Barrel Aged
Red Brick Brewing is finding their niche at barrel aging. Last year’s 15th Anniversary found instant popularity, prompting the brewery commemorate the beer again on their 16th. This beer is an imperial brown ale that spent 6 months with Mr. Jack Continue Reading →
Avery Brewing (Boulder, CO) has a very successful and very rare. Only 248 cases produced. Release date – Friday, 2/25/11.
Experimentation.
Ales and lagers that defy styles or categories. This is what we are about: our driving force, our passion. To further facilitate this innovative spirit, we’ve developed our Barrel-Aged Series where anything, and we mean ANYTHING, goes! Brewed for those as adventurous as we are!
Flavor Profile:
Aged for eighteen months in fresh Cabernet Sauvignon wine barrels, Dihos Dactylion features a primary fermentation using a proprietary blend of saison yeasts, a secondary fermentation of our house brettanomyces wild yeast strain, along with lactobacillus and pediococcus bacteria added to sour things up. Dihos Dactylion bursts with aggressive aromas of red wine and a touch of brett; delightfully sour to the taste, initial lactic acid flavors hit high in the cheekbones before transitioning to complex layers of soft fruit, oaky-tannins and red wine.
2 popular releases from Weyerbacher Brewing (Easton, PA) have returned – Heresy & Insanity. Weyerbacher does barrel aging very well, as evidenced by these amazing beers.
Insanity
Is made by aging our perfectly balanced Blithering Idiot Barleywine in oak bourbon casks. This incredible Continue Reading →
The bourbon barrel aged edition of Mikkeller’s “Big Worse Barleywine” has arrived stateside. It features Mikkeller’s Big Worse Barleywine aged in second use bourbon barrels for eight months.
Commercial Description:
It all started with the Big Bad Barley Wine. Then came Denmark’s strongest Continue Reading →
A follow up to last years popular 15th Anniversary by Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is 16th Anniversary Ale. This year’s edition boasts a few changes.
16th is Red Brick’s Brown Ale (A double brown as they call it) aged 6 Continue Reading →
Full Sail Brewing kicks off February with the release of Black Gold, an imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels. Black Gold is part Full Sail’s Brewmaster Reserve Series.
The first of the bottles have been released at the Full Sail Tasting Room in Hood River, Oregon, with more bottles being distributed around the state. If this beer is as good as it sounds, it might not get far out of Oregon.
Commercial Description:
A hearty brew that is black as night with a strong roasted malt character and a full body. After its initial release in January 2010, our Imperial Stout was aged for a full year in Bourbon casks from Kentucky.
A little info from Shelton Brothers, U.S. Importer of Mikkeller, another edition of their recent Chipotle Porter. This one spent some time in Speyside Whisky barrels.
Expect smokey flavors to go along with all that pepper spice.
Availability: 12 oz Bottles.
Arrival: Mid Continue Reading →