American Wild Ales

Just Shipped: Wicked Weed Briars & Brett

Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC) just shipped a new offering in the Terra Locale series – Briars & Brett.

The beer is a gin barrel aged farmhouse ale, with blackberries.

Style: Farmhouse/Wild Ale (w/ Blackberries. Barrel Aged. Gin.)
Availability: 500 ml bottles
Distribution: NC Continue Reading →

Jester King Teams Up with Live Oak. Check out the Name

First off, lets talk about the full name of this beer. Jester King/Live Oak Kollaborationsbiermittschechischemhopfenundwilderbakterienhefekombination.

Yes, for real.

It means “collaboration beer with Czech hops, wild yeast, and bacteria.”

Jester King (Austin, TX) and Live Oak Brewing Co. (Austin, TX). Kollaborationsbier starts with a Continue Reading →

Avery Antonius’ Carmen to Join Barrel-Aged Series

The 23rd release in Avery Brewing’s Barrel-aged Series will be Antonius’ Carmen Sour Ale. Aged in Madeira wine barrels.

On Sunday, October 12th, the brewery releases No. 21, Black Eye Imperial Stout. For those keeping track, 5 Monks Barrel Aged Belgian-style Quintuple Ale is among Continue Reading →

Orpheus Brewing’s New Sour: Sykophantes

Orpheus Brewing (Atlanta, GA) has released Sykophantes Fig Sour this week. The fall offering is a part of the brewery’s rotating sour series.

Sykophantes features a few hundred pounds of figs, and dark candi syrup. A follow up to the summer offering, Continue Reading →

Posted in Allagash Brewing, Don't Miss This, New Releases

Allagash Farm to Face Releases November 3rd

Allagash Brewing (Portland, ME) releases Farm To Face will go on sale at the brewery on November 3rd, 2014. After that, the beer will ship in limited quantities to the brewery’s distribution area.

Allagash Farm to Face starts as a pale ale, fermented in stainless steel with house yeast. After that fermentation, pedicocccus and lactobacillus (souring bacteria) is added to the beer, along with peaches from Applecrest Farm Orchards in New Hampshire.

…Ten months later, the finshed beer is bright amber in color with peach, graham cracker and green apple in the aroma. Drinking this medium bodied beer is like biting into a juicy peach with tartness throughout!

Allagash Farm to Face will be available in limited quantities in 12.7oz bottles.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches)
Availability: 375ml bottles, corked & caged
Arrival: 11/3/14

5.7% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Wicked Weed Brewing Co

Just Shipped: Wicked Weed Briars & Brett

Wicked Weed Brewing (Asheville, NC) just shipped a new offering in the Terra Locale series – Briars & Brett.

The beer is a gin barrel aged farmhouse ale, with blackberries.

Style: Farmhouse/Wild Ale (w/ Blackberries. Barrel Aged. Gin.)
Availability: 500 ml bottles
Distribution: NC only

?? ABV

Image via Wicked Weed Brewing

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

Jester King Teams Up with Live Oak. Check out the Name

First off, lets talk about the full name of this beer. Jester King/Live Oak Kollaborationsbiermittschechischemhopfenundwilderbakterienhefekombination.

Yes, for real.

It means “collaboration beer with Czech hops, wild yeast, and bacteria.”

Jester King (Austin, TX) and Live Oak Brewing Co. (Austin, TX). Kollaborationsbier starts with a low gravity wort brewed at Live Oak with head brewer Dusan Kwiatkowski. (Decoction mash for those brewers out there.) It was loaded into containers and brought to Jester King. From there it was added to fermentation tanks with Jester King brewer’s yeast, wild yeast, and bacteria.

Jester King/Live Oak Kollaborationsbier will be available in bottles and draft, starting Friday, October 24th.

Style: Farmhouse Ale/American Wild Ale
Availability: 750ml bottles (3,300), Draft.
Arrival: 10/24/14

4.2% ABV, 42 IBUs

 Images via Jester King

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Yazoo Brewing

Embrace The Funk Bottles Hit Yazoo Tap Room Today

The wild/funky arm of Yazoo Brewing (Nashville, TN) Embrace the Funk, has three different bottles going on sale in the tap room today.

Saison Colada, 2014 Unoaked Brett Saison, and 2013 Brett Saison.

Bottles release at 4 pm Nashvegas time.

Image via the brewery

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Firestone Walker Brewing

Firestone Walker El Gourdo Coming to Barrelworks

Firestone Walker’s Barrelworks will release El Gourdo in November, 2013. The beer got its start last year, when a local pumpkin patch ask the brewery to take in orphaned Cinderella pumpkins.

The pumpkins were fire roasted with bay leaf and walnuts, in an oven fueled by brandy and white oak staves. 500 pounds of the roasted pumpkins were added to the base beer blend to ferment and oak age for nearly a year.

…The resulting beer is subtle yet firm. Roasting releases naturally sweet spicy pumpkin, brown sugar, and nutty flavors and aromas, which mingle nicely with an earthy funk, toasted oak and assertive acidity.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Pumpkin, Walnuts, Bay Leaf. Oak Aged)
Availability: 375ml Bottles, Draft. Limited
Arrival: November, 2014

5.8% ABV, 5 IBUs

The blending components below…

012 Lil Mikkel                 Saison                                 66%        24 months                             French & American Oak

2013 Agrestic Ale              American Wild Red         33%        12 months                              French & American Oak

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Avery Brewing, Coming Soon, Headlines

Avery Antonius’ Carmen to Join Barrel-Aged Series

The 23rd release in Avery Brewing’s Barrel-aged Series will be Antonius’ Carmen Sour Ale. Aged in Madeira wine barrels.

On Sunday, October 12th, the brewery releases No. 21, Black Eye Imperial Stout. For those keeping track, 5 Monks Barrel Aged Belgian-style Quintuple Ale is among the most recent in the series, along with Antonius’ Carmen.

For Dad, And his love of silly songs and sayings.

Avery Antonius’ Carmen will be available in 12oz bottles.

Style: American Wild Ale (Wine Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12oz Bottles. 247 cases produced
Arrival: 10/26/14

7.72% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Orpheus Brewing

Orpheus Brewing’s New Sour: Sykophantes

Orpheus Brewing (Atlanta, GA) has released Sykophantes Fig Sour this week. The fall offering is a part of the brewery’s rotating sour series.

Sykophantes features a few hundred pounds of figs, and dark candi syrup. A follow up to the summer offering, Serpent Bite.

In ancient Greece, “showing the fig” was a vulgar hand gesture, and Sykophantes means “one who shows the fig”. Earthy and full of dark fruit flavor from hundreds of pounds of figs and dark candy syrup, but with a sourness that cuts the gentle sweetness, Sykophantes is our fall beer.

Orpheus Sykophantes is available on draft only, through December, 2014

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Figs, Candi Syrup)
Hops: Northern Brewer
Malt: Two row barley, Munich, Special B
Yeast: Rochefort

Availability: Draft Only. Oct-Dec

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay