New Belgium’s Shift Pale Lager is now available in 12oz, 12 pack cans. The “session” lager was released in the Spring of 2012, in 16oz cans. Now you can kill a few 12’ers, with draft offering Continue Reading →
Denver, Colorado) — Wynkoop Brewing Company is now self distributing its fourth hand-canned craft beer — Belgorado Belgian-Style India Pale Ale — in the Denver area.
The small-batch, Belgium-meets-Colorado beer combines the wonders of two of the world’s best beer cultures Continue Reading →
Uinta Brewing (Utah!) has announced another addition to their line of canned brews. Cutthroat Pale Ale should arrive this summer in cans just in time for hiking, boating, and pool parties. Get your koozie ready! Hopnotch Continue Reading →
In a perfectly timed post on their Facebook page, Uinta Brewing announced today that they will begin canning their Hop Notch IPA after polling fans on their favorite to start canning. Today, January 24th, marks the 78th anniversary Continue Reading →
New Belgium launched Shift Pale Lager in 16 ounce tallboys earlier this year. Currently, the beer is only available in cans. The brewery plans on adding Shift to draft offerings next year. Also, 12 oz cans of Shift might be Continue Reading →
DC Brau Brewing Co. (Washington, DC) will be canning On The Wings of Armageddon in December. Perfect for the end of the world right? According to Mayan and Hopi calendars the “transition from one world age to another” will happen Continue Reading →
BREVARD, N.C – Oskar Blues and Blue Ridge Community College are collaborating on a course that will provide students with hands-on brewing training starting in January 2013.
Oskar Blues Brew School will alternate between the College’s Transylvania County Campus and the new Continue Reading →
New Belgium’s Shift Pale Lager is now available in 12oz, 12 pack cans. The “session” lager was released in the Spring of 2012, in 16oz cans. Now you can kill a few 12’ers, with draft offering arriving this year.
Style: Lager
Hops: Target, Nelson Sauvin, Liberty, Cascade
Malts: Pale, Munich, C-8
Availability: 16oz cans, 12oz/12 pks. Soon- Draft. (Currently, Year Round)
5% ABV
Read more: New Belgium, Canned Craft Beer
Denver, Colorado) — Wynkoop Brewing Company is now self distributing its fourth hand-canned craft beer — Belgorado Belgian-Style India Pale Ale — in the Denver area.
The small-batch, Belgium-meets-Colorado beer combines the wonders of two of the world’s best beer cultures with Wynkoop’s artisan brewing and farm-to-fermenter thinking.
A creation of Wynkoop head brewer Andy Brown, Belgorado has been a draft-only seasonal beer since its debut in the fall of 2010. The beer won a 2011 Great American Beer Festival bronze medal in the festival’s Experimental Beer category.
Lusciously hopped but artfully balanced, Belgorado is a golden beer rich with pale malt flavors, layers of hops from start to finish, and spice notes. It is 6.7% ABV and has about 45 IBUs.
The year-round beer features Colorado terroir in every sip.
Belgorado is made with whole-leaf and pelletized hops from Misty Mountain Hop Farm, a pioneering little hop farm in Olathe, CO. The farm is now in its fourth year and grows 16 acres of hops.
Belgorado’s main ingredient is a Belgian-style malted barley from Colorado Malting Company, a small, family owned farm and specialty maltster in Alamosa, CO. Now in its third year, Colorado Malting grows its own barley and malts its Belgian-style malt in a slow, retro-minded fashion.
“We use warm moist air instead of dry heat,” says Jason Cody, company president, “and slowly malt the barley for 7-8 days instead of the usual 3 or 4. That process creates a more plump, fully modified grain with more sugar. It’s 100% natural, made the same way Europeans malted barley 500 years ago.”
These home-state ingredients are skillfully blended by Brown and his staff, then fermented with a Belgian yeast.
“My goal was a simple recipe that allows the qualities of our native-grown ingredients to shine through,” Brown says. “But with a Belgian yeast strain that adds complexity and joins with the spiciness of the hops.”
“The beer is a nod to the drinkability of a Belgian pale ale, a trait I really love,” Brown adds. “But with our Colorado-grown hops and their lemony tartness, Belgorado gets extra layers of flavor without being overly bitter.”
The beer is handcrafted and handcanned at Wynkoop Brewing Company on a table-top canning machine from Cask Brewing Systems. It’s now available in the Denver area in fourpacks of 12-ounce cans, with a suggested retail price of $7.49/fourpack.
The beer’s small-farm malts and hops make it an especially valuable beer to the local farmers producing Belgorado’s signature ingredients.
“Wynkoop,” says Robert Munger of Misty Mountain Hop Farm, “is an iconic Colorado brewery and one of Denver’s best. We’re very excited to be working with such a historic brewery.”
“This Belgorado project is great for our family business,” Cody says. “Wynkoop is really supporting the local economy with this beer and it’s very helpful to us.”
Uinta Brewing (Utah!) has announced another addition to their line of canned brews. Cutthroat Pale Ale should arrive this summer in cans just in time for hiking, boating, and pool parties. Get your koozie ready! Hopnotch IPA is also another can newbie coming to their lineup.
