Casks

CASK ALERT: Schneider Aventinus Eisbock

Brick Store Pub’s Anniversary is looming.  Continuing the tradition of a special tapping each day the pub brings you Schneider Aventinus Eisbock Wooden Cask.  This beer is an eisbock, created by freezing off a portion of water and extracting it Continue Reading →

CASK ALERT! Sweetwater 420

In celebration of Atlanta Beer Week, Manuel’s Tavern is tapping a cask of Sweetwater 420 on Hopoids!   It’s Sweetwater 420 dry hopped with centennial and cascade. 420 is an American pale ale.

Sweetwater 420 casks are hard to come by. Continue Reading →

CASK ALERT! Sweetwater Coffee Quad

Miss the inaugural beer week cask at Brickstore Pub?  Here’s another chance.  Sweetwater’s “Four Drink Minimum with Breakfast” coffee quad taps this Thursday, and will be the SECOND cask tapping this week at Ormsby’s in honor of Atlanta Beer Week Continue Reading →

Sweetwater Superswarm Cask

Ok beer drinking social media addicts.  Here is a fun event during Atlanta Beer Week 2010.  You better have read the previous post about the casks featured on the Sweetwater tour for beer week.  Well, one day in particular has Continue Reading →

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CASK ALERT: Schneider Aventinus Eisbock

Brick Store Pub’s Anniversary is looming.  Continuing the tradition of a special tapping each day the pub brings you Schneider Aventinus Eisbock Wooden Cask.  This beer is an eisbock, created by freezing off a portion of water and extracting it from the beer.   What is left behind is a higher concentration of beer that is more pronounced in flavor and alcohol.

Schneider Weizen-Eisbock is brewed by Private Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn, or Schneider for short.  Its a damn good beer with high marks from all the beer drinkers, raters, geeks, etc.

Taste Expecations – Dark fruits, raisins, touch of clove.  This eisbock has a nice malt backbone also.

This beer taps from a wooden cask, at 5 pm today (6/10)

Brick Store Pub
125 East Court Square
Decatur, GA 30030-2521
Twitter: @BrickstorePub

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Atlanta Beer Week, Casks, SweetWater Brewing

CASK ALERT! Sweetwater 420

In celebration of Atlanta Beer Week, Manuel’s Tavern is tapping a cask of Sweetwater 420 on Hopoids!   It’s Sweetwater 420 dry hopped with centennial and cascade. 420 is an American pale ale.

Sweetwater 420 casks are hard to come by.  Taps today at 6pm!

5.4% ABV

Manuel’s Tavern – 5/21, 6pm
602 N Highland Avenue Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30307-1433
(404) 525-3447


by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Atlanta Beer Week, Casks, SweetWater Brewing

CASK ALERT! Sweetwater Coffee Quad

Miss the inaugural beer week cask at Brickstore Pub?  Here’s another chance.  Sweetwater’s “Four Drink Minimum with Breakfast” coffee quad taps this Thursday, and will be the SECOND cask tapping this week at Ormsby’s in honor of Atlanta Beer Week 2010.

Coffee quad is Sweetwater’s recent release from the Dank Tank – BSP Quad brewed with coffee added.  Yep. It’s just that tasty.  Thought the BSP Quad went down easy? Add coffee. It’s addictive.

11% ABV

Ormsby’s -5/20, 6pm
1170 Howell Mill Road
Atlanta, GA 30318
(404) 968-2033


by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Atlanta Beer Week, Casks, Terrapin Beer Company

CASK ALERT! Terrapin’s Monk’s Revenge

I’m not sure if Ormsby’s in the Westside has tapped a cask before… If not this week during Atlanta Beer Week 2010 is their inaugural tapping.

Tomorrow at 6pm – Ormsby’s will be tapping a cask of Monk’s Revenge Belgian IPA in honor of beer week.

