Chocolate

Odell Adding Nitro Version of Lugene

Odell Brewing Company has just shipped their Milk Chocolate Stout, Lugene.

By the looks of it, the brewery is adding a nitro version of this popular, chocolately, milk offering. As if chocolate milk stouts are creamy enough.

Style: Imperial Milk Stout (w/ Continue Reading →

Stoudt’s Brews a Chocolate Cherry

Chocolate cherry stouts are all the rage. Not convinced? Click the cherries link below. You’ll find a few.

Stoudt’s Brewing (Adamstown, PA) is adding Chocolate Cherry Stout to their small batch, Brewer’s Reserve Series. This offering is reminiscent of a special Continue Reading →

Terrapin Side Project #22: MoonRay

Terrapin Beer Co’s (Athens, GA) Side Project #21 Pineapple Express launches this month. That beer is the winner of the employee home-brew competition.

Side Project #22 “MoonRay” is already in planning, with the test recipe being tweaked as you read this.  Per Continue Reading →

Posted in New Beers, Port Brewing Company

Port Brewing Board Meeting on Wood

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, Midnight Sun Brewing

Chocolate & Chilies: Midnight Sun Modern Romance

Midnight Sun Brewing is celebrating chocolate as much as equality in Modern Romance.

The beer first and foremost is a chocolate ale, brewed with cocoa nibs and a series of spices, including cinnamon, maca. Heat is provided by the addition of chilies. A collaboration with Anchorage, Alaska’s Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge.

…In an exciting collaboration. Midnight Sun and Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge —a local artisan chocolatier— designed and brewed a very special dark ale that celebrates our strengths — and weaknesses sensuous chocolate, warm spice, fiery chili, provocative character and amorous mood…

Style: American Strong Ale  (w/ Chocolate, Maca, Cinnamon, Chilies)
Availability: 22oz Bombers
Arrival: TBA

9.3% ABV

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Beers, Widmer Brothers Brewing

Widmer Scared Half to Death

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Odell Brewing

Odell Adding Nitro Version of Lugene

Odell Brewing Company has just shipped their Milk Chocolate Stout, Lugene.

By the looks of it, the brewery is adding a nitro version of this popular, chocolately, milk offering. As if chocolate milk stouts are creamy enough.

Style: Imperial Milk Stout (w/ Chocolate)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Nitro. February – April.

8.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, The Bruery

The Bruery Couverteur Coming to Preservation Series [UPDATE]

The Bruery’s new concoction featuring cocoa nibs and vanilla beans- Couverteur. Part of the Preservation Series.

Couverteur is a Belgian-style Dubbel that has been fermented with cacao nibs and vanilla beans, adding a layer of chocolately complexity to the malt rich ale. Couverteur is best enjoyed fresh. 

The Bruery Converteur will be available in 750ml bottles.

Style: Dubbel (w/ Cocoa Nibs, Vanilla Beans)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: May, 2014

8% ABV

Update 6/25/14: The Bruery has issued a recall on Couverteur, after variations in pH indicating potential infection. 

“Your satisfaction with your membership in our Hoarders and Reserve Societies is one of our highest priorities. And we thank you for being part of our world. Believe us when we say that we hate it when our beers don’t turn out as we expected. The Bruery is a labor of love and it hurts us personally when we have to fall on our sword and admit to a fault in our beer, but we never want to release a beer that we don’t steadfastly believe in.

Just to note again, refunds for bottles and shipping fees will be automatically processed beginning next week. We will not be fulfilling any pending orders for Couverteur.”

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Stoudts Brewing

Stoudt’s Brews a Chocolate Cherry

Chocolate cherry stouts are all the rage. Not convinced? Click the cherries link below. You’ll find a few.

Stoudt’s Brewing (Adamstown, PA) is adding Chocolate Cherry Stout to their small batch, Brewer’s Reserve Series. This offering is reminiscent of a special release a few years ago when chocolate and cherries were added to Fat Dog Imperial Stout.

Stoudt’s Chocolate Cherry Stout will be packaged in 22oz bottles.

Style: Stout (w/ Chocolate, Cherries)
Availability: 22oz Bombers
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin Side Project #22: MoonRay

Terrapin Beer Co’s (Athens, GA) Side Project #21 Pineapple Express launches this month. That beer is the winner of the employee home-brew competition.

Side Project #22 “MoonRay” is already in planning, with the test recipe being tweaked as you read this.  Per brewery co-founder “Spike” Buchowski, he intends on making this beer a bit like the chocolate orange candy. (the chocolate that splits open like orange slices).

He hopes to the do this with the addition of orange peels, chocolate malt and cocoa nibs. The weizenbock yeast will give the beer a touch of banana flavor too.

Expect this offering by Summer, 2014

Style: Weizenbock (w/ Chocolate, Oranges)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

8.34% ABV

by Reid Ramsay