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Firestone Walker Helldorado 2016 Vintage releases this weekend

Firestone Walker Helldorado 2016 will debut this weekend.

Dark beers and barleywines are quite popular to use in retired spirits barrels. (For good reason, they make damn good barrel-aged beers.) If you are reading this, you already know Firestone Walker is incredibly gifted when it comes to barrel-aging finesse.

A couple of years ago, the brewery thought a blonde barleywine, one brewed with a lighter base malt, would go well in oak barrels.

The bready, honeyed flavors of pale malts pull out rich wildflower honey, vanilla and coconut notes from the oak, creating an overall flavor evocative of bourbon-glazed graham crackers that stands as singularly unique in our Vintage lineup. Helldorado may be lighter in color but it is a full-bodied and densely concentrated sipper at 11.8% ABV.

Firestone Walker Helldorado 2016 debuts once again on August 6th, in 22 ounce bottles and draft. Both very limited.

Style: Barleywine (Oak Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft. Limited Release.
Latest Return: 8/6/16

11.8% ABV

Image: Firestone Walker

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Wild Heaven Craft Beers, Coming Soon, Don't Miss This

Wild Heaven Autumn Defense is coming to cans this season

Wild Heaven Autumn Defense returns again in late August. This year, the brewery will can this fall beer for the first time.

The recipe has changed a little bit since it’s first release. It wasn’t until 2015 that Wild Heaven Autumn Defense became true festbier. It sold so well last fall, Wild Heaven knew it had to be canned in 2016. Note: we mentioned earlier this was a lager. It’s actually an ale, that tastes like the popular Oktoberfest style.

Above is the can design for Autumn Defense, courtesy of the brewery’s co-founder, Nick Purdy.

Wild Heaven Autumn Defense will be available on draft and in 12 ounce cans in late August/early September. The brewery is planning an Oktoberfest party on September 24th.

As of the time of this article, Wild Heaven has canned Emergency Drinking Beer, White Blackbird Saison, and most recently – Wise Blood IPA.

Style: Oktoberfest
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft. Seasonal.
Can Debut: Late August, 2016

5.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Founders Brewing, Coming Soon, Don't Miss This

Founders Pale Joe is this year’s ArtPrize beer

Founders Pale Joe will join the brewery’s ArtPrize lineup of beers in September.

Artprize is an international art competition, held annually in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The winners are decided by both public vote and expert panel. The Founders Brewing taproom is one of the display venues.

Founders Pale Joe is the brainchild of brewmaster Jeremy Kosmicki. The base beer is a pale ale, infused with lightly roasted coffee from local Ferris Coffee and Nut Co.

Your eyes will tell you one thing, but your palate will tell you another. Light in color but full in flavor, this golden ale features notes of gently roasted, fruit-forward coffee. Pale Joe features a special blend of high-end Ethiopian coffee expertly roasted by our hometown neighbors at Ferris Coffee and Nut. It’s the love child of your favorite iced coffee and, well, beer.

The label was chosen from a pool of submissions from the brewery employees. The winning submission came from Lead Cellar Operator and Kendall College of Art & Design graduate, Aaron Rossel.

Founders Pale Joe will be available in 12 ounce bottles and draft in Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, New York City and Boston, MA. Some draft will be found across the rest of the brewery’s distribution network.

Style: Pale Ale (w/ Coffee)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: September, 2016

5.4% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Don't Miss This, Lost Abbey

Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze is ready to return for a 3rd time

Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze is about to make a return to the beer scene. You can almost hear the whale hunters breathing heavy.

The American wild ale is a blend of 1, 2, and 3 year old beers that has been aged in French oak barrels. The first release of this beer was in 2009, and in 2016, this only it’s third ever release.

“We’re more than excited to release the third version of Duck Duck Gooze.” Said Tomme Arthur, COO and Co-Founder at The Lost Abbey. “Waiting for barrels to mature over the last three years has been a journey on its own, but the finished beer proves the wait was worth it.”

How to get it.

Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze sales will start on Tuesday, July 26th, 2016, at 12pm PT. As long as the servers don’t crash again, those logging in will be able to purchase up to six bottles, at $41 dollars a bottle. No shipping. No proxies, either. The person that buys the ticket, picks it up on either August 27th, or 28th. If you don’t, the bottles will be surrendered back to Lost Abbey, and a refund issued. The brewery will publish a link on the 25th.

Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze is a 750 milliliter bottle offering.

Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged. 3 Year Blend)
Availability: 750 ml bottles, Corked & Caged. Rare.

7% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Red Hare Brewing, Coming Soon

Red Hare Long Night Lager, brewed with coffee

Red Hare Long Night Lager takes aim at cans in the near future.

Long Day Lager is the brewery’s top selling beer. Red Hare Long Night Lager takes that beer a step further with coffee from Marietta, Georgia based Cool Beans Coffee Roasters.

Red Hare Long Night Lager will be a 12 ounce can and draft offering. The brewery recently confirmed it will be available later this year.

Style: Lager (w/ Coffee)
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft.
Debut: TBA

 ?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Modern Times Beer, Coming Soon

Modern Times Attack Frequency, the first of special cans

Modern Times Attack Frequency, a new special release can, debuts in August.

The San Diego brewer touts this newbie as “a mouthwatering tropical juice bomb” that is built on Citra, Amarillo, El Dorado, and Rakau hops.

…Taken to nigh-on-irresponsible levels of juiciness with the addition of guava and apricot. Seriously, we could spend paragraphs describing it, but how good did that just sound?

Modern Times Attack Frequency is the brewery’s first canned special release, coinciding with the Festival of Dankness the week of August 13th. The cans will be available at the brewery for the entire week.

Style: IPA
Hops: Citra, Amarillo, El Dorado, Rakau

Availability: 16oz Cans
Debut: 8/13/16

7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Small Town Brewery, Coming Soon, Headlines

Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie looks to join popular lineup

Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie is on deck from Small Town Brewery. Another in an expanding line of flavored beers.

Small Town made an industry splash when they released Not Your Father’s Root Beer, an alcoholic root beer. Following that release came Not Your Father’s Ginger Ale. In June, Not Your Father’s Cream Ale expanded the lineup.

Additionally, a boozier edition of Not Your Father’s Root Beer (to the tune of 10.7% alcohol by volume) started shipping nationally.

The fifth bottled offering by Small Town Craft Brewery looks to be Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie. A beer brewed with apple juice, Madagascar vanilla beans, cinnamon and nutmeg. The flavor aligns a bit with the heavy selling Redd’s Apple Ale, which really pushed “apple ales” mainstream.

The is beer is as American as Mom’s apple pie. In fact we brew it with apple juice, Madagascar vanilla, cinnamon, & nutmeg to bring you a crisp one of a kind dessert brew.

Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie will be a 12 ounce bottle release. The brewery has not yet announced this beer.

Style:                (w/ Vanilla Beans, Apple Juice, Nutmeg, Cinnamon)
Availability: 12oz Bottles.
Release: TBA

5.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay