Topic Archives: Cedar Aged
Green Flash Hop Odyssey Cedar Plank Up Next
Green Flash Brewing’s next offering in their Hop Odyssey Series is Cedar Plank. For this release, the brewery to 30th Street Pale Ale and aged it on cedar planks.
This limited edition beer features an incense cedar aroma and flavorful notes of Szechwan peppercorn with tannic hints of white grape.
Green Flash Cedar Plank hits the tap room September 30th, with 22oz bottles launching nationwide throughout October.
Style: Pale Ale (Cedar Aged)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. October release
A Smoked Imperial Stout Coming to Cigar City
Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) is expanding their Humidor Series with a smokey offering. English-Style Smoked Imperial Stout is brewed with three different smoked malts and aged on Spanish cedar.
Each beer in the Humidor Series is aged on Spanish cedar, the same wood found in cigar boxes. Get the connection?
Style: Smoke Beer (Imperial Stout. Oak Aged. Spanish Cedar)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: TBA
11% ABV
Read more: Humidor Series
New Belgium & Cigar City Team Up In New Lips of Faith
New Belgium Brewing’s highly creative Lips of Faith Series will soon feature the likes of Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL). Both breweries combine elements of their brewing styles, from Belgian ale yeast (NB) to Spanish cedar (CC). This chili in this beer? Well that could go either way. New Belgium just started distributing to Florida in July.
We’re about to light up Florida with this Cigar City Collaborative brew. Our Belgian yeast strain tangos with Anaheim and Marash peppers along with loads of citrusy hops to create an ale full of spices. Aged on Spanish cedar to salute the mutual love of wood.
Style: Chili Beer (w/ Anaheim & Marash Chili. Spanish Cedar Aged)
Availability:
Arrival: TBA
8.5% ABV
Jester King Debuts “El Cedro”
On December 20th Jester King will debut its latest creation, El Cedro, at during the Austin Beer Guide Winter Release party. At 8.0% ABV this farmhouse ale is dry-hopped with Citra hops, aged with Spanish Cedar spirals and bottle conditioned with Brettanomyces yeast.
“It combines tropical, fruity hop flavor and aroma with funky, barnyard yeast character and the unique flavor and aromatics of Spanish Cedar. El Cedro is brewed with Texas Hill Country well water, 100% organic malt (Two Row, Carapils and Wheat), Millenium, Cascade, Columbus and Citra hops, farmhouse and Brettanomyces yeasts, and Spanish Cedar spirals. After primary fermentation with farmhouse yeast, El Cedro is dry hopped with Citra hops and aged for weeks with Spanish Cedar spirals. It is unfiltered, unpasteurized and naturally carbonated through re-fermentation with Brettanomyces yeast.”
Following the release party, a small number of kegs will be released to the Texas area followed by bottles in 2013.
Styles: Farmhouse Ale (Cedar Aged)
Availability: 750ml bottles, Draft
Arrival: December 20, 2012
8% ABV
