Barleywines

Cigar City Collaborates with Bern’s Steakhouse

In conjunction with the well-known Tampa steakhouse, Bern’s, Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) will be launching Legacy, an English barelywine aged in bourbon barrels.

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New Artwork: Weyerbacher Insanity

In keeping with the rebranding efforts, Weyerbacher Insanity has gotten a makeover. Insanity is the brewery’s Blithering Idiot Barleywine aged in bourbon barrels.

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. February release

11.1% ABV

Posted in Cisco Brewers, New Beers

Nantucket Baggywrinkle Barleywine

Nantucket Baggywrinkle Barleywine

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Green Flash Brewing

Green Flash Sleepin’ with Shaggy: 4 Years in Brandy Barrels

Four years ago, Green Flash Brewing Co. put their barleywine Shaggy in brandy barrels. In 2013, it’s time to wake Shaggy up. Sleepin’ With Shaggy arrives January 28th.

After spending 4 years in Brandy barrels it became time to unleash the dark monster within. Thick toffee aromatics exude with dense layers of fig, molasses, caramel, and a medley of dark fruits. Sweet flavors of toffee and caramel mingle with the warming spice of vanilla, sherry-like notes, and brandy barrel oak tannin. When served above 55 degrees Fahrenheit (highly recommended) more dark fruits like plum, date, raisin, and fig are further revealed.Our CEO/Founder Mike Hinkley has enjoyed pairing this Brandy Barrel Aged Barleywine with a big stuffed “Shaggy” dog that came from the local fair carnies and therefore we now have “Sleepin with Shaggy”.

Tickets on sale here for the release.

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged, Brandy)
Availability: 12oz bottles
Arrival: 1/28/13

12.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, North Coast Brewing

North Coast Brewing to Celebrate 25 Years

The year was 1988, the place was the West Coast. 25 years ago marks the anniversary of the beginnings of some of the most influential breweries, with North Coast being amongst them. To celebrate their silver anniversary, North Coast will be teaming up with Rogue and Deschutes to create a series of ‘Class of 88‘ beers inspired by the book that helped start it all – The Essentials of Beer Style by Fred Eckhardt – which also debuted in the lovely year of 1988. Each brewery will create their own interpretation of a Barleywine based on Eckhardt’s descriptions after which a team from each brewery will travel to each other’s facilities and brew all three.

“America’s craft beers are setting new international standards for quality and innovation. They’re the most exciting facet of the world beer scene today” says Mark Ruedrich, North Coast’s Co-Founder, Brewmaster, and President. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! Here’s to another 25 great years of great beers.

Style: Barleywine
Availability: 750 mL bottles, 22oz bottles
Arrival: March 2013

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon

Cigar City Collaborates with Bern’s Steakhouse

Cigar City Legacy

In conjunction with the well-known Tampa steakhouse, Bern’s, Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) will be launching Legacy, an English barelywine aged in bourbon barrels.

“The legacy of a place is determined by it’s ability to maintain a standard of excellence over a tried and true length of time. This is also true of a person, a fine wine, or a well crafted beer. In this bottle we offer you a glimpse of what perfection can lend to the legacy of Bern’s Steak House”

Well said Cigar City!

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750 mL bottles
Arrival: TBD

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Victory Brewing Company, Videos

Get Ready for Barrel Aged “Oak Horizontal” [VIDEO]

It’s almost time for Victory Brewing’s Oak Horizontal. That’s the well missed Old Horizontal Barleywine aged in bourbon. Just bottled. They are still planning on releasing it by Christmas. Hopefully, once the new location is built, we will have some regular edition of Horizontal soon.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Stone Brewing Co.

Odd Year Release: Stone “Old Guardian Oak Smoked”

2013 marks another odd year, and that means another Odd Year Release for Stone Brewing Co. A few years ago, the brewery decided to release a special take on a couple of tried and true favorites for odd years. That resulted in Belgo Anise Imperial Russian Stout, and Old Guardian Belgo Barleywine. The newest treatment for the coming odd year is Old Guardian Oak Smoked Barleywine, featuring German smoked wheat malt. Greg Koch (Founder) writes you a letter on the bottle.

It’s the Friday after Turkey Day. In the US anyhow. Not here in Belize, but I had turkey yesterday all the same. Raised in the Belize countryside by German Mennonites no less. It was delicious. Gotta respect those who are focused on doing things the right way, which more and more in this world often means with less technology rather than more. The bananas are better here, too. Mostly because they’re picked ripe and ready for local consumption, ratherthan pre-ripe and green to ship off to the US and other far-flung countries only to be ethylene-gassed once they arrive to finish off the ripening process. Sudden flashback of when we visited our friends James & Martin @Brewdog in Scotland for our collaboration beer a few years ago called bashah (don’t think I ever spilled the beans formally before that the name is an acronym for black as sin, hoppy as hell). We had dinner at a great little restaurant in Aberdeen that historically was a banana-hanging warehouse. Later, they ended up buying the place. We actually shot a really cool video: [link) Back to the moment and Belize.Just finished a Crime. Great way to start the last night here. Now, as tradition dictates for the OG label, I’m having some 2012 Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine. Sitting at a beach bar & sharing w/John & Barbara Cheek from Oakhurst (Decatur, GA). They regularly enjoy Stone IPA at their local haunts, Steinbeck’s and The Marlay. Got to know them a little today as we were on the same little boat going out to snorkel with the sea turtles. Yes, a bit ‘touristy’ for me, as I typically head a little more off the beaten path, but hell, it was kinda cool swimming with them all the same. Swimming in the ocean made my hair quite scraggly lit’s still rather mucked up from the whole red-hair fundraiser we did back in August), and with the headband I picked up two days ago at a local shop, I’ve gotta admit that I’m looking a bit laughably trustafarian. It’s like I became an overnight pseudo-beach bum. Heh, if only. Not really my thing though, honestly. I’m a bit higher strung than that. The driven/agenda type. Gotta change the world, rather than watch it float by. But then you knew that. Save now. It’s been a ‘float’ week. Nice to visit the float lifestyle every once in a while, but I wouldn’t want to live there. Cracked a Stone Enjoy By 12.21.12 IPA just now. That’s a beer to encourage the ‘watch the world float by” if there ever was one.The aroma is certainly suggestive of that lifestyle, now isn’t it? I’ll leave it at that. Loving it. Brought two cases of assorted 22oz & 500m1 bottles on the trip. The 12.21.12 is the next-to-last, w/Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale bringing up the rear. So to speak. It’s actually not legal to bring in beer to this country as their beer laws are rather protectionist. That serves no one, except a few. Nonetheless, I swallowed my bubbling outrage as I learned this at Customs on my way in and politely asked to speak with a supervisor. I said “Hi, I’m Greg and I own a small brewery in the US, and) like to travel w/beer to share w/people I meet. I certainly don’t mind paying a duty.” He surveyed me, then the beer, then me again and decided that my two cases “didn’t represent a commercial threat” and calc’ed out a modest duty for me to pay. I did so gladly. Now I’m at the end of the visit, and reflecting on the fact that all went quite nicely thank-you- C. very-much. Thankful for the brief respite. Time to get back to it next week. Lots to do. Lots to do.

Style: Barleywine (Smoked, Oak Aged)
Availability: 22oz bottles, Draft.
Arrival: TBA

12% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Weyerbacher

New Artwork: Weyerbacher Insanity

In keeping with the rebranding efforts, Weyerbacher Insanity has gotten a makeover. Insanity is the brewery’s Blithering Idiot Barleywine aged in bourbon barrels.

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. February release

11.1% ABV

by Reid Ramsay