Barrel Aged

Stone Barrel Aged Smoked Porter With Cherries

Stone Brewing’s Smoked Porter, brewed with cherries and aged in bourbon.  Limited availability.

Style: Smoked Porter (Cherries, Barrel Aged) Availability: Draft only, as of 2/9/2012
Tapping: TBA. (Let a comment if you know)

7.6% ABV 

Stone Green Tea IPA Aged in Red Wine

Stone Brewing’s 2011 Japanese Green Tea IPA, aged in Red wine barrels.

Style: Imperial IPA (Green Tea, Barrel Aged)
Availability: Draft only, as of 2/9/12
Tapping: TBA (Drop a message if you know)

10.6% ABV 

Stone’s Punishment

Meet Stone Brewing’s Punishment.  Ale brewed with peppers, aged in scotch whiskey.

Availability: Draft only, as of 2/9/12. Tapping during Stones Winter Storm Event.

9.8% ABV

Mikkeller’s It’s Alive! In White Wine Barrels

Mikkeller has a barrel aged edition of It’s Alive! coming soon.  Alive a Belgian strong ale brewed by Mikkeller at De Proef.  The edition spent time in white wine barrels.

Style: Belgian Strong Ale (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles.
Arrival: TBA

8% ABV 

 

 

Abita Bourbon Barrel 25th

Abita Brewing is now shipping a bourbon barrel edition of their 25th Anniversary Ale.  Released a little over 4 months ago, 25th is a double edition of Turbodog, brewed with vanilla beans.  The bourbon edition has spent over 5 months Continue Reading →

Posted in Coming Soon, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Barrel Aged Smoked Porter With Cherries

Stone Smoked Porter w cherries bourbonStone Brewing’s Smoked Porter, brewed with cherries and aged in bourbon.  Limited availability.

Style: Smoked Porter (Cherries, Barrel Aged) Availability: Draft only, as of 2/9/2012
Tapping: TBA. (Let a comment if you know)

7.6% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Green Tea IPA Aged in Red Wine

Stone Brewing Green Tea Red WineStone Brewing’s 2011 Japanese Green Tea IPA, aged in Red wine barrels.

Style: Imperial IPA (Green Tea, Barrel Aged)
Availability: Draft only, as of 2/9/12
Tapping: TBA (Drop a message if you know)

10.6% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Stone Brewing Co.

Stone’s Punishment

Stone Brewing PunishmentMeet Stone Brewing’s Punishment.  Ale brewed with peppers, aged in scotch whiskey.

Availability: Draft only, as of 2/9/12. Tapping during Stones Winter Storm Event.

9.8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Mikkeller

Mikkeller’s It’s Alive! In White Wine Barrels

Mikkeller It's Alive White WineMikkeller has a barrel aged edition of It’s Alive! coming soon.  Alive a Belgian strong ale brewed by Mikkeller at De Proef.  The edition spent time in white wine barrels.

Style: Belgian Strong Ale (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles.
Arrival: TBA

8% ABV 

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Coming Soon, Napa Smith Brewing

Napa Smith’s Hopageddon Is Bottle Worthy

Napa Smith HoppageddonNapa Smith Brewing (Napa, CA) has seen great success with Hopageddon, a barrel aged imperial IPA. The name suits the beer, as this imperial IPA not only wet-hopped, but aged in Chardonnay & Cabernet barrels.  Tentatively, the brewery will be putting the complex hop bomb (that combines both beer, and the wine country in which they reside) into bombers.

Hopageddon is an end-of-the-world imperial IPA that defies expectations and induces an intense hop-stupor that will leave you wondering what just happened.  At 144 IBUs, Hopageddon glows with a gorgeous fiery orange color and showcases a distinct, full white head.  The added character given by the Chardonnay and Cabernet barrels accentuates explosive papaya and lychee flavors along with herbaceous aromas.  Chewy, grassy, wet-hop flavors, hints of dried apricot, and impressions of barrel tannins are evident in mutiple layers. The distinct Barrel-hopped flavors and shockwave of bitterness lingers on the palate and leaves hopheads with a Post-ahopalyptic yearning for more.  

Style: Imperial IPA (Barrel Aged)
Hops: Chinook, Cascade, Warrior, Columbus, Mt. Hood, Centennial

Availability: Draft. 22oz bombers soon.
Bottle Arrival: TBA

9.2% ABV, 144 IBUs 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Abita Brewing

Abita Bourbon Barrel 25th

Abita Brewing is now shipping a bourbon barrel edition of their 25th Anniversary Ale.  Released a little over 4 months ago, 25th is a double edition of Turbodog, brewed with vanilla beans.  The bourbon edition has spent over 5 months in barrels.

About 25th:
The robust dark ale has flavors of chocolate, toffee and vanilla. It’s brewed with generous amounts of pale, caramel and chocolate malts and Willamette hops. Whole natural vanilla beans are added during the aging process. 25th Anniversary Vanilla Doubledog is packaged in a commemorative, 22-ounce bottle illustrated with a design inspired by classic New Orleans wrought iron. This Doubledog brew is a tribute to Abita’s Turbodog, which was originally created as an anniversary beer in 1989. Today, Turbodog is an Abita Flagship brew and sold year-round.
Abita produced around 10 barrels (310 gallons) of this beer.  Sold in 7.75 gallon kegs, thats around 40 purported floating around in the wild.

Style: American Strong Ale (Barrel Aged)
Additions: Vanilla Beans
Availability: Draft only. One time brewed.

7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon

Cigar City El Murcielago For The “Year Of The Bat”

Cigar CIty El Murcielago105 days ago, Cigar City Brewing mentioned they were tequila barrel aging Double Cream Ale.  The result is El Murcielago (the bat).  They didn’t stop at tequila aging. They through in lime peel and cumin for good measure.

The bat (or “el murcielago”) had a very important role in the making of this beer. Our winged furry friends were responsible for the pollination of blue agave plants, which of course leads to tequila. That tequila was aged in barrels,and those barrels were eventually emptied and found their way to our brewery. We then Filled those barrels with a high gravity double cream ale. And to give it even more oT a southwestern kick, we added some cumin and lime peel as well. El murcielago, we tip our hat to you. 2011-2012 has been designated by the United Nations as the Year of the Bat. Go to www.batcon.org for more information about supporting these awesome flying guys. 

Style: Cream Ale (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV

One of each Murcielago please…

 

 

by Reid Ramsay