Style: Pale Ale
Availability: 12 oz cans, bottles, on tap
Arrival: coming soon
4% ABV
Read more: Uinta Brewing, Canned Craft Beer
In a perfectly timed post on their Facebook page, Uinta Brewing announced today that they will begin canning their Hop Notch IPA after polling fans on their favorite to start canning. Today, January 24th, marks the 78th anniversary of the first can of beer ever sold. Recently there has been an increase in production of canned craft beer with Terrapin hopping on board of this week as well. Viva la canned beer revolution!
Style: IPA
Availability: on tap, 12 oz bottles, and now 12oz Cans
Arrival: TBA
7.3% ABV
New Belgium launched Shift Pale Lager in 16 ounce tallboys earlier this year. Currently, the beer is only available in cans. The brewery plans on adding Shift to draft offerings next year. Also, 12 oz cans of Shift might be released soon.
Style: Lager
Hops: Target, Nelson Sauvin, Liberty, Cascade
Malts: Pale, Munich, C-8
Availability: 16oz cans (currently, year round)
5% ABV
Read more: New Belgium, Canned Craft Beer
DC Brau Brewing Co. (Washington, DC) will be canning On The Wings of Armageddon in December. Perfect for the end of the world right? According to Mayan and Hopi calendars the “transition from one world age to another” will happen on December 21, 2012.
At first glance, it has an orange hue in the glass with a viscus, rocky head that refuses to dissipate. Upon first sniff there are dominate aromas of citrus, white grapes and grapefruit with light bread and biscut notes. After the first sip we taste a mellow bitterness that only grows as more is consumed. Moderately carbonated, deceptively smooth, refreshingly dry and extremely heady for a beer at 9.2% ABV.
Expect these bad boys shortly after the end of days. If we are still here that is…
Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: Arrived in September, 2012 in 22oz bombers, Draft
Can Arrival: TBA
9.2% ABV
Read more: DC Brau, Canned Craft Beer
BREVARD, N.C – Oskar Blues and Blue Ridge Community College are collaborating on a course that will provide students with hands-on brewing training starting in January 2013.
Oskar Blues Brew School will alternate between the College’s Transylvania County Campus and the new Oskar Blues Brewery, both in Brevard, NC.
“We are thrilled to be working with Blue Ridge Community College on the Oskar Blues Brew School,” says Noah Tuttle, head brewer of the Brevard Oskar Blues Brewery. “This program will allow students to get the strong education and hands-on training they need to help them pursue careers in an incredibly fast growing industry.”
Gabe Mixson, the primary instructor, holds a master’s degree in microbial biotechnology and has training and experience in the area of industrial fermentation processes including commercial beer brewing.
Oskar Blues will provide regular guest speakers in addition to on-site training. Speakers will cover topics ranging from brewing to marketing to sales. Toward the end of the course, students will develop and brew a beer on Oskar Blues’ pilot system, which will be served in the brewery taproom.
At the completion of the course, students will be ready to take the General International Beer and Distribution Certification exam, an internationally recognized exam offered at centers throughout the U.S. by the United Kingdom’s Institute of Brewing and Distilling. Blue Ridge Community College will become an IBD examination center.
Blue Ridge College recently launched its North Carolina Back-to-Work program that offers scholarships to those who’ve been unemployed for 26 weeks or longer. The Back-to-Work program can cover both the cost of the course and the cost of sitting the IBD exam for eligible Brew School students. Registration for the course opens on December 3. The course will cost $175, and will be limited to 20 students. Students must be 21 years or older to enroll in the Oskar Blues Brew School. The course will begin in January and run for 16 weeks.
“This class is unique, given the mix of hands-on and classroom experience,” says Ben Kish, workforce training development director at Blue Ridge Community College. “Plus, it’s affordable.”
For information about enrolling in the Oskar Blues Brew School, contact Ben Kish at Blue Ridge Community College, (828) 694-1751 or [email protected]. For information about Oskar Blues Brevard Brewery, contact Anne Fitten Glenn at Oskar Blues, (828) 230-1662 or [email protected].
Oskar Blues’ Brevard brewery is slated to open New Year’s Eve 2012. The brewery will produce 40,000 barrels of super-fresh beer in 2013.
ABOUT OSKAR BLUES:
Dale Katechis founded the quirky brewpub turned regional craft brewery inside his original restaurant and music venue in 1999. Three-dimensional brewing since 1999, Oskar Blues began the “Canned Beer Apocalypse” in 2002 when Dale’s Pale Ale became America’s 1st Hand CANNED craft beer. For additional info, interviews, images or samples, please contact Chad Melis at [email protected], (720) 273-8888, or visit www.oskarblues.com.
ABOUT BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE:
Blue Ridge Community College is a comprehensive community college with campuses in Henderson and Transylvania Counties in Western North Carolina. Ranked “Exceptional” by the North Carolina Community College System, Blue Ridge offers more than 100 degrees, diplomas, and certificates, a wide range of transfer programs, and one of the largest continuing education programs in the state. More information about the College and its programs is available at www.blueridge.edu.
