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Lost Abbey’s Track #10: Meatloaf, Ships

The Lost Abbey’s Track #10, the highest rated offering from from the brewery’s Ultimate Box Set, has shipped again. The set was a series of one-off releases, featuring special blends and treatments from Lost Abbey’s lineup. This isn’t the Continue Reading →

Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout, Early Spring

Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout takes aim at spring. (Early spring.) The blend of whiskey and coffee should be enough to get you through to pollen season. Finishing at a strong 11.8% ABV.

Release details from the brewery are forthcoming.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee. Barrel Aged. Continue Reading →

Posted in Modern Times Beer, New Releases

Bourbon Barrel Coffee Beans in Modern Times City of the Dead

Modern Times City of the Dead has just been bottled by the California brewery.

Modern Times City of the Dead is a coffee stout, that uses house-roasted coffee beans, aged in bourbon barrels. How do you bourbon barrel age coffee beans? Take the green beans that haven’t been roasted yet. At this point they are ver susceptible to new flavors. Fill a bourbon barrel full of beans and wait for the magic to happen. Finally, carefully roast the beans so as not to cover up the barrel aged notes.

Rich, full-bodied, & bursting with barrel-aged coffee aroma & flavor, this coffee stout is truly a unique & delicious animal. We were the first brewery to ever make beer with barrel-aged coffee, and now we’re the first to do a large-scale bottle release. And, of course, we roasted it all ourselves. Cool stuff!

Modern Times City of the Dead is available in 22oz bottles, starting January 27th.

Style: Stout (w/ Bourbon Barrel Aged Coffee)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft
Release: 1/27/15

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Duclaw Brewing, New Beers, New Releases

DuClaw X9 865cc Coffee Stout

DuClaw X9 865cc Coffee Stout

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Lost Abbey

Lost Abbey’s Track #10: Meatloaf, Ships

The Lost Abbey’s Track #10, the highest rated offering from from the brewery’s Ultimate Box Set, has shipped again. The set was a series of one-off releases, featuring special blends and treatments from Lost Abbey’s lineup. This isn’t the first beer from the series that saw a wider release, as last year Track #8 showed up on shelves.

The original details about this release below…

The Lost Abbey released Track #10 on October 20, 2012. This edition is fresh Serpent’s Stout aged in bourbon barrels.  Right before packaging, the brewery added 17 lbs of Ryan Brothers coffee and 4 lbs of TCHO cacao nibs. Each of the Ultimate Box Set beers echoes a hard rock track. For #10, it’s Meatloaf’s Bat Out Of Hell.

Late in November of 2011, Mike Rodriguez our head brewer asked about creating a Coffee and Cacoa Nib version of Serpent’s Stout for the San Diego Strong Ale Festival. The beer was a hit with our fans. When we wrote up the syllabus for the Ultimate Box Set, we knew a version of this beer would be included.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee, Cacao Nibs, Barrel Aged)
Availability:  12.7 oz bottles. Limited
First Release: 10/20/12
Release #2: January, 2015.
Distribution: Entire Lost Abbey Network

13.5% ABV

Image via Lost Abbey. Read more: Lost Abbey Ultimate Box Set Lost Abbey Track #10

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Ommegang

Ommegang Combines Coffee & Chocolate in “Jommegang”

Shortly after Ommegang launches their new Game of Thrones offering Three-Eyed Raven, Ommegang will release a new coffee offering, Joemmegang.

Ommegang Joemmegang blends flavors of coffee, chocolate and beer together in a bold new offering.

Cold-aged with a custom mixture of cocoa nibs, 1/3 espresso blend, 1/3 sumatra and 1/3 Papua New Guinea beans. Mahogany hue with red hightlights and creamy tan head. Aroma dominated by cold-brewed coffee, milk chocolate and caramel – rounded out with aromatic hints of fruit and figs. Taste is of sweet malts and smooth, rich coffee and chocolate. Pleasantly fruity notes from both the yeast and coffee beans.

Ommegang Joemmegang is on the brewery’s release calendar for May, 2015. To be available in 750ml bottles.

Style: American Strong Ale (w/ Coffee, Cocoa Nibs)
Availability: 750ml bottles, Corked & Caged
Release: May, 2015 (Estimated)

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Abita Brewing, Don't Miss This, New Releases

Abita Macchiato Espresso Milk Stout Hits Shelves

Abita Brewing’s newest big bottle format offering is Macchiato Espresso Milk Stout. The beer unites two Louisiana brands as the year gets going.

The base beer is a 6% stout brewed with lactose (milk sugar) making the finish smooth and creamy. Abita partnered with PJ’s Coffee to add espresso flavor to Macchiato Espresso Milk Stout.

The Abita Macchiato gained its inspiration from the Macchiato coffee drink, capturing the perfect balance between sweetness and bitterness. The Abita Macchiato is made with pale, caramel, chocolate and roasted malts. Oats and lactose are added to give the beer a more robust and sweeter taste. The sweetness of the lactose helps balance the bitterness of the brew. The roasted malts give the beer its dark color as well as its intense flavor and aroma. Willamette hops are added to balance out the sweetness of the malts. Finally, PJ’s espresso dolce beans are added to the aging tank. This gives the beer a strong coffee flavor and aroma that compliments the existing flavors of the malt.

Abita Macchiato Espresso Stout is available nationwide in 22oz bombers and draft for a limited time. Macchiato follows recent bourbon barreled offering, Bourbon Street Imperial Stout.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Coffee)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Limited Release
Distribution: National

Release: Late December, Early January, 2015

6% ABV

PJ's Coffee

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Blue Pants Brewery, Coming Soon

Blue Pants Double Stuff Pinstripe Stout Releases Soon

Blue Pants Brewery (Madison, AL) will soon release Double Stuff Pinstripe, a variant of their cold weather seasonal.

While Pinstripe is a coffee stout with hints of chocolate, Double Stuff Pinstripe features extra cocoa nibs to bump up the chocolate, and vanilla and lactose to boost the dessert-like flavor.

Take Pinstripe, our rich, chocolatey export stout and add cocoa nibs to bump up the chocolate to a whole new level. Then, add lactose and vanilla to provide a frosting like middle and you have Double Stuff Pinstripe. Are most decadent, popular variant from Pinstripe Fest 2014.

Blue Pants Double Stuff Pinstripe Stout will be available in 22oz bottles.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee, Cocoa Nibs, Lactose, Vanilla Beans)
Availability: 22oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Weyerbacher

Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout, Early Spring

Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout takes aim at spring. (Early spring.) The blend of whiskey and coffee should be enough to get you through to pollen season. Finishing at a strong 11.8% ABV.

Release details from the brewery are forthcoming.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee. Barrel Aged. Whiskey.)
Release: Early spring, 2015

11.8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay