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Spotlight: Terrapin Pumpkinfest Cans

Terrapin Pumpkinfest will join the brewery’s can lineup later this year. The brewery is vastly expanding their can lineup to include a few year round offerings as well as seasonal.

Terrapin Pumpkinfest was first released as Side Project #8 in 2009. Continue Reading →

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Coming to Bottles

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Imperial Breakfast Stout is slated for bottles. The 2014 Great American Beer Festival bronze medal winner is aged for 4 weeks on coffee, raisins, ancho peppers, serano peppers, cumin, nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon. The final result is Continue Reading →

Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Terrapin Beer Company

Spotlight: Terrapin Pumpkinfest Cans

Terrapin Pumpkinfest will join the brewery’s can lineup later this year. The brewery is vastly expanding their can lineup to include a few year round offerings as well as seasonal.

Terrapin Pumpkinfest was first released as Side Project #8 in 2009. The pumpkin beer marries an oktoberfest style beer, with pumpkin spices.

Expect 12oz cans of Terrapin Pumpkinfest late-summer/fall, 2015.

Style: Pumpkin Beer
Hops: Vanguard, Hallertau Hershrucker
Malts: Munich, Vienna, Munich II, Catamunich II, Melanoiden
Spices: Cinnamon, Ginger, All Spice, Cloves PUMPKIN!

6.1% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Chai-Spiced Imperial Russian Stout, For Odd Years Release

Stone Chai-Spiced Imperial Russian Stout is the newest addition to the brewery’s Odd Beers for Odd Years offering, alongside Extra Hoppy Barleywine.

Past Odd Years offerings for Imperial Russian Stout have included Espresso Imperial Russian Stout, and Belgo Anise Imperial Russian Stout.

As you have probably deduced, this edition is inspired by chai tea. To achieve this nuance, Stone has added clove, ginger, black pepper, cardamom, black tea, and cinnamon to the bold imperial stout.

As it stands, the classic version of Stone Imperial Russian Stout is deep, dark, rich, roasty and perhaps even a bit sinful. The ‘Odd Beers for Odd Years’ part of the journey means the coming of each odd-numbered year provides the opportunity to take this traditional beer to new and mysterious places, embarking on an exploratory odyssey enabled by strikingly flavorful elements applied to a lovely onyx canvas. This beer, the latest ‘Odd’ transubstantiation, takes inspiration straight from the spice aisle, incorporating array of ingredients assembled to emulate the flavors of authentic chai tea. Cinnamon, cardamom, clove, ginger, a dash of black pepper and a dose of black tea combine with Stone Imperial Russian Stout’s incumbent flavors to take it deep into exotic, previously unfathomed tenitory. Expect a touch of earthiness in combination with a warm, tantalizing aridness. Asa one-time brew with enduring character, Stone CHAI-SPICED Imperial Russian Stout is crafted to be contemplated fresh or cellared under proper conditions for many years so that it may live on not only in one’s memory, but on his or her taste buds as well.

Stone Chai-Spiced Imperial Russian Stout is available in 22oz bottles, and draft. Typically arriving in March.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Clove, Ginger, Black Pepper, Cardamom, Black Tea, Cinnamon)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft
AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA and Puerto Rico
International Distribution: Australia; Alberta and British Columbia (“Odd” release only), Canada; Japan; Singapore; Sweden; and United Kingdom
Release: Late-March, 2015

11/% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coastal Empire Brewing Co, Coming Soon

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Coming to Bottles

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Imperial Breakfast Stout is slated for bottles. The 2014 Great American Beer Festival bronze medal winner is aged for 4 weeks on coffee, raisins, ancho peppers, serano peppers, cumin, nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon. The final result is a beer that resembles a Mexican mole sauce. In total, it takes the brewery more than two months to produce.

Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Imperial Breakfast Stout will be available in 22oz bottles. The brewery has not yet announced this bottle release.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cumin, Allspice, Cinnamon, Peppers, Coffee, Raisins)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Release: TBA

?? ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Red Brick Brewing

Red Brick Hibiscuwit Launches in Cans In March

Red Brick Hibiscuwit is coming to 12oz cans in mid-March. What was once a draft only offering last year is getting an upgrade to package.

The recipe is the brainchild of the brewery’s Tyler Cates. He entered Hibiscuwit into Red Brick’s quarterly Employee Brew-Off, and found his kegs were the first to go.

Red Brick Hibiscuwit is a Belgian-style wheat beer, brewed with organic hibiscus, sweet orange peel, and cinnamon. Hibiscuwit will be one of the first two core beers the brewery has released, after Laughing Skull launched last year.

Expect a Mid-March shelve date in Georgia, the brewery’s other states, by April, 2015.

Style: Witbier (w/ Hibiscus, Cinnamon, Orange Peel.)
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft.
Release: Mid-March, 2015

5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Don't Miss This, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin Cinnamon Roll’d Wake n Bake Returns This Year [VIDEO]

The second release in Terrapin’s Reserve Series – Cinnamon Roll’d Wake-n-Bake will make a return again in 2015. The base beer is the coffee oatmeal stout with a cinnamon-y twist. You get both in abundance.

The Beer Street Journal video above is was done at the time of the 2013 release with Dustin Watts, VP of Terrapin marketing. Before the Cinnamon Roll’d return, look for Maggie’s Blackberry Cobbler, and Tiramisu-Hoo to join the Reserve Series.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee, Cinnamon)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Waxed. Limited Draft.
Arrival: December, 2015

9.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, The Bruery

The Bruery OR XATA, a Horchata Inspired Seasonal

The Bruery (Placentia, CA) is just launched a new nationally distributed, seasonal release, OR XATA. The new offering is based on horchata, a Spanish/Latin American milky drink, made from crushed almonds or rice.

The Bruery OR XATA is a base blonde ale, brewed with rice, cinnamon, vanilla beans and lactose, to give the beer a creamy mouthfeel.

Horchata is a traditional, sweet, milky drink originating in Spain and Latin America that has become quite popular in Southern California, particularly with Mexican cuisine. Our take on the traditionally non-alcoholic drink is a blonde ale brewed with a heavy dosing of rice, cinnamon and fresh vanilla beans along with lactose for a litle extra creamy character. If you didn’t know better, you’d think it was carbonated horchata. The flavor is hard to describe, but for those who know it, you know you love it.

The Bruery OR XATA is available in 750ml bottles.

Style: Blonde Ale (w/ Cinnamon, Vanilla Beans, Lactose.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles.
Release: February, 2015

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Flying Dog Brewing, New Releases

Flying Dog Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout Hits Shelves

Flying Dog Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout is the first Brewhouse Rarities release of 2015. The beer is inspired by the spicy hot chocolate beverage.

The brewery created Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout with lactose, cinnamon, serano chiles and cocoa powder.

…a combination of sweet spice and roasted chocolate aromas are lollowed by flavors of dark chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon and a lingering chili finish.

Flying Dog Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout  has already hit the brewery’s tap room. 12oz bottles hit shelves in Flying Dog’s limited distribution territory as early as this week.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Lactose, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Chocolate, Chilies.)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Limited Release.
Distribution: Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City

5.7% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay