Today in great beer names comes Brash Brewing’s Biggie Smalls. Biggie is an imperial brown ale, with split barrel aging. Half of the beer is aged in rum barrels, the other half is aged in whiskey barrels. It’s big too Continue Reading →
Victory Brewing Company will be re-releasing wine barrel aged Red Thunder again this month. The brewery took Baltic Thunder and aged it in red wine barrels. We’re hoping for a wider distribution this time around.
“Flavor?
…The burnished cocoa creaminess of the Baltic-style porter Continue Reading →
By all best estimates, 2010 was the last time the world saw Goose Island Gillian. This farmhouse ale is brewed with strawberries, white pepper, and honey, then aged in wine barrels. You might know Gillian by another name – Scully. Inspired Continue Reading →
Those lovers of Saint Arnold Brewing Company’s Bishop Barrel Series can look forward to the forth release this month. Saint Arnold brewer Stephen Rawlings created a weizenbock that aged in Woodford Reserve bourbon barrels with cocoa nibs. Interestingly, after barrel Continue Reading →
Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta) just shipped 20th Anniversary Imperial Stout. This is the first time the brewery has used Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels. After draining 20th Anniversary, the brewery refilled the barrels with a full bodied barleywine, Continue Reading →
In May, we mentioned a draft only (at the time) newbie from Goose Island (Chicago) – Halia. The Belgian-style farmhouse ale will soon be offered in bottles .
Halia is brewed with peaches and aged in wine barrels with brettanomyces yeast, Continue Reading →
Swamp Head Brewery (Gainesville, FL) unmasks an elusive Scottish character that lives in a Florida swamp. That’s the fella above- Peat Dunwoody. This upcoming release is a smokey wee heavy scotch ale (boozy) aged in 20 year old bourbon barrels.
Caramel, Continue Reading →
Today in great beer names comes Brash Brewing’s Biggie Smalls. Biggie is an imperial brown ale, with split barrel aging. Half of the beer is aged in rum barrels, the other half is aged in whiskey barrels. It’s big too – 11% ABV. Judging by Brash’s release schedule, this should be the follow up to the brewery’s summer saison, Cold Ass Honky.
Style: Imperial Brown Ale (Barrel Aged, Rum & Whiskey)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: TBA
11% ABV
Victory Brewing Company will be re-releasing wine barrel aged Red Thunder again this month. The brewery took Baltic Thunder and aged it in red wine barrels. We’re hoping for a wider distribution this time around.
“Flavor?
…The burnished cocoa creaminess of the Baltic-style porter is accented by the tannic dryness of the wood to produce a rich, fruity final product.
Style: Baltic Porter (Aged in Red Wine)
Availability: 750 ml bottles, Corked & Caged
8.5% ABV
By all best estimates, 2010 was the last time the world saw Goose Island Gillian. This farmhouse ale is brewed with strawberries, white pepper, and honey, then aged in wine barrels. You might know Gillian by another name – Scully. Inspired by amuse bouche, and created to be a “harmonious blend of mouth amusement.” We’re told we should see this mouth pleaser in late 2013.
Belgian Style Farmhouse Ale with White Pepper, Strawberry, and Honey. Inspired by an amuse bouche often prepared by the wife of one of our brewers, Scully brings white pepper, strawberry, and honey to a harmonious blend of “mouth amusement”. The ingredients are added at different stages to a Saison, and fermented with a normal Belgian yeast as well as a Champagne yeast. One of our favorite brews of the past year with many levels of complexity and character.
Style: Saison (w/ Strawberries, White Pepper, Honey. Wine Barrel Aged)
Availability: 765 ml bottles
Arrival: Late 2013
9.1% ABV
Those lovers of Saint Arnold Brewing Company’s Bishop Barrel Series can look forward to the forth release this month. Saint Arnold brewer Stephen Rawlings created a weizenbock that aged in Woodford Reserve bourbon barrels with cocoa nibs. Interestingly, after barrel aging this release, the weizen yeast – what gives this beer its flavor character, had all but disappeared. A small amount of fresh weizenbock was blended into the barrel aged batch to fix this.
There are notes of bourbon, chocolate and banana in this beer – something akin to a banana split with chocolate ice cream that perhaps grandpa spiked with a little bourbon.
Unbarrel aged Weizenbock will release alongside the BB4 for back and forth tasting fun. BB4 is only sold at bars and restaurants.
Style: Weizenbock (w/ Cocoa Nibs, Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: 12oz bottles, On-Premise locations only
Arrival: 8/12/13
9.9% ABV
Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta) just shipped 20th Anniversary Imperial Stout. This is the first time the brewery has used Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels. After draining 20th Anniversary, the brewery refilled the barrels with a full bodied barleywine, to sit for about 6 months, debuting as a part of the Brick Mason Series in January, 2014.
More to come on this release…
In May, we mentioned a draft only (at the time) newbie from Goose Island (Chicago) – Halia. The Belgian-style farmhouse ale will soon be offered in bottles .
Halia is brewed with peaches and aged in wine barrels with brettanomyces yeast, and it reported to have a nice sour note to compliment the fruit and wine notes. According to Goose Island this will be released in October.
Style: Saison (w/ Peaches, Wine Barrel Aged)
Availability: 25.87 oz bottles
Arrival: October, 2013
?? ABV
Swamp Head Brewery (Gainesville, FL) unmasks an elusive Scottish character that lives in a Florida swamp. That’s the fella above- Peat Dunwoody. This upcoming release is a smokey wee heavy scotch ale (boozy) aged in 20 year old bourbon barrels.
Caramel, vanilla, and wood combine flavors in the 10.6% ABV release. Release date to follow
Style: Scotch Ale (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA
10.6% ABV
