Coming Soon

Blue Moon Echos Craft

Blue Moon is adding a new brew to their Brewmaster’s Reserve Collection – Vintage Blonde Ale.  It’s more than a blonde ale, Vintage Blonde is brewed with Chardonnay grape juice.  It won a gold medal in the fruit beer category Continue Reading →

Rogue’s Creamy New Collab

This beer will be debuting at Savor in June.  Anniversary Ale celebrates Rogue Creamery’s 75th Anniversary (1935-2010.) The Creamery was opened shortly after the Great Depression in hopes to bring jobs back to Oregon.  Artisan cheeses are the Creamery’s specialty.

This ale is actually a collaboration between Rogue Creamery & Rogue Ales. It is comprised of 10 ingredients:

Hops: Rogue Micro Hopyard Rebel Hops
Malts: Crystal 75, Weyerrnann carafe Special II, Malteries Franco Belges Kiln Amber, Hugh Baird Brown and Rogue Micro Barley Farm Dare’ & Risk’ Malts; Rogue Micro Buckwheat,
Yeast: Pacman
Free Range Coastal Water

There are special cheeses to be paired with the beer at Savor.

Tocobaga In June

No, not an exotic land.  It’s Cigar City Brewing’s beer arriving in bottles for the first time June 3rd.  Tocobaga is a hoppy red ale dry hopped with citra, and the brainchild of assistant brewer Tim Ogden.  Tocobaga disappears on Continue Reading →

A Menagerie In Glass (No 5)

This upcoming brew comes from my home state of Delaware.  Evolution Brewing is based at the very bottom of the state overlapping into Maryland.  Evo is less than an hour from Milton, home of Dogfish Head.  The brewery produces about Continue Reading →

Magic Hat Humble Out Of Retirement

Magic Hat Brewing is bring Humble Patience out of retirement.  Patience is a low alcohol red ale last brewed around 2005.  About Humble:

The result of mystical exhortation and strange portents in the sky, Humble Patience was complex without being heavy…a Continue Reading →

Port Brewing’s 5 Anniversary Brew

Port Brewing celebrates 5 years in May.  When you’re a brewer, you release a special beer to celebrate.  The 2011 edition of Anniversary ale is light, hoppy and summery. Per Port:

A massively hopped strong pale ale brewed to celebrate Continue Reading →

Stone’s Odd Russian

This year Stone Brewing is releasing 2 beers in their “Odd Beers For Odd Years” series.  Initially the idea was to just release Old Guardian and Imperial Russin Stout in Belgo/Belgianized odd versions.  The Stone faithful complained, the brewery lamented Continue Reading →