American Strong Ales

Bruery Melange 12 Released

The Bruery Melange 12 is now available to Bruery Reserve Society members. Melange is blend of barrel aged strong ales.

Bruery Melange 12 features vanilla beans, cacao nibs, hazelnuts, aged in bourbon barrels.

A curious amalgam of barrel-aged beer seeping with notes Continue Reading →

Posted in Seasonal Return, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin Rye Cubed Back in Monster Beer Tour Lineup

Terrapin Rye-Cubed, the bigger, badder, and boozier version of the brewery’s Rye Squared, is back on the Monster Beer Tour again.

This initial idea was to square the Rye Squared ingredients, that was until they thought about the math. Brewmaster and co-founder “Spike” tells Beer Street Journal:

We were trying to figure out how to cube the ingredients. Basically, we are doubling everything going into Rye Squared. It is big. Very big.

At 10.3% ABV, big is an understatement. Terrapin Rye Cubed will be “destroying palates from Athens to Tokyo” again in July, 2015. Available in 12oz bottles and draft for a limited time.

Style: American Strong Ale (w/ Rye)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft
Return: July, 2015

10.3% ABV

Read more: Terrapin Beer Company News 

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Posted in Hair Of The Dog Brewing, New Beers

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Posted in Funky Buddha, New Beers

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Posted in Beer News

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Posted in New Releases, The Bruery

Bruery Melange 12 Released

The Bruery Melange 12 is now available to Bruery Reserve Society members. Melange is blend of barrel aged strong ales.

Bruery Melange 12 features vanilla beans, cacao nibs, hazelnuts, aged in bourbon barrels.

A curious amalgam of barrel-aged beer seeping with notes of burnt marshmallows and toasty nuts.

Members of The Bruery’s Reserve and Hoarder’s Society have access. Bruery Melange 12 is available in 750ml bottles.

Style: American Strong Ale (w/ Cocoa NibsVanilla Beans, Hazelnuts. Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles

16.8% ABV

Posted in Headlines, New Releases, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone’s Latest Stochasticity: HiFi + LoFi Mixtape

Stone Stochasticity HiFi + LoFi Mixtape is now shipping out Stone’s home of San Diego, California. Each release in the Stochasticity Project is an experimentation; a unique departure from the brewery’s lineup.

STONE is a blend of fresh beer and barrel aged beer. The barrel aged beer was aged for more than months in wood foudres.

This modern brew will showcase our brewers’ talents by blending a stock ale aged more than three months in oak foudres (large wooden fermentation vessels) with a fresh version of the same beer to create a perfect harmony spanning end to end on the taste spectrum.

Stone Stochasticity HiFi + LoFi Mixtape is a one-off release, available in 22oz bottles.

Style: American Strong Ale (Partially Barrel Aged)
Hops: Fuggles, Apollo, Target
Malts: English Pale, English Mild Ale, English Amber

Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.

Distribution: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA and Puerto Rico

International Distribution: Australia; Alberta and British Columbia, Canada; Japan; Singapore and United Kingdom

8.8% ABV

Posted in Ecliptic Brewing, Stone Brewing Co., Wicked Weed Brewing Co

Stone Points Unknown IPA with Wicked Weed & Ecliptic Ships

Stone Points Unknown IPA, a three-way collaboration featuring Ecliptic Brewing (Portland, OR) and Asheville, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed Brewing has hit shelves.

if you know anything about these three breweries, then the result of the collaboration will make perfect sense. Not one style was going to to properly envelop these brewery’s styles, so they brewed two beers. Stone Points Unknown IPA is a double IPA, blended with a barrel aged Belgian-style tripel.

In creating our latest collaboration beer, It wasn’t easy deciding how best to pool the resources of brewers from three spatially distant points within the brewing universe: Portland, Oregon brewing legend and Ecliptic Brewing founder John Danis, and Luke and Walt Dickinson, the hop-and-funk brewmaster duo behind Asheville, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed Brewing. It seemed no single beer could adequately convey all that they and Stone Brewmaster Mitch Steele bring to the brewhouse. So, this veritable triad of power opted to brew TWO beers: a traditional Belgian-style tripel and a West Coast imperial IPA. Doing so allowed them to work within the parameters of all styles while taking things in interesting directions, adding a touch of Southern Califomia style and petting into the spirit! The tripelwas transferred into barrels that originally housed red wine before finding a second life as vessels for aging tequila. Four months later,that beer was excavated, then blended at a one-fifth to four-fifths ratio with the freshly brewed double IPA to create the beer you now hold: a hind of the traditional and the new, presenting a variety of diverse flavors that coalesce into something more unique than any one beer our trio could have conceived. Its eventual flavors were a mystery to even the group of master brewers who created it, but now they await the palates of those thirsting to venture to points unknown within the rapidly expanding craft beer galaxy. In other words: You.

Stone Points Unknown IPA is now available in 22oz bottles and draft.

Style: American Strong Ale (Barrel Aged. Tequila.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Distribution: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA and Puerto Rico.

Internationally: Australia; Alberta and British Columbia, Canada; Japan; Singapore; Sweden; and United Kingdom
Release: Mid-May, 2015

9% ABV