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SweetWater Danktoberfest: Late September

Start looking for the latest from SweetWater Brewing’s Dank Tank in late September. This lager release you will only find in 22 oz bombers. No draft.

Style: Oktoberfest
Availability: 22oz bombers. No draft.
Arrival: Late September, 2012

8.5% ABV 

Read more: SweetWater, Dank Tank Series

Gangway IPA Next Up For Red Hare Cans

Red Hare Brewing (Marietta, GA) is the first Georgia brewery to can their offerings. Long Day Lager was first up. Gangway IPA is slated to be the second canned offering. (And second package offering to boot.)

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Anchorage Brewing Company Hits Georgia

Taking a good bit of us by surprise – Anchorage Brewing Company (Anchorage, AK) officially has beers on the shelf in Georgia.  White Out Wit, and Galaxy White IPA are the first offerings. The beers come through Savannah Distributing.

Anchorage was Continue Reading →

Posted in JailHouse Brewing, New Beers

Jailhouse 4D IPA

Jailhouse 4D IPA

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in JailHouse Brewing, New Beers

Jailhouse Partners In Crime Ale

Jailhouse Partners In Crime Ale

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Distribution Expansion, Goose Island Brewing

Goose Island Now Available In Georgia

Keeping up with which states officially get Goose Island is about to be tough. The brewery is about to hit all 50 states by the end of the year or earlier. Officially, Goose Island starts pouring in Georgia on Monday, 9/10/12. (However, it has snuck out at a few places earlier.)  The vintage series is first – Sophie, Matilda, Pere Jacque, etc. Pepe Nero will be bottle only.

The Classic Series – Nut Brown, India Pale Ale, Honker’s & more arrive in November. Check out GI’s full release calendar here.

Read more: Goose Island Beer Company

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, SweetWater Brewing

SweetWater Danktoberfest: Late September

Start looking for the latest from SweetWater Brewing’s Dank Tank in late September. This lager release you will only find in 22 oz bombers. No draft.

Style: Oktoberfest
Availability: 22oz bombers. No draft.
Arrival: Late September, 2012

8.5% ABV 

Read more: SweetWater, Dank Tank Series

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Red Hare Brewing

Gangway IPA Next Up For Red Hare Cans

Red Hare Gangway IPA

Red Hare Brewing (Marietta, GA) is the first Georgia brewery to can their offerings. Long Day Lager was first up. Gangway IPA is slated to be the second canned offering. (And second package offering to boot.)

Good ale was difficult to come by for British troops living in colonial India in the early 18th century. Shipping the British malt ale overseas left it spoiled due to the long trip. The answer was India Pale Ale, or IPA. This brew could withstand the British ships due to the generous amount of hops that gives the IPA its lively taste.

Style: IPA
Availability: Draft. Soon, 12oz cans
Arrival: TBA

6.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Anchorage Brewing Company, Beer News, Distribution Expansion

Anchorage Brewing Company Hits Georgia

Taking a good bit of us by surprise – Anchorage Brewing Company (Anchorage, AK) officially has beers on the shelf in Georgia.  White Out Wit, and Galaxy White IPA are the first offerings. The beers come through Savannah Distributing.

Anchorage was founded by Gabe Fletcher, opening early last year. The brewery specializes in barrel fermentation and brettanoymyces yeasts. (Wild & funky, baby!)

More on the first beers:

White Out Wit – Witbier,6.5% ABV, 20 IBUs. Aged in Chardonnay barrels

Unique to the north and feared by man and beast, the WHITEOUT comes without warning.

With quiet ferocity, how quickly this force erases the sensations and reduces any creature to its most basic elements. When enveloped in one, sight, sound and even tactile sensation are ripped away, as snowflakes in motion swallow all sense of being, leaving one to cower, hunker down and wait it out, hoping that it passes quickly or that the end is merciful. Of variable and unknown duration minutes seem like eternity in a whiteout.

Galaxy White IPA – IPA, 7% ABV

Ale brewed with Galaxy hops, coriander, kumquats, and peppercorns. Fermented and aged in French oak foudres with a wit yeast. Dry hopped with Galaxy hops. Bottle conditioned with brettanomyces and wine yeast. Drink fresh or age to bring out the funk.

Both are available in 750’s

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, SweetWater Brewing

SweetWater Danktoberfest Joining Dank Tank Series

SweetWater Brewing Company (Atlanta, GA) gets into the fest spirit with this next edition from the Dank Tank. Introducing Danktoberfest. The Dank Tank Series is a sudsy line up of one off brews from the biggest brewery in the southeast.

While Krones was working on SweetWater’s brewhouse, which they were 3 months behind schedule on (that part is true), one of their sour kraut engineers drove a gabelstapler over Mr. Dank’s toe and broke it. Mr. Dankenschnitzel jumped a flug to Krones HQ in Deustchland to pick up his large siedlung check. Looking to quell his T Pain, Dank beelined it to Oktoberfest in Munchen and into the arms of a friendly farulein who quickly uber serviert him. Stumbling blindly, Herr Dankenschnitzel, laden in lederhosen and longingly looking for a lovely loo, humpelte into the Bitterburger Brewery to drain the main vein. Unable to hold it any longer, Danken Guender feuer abegespritzt all over the control panel, short circuiting their infamous Oktoberfest bier. The beer no longer fit the rhinobutt purity law, so Hans and Franz kicked his arsch out of the mother land and told Danky doodle dandy to take that mischmasch back to SübWasser with him.

Style: Oktoberfest
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

8.5% ABV 

Einen Punkt Sechs Fufmal

by Reid Ramsay