Blueberries

Almanac Farm to Barrel Blueberry Released

Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Blueberry is now available. The newest Farm to Barrel Series release features blueberries sour ale, aged in wine barrels.

We selected the very best hand-picked blueberries grown in the hills of Butte County, California, and added them to a sour golden Continue Reading →

Upland Sour Public Lottery: January, 2015

On January 29th, Upland Brewing Company (Bloomington, IN) will open up an online lottery for the purchase of five sour ales. Winners can purchase 2 bottles of each style.  Details on the five styles are in the gallery below.

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Posted in Dogfish Head, Seasonal Return

Return of Dogfish Head Black & Blue, with Refreshed Label

Dogfish Head’s Black & Blue returns to 750 mL bottles with an updated label.

Dogfish Head Black & Blue is a Belgian-style golden ale fermented with black raspberries and blueberries with an intense berry flavor and aroma.

The pureed berries are added as the beer leaves the brewhouse. In fermentation, the yeast — the same one we use in Red & White and Pangaea — feeds on sugars from the barley and the berries, giving Black & Blue a unique complexity.

Dogfish Black & Blue was first brewed in 2007.

Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Raspberries, Blueberries)
Availability: 750ml Bottles. Seasonal release.
Return: March, 2015

10% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Beers, Pipeworks Brewing

Pipeworks Grand Guingol Act 2

Pipeworks Grand Guingol Act 2

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Almanac Beer Co., New Releases

Almanac Farm to Barrel Blueberry Released

Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Blueberry is now available. The newest Farm to Barrel Series release features blueberries sour ale, aged in wine barrels.

We selected the very best hand-picked blueberries grown in the hills of Butte County, California, and added them to a sour golden ale aged in wine barrels. The resulting beer is infused with a delicate blueberry essence, a reminder of far off summer days.

Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Blueberry is available in 375ml bottles, and draft.

Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (Barrel Aged. Wine Aged.)
Availability: 375ml Bottles, Draft. Limited.
Release: Late January, 2015

7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Upland Beer

Upland Sour Public Lottery: January, 2015

On January 29th, Upland Brewing Company (Bloomington, IN) will open up an online lottery for the purchase of five sour ales. Winners can purchase 2 bottles of each style.  Details on the five styles are in the gallery below.

The five releases include: Upland Blueberry Lambic, Dantalion Dark Wild Ale, Blackberry Lambic, Vinosynth White, Vinosynth Red.

The lottery opens up at 12 noon, EDT and ends February 5th, 2015. Bottles are $25 dollars each, and must be picked up at the specified location by March 4th.

Click images below for descriptions.

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

Jester King World’s Worst Twin Releases January 16th

Evil Twin Brewery (Denmark) and Jester King Brewery (Austin, TX) have teamed up on a unique, barrel aged beer, World’s Worst Twin.

The beer is inspired by Evil Twin’s Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergso favorite coffee. Only, the brewers didn’t use coffee in World’s Worst Twin. Instead Jester King and Evil Twin used highly kilned malts were used in the mash. This imparted a roasty, chocolatey character, and Texas blueberries in the fermentation to provide some fruity notes and acidity. World’s Worst Twin was matured in oak barrels with native yeast and bacteria.

World’s worst twin is inspired by favorite coffee of our friend Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergso of Evil Twin Brewing. If we just added it to the beer, the subtle nuances of this delicate coffee would have been hopelessly lost. Rather, we sought to re-create it’s flavors and aromas in our own unique way through wild fermentation in oak barrels with blueberries and wort brewed with Rich toasty malts.

Jester King Evil Twin World’s Worst Twin will be available in 750ml bottles starting January 16th, at 4pm. Brewery release only. Those in Austin, Texas and catch Jeppe at Jester King for the release party.

Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (w/ Bluberries. Oak Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles. 1,600 produced.
Arrival: 1/16/15

5.5% ABV

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

Jester King Colour Five Releases on Halloween

Jester King Brewery (Austin, TX) will release Colour Five on Halloween. Colour Five is a blend of barrel aged sour beer with Texas blueberries.

The first attempt at this blueberry barrel aged sour beer failed in 2013. That batch was too vinegary (i.e. too much acetic acid.) The brewery decided to do something different for Colour Five.

This batch is 89% Das Uberkind, and 11% RU55. (The failed batch was all RU55 Sour Red.) The blueberries were frozen prior to refermentation to stave off acetobacter (makes acetic acid) and was allowed to ferment in stainless steel, where the brewery can push away oxygen (again, inhibiting acetobacter.) These steps (simplified for the story) helped Jester King bring Colour Five to fruition.

Jester King Colour Five will be available when the brewery opens at 4pm. By the glass, or 500ml bottles. ($16)

Style: American Wild Ale/Sour Ale (w/ Blueberries. Oak Aged.)
Availability: 500ml bottles, Draft. 2,000 bottles produced.
Release: 10/31/14

7.1% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, New Holland Brewing

A Berry New Take on New Holland’s Incorrigible

New Holland Brewing (Holland, MI) is adding a new rendition of their Incorrigible White Sour Ale, released last October.

Incorrigible Reserve looks to be the same base white ale aged is oak barrels, but this time with a blend of local Michigan berries.

Local blueberries fuel a second flavorful fermentation of this beer, while it resides for several months in our Hour of Funk sour cellar. Wild yeast and bacteria contribute tart sourness and complex mineral character, prior to an oak-barrel conditioning with Michigan blackberries. 

New Holland Incorrigible Reserve will be packaged in 22oz bottles.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Blackberries. Blueberries. Oak aged)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Arrival: August, 2014

?? ABV

Coming this Fall – New Holland & Carthartt team up on a barrel aged pale ale.

by Reid Ramsay