Barrel Aged

Grandmas Will Love Cigar City Grandmule

A new barrel aged offering from Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) is in the works, suitable for grandmothers, grannys, or just your craft beer drinker. Cigar City Grandmule honors those sweet ladies everywhere.

Grandmule’s base is an imperial porter, aged in Continue Reading →

A New Bourbon Offering From Abita

A new Abita Brewing Select Series offering – Bourbon Street Baltic Porter.

For this release, the brewery aged a roasty Baltic Porter and aged it in bourbon barrels.  The final result is big – 9.25% ABV.  Release ETA to follow.

Style: Baltic Continue Reading →

Mother Earth “Raspberries” Returns

Mother Earth Brewing (Kinston, NC) is re-releasing Raspberry from the Windowpanes Series. Each of the four beers in the series features North Carolina grown fruit, aged in various barrels. Raspberry is the fourth release in the series.  Mother Earth took Continue Reading →

Red Brick Releases Beard Envy [VIDEO]

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta) will have a new barrel aged offering on the shelves in the southeast this week. Beard Envy is the brewery’s barrel aged barley wine.

Brewers Garett Lockhart and Steve Anderson have been kicking around around the idea Continue Reading →

Posted in New Beers, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Stygian Decent

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Innis & Gunn, New Releases

Innis & Gunn Releases Smoke Beer Collaboration

A new collaboration from Innis & Gunn (Edinburgh, Scotland) has hit the market in the United Kingdom. The winner of the bartender showdown, Innis & Gunn Smokin’ Gunn is a smoke beer collaboration brewed with David Ashton-Hyde. Hyde is the head bartender at The Hinds Head in Bray.

Inspired by his love of Canadian and American whiskies, and a weakness for pancakes and maple syrup, David wanted to create a beer that would make a perfect after-dinner drink. Smokin’ Gunn is a rich, robust and complex smoked beer.

The beer uses malts smoked over beach wood to give Smokin’ Gunn a slight smoky hint. In true Innis & Gunn fashion, the beer is aged in bourbon casks.  On sale now in the Innis & Gunn store.

Style: Smoke Beer (Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Hops: Super Styrian, Northern Brewer
Malts: Oak-smoked I & G Ale Malt, Roasted Barley

Availability: 11.2oz Bottles (330ml)

7.2% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, North Coast Brewing

North Coast Barrel Aged Old Rasputin Released

One of the most popular offerings from North Coast Brewing (Fort Bragg, CA) is Barrel Aged Old Rasputin. After nine months of aging in bourbon barrels, this dark, rich, offering has arrived.

Barrel Aged Old Rasputin XVI officially released on February 1st. Start looking for it to pop up in bottle shops and bars throughout February.

Style: Russian Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 16.9oz Bottles, Corked & Caged

11.5% ABV

North Coast Barrel Aged Old Rasputin

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon, Headlines

Grandmas Will Love Cigar City Grandmule

A new barrel aged offering from Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) is in the works, suitable for grandmothers, grannys, or just your craft beer drinker. Cigar City Grandmule honors those sweet ladies everywhere.

Grandmule’s base is an imperial porter, aged in bourbon barrels for extra drool points.

For Grandmothers, Nonnas, Grandmas, Abuelsas, Grannys, Memaws, Grammas, Nannas, and all the kiddy ladies everywhere that bravely go to all the breweries their grandkids get to. We brewed this beer in honor of your patiences and love.

Look for this pink bottle of love in 750ml bottles.

Style: Imperial Porter (Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Arrival: TBA

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Abita Brewing, Coming Soon

A New Bourbon Offering From Abita

A new Abita Brewing Select Series offering – Bourbon Street Baltic Porter.

For this release, the brewery aged a roasty Baltic Porter and aged it in bourbon barrels.  The final result is big – 9.25% ABV.  Release ETA to follow.

Style: Baltic Porter (Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: Draft Only
Arrival: TBA

9.25% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Mother Earth Brewing, Seasonal Return

Mother Earth “Raspberries” Returns

Mother Earth Brewing (Kinston, NC) is re-releasing Raspberry from the Windowpanes Series. Each of the four beers in the series features North Carolina grown fruit, aged in various barrels. Raspberry is the fourth release in the series.  Mother Earth took a wheat beer and aged in both chardonnay and pinot noir barrels with of course – raspberries.

Uncork a bottle of Raspberry Window Pane and savor the fresh flavors of North Carolina. Fourth in a series of four North Carolina inspired beers, Raspberry Window Pane is a double American Wheat beer fermented with vast quantities of this treasured North Carolina fruit, then aged in pinot noir and chardonnay barrels for three months.   Anticipate a prevailing aroma of berry, blended with spice, vanilla and oak: and a dominate berry flavor joined by a slight oak character and sourness.

Style: Witbier (w/ Raspberries. Wine Aged. Pinot Noir & Chardonnay Barrels)
Availability: 750 ml Bottles, Corked & Caged
Arrival: 2/8/14

8.3% ABV

If you go:
Mother Earth Brewing, Kinston NC
Saturday February 8th, 2014 with tastings

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, New Releases, Red Brick Brewing, Videos

Red Brick Releases Beard Envy [VIDEO]

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta) will have a new barrel aged offering on the shelves in the southeast this week. Beard Envy is the brewery’s barrel aged barley wine.

Brewers Garett Lockhart and Steve Anderson have been kicking around around the idea of barrel aging a barley wine for more than a year. After finishing off the 20th Anniversary Imperial Stout, they knew it was time for that brew. The name, was on accident.

If you’ve spent anytime at all around craft beer, you know that there are a lot of beards running around. Garett has openly admitted that his beard growing skills leave much to be desired. He has “beard envy.” The rest is now history.

Beard Envy is 9+% English-style barley wine aged in tertiary use Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels. The final result is worth it. A beer that balances flavors of both the base beer and the barrel. Available now for a limited time.

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged, Bourbon)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft

9.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay