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SweetWater Festive 2012 Arrives Mid October

SweetWater Festive 2012, the brewery’s winter warmer, is just weeks away. The beer will arrive shortly after Danktoberfest (hitting shelves now). Festive Ale is brewed with lots of dark malt, plus a bit of cinnamon and mace.

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NoDa NoDable Release: Dark-O’-Lantern

Today’s NoDable Release features Dark-o’-Lantern, a Pumpkin Spice Porter. Made with chocolate and pumpkin spices. Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Allspice, & Clove. On tap at the brewery today. 6% ABV. Read more: Noda (Charlotte, NC)

Cigar City Announces 4th Hunaphu’s Day: March 9th, 2013

Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) has announced the next Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout release will be March 9, 2013. The brewery is currently brewing sought after imperial stout, brewed with chilies, vanilla beans, cinnamon and cocoa nibs.  Release details and bottle limits will announced closer to the Continue Reading →

New Release: Samuel Adams Fat Jack

 Samuel Adams Fat Jack has hit shelves. A new pumpkin offering by the Boston brewery.

This rich and luscious brew indulges in flavor with over 28Ibs of pumpkin per barrel, for a full bodied sweetness and deep russet color. Classic pumpkin pie Continue Reading →

Posted in Coming Soon, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Wraps Up The “Epic” Series with 12.12.12

Stone Brewing Co. (Escondido, CA) will officially wrap up the Vertical Epic Series this year with the release of 12.12.12. The series spanned 12 years, and various styles meant to be cellared until this year. The last release is a Belgian dark ale with an array of spices.

epic (ep’Tk) adj. (1) Heroic and impressive In quality. (2) Surpassing the usual or ordinary, particularly in scope or size. (3) Of, constituting, having to do with, or suggestive of a literary epic.

The final chapter in an “epic” series.

As with any good epic, herein hen the promise of larger-than-life experiences, heroics, and twists & turns as the adventure unfolds. This bottle-conditioned’ ale is chapter eleven. Now is the time to enjoy it in a “vertical” tasting side by side with its ten Stone Vertical Epic Ale brethren! Each one unique to its year of release. Each with its own “twist & turn” in the plot line. Each one released one year, one month and one day from the previous year’s edition. To remind you, the release dates were:

02.02.02 03.03.03 04.04.04 05.05.05 06.06.06 07.07,07 08.08.08 09.09.09 10.10.10 11.11 .11 12.12.12

This year’s Stone Vertical Epic Ale is the very last one. Yep, this is it, The final chapter. Or as they say on the last slide in some old films: “Fin.” No worries though; this edition is particularly well suited for prolonging the experience, as it as Cellarable as any in the sexes, or more. In this, the final edition, you can expect a perfectly balanced *womp* of spices: cinnamon, ginger, allspice, sweet orange peel, clove (only a little!) and rosehips, all in the context of a dark Belgian style abbey-ish beer…but not as sweet. Dry even. Stone style. Thanks for coming on this Epic Stone-style journey with us! You can rest assured there will be new adventures to come…

Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale (w/ Ginger, Cloves, Allspice, Candied Orange Peel, Cinnamon, Rose Hips)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: Early December, 2012

9.4% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, SweetWater Brewing

SweetWater Festive 2012 Arrives Mid October

SweetWater Festive 2012, the brewery’s winter warmer, is just weeks away. The beer will arrive shortly after Danktoberfest (hitting shelves now). Festive Ale is brewed with lots of dark malt, plus a bit of cinnamon and mace.

Availabilty: Draft, 12oz bottles, Liter Bottles

8.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, NoDa Brewing, Videos
Posted in Beer News, Cigar City Brewing

Cigar City Announces 4th Hunaphu’s Day: March 9th, 2013

Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) has announced the next Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout release will be March 9, 2013. The brewery is currently brewing sought after imperial stout, brewed with chilies, vanilla beans, cinnamon and cocoa nibs.  Release details and bottle limits will announced closer to the release date — pending total yield. In 2012, each customer was limited to 2 bottles, the day of.

Style: Imperial Stout
Availability: 750ml bottles, Draft

11% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Heavy Seas, Seasonal Return

Start Looking for Heavy Seas Pumpkin Offerings

Heavy Seas Brewing (Baltimore, MD) is ready to ship (or already shipping) The Great Pumpkin & Great’ER Pumpkin. The difference? Great’ER spends time in bourbon.

The Great Pumpkin – 8.5%
Our fall seasonal, The Great Pumpkin is the pumpkin beer you spend the summer looking forward to: a robust amber ale to which we add a blend of pumpkin spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, and allspice) while it’s in the kettle. Dark brown sugar adds color and a little bit of dryness to the spicy ale. Look for it in bottles and on draft.

The Great’ER Pumpkin, the bourbon barrel-aged version of The Great Pumpkin. Our brewers wrangled fresh, just-emptied bourbon barrels from A. Smith Bowman Distillery in Virginia, then fill them with The Great Pumpkin, and let the beer age inside the barrel for three weeks–bringing out vanilla and oak notes. The Great’ER Pumpkin will come out in very limited supply, in bottles and on draft.  

Style: Pumpkin Ale (w/ Cinnamon, Clove, Allspice, Nutmeg)  Some, Barrel Aged
Availability: 22 oz bombers, Draft

8.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Sam Adams

Drink Like Bing Crosby. Samuel Adams White Christmas debuts this winter

Maybe you won’t have a white Christmas. Starting this year, you can drink like you’ll have one.  Sam Adams White Christmas debuts this winter.

As crisp as the first snowfall of the year, this unfiltered white ale is blended with holiday spices including cinnamon, nutmeg, & orange peel. The familiar citrus and wheat characters of the ale are complemented by the warmth  of the spices for a festive brew that’s perfect for the season. 

Sam Adams White Christmas is available in 12-ounce bottles, and draft seasonally.

Style: Witbier (w/ Cinnamon. Nutmeg. Orange Peel.) 
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft.
Arrival: Winter 2012

5.8% ABV

PIC: Beer Street Journal

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Sam Adams

New Release: Samuel Adams Fat Jack

 Samuel Adams Fat Jack has hit shelves. A new pumpkin offering by the Boston brewery.

This rich and luscious brew indulges in flavor with over 28Ibs of pumpkin per barrel, for a full bodied sweetness and deep russet color. Classic pumpkin pie spices of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice ignite a warmth and spark that’s deepened by an undercurrent of roasty smoked malts. The result is a delectable brew full of enveloping layers of flavor and spice.

At Samuel Adams we love experimenting. This series of limited edition brews represents some of our favorite small batch creations.

Style: Pumpkin Beer
Hops: East Kent Goldings, Fuggle
Malts: Samuel Adams Two-Row Pale Malt Blend, Caramel 60, Special B, Smoked Malt
Extras: Real Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, Allspice

Availability: 22oz bottles

8.5% ABV

READ MORE: Small Batch Series

by Reid Ramsay