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Summits Beer & Chocolate

Summits Tavern is hosting beer & chocolate pairings next week.  Check out the menu & locations below.
Summits Wayside Tavern
Beer and Chocolate Dinner and Pairing Event
*Please contact your local Summits to reserve your seats in advance!Monday, January 9, 2012 – Cumming Continue Reading →

New To ATL: Anchor Small Beer

I don’t want to get all beer technical on you, but theres a little explaining to make sense of the beer.  When Anchor makes Foghorn, their barleywine, they have to mash in 3 different times to get the Continue Reading →

Copper Thieves Hit Red Brick

Even if you half pay attention to the news, you’ve probably copper thieves stealing copper from churches, houses & schools all over the United States.   Add a brewery to that list.  Thursday night, copper thieves ripped the metal out Continue Reading →

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SweetWater’s Crank Tank Year Round In June

SweetWater’s Crank Tank Rye’d Ale – a rye beer brewed to benefit Camp Twin Lakes will get year round treatment this year.   This crank will get a new name prior to it’s promotion- LowRYEder.

…a flame throwin’ Rye IPA ignited by a 25% shot of rye malt capped by a super hoppin’ blast of Mt Hood and Centennial hops making this IPA bounce!  

This fall, another Crank Tank beer will be brewed to benefit the camp – a new style yet to be announced.  You’ll see LowRYEder arrive in June in the Tackle Box mixed packs, followed by 6 packs in July.

Style: Rye Beer

Interestingly, Atlanta has another Rider showing up around the same time – Terrapin’s new Easy Rider seasonal.  Details coming soon on that one.

by Reid Ramsay
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Lost Abbey Deliverance Should Head To Atlanta

Lost Abbey’s Deliverance, a blend of the brewery’s Serpent Stout & Angel’s Share should hit Atlanta shelves in the coming weeks.  The beer is being released today 1/7/12 in the tap room.

Draft & 12.7 oz bottles will be shipping to Lost Abbey’s entire distribution network, including the new territory New Jersey.  More on the Deliverance here.

Tentative Atlanta arrival, late January, early Februrary, 2012.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Summits Beer & Chocolate

Summits Tavern is hosting beer & chocolate pairings next week.  Check out the menu & locations below.
Summits Wayside Tavern
Beer and Chocolate Dinner and Pairing Event
*Please contact your local Summits to reserve your seats in advance!Monday, January 9, 2012 – Cumming Summits
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 – Snellville Summits
Thursday, January 12, 2012 – Woodstock Summits

Beer and Chocolate Pairing: 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm    $59.99 per person

Beer and Chocolate Dinner Menu –

Appetizer: Shrimp and Zucchini Romano served with lemon aioli and grilled tomato
Salad:       Gorgonzola and Noci Salad with chopped Walnuts and balsamic vinaigrette
Entree:      New Orleans Style Seafood Risotto using fresh Grouper, shrimp, calamari, mussels in a rich
broth and Cajun spices      

Beer and Chocolate Pairing Selection –

Featured World Class Beers:
SweetWater Happy Ending Imperial Stout * Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine * Delirium Tremens * Brooklyn Monster Barleywine * Red Brick Old Stock * Samuel Adams Thirteenth Hour Stout * Gouden Carolus Grand Cru of the Emperor

Featured World Class Chocolates:
Valhrona * El Rey * Ghirardelli * Barry Callebaut Cacao Barry * Cadbury * LIndt * Hershey’s

by Reid Ramsay
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New To ATL: Anchor Small Beer

Anchor Small BeerI don’t want to get all beer technical on you, but theres a little explaining to make sense of the beer.  When Anchor makes Foghorn, their barleywine, they have to mash in 3 different times to get the fermentable sugars they want. (It’s like making tea.)   The brewery runs warm water through the mash (grain) a second time in order to make this beer – Small Beer.  It’s actually an old brewing tradition.

Foghorn pushes 10%, but Small Beer actually is quite sessionable at 3.3% ABV.

Anchor Small revives the ancient brewing tradition of creating two distinct beers from one mash — a sweeter, stronger and more expensive barleywine made for sipping, and a more plentiful drinking beer. We sprinkle warm water over the Old Foghorn mash after the first “wort” has run off, creating a second, lighter brew. Technically, both beers are “ales” because they are made with top-fermenting yeast. Like its forebears, the result is an easy-drinking “session” beer.

Style: English Bitter
Hops: Goldings
Malts: 2 Row, Caramel

Taste Expectations:  Light flavor all around (as its meant to be) earthy hops, cereal grains. Sweet & easy drinking
Availability: 22oz bottles. Year round availability.

3.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
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Copper Thieves Hit Red Brick

Even if you half pay attention to the news, you’ve probably copper thieves stealing copper from churches, houses & schools all over the United States.   Add a brewery to that list.  Thursday night, copper thieves ripped the metal out of a chiller that is responsible for keeping some of Red Brick Brewing’s 11 fermenters cold.

It comes at a really bad time for the 10,000 barrel brewery.  Just this week, Red Brick started brewing their 17th Anniversary Ale, that will hit bourbon barrels and release in March. On top of that, they just launched Hoplanta, and will start brewing Wee Heavy soon.  Loss of beer in the fermenters could cost the brewery upwards of $80,000 dollars in lost product per tank.  Luckily, there are 2 chillers.  The thieves hit the smaller one, to the tune of $4,000 in damage.  It’s the first theft or loss Red Brick has had in 17 years.  No official word on beer impact.  [AJC]

by Reid Ramsay
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Anchor Old Foghorn Back In ATL After 5 Years

Anchor Old Foghorn barleywine is back on shelves in Atlanta after a 5 year hiatus.  The year round boozy offering from the San Francisco brewery first brewed this beer in 1976.  For those brewers, it takes the first runnings of 3 mashes to make this beer.  Interestingly, the second runnings from the mash make another Anchor beer, called Small Beer.

Old Foghorn is brewed based on traditional English barleywine methods. It is highly hopped, fermented with a true top-fermenting ale yeast, carbonated by a natural process called “bunging” to produce champagne-like bubbles, and dry-hopped with additional Cascade hops while it ages in our cellars. Made only from “first wort,” the rich first runnings of an all-malt mash, three mashes are required to produce just one barleywine brew.

Style: Barleywine
Hops: Cascade
Malts: 2 Row Pale, Caramel

Taste Expectations:  Caramel, toffee, mix with light hop flavors and booze.  Drink fresh or cellar.
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. Year-round

10% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
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Next Round Of Dogfish Beers Headed To ATL

Here’s the next round of Dogfish Head beers headed to Atlanta.  Tweason’ale is the first gluten free from the brewer, available in 4 packs four times a year.  Namaste is set to return soon, followed by the new release Noble Rot.  World Wide Stout’s ABV is too high for Georgia. The brewery will NOT brew WWS in 2012.

Dogfish Head’s new gluten-free offering will start shipping next week, with Namaste, & Noble Rot shortly after…

Tweason’ale – will begin shipping to wholesalers the week of 1/16 and should be hitting retail between 1/23 and into early Feb (depending on when your local wholesaler takes delivery).
Namaste – will begin shipping to wholesalers the week of 1/30 and should be hitting retail between in early Feb.
Noble Rot – will begin shipping to wholesalers the week of 1/23 and should begin hitting retail the week of 1/30.

As these beers hit retail, they will begin appearing on the Fish Finder at our website.

by Reid Ramsay