American Wild Ales

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 now available

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is hitting shelves now. The 7th interation of the brewery’s on-going wild/sour beer.

Each release is of course different, a blend of wood aged and stainless steel aged sour beer. Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is a Continue Reading →

Wicked Weed Marina fruit sour joins lineup

Wicked Weed Marina has joined the Asheville, North Carolina brewery’s lineup.

Marina is a blonde sour ale has been aged in wine barrels with apricots and peaches.

Wicked Weed Marina is a blonde sour ale aged in wine barrels with over one pound per gallon of Continue Reading →

Avery Expletus, Barrel-Aged Series #36 on March 20th

Avery Expletus is the next Barrel-Aged Series release (#36) on March 20th, 2016. This edition is the brewery’s own version of a Tequila Sunrise (typically made with orange juice, cherries, tequila, and grenadine.

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Posted in Creature Comforts, Coming Soon

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

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Boulevard Brewing, Don't Miss This, New Releases

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 now available

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is hitting shelves now. The 7th interation of the brewery’s on-going wild/sour beer.

Each release is of course different, a blend of wood aged and stainless steel aged sour beer. Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is a blend of various vintages of Flanders-style our red ales.

#7 resembles more of the Love Child #4 & #5 editions, then what you tasted in #6 (which was a blonde sour base).

We reached out to Jeremy Danner, Ambassador brewer for Boulevard, asking him to describe this new release..

While it’s a return to a more familiar interpretation, I’d hesitate to make direct comparisons between earlier releases as we’re not really trying to create the exact same beer each year, rather we’re offering up a blend of what we feel is the best sour beer we have on hand at the time.

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is a 750ml bottle offering, corked and caged.

Style: American Wild Ale (Barrel Aged. Whiskey. Wine Barrels)
Arrival: April, 2016

?? ABV

Read more: Boulevard Smokestack Series

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Don't Miss This

Cigar City Hapax Legomenon, one of the brewery’s most unique

Cigar City Hapax Legomenon is a future release by the Tampa, Florida brewery. The brewery already has a repertoire of unique beers, but this upcoming release is pushes the boundaries a bit.

Cigar City Hapax Legomenon begans as a Belgian-style tripel ale aged in gin barrels. After some barrel time, the brewery blended in some grapefruit sour ale. The result? A one of a kind addition to the brewery’s lineup.

Hapax Legomenon refers to a word or from that occurs only once in a document. And often, it is a word that you will only find one time in an author’s entire oeuvre. For example, Shakespeare used the word “satyr” exactly once in all of his writings. This beer began as a Belgian-style tripel aged in gin barrels. After some time in barrels, we blended in some American Grapefruit Sour Ale. When it’s all said  and done, we think we can safely say that this will be the only occurrence of a gin barrel-aged Belgian-style triple blend with an American grapefruit sour ale to be found in our oeuvre.

Cigar City Hapax Legomenon will be a 750 milliliter bottle release. The brewery tells Beer Street Journal they aren’t sure how much will be released at this time.

Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (w/ Grapefruit. Barrel Aged. Gin.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Release: TBA

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Wicked Weed Brewing Co, Seasonal Return

Wicked Weed Marina fruit sour joins lineup

Wicked Weed Marina has joined the Asheville, North Carolina brewery’s lineup.

Marina is a blonde sour ale has been aged in wine barrels with apricots and peaches.

Wicked Weed Marina is a blonde sour ale aged in wine barrels with over one pound per gallon of peaches and apricots. The result is a delicate, hazy-gold ale with deep stone fruit character.

The brewery tells Beer Street Journal that the expanded barrel capacity is allowing this beer to be released a few times this year. Marina is a 500 milliliter bottle offering.

Bottles are available now at the brewery, distribution starts the last week of March.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches, Apricots)
Availability: 500ml bottles
Latest Return: Late March, 2016

6.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Jester King Brewery, 18th Street Brewery, Don't Miss This, New Releases

Jester King Multifarious, a collab with 18th Street

Jester King Multifarious, a new collaboration with 18th Street Brewery (Gary, Indiana) releases this Friday.

The duo brewed the beer at Jester King’s farmhouse brewery in November of 2015. The base beer is an oatmeal stout, nuanced by the addition of smoked malt, and a of wild yeast and sour bacteria.

It was brewed with the mindset of creating a beer that is subtle, succinct, and above all — drinkable.

This collaboration is created with the idea of high quality brewing with restraint. A simple, subtle, yet very inviting beer. This stainless steel fermented beer was bottled in January, and has been bottle conditioning since then.

750 milliliter bottles of Jester King Multifarious will be available at when the tap room opens at 4 pm on March 25th.

Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (Wild Stout)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Release: 3/25/16

6.6% ABV, 34 IBUs

Jester King Multifarious collab day

Jeffrey Stuffings, Drew Fox, Ron Extract on brew day in Austin, Texas

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Funkwerks, New Beers

Funkwerks Deux Funk

Funkwerks Deux Funk

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Avery Brewing, New Releases

Avery Expletus, Barrel-Aged Series #36 on March 20th

Avery Expletus is the next Barrel-Aged Series release (#36) on March 20th, 2016. This edition is the brewery’s own version of a Tequila Sunrise (typically made with orange juice, cherries, tequila, and grenadine.

Cherries and tequila barrel-aging highlight this new iteration, an American wild/sour ale. The brewery touts this as their most tequila-forward release to date.

Sometimes you set off on a journey with a destination in mind, but you find what you were seeking many miles before.

Avery Expletus  a 12 ounce bottle offering.

Style: American Wild Ales (w/ Cherries. Barrel Aged. Tequila)
Availability: 12oz Bottles
Release: 3/20/16
Distribution: AZ, CA, CO, DC, IL, KS, KY, MA, MN, NC, NY, PA, TX, VA, WA.

5.9% ABV

Other new entries in Avery’s Barrel-Aged Series include #35 Callipygian, #33 Lunctis Viribus, #32 Double D’s.

by Reid Ramsay