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New Release: Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye

Sierra Nevada’s newest offering Ruthless Rye has hit shelves.  Ruthless is an IPAbrewed with rye malt as a replacement for Glissade.

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Grab This Red Brick Groupon

This Groupon just went live this morning.  A Groupon for a brewery experience at Red Brick Brewing.  You’ve got three days to purchase.  Ready, Set, Drink!

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Porter’s “Where The Wild Beers” Throughout January


The Porter Beer Bar host “Where The Wild Beers Are” each Friday all January long.   Here’s are look at the tappings –

1/6/12: Sour

We will tap 10 different kegs of amazing sour beers including: Tilquin Gueze, La Folie, Oud Beersel, Framboise Bacchus, Monk’s Cafe, Firkin of Hassens’ Oude Gueze, & more. 6pm!

1/13/12: Scandanavian

12 different Scandinavian beers including: Haandbryggert IPA, 2009 Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast, Sinbrechoff Porter, Nogne Imperial Brown, & more. 6pm!

1/20/12: Barrel Aged

10 different barrel aged beers including: Terrapin Oak Aged Hoppy Monster, Burton Baton, Petrus Aged Pale Emelisse Stout Aged in Jack Daniels Barrels, Oak Aged Yeti, and more. 6pm!

1/27/12: Tap Takeover with B. United Importers

10 different amazing and unique and rare beer imported by B. United.  Beer lineup coming soon.  6pm.

Porter Beer Bar
1156 Euclid Ave NE  Atlanta, GA 30307
(404) 223-0393
@PorterBeerBar 

by Reid Ramsay
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New Release: Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye

Sierra Nevada’s newest offering Ruthless Rye has hit shelves.  Ruthless is an IPAbrewed with rye malt as a replacement for Glissade.

Ruthless IPA is brewed with this rustic grain for refined flavors — combining the peppery spice of rye and the bright citrusy flavors of whole-cone hops to create a complex ale for the tumultuous transition to Spring. 

Style: IPA, brewed with rye malt
Availability: 12oz bottles, draft. Seasonal.
Taste Expectations: Spicy rye, mixes with pine & floral hop notes

6.6% ABV 

pic via make&appreciate

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Atlanta’s Beer Camp Reps Make Sierra Nevada Rouge

Coming soon from Sierra Nevada is Rouge 66.  Atlanta AJC writer Bob Townsend & Green’s beer guru Adam Tolsma recently travelled to California to Sierra’s infamous Beer Camp to make this brew.   Beer Camp kegs are usually very limited (5-10 kegs total.)  There will be special tappings around Atlanta soon.  Check BeerStreetJournal.com/Atlanta for more info.

About Rouge:
The research and development team of pilot head brewer Scott Jennings and pilot brewer Mark Hurd guided our beer-making journey over a long day in and out of the brewhouse. We came up with a hybrid American/Belgian imperial red ale made with Patagonia caramel malt and a variety of hops, and fermented with a special Belgian yeast strain.

Style: Belgian ? 
Availability: Draft only

7.5% ABV

More on the beer trip, read up at AJC Blogs.  Thx to @CFreddie for heads up

by Reid Ramsay
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Grab This Red Brick Groupon

This Groupon just went live this morning.  A Groupon for a brewery experience at Red Brick Brewing.  You’ve got three days to purchase.  Ready, Set, Drink!

Houses made out of red bricks are more likely to withstand wolf sneezes than those made out of straw-colored bricks. Taste robust, red-brick flavors with today’s Groupon for a brewery experience at Red Brick Brewing Company. Choose between two options:

  • For $15, you get a brewery experience for two people (a $30 value).
  • For $28, you get a brewery experience for four people (a $60 value).

Each experience includes the following:

  • A tasting of four beers
  • A brewery tour
  • Souvenir pint glass and koozie (one each per person)
  • 20% off retail purchases

Formerly Atlanta Brewing Company, Red Brick Brewing Company is the oldest operating craft brewery in Georgia and touts award-winning brews including oatmeal porter, blonde ale, and pale ale. In a comfortable tasting room, knowledgeable staffers introduce guests to beer and its many hoppy personalities. Cold-one connoisseurs can kick back and watch a game on the big screen while expanding palates with four samples of experimental microbrews, then mix and mingle during a complimentary touras big barrels stand sentry like wooden bouncers with hearts of fermented gold. Guests also have a chance to team up with new friends for Thursday’s trivia or listen to live music on Friday. On Saturday, Red Brick breaks out games, giving patrons a chance to show off cornholing skills. Ping-pong tables, darts, and playing cards do their best to infuse the thrill of competition into every frosty mug.

Tours run every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday night from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday afternoons from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Souvenir pint glasses help impressed pouts remember the fun tour times and can be later used as party beverage holders or musical change purses.

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by Reid Ramsay
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Cask: Heavy Seas Peg Leg Stout. 1/5/12, 6 pm

A cask of Heavy Seas Peg Leg Imperial Stout taps Friday.

Deep mahogany in color with aromas of roasted coffee, molasses and dark chocolate. Subtly hopped, making it astonishingly smooth and easy drinking for such a big beer. Pairs well with blue cheeses, beef and chocolate desserts.

 1/5/12 at Taco Mac Lindburgh, 6pm.  This beer really shines on cask.

Style: Imperial Stout, 6% ABV

Taco Mac Lindburgh
Main Street Northeast  Atlanta, GA 30324
(404) 574-5813


by Reid Ramsay
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SweetWater Revives “The Creeper” This Fall

A big day for SweetWater news.  The OG from the Dank Tank #1 “The Creeper” will be returning this fall.

Dank Tank Series #1 – The Creeper. The Dank Tank Series is a 50 barrel tank that we will be running experimental beers thru. The first run out of the dank tank is called “The Creeper” it is a Belgian trippel IPA and came in about 10% alc.

Style: Belgian Imperial IPA
Availability: 12oz bottles.  4 packs
Arrival: Fall, 2012

10% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
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Cask: Left Hand 400 Pound Monkey. 1/5/12, 5 pm

Left Hand Brewing’s 400 lb Monkey will make a cask appearance at Taco Mac’s new location East Roswell.  Cask taps at 5 pm.

We use hops of a different color, earthy and herbal, well-balanced by bready malt. The result? An English-style IPA that separates itself from the ubiquitous bunch. Cartloads of bitter monkeys flinging wasteful amounts of bananas into the jungle . . .we’re so done with that.

Style: English IPA
Hops: Magnum, Boadicea, Soverign
Malts:  Pale 2-Row, Crystal, Munich, Malted Wheat

 6.8% ABV

Taco Mac East Roswell – 1/5/12, 5 pm
2630 Holcomb Bridge Road
Alpharetta, GA 30022
(P) 404.801.3606

by Reid Ramsay