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Flying Dog Chipotle Dark Ale Coming To Rarities Series

Flying Dog is releasing “Brewhouse Rarities” each month in 2012.  The beers are draft only, and limited to the Mid-Atlantic region. The first release was Imperial Hefeweizen.  Other releases include Black Lager, and Disobedience Dubbel (to also see bottles) and Berliner Weisse. Coming soon-  Chipotle Dark Ale to Continue Reading →

It’s Hunahpu Brew Day!

Drool a little bit stout lovers. Cigar City Brewing is busy in Tampa, Florida brewing one of the America’s top rated imperial stouts – Hunaphu’s Imperial Stout. This, the  regular edition of Hunahpu is brewed with Peruvian cacao nibs, ancho Continue Reading →

Posted in Great Divide

Rare Offering: Great Divide Barrel Ages Choco Yeti

A rare sighting coming to a select few this Valentine’s Day. Great Divide will tap a bourbon barrel aged edition of Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti.  This particular Yeti is an imperial stout with cocoa nibs, a dash of cayenne and aged in oak. Throw it in a Jim Beam barrel and you have a rare treat even a jilted lover on greeting card day could fall in love with.

Find this creature at the brewery’s tap room in Denver, Colorado on V-Day, 2013.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cacao Nibs, Cayenne, Oak Aged, Barrel Aged)
Availability: Draft only

9.5% ABV (+)

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

Hardywood Tests Your Palate with Chocolate Heat

In less than a week, Hardywood (Richmond, VA) will give your sweet and and heat tooth (WTF) a challenge with Chocolate Heat. Does a double chocolate milk stout with chile peppers sound like it could suck? Didn’t think so.

Luscious yet piquant, sultry yet fiery, Hardywood Chocolate Heat melds the dichotomy of semi-sweet chocolate and hot chile peppers into one insatiably seductive libation. Brewed with heaps of cacao nibs, some milk sugar and chocolate malts for a touch of chocolatey sweetness, and just the right amount of locally grown scotch bonnet and habanero peppersChocolate Heat will arouse your senses and tantalize your palate.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Chili Peppers, Lactose)
Availability: 750ml bottles, Draft
Arrival:2/9/13

9% ABV, 50 IBUs
by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Maui Brewing Company

Maui Brewing Intros Aloha B’ak’tun To Finish Off 2012

Maui Brewing Co. introduces that last canned seasonal of 2012 – Aloha B’ak’tun.  B’ak’tun refers to the end of the 3000 year Mayan Calendar.  The beer? A Belgian style stout with chocolate, chipotle chilies, and cinnamon.

Sure.. the scientists have published essays, the philosophers poems, the naysayers flyers.. but here at the center of the Maui Brewing micro-verse, we are publishing the ultimate in doomsday aloha – this year’s last canned seasonal, Aloha B’ak’tun! The word aloha conveys both greeting and goodbye in the Hawaiian language and B’ak’tun refers to the 3000+year cycle of the Mayan Calendar which is ending. This apocalyptic Belgian-style stout is brewed with Hawaiian chocolate, locally-grown chipotle chilies and cinnamon spice. Easy-drinking and full of flavor, this beer will help you feel the aloha as you say aloha to old and aloha to new! 

Style: Stout (w/ Chocolate, Chilies, Cinnamon)
Availability: 12 oz cans
Arrival: End of 2012

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Lost Abbey

Lost Abbey Launches Mayan Themed Judgement Day

As the world spirals towards its last days, it’s a perfect time for The Lost Abbey to tweak their Judgement Day recipe. The original recipe is a quadrupel brewed with raisins. The label features the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This edition features the Mayans. Dried chiles, cinnamon, and tamarind join raisins for this, the end of days.

Five thousand years ago the Mayan Calendar last turned over. Since then, Nostradamus. The Book of Revelations and random Shaman have all prognosticated that mankind would meet a fateful end. Currently, our demise is is scheduled  for December 21,  2012for it has been so decreed our world is about end not in a Christian Judgement Day but rather a Mayan Apocalypse.

Funny thing is. The Mayan’s don’t actually believe in the concept of an Apocalypse. We at The Lost Abbey didn’t want to miss an opportunity  to update our original judgment Day recipe to accompany us as we collide towards this impending Rapture. Like us, we’re pretty sure you can believe in dried chiles. Cinnamon and Tamarind working well together in this beer. This means, you can count on this little bottle of beer to help you survive this cultural Armageddon. Please pop  the cork and enjoy this version. We’ve got you covered. See you on December 22nd wherever life may take us.

Style: Quadrupel (w/ Raisins, Chilies, Cinnamon, Tamarind)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles, Corked & Caged
Arrival: 12/21/12

10.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Flying Dog Brewing

Flying Dog Chipotle Dark Ale Coming To Rarities Series

Flying Dog Chipotle Dark Ale

Flying Dog is releasing “Brewhouse Rarities” each month in 2012.  The beers are draft only, and limited to the Mid-Atlantic region. The first release was Imperial Hefeweizen.  Other releases include Black Lager, and Disobedience Dubbel (to also see bottles) and Berliner Weisse. Coming soon-  Chipotle Dark Ale to that lineup.

Style: ??? Ale (w/ Chipotle Peppers)
Availability: Draft only. Mid-Atlantic Region
Arrival: TBA

8.0%  ABV 

note: The above is tentative.  Subject to change at whim of the brewer, the beer, or the barrel.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

It’s Hunahpu Brew Day!

Drool a little bit stout lovers. Cigar City Brewing is busy in Tampa, Florida brewing one of the America’s top rated imperial stouts – Hunaphu’s Imperial Stout. This, the  regular edition of Hunahpu is brewed with Peruvian cacao nibs, ancho & pasilla chiles, Madagascar vanilla beans, and cinnamon.

The 4th annual Hunahpu release day is March 9, 2013 at the brewery. Last year Cigar City also hosted a Barrel Aged Hunahpu Day, aka clusterfest, 2011. (Click for pics). A new barrel aged edition of Hunahpu is in the works – Brandy Barrel Aged Hunaphu. No ETA on that release.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cinnamon, Vanilla beans, Chili Peppers, Cacao Nibs)

Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: 3/9/13

11% ABV 

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Clown Shoes Brewing, Coming Soon

Clown Shoes Celebrates 3 Years with Luchador El Fuego

Clown Shoes Luchador El Fuego

Clown Shoes (Ipswich, MA) celebrates 3 years with Luchador El Fuego. The beer is a 100% barrel aged edition of they brewery’s Chocolate Sombrero with a couple of extra editions. Wrestle with this: the beer is chocolate imperial stout, brewed with Ancho chili powder, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. For this edition, they added extra ancho chilies and chipotle peppers. Then aged it Wild Turkey and Heaven Hill barrels.

Our third anniversary beer up sizes Chocolate Sombrero, using extra ancho chili and adding chipotle peppers. We aged the brew 100% in Wild Turkey and Heaven Hill barrels. May it leap onto your palate majestically, like a luchador who flies into the ring from atop the highest rope.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Vanilla, Chipotle & Ancho Chilis, Cocoa, Barrel Aged)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: Mid-Late December, 2012

11% ABV

by Reid Ramsay