Cherries

Goose Island Clybourn’s Bitter Love [Video]

Amara Amo (Bitter Love) is a newbie from Goose Island’s Clybourn location in Chicago, Illinois. “Chef Collaboration Series” is created with Amanda Rockman of Balena Restaurant. The Belgian style dubbel takes inspiration from bitters. Brewed with burnt orange, honey, and brandied Continue Reading →

Stone Puts Chocolate Cherry In Rye Whiskey

Jason Fields and Kevin Sheppard’s previous homebrew contest winning Cherry Chocolate Stout will find it’s way into rye whiskey barrels soon. The beer was brewed last year as a three-way collaboration between the home brews, Stone Brewing Co, and Continue Reading →

Posted in Goose Island Brewing, Videos

Goose Island Clybourn’s Bitter Love [Video]

Amara Amo (Bitter Love) is a newbie from Goose Island’s Clybourn location in Chicago, Illinois. “Chef Collaboration Series” is created with Amanda Rockman of Balena Restaurant. The Belgian style dubbel takes inspiration from bitters. Brewed with burnt orange, honey, and brandied cherries.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, NoDa Brewing, Videos

NoDa Releases “Get The Party Tarted” Today

This week’s NoDable release is a  “Sour NorthCarolinerWeisse” dubbed Get The Party Tarted. Brewed with infused bing cherries and raspberries. 4.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Stone Brewing Co., Troegs Brewing

Stone Puts Chocolate Cherry In Rye Whiskey

Jason Fields and Kevin Sheppard’s previous homebrew contest winning Cherry Chocolate Stout will find it’s way into rye whiskey barrels soon. The beer was brewed last year as a three-way collaboration between the home brews, Stone Brewing Co, and Troegs Brewing.   Cherry Chocolate Stout is brewed with 250 lbs of cocoa, vanilla beans, and sour cherries.

This was a ton of fun to brew  So far, the most memorable part about it was sampling the first wort which had been mashed with lots of specialty grains and about 250 lbs of pure cocoa.  It was amazingly smooth, velvety sweet, and rich with chocolate.  I felt like I was tasting the luscious sweetness of a chocolate river. It was a natural match to age this brew in rye whiskey barrels.  – Mitch Steele (Head Brewer, Stone Brewing Co.)

While the bottles don’t have the Quingenti Millilitre series explicitly on the label anymore, this edition joins a series of very small batch, barrel aged brews.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Vanilla Beans, Chocolate, Cherries, Barrel Aged)
Availability: 5oo ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

11.6% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Dogfish Head, Founders Brewing, Seasonal Return

Dogfish Head Festina Peche & Founder’s Cerise Return

Two fruity offerings have returned.  Dogfish Head Festina Peche, and Founder’s Cerise. 

Festine Peche is berliner weisse, brewed with peaches.  4.5% ABV

Festina Peche, since the natural peach sugars are eaten by the yeast, the fruit complexity is woven into both the aroma and the taste of the beer so there is no need to doctor it with woodruff or raspberry syrup. Just open and enjoy!

Founder’s Cerise fruit/vegetable beer chock full of cherries.  53 lbs in fact.  Harvested from Benton Harbor, Coloma, Grand Rapids and Traverse City.  The cherries are added at 5 different stages of fermentation in order to achieve a perfect balance of sour cherry and malt palette.  Cerise has a big malt bill to compliment the cherries, caramel being notable.  Cerise has a sweet, crisp mouthfeel. 6.5% ABV

Both are available in 12oz bottles, and draft.  Early summer seasonals… 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Lost Abbey, New Releases

Lost Abbey’s Rocks Mötley Crüe In Track #5

Lost Abbey (San Marcos, CA) is releasing a series of musically-themed beers this year.  Once a month, the beer wizards at Lost Abbey a new rock-related concoction never seen before.  Track #5 “Shout At The Devil.” Don’t go looking for this in stores, you can only buy this at the brewery. (And can only drink it there too.)  #5 is a blend of Red Poppy & Framboise de Amorosa. Shout At The Devil is Mötley Crüe’s second album.

Track 5 is a blend of two of our best fruited sour beers. An equal blend of Red Poppy and Framboise de Amorosa. Once the beers were blended we added additional fruit and let them rest in another set of French Oak barrels. The aroma is an explosion of red wine and oak notes. A jammy fruit presence dominates the mid-palate of the beer before a bracing tannin-laced dryness pervades the finish.

All told an exceptionally complex marriage between fruit, oak, and red wine expressions.

Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged, w/ raspberries & cherries)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles. Brewery release only.
Arrival: 5/19/12

7.7% ABV

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Lost Abbey

Lost Abbey’s “Track #4” Releases Saturday

The Lost Abbey will release Track #4 “Sympathy For The Devil,” the most recent release in series of musical releases this year.  (Click here for the Track List thus far.)

What is Track #4? 

Each of the the three predecessors have been various blends of barrels, and Lost Abbey beers, culminating a beer meets rock symphony that melts your face off. (Too much?) The blend for Track #4 starts with two barrels from one of the base components of 2011’s Veritas 009 (Sour Ale), and two barrels of Port Hot Rocks (Aged in red wine w/ brett).  Blend it all together and you have Track #4.  The art pays homage to The Rolling Stone’s Sympathy For The Devil, released in 1968.  Musical refresher course in the video below…

Liner Notes:

Another epic blend of beers not widely seen out side our tasting bar. The base for Track #4 starts off as two freshly emptied barrels which were to be part of our Veritas 009 blend. To these barrels we have married two French Oak red wine barrels that have been harboring Hot Rocks Lager for nearly two years. The base beer sports a deep black color with crimson highlights. Flavors of leather, tobacco and a wine like jammy quality were developed as the base beer.

The addition of Hot Rocks Lager aged in Wine barrels brings a strain of Brettanomyces not normally found in our beers (wine strain we found in the barrels as we did not inoculate them here at the brewery). As is our hope for all these blends, the sum of all the parts has yielded great results. Perhaps one of the more subtle yet harmonious blends to date for our brewers, this one promises to deliver another great Lost Abbey experience.

Style: American Wild Ale (Wine Barrel Aged, w/ Cherries)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles. (Consumed on site only) $15/bottle.

11.33% ABV 

Note: Framboise de Amorosa releases the same day.  Check out Lost Abbey’s notes on the release if you’re going.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Rivertown Brewing Company, New Beers

Rivertown Brewing Old Sour Cherry Porter

Rivertown Brewing Old Sour Cherry Porter

by Reid Ramsay