Details about Monk’s –

Monk’s Revenge is brewed with a malt bill like a Belgian Tripel, but with the hop content of an IPA.  The Belgian yeast comes from one of the 7 Trappist breweries.  Monk’s Revenge also uses dextrose, an adjuct was used to force carbonate Monk’s , and is the first time brewer Spike Buckowski has ever used it.

Ingredients —

Hops — Magnum, Columbus, Chinook, Centennial, Amarillo, Cascade, Simcoe

Malts — 2 Row, Pilsner, Munich Light, Aroma, Pale Crystal, Acidulated

9.8% ABV

99 IBU’s

Ormsby’s -5/18, 6pm
1170 Howell Mill Road
Atlanta, GA 30318
(404) 968-2033

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Atlanta Beer Week, Casks, SweetWater Brewing

Sweetwater Superswarm Cask

Ok beer drinking social media addicts.  Here is a fun event during Atlanta Beer Week 2010.  You better have read the previous post about the casks featured on the Sweetwater tour for beer week.  Well, one day in particular has been enhanced.

Wednesday May 19th – Sweetwater is featuring a cask –  “Dirty South” a dark version of our IPA dry hopped with Centennial hops.”

In addition, Sweetwater is adding a social media twist – Foursquare.   Hope you know what Foursquare is by now. (www.foursquare.com) & (http://4sqatl.com).  Go there now, learn it, download the app to your phone. You’ll need it.   For this event, if you check in on Foursquare you’ll receive –

½ Price pint glass with your Four Square Check

10% discount on SweetWater Schwag

Random raffle prizes to boot

Also – if the event hit 250 checkins, then everyone will unlock to infamous Super Swarm Badge — marking all you fine folks as the 2nd group in the US to ever unlock it.  1st and only so far was at South By Southwest.

So, if you’re not on board with Foursquare, crawl out from under your rock and get it.  You’ll need it.  Drink up!

Visit – www.atlantabeerweek.com

Follow @ATLBeerMaster on Twitter…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Atlanta Beer Week, Casks, Terrapin Beer Company

Atlanta Beer Week Spotlight #2 – Midway Cask!

Coming to Midway Pub during Atlanta Beer Week is a special collaboration cask.  Green’s Beverage, Midway Pub, and Terrapin Brewing got together and a brewed a fun little one time cask in celebration of the week.

Terrapin’s recently added full time IPA – Hopsecutioner was casked with Tupelo honey, bourbon soaked vanilla beans, and oak chips.  Then dry hopped with simcoe.  If you recall, Hopsecutioner is a blend of 6 secret hops already and is  7.5% ABV.

Cask taps @ 5pm on May 21st!

Midway Pub

552 Flat Shoals Avenue Southeast
Atlanta, GA 30316
(404) 584-0335

CHECK OUT ATLANTA BEER WEEK ONLINE! – www.AtlantaBeerWeek.com




by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Casks, Terrapin Beer Company

CASK ALERT! Terrapin Monk’s Revenge

Monk’s Revenge, once a side project, has now joined Terrapin’s Monster Beer Tour.   Just a few weeks ago,  Atlanta saw the first 4 packs of this Belgian IPA.  Tonight at The Porter Beer Bar a cask of this beer will be featured.

Monk’s Revenge is brewed with a malt bill like a Belgian Tripel, but with the hop content of an IPA.  The Belgian yeast comes from one of the 7 Trappist breweries.  Monk’s Revenge also uses dextrose, an adjuct was used to force carbonate Monk’s , and is the first time brewer Spike Buckowski has ever used it.

Ingredients —

Hops — Magnum, Columbus, Chinook, Centennial, Amarillo, Cascade, Simcoe

Malts — 2 Row, Pilsner, Munich Light, Aroma, Pale Crystal, Acidulated

9.8% ABV

99 IBU’s

Cask Taps Tonight – 6pm!

The Porter Beer Bar

1156 Euclid Avenue Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30307
(404) 223-0393

by Reid Ramsay