Barrel Aged

Cigar City Releases “Leon”

Cigar City (Tampa, FL) has released tribute beer Leon. The beer honors Mr. Coker was a cabinet maker who did several tours in WW II, where he was wounded twice for which he received two Purple Hearts. His other medals include with Oak Leaf, Continue Reading →

Smoke & Bourbon: Clown Shoes Porcine Unidragon

What happens when you take the Clown Shoes mythical beast Unidragon and smoke and bourbon? Porcine Unidragon. Based on Blaecorn Unidragon, this edition has Beechwood smoked malt before taking a run at bourbon barrels.

This Blaecorn Unidragon made with Beechwood Smoked Continue Reading →

Victory Red Thunder, Aged in Red Wine

Potential release from Victory Brewing Company: Red Thunder. The Downingtown, PA brewery has aged their a porter (Baltic Thunder?) in red wine barrels.

First brewed in England in the 18th century, porter-style beers were transported to Baltic maritime cities in oak Continue Reading →

Posted in Cigar City Brewing, New Releases

Cigar City Releases “Leon”

Cigar City (Tampa, FL) has released tribute beer Leon. The beer honors Mr. Coker was a cabinet maker who did several tours in WW II, where he was wounded twice for which he received two Purple Hearts. His other medals include with Oak Leaf, Crois De Guerre, American Defense Service Medal, EAMETO Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Distinguished Unit Badge GO 53, and Bronze Star Medal. He passed away earlier this year.

Bottles are now available in the tap room.

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged, Brandy)
Availability: 750 ml bottles

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Brasserie Franches-Montagnes, New Releases, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin’s Edition of BFM Collaboration Arrives

This one has been a while in the making. Well over a year ago, Terrapin Beer Co and Brasserie Franches Montagnes (Jura, Switzerland) collaborated on a rye based barleywine. The first edition “Spike & Jerome’s Ale” was aged in rum barrels in Switzerland.

Terrapin has been aging their edition Jerome & Spikes 2011 Barley Ryne in bourbon barrels in Athens, Georgia. Well, at least 1/3 of it. The beer is a blend of barrel aged and non barrel aged beer.

Style: Barleywine (Partially Barrel Aged)
Availability: 22oz bombers

10.0276% ABV

pic via @GreensBeer

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Clown Shoes Brewing, New Releases

Smoke & Bourbon: Clown Shoes Porcine Unidragon

What happens when you take the Clown Shoes mythical beast Unidragon and smoke and bourbon? Porcine Unidragon. Based on Blaecorn Unidragon, this edition has Beechwood smoked malt before taking a run at bourbon barrels.

This Blaecorn Unidragon made with Beechwood Smoked malt, which adds a natural meaty note (there is no actual meat in the brew). Aged 100% in bourbon barrels. Little piggies run, squeal to the heavens: Clown Shoes wishes you luck. 

Style: Imperial Stout (Barrel-Aged, Smoked)
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

12.5% ABV 

porcine: adjective of, affecting, or resembling a pig or pigs.  

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Mother Earth Brewing

Peaches Next Up In Mother Earth Window Panes Series

The second edition in Mother Earth Brewing’s (Kinston, NC) Window Panes Series approaches. Panes is a series of North Carolina inspired beers (there will be 4) that will contain fruit  from the states farms, then aged in pinor noir, chardonnay, or brandy barrels. The total production per release is limited to just 20 barrels. (620 gallons.) Blackberries was the featured fruit in release #1.

Uncork a bottle of Peach Window Pane and savor the fresh flavors of North Carolina. Second in a series of four North Carolina inspired beers, Peach Window Pane is a double American wheat fermented with vast quantities of luscious North Carolina fruit, then aged in Chardonnay barrels for three months. Anticipate a prevailing aroma of fruit and chardonnay, blended with a subtle amount of oak. Also expect dominant fruit flavor joined by a slight oak character and sourness that keeps you wanting more. 

Style: Wheat Beer (w/ Peaches, Wine Barrel Aged)

Availability: 750 ml bottles, Corked/Caged. Sold at brewery & select stores
Arrival: October, 2012

8.2% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Heavy Seas, Seasonal Return

Start Looking for Heavy Seas Pumpkin Offerings

Heavy Seas Brewing (Baltimore, MD) is ready to ship (or already shipping) The Great Pumpkin & Great’ER Pumpkin. The difference? Great’ER spends time in bourbon.

The Great Pumpkin – 8.5%
Our fall seasonal, The Great Pumpkin is the pumpkin beer you spend the summer looking forward to: a robust amber ale to which we add a blend of pumpkin spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, and allspice) while it’s in the kettle. Dark brown sugar adds color and a little bit of dryness to the spicy ale. Look for it in bottles and on draft.

The Great’ER Pumpkin, the bourbon barrel-aged version of The Great Pumpkin. Our brewers wrangled fresh, just-emptied bourbon barrels from A. Smith Bowman Distillery in Virginia, then fill them with The Great Pumpkin, and let the beer age inside the barrel for three weeks–bringing out vanilla and oak notes. The Great’ER Pumpkin will come out in very limited supply, in bottles and on draft.  

Style: Pumpkin Ale (w/ Cinnamon, Clove, Allspice, Nutmeg)  Some, Barrel Aged
Availability: 22 oz bombers, Draft

8.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, New Releases, Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada Bottles Barrel Aged Ovila Dubbel

Sierra Nevada is hard at work this week bottling Barrel Aged Ovila Dubbel. A few folks from BSJ are currently at the brewery in Chico, California, and this fun surprise is rolling off of the line.  As you’ll recall, the Ovila Series a line of abbey style collaborations with the monks of New Clairvaux in California. Dubbel was the initial release in the series, returning again this year in smaller, corked and caged formats.  The bottles are slated for California distribution only.

Style: Dubbel (Barrel Aged)

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Victory Brewing Company

Victory Red Thunder, Aged in Red Wine

Victory Red Thunder

Potential release from Victory Brewing Company: Red Thunder. The Downingtown, PA brewery has aged their a porter (Baltic Thunder?) in red wine barrels.

First brewed in England in the 18th century, porter-style beers were transported to Baltic maritime cities in oak casks. As the style roamed through Europe, it picked up flavor influences along the way. We guessed that this drifting, vagabond style would enjoy a bit of downtime, so we gave it a new home for a few months. We filled oak barrels that previously held red wine with our Baltic Thunder and waited patiently for results.Subtle and seductive, the burnished cocoa creaminess of this beer is now accented with the tannic dryness that the wood imparts. Like our Baltic Thunder, Red Thunder honors the Baltic god of heavenly rumblings, as the ever-changing porter is as unpredictable, yet romantic, as an evening storm.

Style: Porter (Wine Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay