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Spotlight: Terrapin Pumpkinfest Cans

Terrapin Pumpkinfest will join the brewery’s can lineup later this year. The brewery is vastly expanding their can lineup to include a few year round offerings as well as seasonal.

Terrapin Pumpkinfest was first released as Side Project #8 in 2009. Continue Reading →

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Coming to Bottles

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Imperial Breakfast Stout is slated for bottles. The 2014 Great American Beer Festival bronze medal winner is aged for 4 weeks on coffee, raisins, ancho peppers, serano peppers, cumin, nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon. The final result is Continue Reading →

Dogfish Head Punkin 2014 On Shelves

One of America’s best selling pumpkin beers is back for 2014 -Dogfish Head Punkin. While pumpkin ales started showing up as early as July 1st, Dogfish Head specifically instructed distributors to hold this beer until this week.

The artwork is a Continue Reading →

Meet Terrapin Imperial Pumpkin Porter [VIDEO]

Terrapin Beer Co. (Athens, GA) is ready to ship their 3rd release in the Special Reserve Series, Imperial Pumpkin Porter.

A departure from the brewery’s other pumpkin offering, Pumpkinfest, Imperial Pumpkin Porter starts with a porter beer as a base. From Continue Reading →

Terrapin Pumpkinfest Already Bottled

With July 4th weekend barely in the rear view mirror, fall is already on the way from craft breweries. Terrapin Beer Company’s (Athens, GA) Pumpkinfest 2014 has already been bottled.

Fest is a fusion of an oktoberfest meets pumpkin beer.A whirlpool Continue Reading →

Fall: Leinenkugel Harvest Patch Shandy

Leinenkugel’s has made a big name for themselves in the shandy market. The beer meets lemonade offering has done very well for the brewery – more than 60% of their sales, despite a full portfolio of other offerings.

While shandies are Continue Reading →

New Belgium Pumpkick Gets Makeover

It started as a Lips of Faith release — Kick, a collaboration with Elysian Brewing.

Then it an updated version came back as Pumpkick in 2013, minus all the barrel souring with new artwork. 2014 will see an art update as well. Expect New Continue Reading →

Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Terrapin Beer Company

Spotlight: Terrapin Pumpkinfest Cans

Terrapin Pumpkinfest will join the brewery’s can lineup later this year. The brewery is vastly expanding their can lineup to include a few year round offerings as well as seasonal.

Terrapin Pumpkinfest was first released as Side Project #8 in 2009. The pumpkin beer marries an oktoberfest style beer, with pumpkin spices.

Expect 12oz cans of Terrapin Pumpkinfest late-summer/fall, 2015.

Style: Pumpkin Beer
Hops: Vanguard, Hallertau Hershrucker
Malts: Munich, Vienna, Munich II, Catamunich II, Melanoiden
Spices: Cinnamon, Ginger, All Spice, Cloves PUMPKIN!

6.1% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coastal Empire Brewing Co, Coming Soon

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Coming to Bottles

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Imperial Breakfast Stout is slated for bottles. The 2014 Great American Beer Festival bronze medal winner is aged for 4 weeks on coffee, raisins, ancho peppers, serano peppers, cumin, nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon. The final result is a beer that resembles a Mexican mole sauce. In total, it takes the brewery more than two months to produce.

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Imperial Breakfast Stout will be available in 22oz bottles. The brewery has not yet announced this bottle release.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cumin, Allspice, Cinnamon, Peppers, Coffee, Raisins)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Release: TBA

?? ABV 

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

Dogfish Head Punkin 2014 On Shelves

One of America’s best selling pumpkin beers is back for 2014 -Dogfish Head Punkin. While pumpkin ales started showing up as early as July 1st, Dogfish Head specifically instructed distributors to hold this beer until this week.

The artwork is a little different this year, featuring the artwork of Jermaine Rogers. His bold artwork adorns the brewery’s four seasonals, Aprihop, Festina Peche, Punkin and soon – Piercing Pils.

Dogfish Punkin Ale is available in 12oz-4 packs and draft.

Style: Pumpkin (w/ Brown Sugar, Nutmeg, Allspice, Cinnamon)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Distribution: (Double checking)

7% ABV, 28 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, Terrapin Beer Company

Meet Terrapin Imperial Pumpkin Porter [VIDEO]

Terrapin Beer Co. (Athens, GA) is ready to ship their 3rd release in the Special Reserve Series, Imperial Pumpkin Porter.

A departure from the brewery’s other pumpkin offering, Pumpkinfest, Imperial Pumpkin Porter starts with a porter beer as a base. From there, the beer is then nuanced with a plethora of spices – nutmeg, clove, ginger, and of course, pumpkin. The result is what “Spike” calls, luscious.

Terrapin Imperial Pumpkin Porter follows inaugural release White Chocolate Moo-Hoo, and Cinnamon Roll’d W-n-B. In the video above, Spike discloses the next two offerings, MooHoo-ciato (chocolate milk porter with coffee), and French Toast Wake n Bake. (Think breakfast.) Those two will round out the Special Reserve Series in 2014.

There are about 10,000 bottles of Imperial Pumpkin Porter headed into the wild. Be on the lookout starting this week.

Style: Imperial Porter (w/ Pumpkin, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Allspice, Ginger)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Very Limited

9.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Seasonal Return, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin Pumpkinfest Already Bottled

With July 4th weekend barely in the rear view mirror, fall is already on the way from craft breweries. Terrapin Beer Company’s (Athens, GA) Pumpkinfest 2014 has already been bottled.

Fest is a fusion of an oktoberfest meets pumpkin beer.A whirlpool of spices are used to create Pumpkinfest, including ginger, allspice, and ground clove. . The finishing touch is the 1 lb of pumpkin used per 31 gallons of this brew.

Style: Pumpkin Beer (w/ Ginger, Allspice, Clove, Pumpkin)
Hops: Vanguard, Hallertau, Hersbrucker
Malts: Munich, Vienna, Munich II, Caramunich II, Melanoidin

Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. Fall Seasonal

6.1% ABV, 23 IBUs

pic via Terrapin

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Leinenkugel's Brewing

Fall: Leinenkugel Harvest Patch Shandy

Leinenkugel’s has made a big name for themselves in the shandy market. The beer meets lemonade offering has done very well for the brewery – more than 60% of their sales, despite a full portfolio of other offerings.

While shandies are great for hot weather drinking, the brewery has quickly found they sell very well year round. (They have even had to push up the Summer Shandy release dates.) Going off of that, Leinie’s is adding fall and winter shandy offerings.

Thus, Leinenkugel Harvest Shandy. The brewery is combing a the flavors of a wheat based beer, citrus, allspice, clove, and nutmeg.

Expecdt Harvest Shandy late summer, early fall in 12oz cans.

Style: Shandy (w/ Allspice, Clove, Nutmeg)
Availability: 12oz Cans
Arrival: TBA

4.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, New Belgium

New Belgium Pumpkick Gets Makeover

It started as a Lips of Faith release — Kick, a collaboration with Elysian Brewing.

Then it an updated version came back as Pumpkick in 2013, minus all the barrel souring with new artwork. 2014 will see an art update as well. Expect New Belgium Pumpkick again, late summer, 2014.

Style: Pumpkin Beer (w/ Cranberry Juice, Cinnamon, Allspice, Nutmeg, Lemongrass)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. Fall Seasonal.

6% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay