Barrel Aged

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 now available

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is hitting shelves now. The 7th interation of the brewery’s on-going wild/sour beer.

Each release is of course different, a blend of wood aged and stainless steel aged sour beer. Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is a Continue Reading →

Troegs Barrel Aged Flying Mouflan available again March 28th

Troegs Barrel Aged Flying Mouflan Barleywine will be available once again on Monday, March 28th. The barleywine has been aged in a combination of bourbon barrels and virgin oak.

Troegs Barrel Aged Flying Mouflan Barleywine will be available to purchase in single bottles, 4-packs, and cases.

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 375ml Bottles
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Posted in Foothills Brewing, Don't Miss This

Foothills Barrel Aged Sexual Chocolate returns May 21st

Foothills Barrel Aged Sexual Chocolate will make a seasonal return to the Winston-Salem, North Carolina brewery’s lineup on May 21st.

The base beer, an imperial stout brewed with cocoa nibs, is one of the brewery’s most popular beers. When you introduce bourbon-barrel aging, people go crazy for it. So much so, the line for this beer basically starts when the brewpub closes the night before.

Our cocoa infused Imperial Stout. Opaque black in color with a dark brown head. Big chocolate aroma with notes of espresso, blackstrap molasses, dark sweet toffee and dark fruit. Smooth dark chocolate backbone with complex notes of coffee, dark toffee and dark fruit.

Foothills Barrel Aged Sexual Chocolate Is a very limited 22 ounce bottle release at the pub location in downtown.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cocoa Nibs. Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles. Limited.
Release: 5/21/16

9.75% ABV

The Beer Street Journal team is en route to Foothills this weekend. Drink with us, or else. 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Jester King Brewery, New Releases

Jester King Hibernal Dichotomous 2016, a sour blend

Jester King Hibernal Dichotomous 2016 releases on Friday, May 13th.

This edition is a blend of old and young beer, a method the brewery refers to as bière de coupage. The young, fresh beer is a farmhouse/wild ale brewed with dried Genmaicha tea, and winter rosemary.

The old beer is from the brewery’s stock of Funk Metal, a sour barrel aged stout.

Jester King Hibernal Dichotomous 2016 is available in 750 milliliter bottles when the brewery opens on Friday, May 13th.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Rosemary, Genmaicha tea. Partially Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles. 3,500 bottle production run.
Release: 5/13/16

5.9% ABV, 22 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Jester King Brewery, Don't Miss This

Jester King Fantome Del Rey (Texas Edition) release day

Jester King Fantome Del Rey, the Texas edition and follow up to the 2014 Fantome collaboration releases today.

The Texas edition of Jester King Fantome Del Rey is a blend of old and young barrel aged beer. (AKA Bière de Courage.) The older piece of this blend is the 2014 edition from 2014, brewed with barley, dark candi syrup, coriander, and black peppercorns. That beer was fermented in stainless steel with truffle honey before headed to oak barrels.

Sadly, thanks to restrictive beer laws in Jester’s home state, the beer couldn’t be released there.

In 2015, Jester King brewed the young edition of the collaboration, and blended it with the old.

Jester King Fantome Del Rey (Texas Edition) will be available by the glass, and to-go in 750 milliliter bottles when the tap room opens on May 6th, 2016.

Style: Farmhouse Ale (w/ Peppercorns, Candi Sugar, Coriander, Honey. Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft.  9,000 bottles.
Release: 5/6/16

8.8% ABV, 19 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Creature Comforts, Coming Soon

Creature Comforts Curious 6 joins lineup April 30th

Creature Comforts Curious 6 will be available to-go during a special tour on April 30th, 2016.

This sixth edition in the Curious Series starts as another one of the brewery’s very popular releases – Emergence, that has aged on Georgia peaches. In case you are’t familiar, Emergence is an American wild ale, fermented with the brewery’s house mixed culture yeast strain, aged in wine barrels.

Creature Comforts collaborated with Fort Valley, Georgia based Pearson Farms for Curious 6, selecting fresh peaches at the perfect time in order for the fruit to really pop in this beer.

“When drinking The Curious No. 6 you can expect the aroma to be as if you’ve sunk your teeth into the best peach you’ve ever had,” said Head Brewer and Co-Founder David Stein.

Above, brewmaster Adam Beauchamp pours Beer Street Journal a preview taste of this upcoming release. The peaches really do shine in this edition. Honestly, while you could very much cellar a wild ale, maybe considering drinking this one sooner rather than later. Keep those fresh peaches on the forefront of this beer.

Creature Comforts Curious 6 is limited to just a few hundred bottles, tour release only.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Release: 4/30/16

7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Boulevard Brewing, Don't Miss This, New Releases

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 now available

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is hitting shelves now. The 7th interation of the brewery’s on-going wild/sour beer.

Each release is of course different, a blend of wood aged and stainless steel aged sour beer. Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is a blend of various vintages of Flanders-style our red ales.

#7 resembles more of the Love Child #4 & #5 editions, then what you tasted in #6 (which was a blonde sour base).

We reached out to Jeremy Danner, Ambassador brewer for Boulevard, asking him to describe this new release..

While it’s a return to a more familiar interpretation, I’d hesitate to make direct comparisons between earlier releases as we’re not really trying to create the exact same beer each year, rather we’re offering up a blend of what we feel is the best sour beer we have on hand at the time.

Boulevard Love Child No. 7 is a 750ml bottle offering, corked and caged.

Style: American Wild Ale (Barrel Aged. Whiskey. Wine Barrels)
Arrival: April, 2016

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Read more: Boulevard Smokestack Series

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Don't Miss This

Cigar City Hapax Legomenon, one of the brewery’s most unique

Cigar City Hapax Legomenon is a future release by the Tampa, Florida brewery. The brewery already has a repertoire of unique beers, but this upcoming release is pushes the boundaries a bit.

Cigar City Hapax Legomenon begans as a Belgian-style tripel ale aged in gin barrels. After some barrel time, the brewery blended in some grapefruit sour ale. The result? A one of a kind addition to the brewery’s lineup.

Hapax Legomenon refers to a word or from that occurs only once in a document. And often, it is a word that you will only find one time in an author’s entire oeuvre. For example, Shakespeare used the word “satyr” exactly once in all of his writings. This beer began as a Belgian-style tripel aged in gin barrels. After some time in barrels, we blended in some American Grapefruit Sour Ale. When it’s all said  and done, we think we can safely say that this will be the only occurrence of a gin barrel-aged Belgian-style triple blend with an American grapefruit sour ale to be found in our oeuvre.

Cigar City Hapax Legomenon will be a 750 milliliter bottle release. The brewery tells Beer Street Journal they aren’t sure how much will be released at this time.

Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (w/ Grapefruit. Barrel Aged. Gin.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Release: TBA

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Troegs Brewing, Seasonal Return

Troegs Barrel Aged Flying Mouflan available again March 28th

Troegs Barrel Aged Flying Mouflan Barleywine will be available once again on Monday, March 28th. The barleywine has been aged in a combination of bourbon barrels and virgin oak.

Troegs Barrel Aged Flying Mouflan Barleywine will be available to purchase in single bottles, 4-packs, and cases.

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 375ml Bottles
Latest Release: 3/27/16

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Image via Troegs

by Reid Ramsay