Coming Soon
Ballast Point Watermelon Dorado cans on the way
Ballast Point Watermelon Dorado, the brewery’s imperial IPA brewed with watermelon is already available in bottles. Next up, 12 ounce cans.
The brewery has been taking a few of their tried and true offerings, and nuancing them with everything from pineapple to peanut butter cups. Recently (or forthcoming) releases include Pineapple Sculpin, Grapefruit Sculpin, & Habanero Sculpin, and Mango Even Keel.
Ballast Point Watermelon Dorado is currently available nationally in bottles and draft.
This Double IPA is not one to back down from big flavors. Mash, kettle, and dry hopping blend to create a huge hop profile that is balanced with a blast of watermelon.
Ballast Point Watermelon Dorado is a 12 ounce bottle and draft offering. 12 ounce cans will be shipping nationally this summer.
Style: Imperial IPA (w/ Watermelon)
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft. 12oz Bottles
Release (Cans): May/June, 2016
10% ABV
Heavy Seas Partner Ships Hoppelbock, with Troegs
Heavy Seas Partner Ships Hoppelbock is the latest the brewery’s “Partner Ships” Series in 2016. The first release was with Maine Beer Co.
Heavy Seas Partner Ships Hoppelbock is brewed with Hershey, Pennsylvania’s Troegs Independent Brewing. This aggressively hopped doppelbock earned it’s new name, Hoppelbock. Between beers like Troegs Nugget Nectar, and Heavy Seas Loose Cannon, the extra hops make perfect sense.
We’ve added copious amounts of spicy, floral German hops to a ready, rich malt base to create this expression of regional collaborative ingenuity. Employing a generous dose of locally malted barley and massive dry-hopping, this lager can only be categorized as a “Hoppelbock”.
Heavy Seas Partner Ships Hoppelbock is now a 22 ounce bottle, and draft release.
Style: Doppelbock
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Debut: May, 2016
7.25% ABV
Green Man Sunseeker Pils coming in May
Green Man Sunseeker Pils will debut in May, 2016.
Hot on the heels of a new brewery expansion in Asheville, North Carolina comes the brewery’s first packaged lager in years. Green Man Sunseeker Pils is brewed true to style with 100% German hops and pilsner malt.
“It is natural to crave a clean and crisp beer, especially in hot summer months.” says head brewer John Stuart.
Green Man Sunseeker Pils is a 12 ounce bottle and draft offering.
Style: Pilsner
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: May, 2016
Distribution: NC, SC, FL, TN
?? ABV
Victory Cage Radler debuts May 1st
Victory Cage Radler will join the Downingtown, Pennsylvania based brewery’s lineup on May 1st.
For those a little unfamiliar, the word radler is German for “cyclist”. As beer history mentions – in 1922 Franz Xaver Kugler, owner of a Bavarian beerhaus, was running low on beer, with a bar full of 1,000’s of thirsty cyclists. In a pinch, he blended lemon-lime soda (which wasn’t selling anyway because his customers just wanted to drink) and dunkel lager, creating the radler beer, or shandy.
A shandy is a 50/50 mix of beer and lemonade. In the case of Victory Cage Radler, the brewery uses a light lager to blend with lemon extract.
The resulting beer is 3% alcohol by volume, perfect for your demanding cyclist guests, or just to drink on a hot day.
Victory Cage Radler will be available in 12 ounce bottles (in the variety pack) and 12 ounce cans.
Style: Radler (w/ Lemon)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, 12oz Cans, Draft.
Release: 5/1/16
3% ABV
Creature Comforts Curious 6 joins lineup April 30th
Creature Comforts Curious 6 will be available to-go during a special tour on April 30th, 2016.
This sixth edition in the Curious Series starts as another one of the brewery’s very popular releases – Emergence, that has aged on Georgia peaches. In case you are’t familiar, Emergence is an American wild ale, fermented with the brewery’s house mixed culture yeast strain, aged in wine barrels.
Creature Comforts collaborated with Fort Valley, Georgia based Pearson Farms for Curious 6, selecting fresh peaches at the perfect time in order for the fruit to really pop in this beer.
“When drinking The Curious No. 6 you can expect the aroma to be as if you’ve sunk your teeth into the best peach you’ve ever had,” said Head Brewer and Co-Founder David Stein.
Above, brewmaster Adam Beauchamp pours Beer Street Journal a preview taste of this upcoming release. The peaches really do shine in this edition. Honestly, while you could very much cellar a wild ale, maybe considering drinking this one sooner rather than later. Keep those fresh peaches on the forefront of this beer.
Creature Comforts Curious 6 is limited to just a few hundred bottles, tour release only.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Release: 4/30/16
7% ABV
Upper Hand Old Fighter debuts in May
Upper Hand Old Fighter, an American barleywine, hits shelves in May.
The strong ale uses eight different hops, and seven different grains, including locally grown rye.
“Everyone in the U.P. has their own story of this mythical Northern Pike. While hooked countless times, this massive fish has never been landed. Our Barley Wine is the perfect beer to reminisce your own Old Fighter stories over,” commented Larry Bell, President and Founder of Upper Hand Brewery and Bell’s Brewery, Inc.
Upper Hand Old Fighter will be available in Michigan’s Upper Penninsula and North Wisconsin in Mid-May, for a limited time.
Style: Barleywine
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. R
Debut: Mid-May, 2016
10% ABV
Founders Sumatra Mountain Brown coming in May
Founders Sumatra Mountain Brown is the next specialty offering by the Grand Rapids, Michigan based brewery.
Founders Sumatra Mountain Brown has the look and feel of a beer from the brewery’s Backstage Series – Frangelic Mountain Brown Ale. While that edition was brewed with hazelnut coffee, this “mountain” brown ale is brewed with Sumatran coffee.
The is bold brown ale gets its body form a team of malts, including caramel malt for sweetness, flaked barley for dense foam, a bit of chocolate malt for color, and aromatic and munich malts for added depth. German and perle hops add a touch of bitterness to balance the sweetness. The addition of rich Sumatra coffee takes this perfectly balance brown ale to a decadent level.
Founders Sumatra Mountain Brown will be a 12 ounce bottle release. Tap room on April 29th, Distribution starting May 2, 2016.
Style: Imperial Brown Ale (w/ Coffee)
Hops: German, Perle
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: May, 2016
9% ABV
Other coffee infused beers by Founders includes: Breakfast Stout, Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Canadian Breakfast Stout and Frangelic Mountain Brown.
