The recent collaboration between Allagash Brewing & New Belgium. The brewers took turns at each others breweries to come up with this off the wall recipe. This release was brewed on site at New Belgium in Ft Collins, Colorado. “Vreinden” Continue Reading →
Imperial IPA fans, this is a beer from you. “I Hardcore You” is a collaboration between Danish nomadic brewers Mikkeller, and Scottish inovative brewer – Brewdog from Glasgow, Scotland. Now I used the term collaboration, but it’s not a Continue Reading →
Sierra Nevada Brewing is in their 30th year of brewing. A huge milestone. After some personal reflection over the past 30, Sierra Nevada finds the need to explore. The Anniversary Ale has been retired, Fall Tumbler added to the fall lineup. Estate Ale is headed for the shelves soon, it’s completely organically grown on and around the brewery in Chico, CA. Their latest buzz is a collaboration with Trappist-Cistercian Abbey of New Clairvaux to create the only authentic Trappist-style Abbey ales in America. The artwork and release dates have now been set. Read on for the full press release.
Looks like Atlanta will be receiving a new collaboration brew. New Belgium Brewing and Allagash Brewing are teaming up together to make a very unique beer – “Vreinden”. The name Vreinden means “friends” in Flemish. That might indicate Continue Reading →
New from Dogfish Head (Milton, DE) is Miles Davis Bitches Brew. This beer is shipped and hitting Atlanta area stores gradually this week. From Dogfish’s website-
“In honor of the 40th anniversary of the original release of Bitches Brew, Miles Davis’ 1970 paradigm-shifting landmark fusion breakthrough, we’ve created our own Bitches Brew – a bold, dark beer that’s a fusion of three threads imperial stout and one thread honey beer with gesho root, a gustatory analog to Miles’ masterpiece.Featuring the album’s iconic artwork, created by the late Mati Klarwein, on its label, Dogfish Head’s Bitches Brew will be unveiled at SAVOR, An American Craft Beer & Food Experience, June 5, National Building Museum, Washington DC.”
Life and Limb has arrived in Atlanta. There is a lot to talk about with this particular beer. First, the basics. Life and limb is part of a 2 beer collaboration release between Sierra Nevada & Dogfish Head Breweries. The Continue Reading →
The recent collaboration between Allagash Brewing & New Belgium. The brewers took turns at each others breweries to come up with this off the wall recipe. This release was brewed on site at New Belgium in Ft Collins, Colorado. “Vreinden” means friends in Flemish, and joins the brewery’s Lips Of Faith series.
Commercial Description: Get a Belgian Brewmaster and a master of Belgian brewing together and theres sure to be spontaneous imagination that leads to micro-organisms mingling in fermentation. Allagash and New Belgium are pleased to offer you our collabeeration brewed with the slightly fruity hibiscus flower, the aromatic Brettanomyces, and the flavor-boosting Lactobacillus. We recommend pairing it with creamy, soft cheeses and charming Vrienden – thats friends in Flemish.
Style: American Wild Ale
Brewed with Hibiscus & Endive. Spontaneously fermented.
Imperial IPA fans, this is a beer from you. “I Hardcore You” is a collaboration between Danish nomadic brewers Mikkeller, and Scottish inovative brewer – Brewdog from Glasgow, Scotland. Now I used the term collaboration, but it’s not a collaboration beer in the traditional sense. It’s a new recipe for sure – but with a twist. It’s a blend of two beers already brewed by each of the brewers.
This beer is blend of Mikkeller’s “I Beat yoU” and Brewdog’s Hardcore IPA. Both were blended together (at Brewdog in Scotland) and then dry hopped twice post blend. Interestingly enough, it might be the first of it’s kind. It’s hard to find a beer that is an actually blend of beers from the respective brewers, not a collaboration producing something completely new.
Style: Imperial IPA
Taste Expectations: Aromas of pineapple & citrus. Flavor follows w/ a nice grapefruit flavor balanced by a nice caramel backbone.
Availability: 12 oz bottle. S0ld individually. Around $6 dollars. Rare draft.
9.5% ABV
Looking for it? Green’s on Ponce. Draft 10/23 at Brick Store Pub!
Sierra Nevada Brewing is in their 30th year of brewing. A huge milestone. After some personal reflection over the past 30, Sierra Nevada finds the need to explore. The Anniversary Ale has been retired, Fall Tumbler added to the fall lineup. Estate Ale is headed for the shelves soon, it’s completely organically grown on and around the brewery in Chico, CA. Their latest buzz is a collaboration with Trappist-Cistercian Abbey of New Clairvaux to create the only authentic Trappist-style Abbey ales in America. The artwork and release dates have now been set.
Chico, CA (09/28/2010)-Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. presents some new and exciting updates on its forthcoming Ovila Abbey Ale series due out in 2011. The label art is now complete and official release dates have been set. The news of this upcoming release has created much excitement and anticipation in the beer community.
Ovila Abbey Ales will closely follow the traditions established by centuries of monastic brewing. “Thirty years ago, I never thought we would be working with a monastery,” says Ken Grossman, founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. “I first toured some of the Belgian abbey breweries in the 1980’s, and I’ve been fascinated with the beers ever since. It’s exciting for us to work on this project, and to experiment with these unique Belgian-inspired styles. The response so far has been great, and I can’t wait for the first release.”
The first beer in the Ovila series-a Belgian-style Abbey Dubbel-will be released from the brewery on March 1, 2011. The following beers in the series-a Saison farmhouse-style ale and an Abbey Quadrupel-will be released on July 1st and November 1st, respectively. These remarkable ales will be packaged in 750mL cage-and-cork bottles featuring artwork inspired by the historic Santa Maria de Ovila monastery.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these beers will go toward the restoration of the historic Ovila chapter house building on the grounds of the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, California, just a few miles north of Sierra Nevada’s home in Chico. This medieval chapter house was begun in 1190 near the village of Trillo, Spain. Monks lived, prayed, and worked there for nearly 800 years. In 1931, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst purchased the abbey, dismantled it stone-by-stone, and shipped it to Northern California. Hearst’s plans were never realized, and the stones fell into disrepair. In 1994, the monks of the Abbey of New Clairvaux gained possession of the ruins, and began the painstaking reconstruction of the historic abbey.
Ovila Abbey Ales are Belgian-style beers brewed in a centuries-old abbey tradition. These beers are an homage to the legendary monastic breweries, but are not Trappist beers-nor are they made in connection with the member breweries of the International Trappist Association (I.T.A) headquartered in Belgium.
Looks like Atlanta will be receiving a new collaboration brew. New Belgium Brewing and Allagash Brewing are teaming up together to make a very unique beer – “Vreinden”. The name Vreinden means “friends” in Flemish. That might indicate that this beer will be a sour ale. New Belgium brewed at Allagash in Portland, ME and vice versa.
Vreinden also boasts an interesting set of ingredients (which may differ with each brew): Elderberries and Dandelion Greens, Hibiscus flower.
From the label: Get a Belgian Brewmaster and a master of Belgian brewing together and theres sure to be spontaneous imagination that leads to micro-organisms mingling in fermentation. Allagash and New Belgium are pleased to offer you our collabeeration brewed with the slightly fruity hibiscus flower, the aromatic Brettanomyces, and the flavor-boosting Lactobacillus. We recommend pairing it with creamy, soft cheeses and charming Vrienden- that’s ‘friends’ in Flemish.”
Each edition will be bottled by the brewery where it was brewed. Allagash will be 750ml Corked & Caged. New Belgium 22oz Bombers, part of the Lips of Faith series.
New from Dogfish Head (Milton, DE) is Miles Davis Bitches Brew. This beer is shipped and hitting Atlanta area stores gradually this week.From Dogfish’s website-
“In honor of the 40th anniversary of the original release of Bitches Brew, Miles Davis’ 1970 paradigm-shifting landmark fusion breakthrough, we’ve created our own Bitches Brew – a bold, dark beer that’s a fusion of three threads imperial stout and one thread honey beer with gesho root, a gustatory analog to Miles’ masterpiece.Featuring the album’s iconic artwork, created by the late Mati Klarwein, on its label, Dogfish Head’s Bitches Brew will be unveiled at SAVOR, An American Craft Beer & Food Experience, June 5, National Building Museum, Washington DC.
Haven’t experienced the Bitches Brew album? Two 40th anniversary editions of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew — a Legacy Edition and a deluxe Collector’s Edition — will be available Tuesday, August 31.
The newly created ale is designed, according to Dogfish founder and president Sam Calagione, “as the ultimate partner for chili or spicy curry chicken” and best enjoyed “sipped cool, not cold, from a snifter or red wine glass while listening to the Bitches Brew album.”
Calagione was drawn to the alchemical spirits in Bitches Brew right out of college, acquiring a copy of the album “within months of the first time I brewed a batch of homebrew in my apartment in New York City. I listened to it when I was writing my Dogfish business plan. I wanted Dogfish Head to be a maniacally inventive and creative brewery, analog beer for the digital age. You could say that my dream was to have Dogfish Head, in some small way, stand for the same thing in the beer world that Bitches Brew stands for in the jazz world. You can imagine how excited we are to be doing this project 17 years after I wrote that business plan.”
“There’s a spirit of innovation, of creativity and individuality, thats at the core of Miles’ music,” said Adam Block, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Legacy Recordings. “Sam and Dogfish Head approach their art from the same place and consequently the marriage is an easy and cool one.”
Dogfish Head and its “off-centered ales for off-centered people” were the subject of “A Better Brew,” an article in The New Yorker (Nov. 24, 2008) examining the rise of extreme beer. “Beer has lagged well behind wine and organic produce in the ongoing reinvention of American cuisine. Yet the change over the past twenty years has been startling,” wrote Burkhard Bilger. “Dogfish is something of a mascot for this unruly movement. In the thirteen years since Calagione founded the brewery, it has gone from being the smallest in the country to the thirty-eighth largest. Calagione makes more beer with at least ten per cent alcohol than any other brewer, and his odd ingredients are often drawn from ancient or obscure beer traditions. It is to Budweiser what a bouillabaisse is to fish stock.”
For more on the beer & the music, please visit the official Bitches Brew website.”
Style: Imperial Stout
Availability: 750ML capped bottles. Limited release. Now Shipping
Sierra Nevada/ Dogfish Head Collaboration hits Atlanta
Life and Limb has arrived in Atlanta. There is a lot to talk about with this particular beer. First, the basics. Life and limb is part of a 2 beer collaboration release between Sierra Nevada & Dogfish Head Breweries. The doctrine behind this brew is to dedicate a release to beer drinkers, and beer lovers who support craft beer worldwide.
Life & Limb is born out a friendship between brewer Ken Grossman of Sierra Nevada, and Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head. (If you don’t know, