Goose Island Brewing was purportedly making King Henry Barleywine back in 2008. Rumor has it, Dominique rose in it’s place. There has been a couple of small sightings at festivals, but it now looks like the King Henry will take Continue Reading →
This is more on the side of – Ain’t It Cool News, then a piece on a beer you will see in the United States. Recently Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery traveled to Sweden with his entire brewing team. Continue Reading →
The Brewdog/3 Floyds Brewing collaboration- “Bitch Please” is available in the Brewdog store. About Bitch:
I am a collaborative brew. I am a messed up, idiosyncratic, schizophrenic son of a bitch. I would blame my parents. With the wolves of Three Floyds Continue Reading →
3 Floyds Brewing has issued some updates about Dark Lord Day 2011. Including variations of Dark Lord soon to be rare and very expensive….
1. Gates open at 10:00 am
2. The Darklord bottle limit will be 4 bottles per person, $15.00 per bottle.
3. There will be a lottery for extremely limited, hand bottled, hand numbered barrel aged variations. Guests will exchange their event tickets for a Golden Ticket with a scratch off section. If their ticket scratches off as a winner, they will have the opportunity to purchase one bottle of one of the four variations in addition to the 4 bottles of Darklord. The variations are:
Darklord aged in Pappy Van Winkle 23 year barrels Darklord aged in brandy barrels Darklord aged in brandy barrels with vanilla beans Darklord de Muerte, DL aged in bourbon barrels with ancho and guajillo peppers
These hand bottled, hand numbered, hand waxed bottles will sell for $50.00
Fifty Fifty Brewing’s Eclipse Imperial Stout is rapidly gaining national popularity. 5050 takes the stout and ages it in various whiskey & bourbon barrels. Starting at midnight last night the brewery starting taking email orders for the beer. The Continue Reading →
UPDATE 4/18: Per Hoppin Frog’s Facebook Page Update – We are currently aging our next special release – “Barrel Aged BORIS Royale”. We have not finalized the label yet. We plan on a brewery only release of our initial batch Continue Reading →
Goose Island Brewing was purportedly making King Henry Barleywine back in 2008. Rumor has it, Dominique rose in it’s place. There has been a couple of small sightings at festivals, but it now looks like the King Henry will take his throne in 2011.
A description from BA clues us in a little bit more: Loosely based off our 2000th brew at our production facility, we revived this hybrid American / English Barley Wine for a special treat. Coming out of the tanks we aged it in barrels previously used for Bourbon County Stout to add another layer of complexity.
Per Goose Island’s release schedule, King Henry is set to take his throne in December, 2011.
Cigar City Imperial Milk Porter, released in 2011.
The barrels are Stranahan Colorado Whiskey barrels. Milk Porter in Stranahan. Sounds like a silky smooth whiskey winner.
So, what you have here is a high gravity porter brewed with lactose and aged in whiskey barrels. It tastes like catching your favorite song on the radio with hints of the parking meter expiring, but not getting a ticket. It’s good.
Cigar City Imperial Milk Porter was available for a limited time in 750-milliliter bottles.
This is more on the side of – Ain’t It Cool News, then a piece on a beer you will see in the United States. Recently Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery traveled to Sweden with his entire brewing team. In tow was 150 Heaven Hill bourbon barrels. The team was there to celebrate the 175 Anniversary of Carnegie Porter, first brewed in 1836. Heaven Hill Distillery is based in Bardstown, Kentucky and their barrels are frequently being used in barrel aged beers.
While in Sweden, Oliver completed in a friendly Beer vs. Wine competition (in which the brewery’s blog says he won!) & was interviewed by local media. Check out more at <BrooklynBlog>
The Brewdog/3 Floyds Brewing collaboration- “Bitch Please” is available in the Brewdog store. About Bitch:
I am a collaborative brew. I am a messed up, idiosyncratic, schizophrenic son of a bitch. I would blame my parents. With the wolves of Three Floyds and pirates from BrewDoginvolved, the writing really was on the wall for me. Right from the start.
Nick, Barnaby and Chris from the legendary Three Floydsvisited BrewDog in August 2010 to brew this crazy beer. Aninherently Scottish spin on a barley wine brewed with peated malts from Islay, shortbread, toffee and eclectic hops. After fermentation the beer was aged in old Jura single malt whisky barrels for 8 months.
All because of the Scamp Wolf of Badenoch. Bitch it up baby!
Get Your Ebay Account Ready. Announcing Dark Lord Variations
3 Floyds Brewing has issued some updates about Dark Lord Day 2011. Including variations of Dark Lord soon to be rare and very expensive….
1. Gates open at 10:00 am
2. The Darklord bottle limit will be 4 bottles per person, $15.00 per bottle.
3. There will be a lottery for extremely limited, hand bottled, hand numbered barrel aged variations. Guests will exchange their event tickets for a Golden Ticket with a scratch off section. If their ticket scratches off as a winner, they will have the opportunity to purchase one bottle of one of the four variations in addition to the 4 bottles of Darklord. The variations are:
Darklord aged in Pappy Van Winkle 23 year barrels Darklord aged in brandy barrels Darklord aged in brandy barrels with vanilla beans Darklord de Muerte, DL aged in bourbon barrels with ancho and guajillo peppers
These hand bottled, hand numbered, hand waxed bottles will sell for $50.00
4. All purchases on Darklord Day are cash only.
Some of our Guest Drafts:
Founders Breakfast Stout
Founders Nemesis
Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Founders Newaygo County Cherry
Founders Devil Dancer
Founders Double Trouble
Victory Smoked & Oats
Victory Headwaters Pale
Victory Braumeister Pils
Schlafly Kolsch
Schlafly Imperial Stout
Van Steenberg Monk’s Ale
Brewdog Paradox Smokehead
Bells Batch 10,000
Bells Oatmeal Stout
Left Hand TNT Weizen Doppelbock
Dogfish Head My Antonia
Dogfish Head Worldwide Stout
Dogfish Head Old School Barleywine
Dogfish Head Burton Baton
Ommegang Gnomegang
Bruery Saison De Lente
Bruery Loakal Red
Bruery Old Richland
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Rare
Schlenkerla Fasten Beer
Schlenkerla Oat Smoke
Schlenkerla Maerzen
Futhermore Knot Stock
Futhermore Oscura
La Rulles Estivale
Aventinus Eisbock
Sierra Nevada Oliva Dubbel
Oakshire Heart Shaped Box
Oakshire Imperial Overcast Espresso Stout.
Plus a couple more on the way…
Fifty Fifty Brewing’s Eclipse Imperial Stout is rapidly gaining national popularity. 5050 takes the stout and ages it in various whiskey & bourbon barrels. Starting at midnight last night the brewery starting taking email orders for the beer. The inbox was full minutes later. Check out the 2011 list.
Announcing the limited release of futures for the 2011 Vintage of Eclipse Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout.
AVAILABLE AT 12:01AM PDT ON APRIL 15!
For a limited time only, you can reserve your bottles of 2011 Eclipse for a discount off the final retail price. 50% down at time of order, with the remainder due at product pickup. Limited quantities of the following styles are available as futures: Elijah Craig 12 year Barrel ($20/btl, $10 down, limit 24) Four Roses Single Barrel ($20/btl, $10 down, limit 12) Rittenhouse Rye Barrel ($20/btl, $10 down, limit 12) Elijah Craig 20 year Barrel ($22/btl, $11 down, limit 12) Brandy Barrel Blend ($22/btl, $11 down, limit 6) Buffalo Trace Barrel Blend ($22/btl, $11 down, limit 4) Brewmaster’s Grand Cru Blend — A blend from selected barrels of 2011 Eclipse chosen by the Brewmaster ($24/btl, $12 down, limit 2)
Futures can be ordered one of three ways: (1) in person at the brewery; (2) Call the brewery at 530.587.BEER (but please not during peak dinner hours on Friday/Saturday nights); (3) Complete the ORDER FORM and email to [email protected].
UPDATE 4/18: Per Hoppin Frog’s Facebook Page Update – We are currently aging our next special release – “Barrel Aged BORIS Royale”. We have not finalized the label yet. We plan on a brewery only release of our initial batch in May or June. Watch for updates on Facebook and our website. We will be aging the first production batches in special, very flavorful, Canadian whiskey barrels and we are scheduling a production release in about 12 months.
Hoppin Frog (Akron, OH) is releasing a new addition of their popular Barrel Aged B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher Oatmeal Imperial Stout. The medal winning edition of Boris spends its final days at the brewery in whiskey barrels (Jack, etc.) This new edition of Boris – Boris Royale spends time in Canadian Crown Royal barrels.
After speaking with Fred Karm, brewmaster at Hoppin Frog – this first edition release will be very limited. Sold only at the brewery in Akron. Karm hopes to be able to release more of it in the future. Tentative Description:
Fortunate is he who, in the name of brewing and good beer, shepherds the weak through the valley of macrobrews. For he is truly his brother’s keeper, and the finder of lost taste budds. And I will strkike down upn thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my beer. AND YOU WILL KNOW MY NAME IS B.O.R.I.S. WHEN I LAY BY FLAVORS UPON YOU.
Arrival: 6 weeks, Brewery only release. Production release in 2012.
Goose Island Brewing was purportedly making King Henry Barleywine back in 2008. Rumor has it, Dominique rose in it’s place. There has been a couple of small sightings at festivals, but it now looks like the King Henry will take his throne in 2011.
The Brewdog/3 Floyds Brewing collaboration- “Bitch Please” is available in the Brewdog store. About Bitch:
