Hangar 24 Brewing (Redlands, CA) will be pre-selling bottles of Pugachev’s Cobra today at 4 pm. Cobra is an Russian imperial stout, aged in bourbon barrels. The 3rd release in the brewery’s Barrel Roll Collection. What’s behind the name? Pugachev’s Continue Reading →
Boulevard Brewing has plans on bottling Love Child 1. This child is a bourbon barrel aged ale with cherries. This is Love Child #1, insinuating an impending series.
Our series of “wild” ales, barrel-aged with boisterous cultures like Lactobaccillus and Brettanomyces, Continue Reading →
North Coast Brewing’s 14th Anniversary release — Barrel Aged Old Rasputin, aka XIV has started hitting shelves. The west coast of course has been seeing the first bottles.
This anniversary beer is the brewery’s medal winning Old Rasputin, aged in bourbon barrels.
At Cigar City Brewing’s Barrel Aged Hunahpu Day, the brewery released a Rum Barrel Aged edition of Big Sound. Apparently, there are some flavor issues that Joey Redner would like to address…
Stillwater Artisanal Ales has the regular edition of Folklore, a wine aged edition coming soon, and now a Bourbon Barrel Folklore. Recapping, Folklore is a smoky foreign stout – a tweaked recipe brewed for Max Taphouse’s 25th Anniversary. It was there Continue Reading →
Stillwater Artisanal Ales Wine Barrel Aged Folklore. This is a red wine aged edition of Folklore Ale, a slightly smoky foreign stout that celebrated Max’s Taphouse’s 25th Anniversary. (Max’s was one of the first places Stillwater was Continue Reading →
Hangar 24 Brewing (Redlands, CA) will be pre-selling bottles of Pugachev’s Cobra today at 4 pm. Cobra is an Russian imperial stout, aged in bourbon barrels. The 3rd release in the brewery’s Barrel Roll Collection. What’s behind the name? Pugachev’s Cobra is a plane maneuver where the pilot lifts the nose of the plane nearly vertical, then back to attack position. Invented by Victor Pugachev. For this stout, Hangar 24 filled 250 bourbon barrels with the stout in March, 2011. It has been aging over 8 months. The beer is officially released this Saturday, 12/10.
Get ready for an assault on your senses with PUGACHEV’S COBRA, an intense Russian Imperial Stout. This rich, black beauty with a thick caramel head is bursting with aromas of chocolate, vanilla, oak, bourbon, licorice and dark fruits, while flavors of chocolate-covered plum, sweet malt, bourbon, and roasted coffee explode on your pallet. This is no ordinary beer; three different dark roasted malts and rich maple syrup are combined in a truly unique brewing process to create complexity and depth. Once fermented, it’s then aged for eight months in freshly emptied bourbon barrels. This powerful concoction is designed to be enjoyed now with friends or cellared to perfection and savored in the years to come.
-Non barrel-aged Pugachev’s Cobra (Russian Imperial Stout)
–Small Stout (made from Pugachev’s 2nd runnings)
–Polycot (yes, we said Polycot. We know it has nothing to do with Pugachev’s Cobra…but we miss it too, so why not!?). 5:00PM – We’ll open a couple cases of Humpty Bump, Release No. 02 in our Barrel Roll Series 6:00PM – We’ll open a couple cases of Immelmann, Release No. 01 in our Barrel Roll Series 6:00PM-9:00PM Wednesday night music on the patio (we’re making it an every-Wednesday-night-tradition, assuming the weather is good) performed by “All Marbles”, a 4-piece rock roots band.
Boulevard Brewing has plans on bottling Love Child 1. This child is a bourbon barrel aged ale with cherries. This is Love Child #1, insinuating an impending series.
Our series of “wild” ales, barrel-aged with boisterous cultures like Lactobaccillus and Brettanomyces, develop such complexity that we created this gauges to indicate levels of the three most prominent flavor characteristics. Each Love Child has it’s own unique balance and emphasis.
North Coast Brewing’s14th Anniversary release — Barrel Aged Old Rasputin, aka XIV has started hitting shelves. The west coast of course has been seeing the first bottles. This anniversary beer is the brewery’s medal winning Old Rasputin, aged in bourbon barrels.
Per North Coast: Rasputin XIV is Here! For the past few years, barrel-aged Old Rasputin has been released in such limited quantities that it has been available only at the brewery retail shop. However, we have received so many requests for this beer that for the 12th anniversary, NCBC produced enough Old Rasputin XIV to put into broader distribution. There’s certainly not a flood of it, but it is available in select areas. Check the distributor in your area to find where to get it.
Style: Imperial Stout (barrel aged) Taste Expectations: Everything you have come to love about Old Raspy (Chocolate, coffee, roasty malts) creamy, full bodied flavor. Now with oaky vanilla. Availability: 16.9 oz bottles. Corked/Caged. One time anniversary release.
At Cigar City Brewing’sBarrel Aged Hunahpu Day, the brewery released a Rum Barrel Aged edition of Big Sound. Apparently, there are some flavor issues that Joey Redner would like to address…
I want to apologize to everyone that was unhappy with the condition of Rum Barrel Aged Big Sound Scotch Ale and for not addressing this issue earlier. It wasn’t willful, I have just been busier than usual this last month going through the process of becoming a foster parent and adjusting to having a 4th child under the age of 4 in my home. Because I have been more distracted than usual I haven’t been checking in on my favorite beer sites daily like I normally do.
It’s not an excuse it’s just what has been going on with me. I literally didn’t know the scope of things until tonight. Everyone has demands on their time, I am however not exceptionally good at managing my time and so because of the distractions in my life I haven’t been paying as much attention to the websites I normally monitor. I apologize for that as well, I certainly wish I had noticed this earlier.
That said I want to address some of the concerns people had about this beer and some conjecture on it. We certainly did not know we had a problem on our hands and just chose to go forward anyway. It is much harder to address a beer gone wild than it is to prevent an unintentionally wild beer from ever getting released. In fact I’d happily pay 10X the profit on the Rum BA Big Sound to not have that sinking feeling I got when someone informed me there might be an issue with it. Releasing something that isn’t generally enjoyed never helps the cause.
We bottled 6 barrel aged beers in this last release. Three versions of spirit-based Hunahpu, 1 Virgin Oak beer and 2 of Scotch Ale. The Scotch Ale aged in Rum barrels was treated exactly as the other 5. Same aging area. Same transfer technique and the same bottling machine. Why did the Rum eventually turn out tart? I can’t say. I don’t know. I wish I did. That is the nature of using barrels. You take some gambles when you use wood. That said, on the day (and all the days leading up) it was released we were very happy with the way it was drinking. Many on the staff still are very happy with it and we just opened several bottles from the library when we become aware of a potential issue. But each bottle was a little different, which means some people may have gotten bottles that tasted a lot worse (or possibly better) than the test bottles we have been pulling. Again something that can happen with Barrel Aging.
This was absolutely not an attempt to sell a beer we didn’t think was good. We liked the beer we sold. I have been sending it to personal friends as recently as last week. I want people to be impressed with what we make. Not pissed. I didn’t purposely release a dud. It’s much harder to deal with the repercussions of selling a beer that isn’t perfect than it is to just not sell that beer. Having people feel duped doesn’t gain us anything; it only hurts. In fact if you want to be cynical you could assume that if I knew the beer had (or would have) gone tart I missed a golden opportunity to sell an intentionally tart beer. We didn’t “know” there was an issue before we released the beer. That is the truth.
All of that said if you are/were unhappy with the beer or even suspect that you might be unhappy with it, email [email protected]. I will give you the option to trade for the value in other beer and/or merchandise or if you just want nothing further to do with us I will happily refund your money.
Again, I apologize that we didn’t execute our vision on this beer. We didn’t want it to be tart. The fact that some people like it doesn’t ameliorate the fact that it wasn’t as attended and I relish the opportunity to make it up to anyone affected in whichever manner they prefer.
Stillwater Artisanal Ales has the regular edition of Folklore, awine aged editioncoming soon, and now a Bourbon Barrel Folklore. Recapping, Folklore is a smoky foreign stout – a tweaked recipe brewed for Max Taphouse’s 25th Anniversary. It was there that the first Stillwater beers were poured.
Style: Imperial Stout (Barrel aged. Wine Barrels) Availability: Draft only, as of 11/30/11
Stillwater Artisanal AlesWine Barrel Aged Folklore. This is a red wine aged edition of Folklore Ale, a slightly smoky foreign stout that celebrated Max’s Taphouse’s 25th Anniversary. (Max’s was one of the first places Stillwater was served.)
Hangar 24 Brewing (Redlands, CA) will be pre-selling bottles of Pugachev’s Cobra today at 4 pm. Cobra is an Russian imperial stout, aged in bourbon barrels. The 3rd release in the brewery’s Barrel Roll Collection. What’s behind the name? Pugachev’s Cobra is a plane maneuver where the pilot lifts the nose of the plane nearly vertical, then back to attack position. Invented by Victor Pugachev. For this stout, Hangar 24 filled 250 bourbon barrels with the stout in March, 2011. It has been aging over 8 months. The beer is officially released this Saturday, 12/10.
