Topic Archives: Brick Store Pub
NOW TAPPING: Southern Tier Choklot
The first sighting of Southern Tier’s Choklat isn’t in stores, it’s at Leon’s Full Service in Decatur. Choklat is an imperial stout released by the Lakewood, NY brewery seasonally in November, but is making an early appearance now.
Choklat is an understatement when it comes to the chocolate aspects of this beer. If you have had Mocha, the chocolate you smell is HALF of what is in the brew.
Beer Rundown:
Hops: Chinook, Willamette
Malts: Caramel Malt 60, 2-Row Barley, Barley Flakes
Extras: Bittersweet Belgian Chocolate
Brick Store Pub
133 East Court Square
Decatur, GA 30030
Brick Store Pub’s 13th Anniversary List!
This Saturday, June 19th, Brickstore Pub celebrates its 13th Anniversary by tapping 13 kegs in as many hours… Here is the official list!
12:00 Noon – Duck Rabbit barrel aged sour cherry Baltic porter cask
We will gravity pour this ceremonial cask of deliciousness to get things started!
1:00 – SKA Decadent IPA – 10%
A balanced Imperial IPA with a nice caramel sweetness and a bitter grapefruit finish.
2:00 – Foothills Seeing Double IPA – 9.5%
At 130 IBUs this super hoppy beer is surprisingly easy to drink. Pine,citrus and spicy finish.
3:00 – Duck Rabbit Barleywine 2006 – 11%
Sweet malts and faint hops with a slight alcohol finish back in 2006. Lets see what 4 years has done!
4:00 – Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti 2008 – 9.5%
Aged two years in house! Intense chocolate and roasted malt aged on French and toasted oak.
5:00 – Green Flash Le Freak tripel – 9.2%
A slight fruit sweetness up front with a long dry finish. Light spices and Belgian yeast add depth.
6:00 – Clipper City (Heavy Seas) Smoke on the water – 8%
This full bodied porter is big on the roasted malt with the perfect amount of smoke at the end.
7:00 – Olde Hickory Irish Walker – 7.7%
A traditional English style Barley wine that showcases dark fruit flavors and a blend of English hops.
8:00 – Coast Hopart IPA – 7.7%
This organic IPA is heavily hopped with a nice combination of citrus, floral and earthy varieties.
9:00 – Great Lakes Blackout Stout – 9%
Complex malts and a light hop finish with some ripe dark fruits make this one quite unique.
10:00 – Cigar City Jai Alai IPA – 7.5%
Amazing tropical fruit aromas lead way to a full mouth feel and a nice bitter finish.
11:00 – New Holland Oak Aged Dragons Milk – 10%
A very nice balance between rich chocolate, lactose sweetness, and vanilla hints.
12:00 Midnight – Terrapin/ Left Hand Depth Charge – 6.5%
The very last keg of Depth charge on planet earth! A sweet stout brewed with espresso.
Starts this Saturday at noon! See you at the Pub!
Brick Store Pub
125 East Court Square
Decatur, GA 30030-2521
Twitter: @BrickstorePub
NOW TAPPING: Bourbon Aged Bells Hell Hath No Fury
Each day leading up to Brick Store’s Anniversary, a new and special beer will be tapped. Today making it’s first appearance in Georgia from Bell’s Brewing is bourbon barrel aged Hell Hath No Fury Ale. Hell is a Belgian strong dark ale. The regular edition of this beer is usually only available in part of October-November of each year. Most likely you will see this offering again then.
Taste Expectations – The regular edition of Hell Hath no Fury provides dark fruit flavors, nutmeg spices, and what many describe as a hint of smoke. Roasted malts also. The bourbon aged edition expect lots of vanilla notes from the bourbon, with a bit of oak.
7.7% ABV
Taps at Opening today (6/15) at Brick Store Pub!
Brick Store Pub
125 East Court Square
Decatur, GA 30030-2521
Twitter: @BrickstorePub
CASK ALERT: Sweetwater DP
We are days away from Brickstore Pub’s “Unlucky” 13th Anniversary on Saturday. For13 days prior to the big anniversary, Brickstore Pub will have a special tapping each day.
In a matter of minutes, Sweetwater’s DP (Donkey Punch) Barleywine aged in a J.W. Lee’s lagvulin pin cask. Basically, BSP had a leftover J.W. Lee’s cask. It was taken to Sweetwater, where it was filled with Donkey Punch. Then it was aged for a year in house at the pub.
This beer taps at 5 pm Today (6/14)
Brick Store Pub
125 East Court Square
Decatur, GA 30030-2521
Twitter: @BrickstorePub
CASK ALERT: Schneider Aventinus Eisbock
Brick Store Pub’s Anniversary is looming. Continuing the tradition of a special tapping each day the pub brings you Schneider Aventinus Eisbock Wooden Cask. This beer is an eisbock, created by freezing off a portion of water and extracting it from the beer. What is left behind is a higher concentration of beer that is more pronounced in flavor and alcohol.
Schneider Weizen-Eisbock is brewed by Private Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn, or Schneider for short. Its a damn good beer with high marks from all the beer drinkers, raters, geeks, etc.
Taste Expecations – Dark fruits, raisins, touch of clove. This eisbock has a nice malt backbone also.
This beer taps from a wooden cask, at 5 pm today (6/10)
Brick Store Pub
125 East Court Square
Decatur, GA 30030-2521
Twitter: @BrickstorePub
Mikkeller Single Hop Mayhem!
So many IPA’s these days have multiple hops used in the brew. That’s not a bad thing, so many of these multi hopped beers are great. However, for a lot of beginning craft beer drinkers, or even some of the more seasoned ones rarely get to experience the flavors a single hops possesses. Believe me, one single hop can make a huge difference.
Mikkeller Brewing hails from Denmark, started in 2006. It’s a collaboration of two home brewers, Mikkel Borg Bjergso and Kristian Klarup Keller. Since Mikkeller Brewing started, they have brewed a line of single hopped IPA’s focusing each of it’s unique flavors.
This Saturday March 27th, Brick Store Pub hosts Mikkeller Single Hop Mayhem! All 10 single hopped beers will be featured on draft starting at 11 am until they float. All hops contain alpha acids. Alpha Acids are the bittering compound that come out of hops when they are boiled. The higher the alpha acid (AAU) the more bitterness is detected in taste. Alpha acids carry a measurement in percentages, based on total dried weight. Below the hops are broken down by each offering, hop info, and AAU percentage
Amarillo, 6.9% ABV. Developed by Virgil Gamache Farms, AAU 5-11%. Considered a medium bodied hop.
Cascade, 6.9% ABV. Developed by Oregon State University in 1956. Breed from Fuggle & Serebrianker. Cascade is a very successful hop, big on grapefruit/citrus flavor.
Centennial, 7% ABV. Release to public in 1990. First bred, 1974. Lot of common with Chinook & Cascade. 9-12% AAU
Chinook, 6% ABV. Bred in the Washington State. USDA bred variant of Petham Golding bitterring hop. Very aromatic. Lots of citrus flavor. Earthy. Great for dry hopping or used late in boil. 12-14% AAU
Warrior, 6.9% ABV. Bred at Yakima Chief Ranches. High bittering hop. With AAU 15-17% Citrusy, earthy.
Nugget, 6.9% ABV. Bittering hop. Floral aroma. Some nugget IPA described with a resin like flavor. High AAU 12-14%
Simcoe, 6.9% ABV. Very popular hop. Hit the scene in 2000. Lots of pine, bitter. Resembles Cascade.
Tomahawk, 6.9% ABV. AKA Columbus. Very well rounded hop. Obvious bittering hop, with a flavor profile to boot. Spicy, citrusy, light hints of fruit. Earthy, low pine.
East Kent, 6.9% ABV. Named for villages of East Kent in England. Hop first grown in 1790. Sweet flavor. Lower bitterness. 7% AAU
Nelson Sauvin, 6.9% ABV. Bred in New Zealand, released in 2000. It has a wine like fruitiness, like Sauvignon Blanc. Fairly rare in the US. 12-13% AAU.
Food pairings as well. Well, there’s your hop info. It all starts at 11 am this Saturday. Flights of 5 beers each will be available too. Food pairings as well
Brickstore Pub
125 East Court Square
Decatur, GA
CASK ALERT! Terrapin SP#10 Release Party Tonight!
UPDATE! DATE CHANGE!! Just as soon as I post and in depth look at this coming release, I have official word of the release party for Capt’n Krunkles! On Thursday March 11th, be at Brickstore Pub for a special cask of the Capt’n to celebrate its release! This cask is aged in oak. Tapping will be at 5pm sharp!
It’s March, and its almost time to see Terrapin Brewing’s newest Side Project beer — Capt’n Krunkles. The best description of Krunkles would be calling it a “black IPA,” an unofficial beer style that is rapidly becoming popular.
Capt’n Krunkles is in the tanks at the brewery, almost ready for bottling. This black IPA is brewed just like a regular lPA, but with a small difference — dark malts. Black IPA’s pour black as if to give the impression of a porter or stout, but taste as hoppy as any IPA you may have tried. The Capt’n is full of dark malts, and has over 2 lbs. of hops per barrel. Here is a closer look at the ingredients in Krunkles —
Hops — Warrior, Columbus, Nugget, Centennial, Simcoe. Dry Hopped w/ Ahtanum.
Malts — 2 Row Pale, Dark Munich, Crystal 24, DH Carafa III
ABV — 7.5%
From the bottle —
Legend has it Capt’n Krunkles is the most feared pirate on the high seas. No one who has seen him, his ship, or his band of pirates drinks has ever lived to tell able it. Made with a bombardment of hops to defeat your taste buds in the battle and all the black malt you can stand before walking the plank, this Black I.P.A. will make it worth going down with the ship. Capt’n Krunkles… Where is he? I don’t know… I don’t know!
Availability — Limited one time release, in 22 oz bottles, 1/6 barrels, ½ barrels.
Release — March, in the next few weeks. Updates to follow. CASK 3/11 @ Brickstore Pub
