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Atlanta Come Get SweetWater’s Newest: 420 IPA

SweetWater Brewing’s latest Dank Tank Series release 420 IPA has arrived. This most recent release is built off the famed 420 Pale Ale, but bigger. Hoppier. Boozier. (and after tasting it, such a bright hop flavor.)

Tingling with excitement, el dank hopped the Continue Reading →

Budweiser Atlanta Braves Cans

In keeping with Anheuser-Busch’s continued sponsorship of Major League baseball, you’ll see team branded cans this summer.  Braves fans, this is your King Of Beers.

Style: Lager
Availability: 12oz cans.  Local market based.  (Cans are produced in Cartersville, GA)

5% ABV

 

Hopslam Watch 2012: Atlanta

Here is your master list of Hopslam tappings & sightings in Atlanta.  You want this tasting imperial IPA? Check here first to find it on & off premise.

UPDATE: 1/24/12, 11 am

Hopslam 6 packs hitting Green’s Beer on Ponce, Continue Reading →

Look For New Belgium’s Cocoa Mole This Week

The latest Lips Of Faith creation from New Belgium Brewing – Cocoa Mole hits shelves and on premise accounts in Atlanta this week.   Mole combines chocolate and chilis for a flavor roller coaster in a glass.

Chocolate, cinnamon and chilies combine for a sweet and spicy burst of Continue Reading →

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Atlanta Come Get SweetWater’s Newest: 420 IPA

SweetWater Brewing’s latest Dank Tank Series release 420 IPA has arrived. This most recent release is built off the famed 420 Pale Ale, but bigger. Hoppier. Boozier. (and after tasting it, such a bright hop flavor.)

Tingling with excitement, el dank hopped the fur bus and rolled to the panic show at The Fox.  Boogieing down to Chilly Water, he noodled into a cute little wookie that blew his mind and yanked him from some post show get down at the Clermont lounge.  Stumbling and bumbling with blondie, he got booted, and went home for some shut eye.  Dreaming of the wet wookie, he awoke to his dog licking his tongue, realizing he was late for his night shift at SweetWater.

Fumbling through his brew and dry hopping duties, el danko hit the wall, and passed out mid-shift. Waking up to Nick Nock screaming WTF, he frantically ran around putting out fires.  As the haze cleared he realized he had left the mill running, jacking up the OG and dry hopping the wrong tank.  Fuddied up after the most insane 36 hours, el Danko pondered his delirious creation, a chubby 420 India Pale Ale! Huh??? Ducking trouble, he quickly swept the abominable snowman  under the rug, as he sent the 420 IPA to the bottling line boys in an effort to hide his momentoustus F- up.

Style: Imperial IPA
Taste Expectations:  420 IPA has everything in common with 42o pale ale.  It tastes like 420, but bigger. The hop flavors are bright & fresh.  The beer is complex & clean.  It’s 42o Pale on steroids.
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft

8.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Cypress Street Celebrates 4 Years Tonight!

Cypress Street

Cypress Street Pint & Plate celebrates 4 years tonight with killer food and killer beer.  The festivities kick off at 8 pm.  Check out the lineup:

Heavy Seas Black Cannon “Release The Kraken” Per Rob Merrick of Cypress:   I had preserved some of the Heavy Seas Black Cannon Cask in my own torpedo keg and I soaked oak cubes in Kraken Spiced Rum and put that on the keg.   But the Black Cannon Cask had vanilla and Cocoa Nibs in it as well.  
Dogfish Head – Immort Ale Dogfish Head – Faithfull
BSP Quad is back!  This is Sweetwaters contribution to our anniversary. 2 years old!
Innis & Gunn – Rum Cask
Lost Abbey – Devotion
21st Amendment – Bitter American
Oskar Blues – Old Chub
Make sure you come hungry. I speak from experience when I say the food is great.  How can you pass up a Sublime donut burger.  Don’t know what that is?  Order one and find out.
Cypress Street Pint & Plate – 8pm, 1/31/12
817 W Peachtree Street 
Atlanta, GA 30308  

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Anheuser-Busch, Beer News

Budweiser Atlanta Braves Cans

In keeping with Anheuser-Busch’s continued sponsorship of Major League baseball, you’ll see team branded cans this summer.  Braves fans, this is your King Of Beers.

Style: Lager
Availability: 12oz cans.  Local market based.  (Cans are produced in Cartersville, GA)

5% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

How About A Terrapin Moo-Hoo Cask With Banana & Marshmallow?

You read all of that right.   Recently Lee Dickson of Brick Store Pub went up to Athens to brew with Spike of Terrapin Brewing.  They made a Moo Hoo cask, and added banana and marshmallows.  It’s yellow and black for a reason, they are both big Steelers fans.  (I’ll look past that one.)  I suggest today you hit the pub wearing either Stiller colors or opposing team colors.  Let’s make the experience even more interesting.

Anyway, this milk chocolate, banana, marshmallow cask taps today, 5 pm.

Brick Store Pub — 1/27/12, 5pm 
125 East Court Square
Decatur, GA 30030


by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Starbucks Adding Beer To Atlanta Locations

Starbucks has already been experimenting with beer and wine additions in stores in Chicago and the west coast.  The company announced yesterday that they plan on adding beer to as many as 25 stores in southern California and Atlanta by the end of the year.  Starbucks hasn’t revealed which Atlanta locations, or what breweries will be sold yet.  One would assume they would be looking at local options, right? (Terrapin, SweetWater, Red Brick, Wild Heaven, Monday Night, Red Hare.)

The strategy is part of a broader experiment to find ways to lure Starbucks customers and even non-coffee drinkers into stores during slow periods of the day, especially afternoons and evenings. The trick will be doing it without alienating core customers, said Bill Chidley, a Centerville, Ohio-based senior vice president at Interbrand, a brand consulting firm.

Starbucks profits started slipping in 2008, prior debut the initiative to add beer and wine to some stores.  An expanded menu with cheese & bread plates, combined with the addition of beer and wine have put Starbucks stock on the “stocks to watch” list according to Bloomberg.[SFGate]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Hopslam Watch 2012: Atlanta

Here is your master list of Hopslam tappings & sightings in Atlanta.  You want this tasting imperial IPA? Check here first to find it on & off premise.

UPDATE: 1/24/12, 11 am

Hopslam 6 packs hitting Green’s Beer on Ponce, today, Tuesday around 1 pm.

Green’s – Buford Highway  – receives today, by 1 pm.

Tower Buckhead, and Buford Highway receive by 12- 1pm.

Update: 1/24, 3:35pm

Green’s Ponce sells out in under an hour.   Tower Buford Highway – All on hold.  None for in store sale.  Tower Buckhead, sold out.

Ale Yeah! – In stock, 1pm.   Update. Sold out by 3pm.

Hop City  – Thursday, 1/26.  Sells out in 52 mins. More shipments in February.

Decatur Wine & Spirits – Cases in stock 3 pm

1/26 – 2 pm.

Midway Pub  -Taps keg today

Square Pub – Keg & 6pm

Fred Bar –  7pm

2/1/12 

Hopslam Cask, 6pm at Taco Mac Lindburgh

 

 

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Look For New Belgium’s Cocoa Mole This Week

The latest Lips Of Faith creation from New Belgium Brewing – Cocoa Mole hits shelves and on premise accounts in Atlanta this week.   Mole combines chocolate and chilis for a flavor roller coaster in a glass.

Chocolate, cinnamon and chilies combine for a sweet and spicy burst of fun in the newest Lips of Faith offering, Cocoa Mole. Brewed with pale, cara-mel-80, chocolate, dark chocolate malts and healthy dash of chocolate rye, Cocoa Mole presents midnight dark with a subtle reddish hue, lifting a pillowy, burnished head. The cocoa and cinnamon accompany plentiful ancho, guajillo and chipotle chilies to bring the mole merriment to the forefront. Cocoa Mole starts on the tongue with the sweet and finishes with the fine-spun heat of peppers. A worldly contrast in a glass, this beer will get you dancing with Mexican Hats. Ole!

Style: Chili Beer
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: Currently hitting shelves, last week of January, 2012.

9% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay