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Casks Cask Alert! Sweetwater Festive w/Peppermint Schnapps No, not kidding.  On Friday December 11th - Manuel's Tavern is tapping a cask of 2009 Sweetwater Festive with a special ingredient… Dec 2009 Beer Dinners BLT Steak Atlanta Hosts Terrapin Beer Dinner Craft beer is obviously turning heads.  Upscale restaurants who once focused on wines, selling only macro lagers/ales are now having multi course… Dec 2009 New Launches Terrapin’s Side Project #9 – Dark Side Fans of the Terrapin’s side project series, your wait for a new release is over.  The follow up to # 8 —… Dec 2009 New Releases Terrapin’s Wake & Bake Returns… It’s baaaaccckkk!  Terrapin’s Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout aka “Wake & Bake.”   Part of the breweries Monster Beer Line — the 4 packs… Dec 2009 Bell's Brewing New Bottles – Bell’s Expedition Stout, Java Stout, Sparkling Ale As you may know by now, Bell’s has been in Georgia since May.   Since the initial launch, beers from Bell’s vast lineup… Dec 2009 Allagash Brewing Allagash Brewing’s newest couple – Victor and Victoria! There are 2 beers that I am very excited to see finally find their way to Atlanta.   Just when I was about… Dec 2009 Clipper City Brewing New in bottle – Heavy Seas – Yule Tide For those of you who aren’t familiar with Heavy Sea’s mutiny fleet, here is the run down.  Mutiny fleet is a series… Dec 2009 New Releases New Bottle Offering – RJ Rocker’s First Snow New from RJ Rocker's out of Spartanburg, South Carolina is First Snow Ale.   This is first offering of this winter ale… Dec 2009 New Releases The Bruery adds 3 more! In early October, The Bruery (Placentia, CA) launched in Atlanta.  This family run brewery (last name Rue — to make Bruery) turned… Nov 2009 Dogfish Head Dogfish/Sierra Nevada Collab “Life & Limb” tapping @ Brickstore Yes, this collaboration has arrived in bottle, and now draft.   Brickstore Pub is tapping "Life & Limb" tonight ( November 23rd) At… Nov 2009 Dogfish Head New in bottle – Dogfish Head Chicory Stout Dogfish Head Chicory Stout is one of the first beers brewed by DFH when it was just a brewpub in 1995.  Back… Nov 2009 Dogfish Head Sierra Nevada/ Dogfish Head Collaboration hits Atlanta Life and Limb has arrived in Atlanta.  There is a lot to talk about with this particular beer.  First, the basics.  Life… Nov 2009 Clipper City Brewing Meet Heavy Seas founder, Hugh Sisson I know I’ve said this before, and here I will say it again.  You may know craft beer.  You may know the… Nov 2009 Allagash Brewing Allagash Curieux ’09 Cask, Tonight 6 pm! Let me start this off by saying, Allagash Brewing has always impressed me.  Furthermore, I can’t honestly think of a single offering… Nov 2009 Left Hand Brewing Left Hand Brewing’s – Fade to Back Remember Left Hand’s Snowbound Ale?  It’s a spiced seasonal ale Left Hand released around Christmas time each year.  Well Snowbound is no… Nov 2009 Beer Here Brewing Introducing – Beer Here Brewery Sneaking into Atlanta today are are couple of offerings from a little known Danish Brewery called “Beer Here.” Beer Here hasn’t been… Nov 2009 Rare Opportunity Jewbelation Vertical Tasting @ Brickstore Pub Recently, I wrote about Shmaltz’s Jewbelation 13 (Bar Mitzvah) release.   Quick recap- Jewbelation is released once a year starting with the 8th… Nov 2009 Casks First Taste of Terrapin Hopsecutioner, Friday! In a previous post, you learned of Terrapin's new full time IPA - Hopsecutioner. It debuted last week on the tour at… Nov 2009 Bell's Brewing Coming Soon! – Bell’s Brewing – Two Hearted Ale IPA Bell’s Brewing launched in Georgia back in May. While that is great news for Atlanta drinkers, there were some beers that didn’t… Nov 2009 Anchor Brewing Anchor Christmas 2008/2009 Tapping @ Taco Mac Metropolis It was 1975 when Anchor Brewing (San Francisco, CA) starting releasing a “Christmas Ale.” I use parenthesis because Christmas ale isn’t exactly… Oct 2009 Meet the Brewer Meet the Brewer – Francois de Harenne, Orval – Wrapup Another great opportunity to meet a beer brewer has come and gone — and this time it was even more unique and… Oct 2009 New Belgium New Arrival – New Belgium’s – La Folie It was big news to a lot of beer drinkers in Atlanta when New Belgium’s “Fat Tire” amber ale finally made it… Oct 2009 New Releases Shmaltz Brewing’s – Jewbelation 13 Jewbelation 13! Recently released 22 oz. bottles and in rare findings - draft, Jewbelation 13 is the yearly anniversary release by Schmaltz… Oct 2009 Misc Victory for Rock Art Brewery! For those of you that might not know the full story, it boils down to this. Rock Art Brewery, a small family… Oct 2009