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Posted in Hair Of The Dog Brewing, Don't Miss This, Omnipolo

Hair of the Dog Maja, an Omnipollo collaboration debuts

Hair of the Dog Maja, a collaboration with Stockholm, Sweden’s Omnipollo, debuts today.

The base beer is a 10% alcohol by volume barleywine, with nuances of vanilla, maple and bourbon. The beer went into the barrel with vanilla beans in February of 2016. 100% bottle conditioned.

This beer is pale in color and has the aromas of peaches and pleasant memories of the past. In the mouth, pineapple mixes with marshmallow, ample and whimsy. Produced with the help and guidance of our good friends at Omnipollo to provide a truly unique drinking experience.

Hair of the Dog Maja is a 12 ounce bottle release, available the brewery in Portland, Oregon starting today.

Style: Barleywine (w/ Vanilla, Maple. Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 12oz Bottles
Debut: 2/11/17

10% ABV

Image: Hair of the Dog

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Wicked Weed Brewing Co

Attention lovers: Wicked Weed Chocolate Covered Black Angel is ready

Wicked Weed Chocolate Covered Black Angel first appeared as a last minute surprise when the Asheville, North Carolina brewery released Angel of Darkness in December of 2015. The beer was just a blip on the radar for many, as the release was extremely limited.

Good news. This bit of dessert beer goodness is back in action – on sale now at the brewery once again.

Chocolate Covered Black Angel is a spin on the brewery’s Black Angel, a bourbon barrel-aged dark sour/wild ale, featuring extra Montmorency cherries, plus 100 pounds of cocoa nibs from local chocolatier, French Broad.

Chocolate covered Black Angel is our sour aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels. After the beer rest in barrels, we then blend into steel tanks with over 2 pounds per gallon of tart Montmorency cherries and copious amounts of Honduran cacao nibs from French Broad chocolates.

Wicked Weed Chocolate Covered Black Angel is everything you love about Black Angel, plus the added richness of cocoa. When we say decadent, we mean it. Each sip finds vanilla bourbon oak dancing with the chocolatey flavors, finishing slightly tart, thanks to that hefty dose of cherries. Love poems n to included.

 

Those seeking Wicked Weed Chocolate Covered Black Angel will find 500 milliliter bottles waiting for you at the brewery in Asheville. Go now.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Cherries, Cocoa Nibs. Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 500ml Bottles. Brewery only.
Latest Return: February, 2017

7.2% ABV

PIC: Beer Street Journal 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Seasonal Return, Don't Miss This, The Bruery

The Bruery White Chocolate goes public on Valentine’s Day

The Bruery White Chocolate, a decadent bourbon barreled beer brewed with vanilla beans, is being distributed for the first time in 2017.

The name might scream imperial stout, however the base beer is actually a wheat wine, aged 100% in bourbon barrels for a year with vanilla beans and cacao nibs. The Bruery affectionately refers to this beer as “white oak sap,” as it 100% bourbon barrel-aged and is the wheat wine component of now retired White Oak ale.

After nearly a year in used bourbon barrels, the beer comes out rich in coconut, honey, caramel and vanilla. To compliment the already rich flavors of this beer, we’ve added cacao nibs and fresh vanilla beans to give this beer the delicate flavor of white chocolate…hence the name.

 

Earlier we reported that the alcohol by volume of this beer was 16.6% (as stated on the brewery’s website.) The future release of this beer will be 13.8%, allowing most states to sell it.

The Bruery White Chocolate will be available in 750 milliliter bottles to the brewery’s Society members on February 6th. The first day the general public can buy this beer will be Valentine’s Day 2017.

Style: Wheatwine (w/ Vanilla Beans, Cacao Nibs, Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Updated Distribution: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, RI, TX, VT, VA, WA, WI

Latest Return: 2/14/17

13.8% ABV

Image: Beer Street Journal

Ed Note: Corrected mention of “White Oak Sap” as it has never been released publicly. ABV was also updated. 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Crooked Stave, Don't Miss This

Expect new beers, new bottle formats at Crooked Stave this year

Denver, Colorado’s Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project spent $3 million in brewery buildout and improvements in 2016. You’ll be seeing the results of those improvements this year.

Improvements.

The fully customized brewery includes a new brewhouse with a coolship for spontaneously fermented beer, increased foeder fermentation by 100%, a commitment to 100% fruit in their lineup and new packaging ability.

In 2017, expect to see 750 milliliter corked & caged bottles hitting the market, as well as 1.5 liter ‘magnums’ of select barrel-aged beers.

2017 is the year where we get to show off all the hard work we have put in over the last 6 years to get to this point. We see this year as a turning point, we put processes in place capable of making beers in a creative and quality way that I’ve never seen any other brewery install.” – Chad Yakobson, Crooked Stave Owner and Brewmaster

In the coming year, Crooked Stave plans to release all of their Barrel Cellar Blends, which include L’Brett d’Or, Flor d’Lees, Origins and Nightmare on Brett in 750ml, 100% bottled conditioned, cork and caged bottles.

NEW. 

Crooked Stave will debut the Reserve Cellar Releases, which will include a new 750ml bottle each month. The sours will include 100% whole fruit sours such as L’Brett d’Raspberry, Persica, Surette Reserva with Palisade Peaches, Mama Bears Sour Cherry Pie and Nightmare on Brett Raspberry.

Taproom only releases. Expect Crooked Stave to release single barrel and limited blends of new beers.

Image: Crooked Stave

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Tallgrass Brewing, Don't Miss This, New Releases

Love Buffalo Sweat? Drink Tallgrass King Buffalo

Tallgrass King Buffalo has kicked off the Manhattan, Kansas based brewery’s new year – a big imperial stout.

The brewery is most well known for Buffalo Sweat, an oatmeal cream stout. Now the “king” of buffalos, has joined the brewery’s Explorer Series. Tallgrass King Buffalo is an 10.5% alcohol by volume imperial stout, with intense coffee and chocolate flavors.

Big Stout. Small Can.

Don’t let this little 12 ounce can fool you. What is inside is big and bold. If you love Buffalo Sweat (as much as we do), you have a home here. Scratch the milk sugar for brown sugar, and up the flavor of coffee and chocolate. King Buffalo drinks like a meal. The brewery said it best – “One Buffalo to Rule Them All.”

Kicking off the 2017 Explorer Series is King Buffalo, a 10.5% imperial stout. Sitting on a throne of dark roasted grains, King Buffalo is loaded with the same intense coffee and chocolate notes of our original Buffalo Sweat, but it’s deeper, darker, richer and more complex.

Tallgrass King Buffalo is now our packs of 12 ounce cans, from January until March, 2017.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Brown Sugar)
Hops: Columbus, Cascade, Northern Brewer
Malts: 2Row, Vienna, Victory, C60, Wheat, Chocolate Malt, Roasted Barley, Oats, Dehusked Carafa III

Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft.
Debut: January, 2017

10.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Dogfish Head, Don't Miss This

Dogfish Head SeaQuench Ale marks the brewery’s 3rd can

Dogfish Head SeaQuench Ale debuts today, marking the brewery’s third canned beer.

This tart ale is actually three different styles of beer that come together in one union. SeaQuench starts as a traditional kolsch, a salt-forward gose that is brewed with black limes and sea salt, and a Berliner Weisse brewed with lime juice and peel. The three beers were blended together during fermentation, resulting in a mixed, session sour ale.

Recently, Dogfish Head has started transitioning to 12 ounce cans; releasing 60 Minute IPA and Flesh & Blood IPA.

Three styles blissfully brewed in sequence for a citrusy-tart union, our hybrid sour quencher is brewed with lime peel, black limes, and sea salt.

Dogfish Head SeaQuench Ale is brewed in collaboration with the National Aquarium. Dogfish Head has already started various conservation efforts to help preserve local Chesapeake Bay.

As of January 30th, Dogfish Head SeaQuench Ale will be available in 12 ounce cans and draft at the brewery. Distribution to follow soon.

Style: Gose (w/ Lime Peel, Black Limes, Sea Salt)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Seasonal.
Debut (Cans): 1/30/17

4.9% ABV, 10 IBUs

Image: Dogfish Head

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This

Atlanta area gas station pulls Sam Adams ahead of Super Bowl

First of all, we had no clue that an Exxon gas station in Gainesville, Georgia has a Facebook page. Then again, why not?

The 2017 Super Bowl approaches; a showdown between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. One Exxon gas station is showing their fandom in the store’s beer cooler. Until this year’s game has been played, it won’t be selling Sam Adams.

The sign above is currently on the store’s beer cooler, and shared on their Facebook page. Additionally, they are going a step further and promoting Atlanta based SweetWater Brewing Company instead.

….we’re promoting your ATLANTA based beer instead so if you guys want to send us to the Super Bowl we wouldn’t hate ya for it 

This move comes days after Boston Globe reporter Barry Chin wrote a scathing piece on the boredom that will be the Super Bowl because it’s hard to feel anything for Atlanta fans and their zero enthusiasm for their own sports teams.

The only two spectator sports that matter in Atlanta are college football . . . and spring college football.

Looks like an Exxon station north of the city just taught their fans how to #RiseUp.

Insert your deflate jokes here.

Image: Browns Bridge Exxon

by Reid Ramsay