfaction with your membership in our Hoarders and Reserve Societies is one of our highest priorities. And we thank you for being part of our world. Believe us when we say that we hate it when our beers don’t turn out as we expected. The Bruery is a labor of love and it hurts us personally when we have to fall on our sword and admit to a fault in our beer, but we never want to release a beer that we don’t steadfastly believe in.

Just to note again, refunds for bottles and shipping fees will be automatically processed beginning next week. We will not be fulfilling any pending orders for Couverteur.”

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in The Bruery

The Bruery Addresses Black Tuesday Issues

The Bruery had a bumpy Black Tuesday. Nearly 4000 people immediately logged on to buy the coveted beer, and the eCommerce site tanked. Beer lovers can be a cranky, and sometimes mean sort. (Read over the Twitter and Facebook comments.) The Bruery has a statement on the tech issues, and the work in the future.

Good morning everyone! Thank you so much for making Black Tuesday as ridiculous of a day as usual. Most of you know that we’ve been spending a lot of time and money to make our eCommerce system run faster and smoother and most of you also know that it was pretty much a dud yesterday morning when Black Tuesday went on sale. Believe us when we say that we get no satisfaction out of seeing our site crash and our customers becoming upset.

Our goal at The Bruery is to create exciting beer and along with that, to share that beer with as many people as we can. It sucks when the plan to share the beer becomes an issue. Luckily, we have an amazing collection of supporters who stuck with our slowly crawling website throughout the day and we ultimately were able to get Black Tuesday into the hands of more people than ever before.

We certainly can’t guarantee that we’ll have a perfectly working site next year, but we can guarantee that we’ll reexamine our current processes so that sharing our beer is easier in the future.

Thank you so much for sticking it out yesterday, and for those who were able to purchase some Black Tuesday, we hope you have the chance to share it with your friends and family over this upcoming holiday season.
Cheers!

Everyone at The Bruery

**for the tech people out there – we’ll be discussing the issues with our developers over the next few days and will hopefully put up some more detailed information on where the problems lie. We know that many of you have solutions, but best to see the true problems first!

by Reid Ramsay