American Wild Ales

Boulevard Love Child #5 Hits Shelves

Boulevard’s Love Child Series features the most tart, sour, and funky flavors in the brewery’s arsenal. This year, we are lucky enough to get two of these coveted Love Child releases.

Boulevard Love Child #5 is a blend of whiskey and wine barrel aged Continue Reading →

Boulevard Tell-Tale Tart joins year-round lineup

Boulevard Tell-Tale Tart is joining the brewery’s year round lineup in June, 2015. If you’ve been following recent mentions surrounding the brewery’s ambitious lineup this year, you’ll find Tell-Tale to be a surprise.

Boulevard Tell-Tale Heart is a billed as a Continue Reading →

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau, A Session Sour Released

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau has been released by the  Easton, Pennsylvania brewery.

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau is a described “session sour” at 3.9% alcohol by volume. (The upper-end of the berliner weisse style.) The offering joins Weyerbacher’s year round lineup.

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau will be available in 12oz Continue Reading →

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Crooked Stave Petite Sour Tart Cherry

Crooked Stave Petite Sour Tart Cherry

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Crooked Stave, New Beers

Crooked Stave Petite Sour Blueberry

Crooked Stave Petite Sour Blueberry

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Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

Jester King Coquetier, A Sazerac Inspired Offering

Jester King Coquetier is a new barrel aged aged offering on sale at the brewery starting tomorrow.

The brandy barrel aged farmhouse ale is brewed with cubeb peppercorns, anise seed, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Jester King Coquetier grabs its inspiration from the traditional New Orleans cocktail, Sazerac.

Lemon zest recalls the cocktail’s traditional garnish, a thin sliver of lemon peel resting on the rim of the glass. The beer was aged in French brandy barrels, as the cocktail originally called for Cognac brandy.

Jester King Coquetier was brewed in April of 2014. The beer was first fermented in stainless steel using the the brewery’s unique blend of micro-organisms. After stainless, Coquetier was aged in 600 liter French brandy barrels for seven months before being refermented in bottles.

750ml Bottles of Jester King Coquetier will be available April 24th, at 4 pm.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Cubeb Peppercorns, Anise, Lemon Zest & Juice. Barrel Aged. Brandy.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft. 4,500 bottles. Limited.
Release: 4/24/15

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This

Boulevard Love Child #5 Hits Shelves

Boulevard’s Love Child Series features the most tart, sour, and funky flavors in the brewery’s arsenal. This year, we are lucky enough to get two of these coveted Love Child releases.

Boulevard Love Child #5 is a blend of whiskey and wine barrel aged ale, stainless steel fermented ale, fermented with Lactobacillus (sour bacteria) and Brettanomyces yeast. As #5 hits shelves, there is something important to note. By using spirits barrels, Boulevard’s idea is not to give Love Child a strong wine/bourbon character. As brewer Jeremy Danner tells Beer Street Journal, they use the barrels as a habitat for acid producing bacteria and wild yeast to funk up the beer.

It’s a little bit lower ABV than past releases and we also wanted to create a blend that focused a little more on soft lactic acidity versus sharper acetic notes. I’d place the sourness in between Love Child #3 and Love Child #4. – Jeremy Danner

Boulevard Love Child #5 is available in 750ml bottles, corked & caged.

Style: American Wild Ale (Barrel Aged. Whiskey. Wine Barrels)
Arrival: April, 2015

?? ABV

Read more: Boulevard Smokestack Series

Image via Redstone Liquors

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, Boulevard Brewing, New Releases

Boulevard Tell-Tale Tart joins year-round lineup

Boulevard Tell-Tale Tart is joining the brewery’s year round lineup in June, 2015. If you’ve been following recent mentions surrounding the brewery’s ambitious lineup this year, you’ll find Tell-Tale to be a surprise.

Boulevard Tell-Tale Heart is a billed as a “slightly sour” ale, driven by lactic acid acidity.

…derives pleasant, refreshing lactic acidity from brewhouse souring, a process of lowering the pH during the brewing process. The brewhouse souring method results in a crisp, clean acidity that serves as a contrast to a soft, subtly sweet malt character contributed by our base pale malt and Munich malt.

Boulevard Tell-Tale Heart will be available in 12oz bottles, year-round.

Style: American Sour/Wild Ale
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Year-Round
Debut June, 2015

6.2% ABV

Ed Note: Artwork updated to reflect 2016 rebrand.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Weyerbacher

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau with Blood Orange, A Companion

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau releases today, and the new sour has counterpart – Tarte Nouveau with Blood Orange.

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau is a described “session sour” at 3.9% alcohol by volume. In addition to launch the 12oz bottles at the brewery, Weyerbacher is releasing a limited run of Tarte Nouveau with Blood Orange 750ml bottles.

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau is debuting at a special event on April 16th at the brewery.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Blood Orange)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Release: 4/16/15

3.9% ABV

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

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau, A Session Sour Released

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau has been released by the  Easton, Pennsylvania brewery.

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau is a described “session sour” at 3.9% alcohol by volume. (The upper-end of the berliner weisse style.) The offering joins Weyerbacher’s year round lineup.

Weyerbacher Tarte Nouveau will be available in 12oz bottles, debuting at a special event on April 16th at the brewery.

Style: American Wild Ale
Availability: 12oz Bottles
Release: 4/16/15

3.9% ABV

by Reid Ramsay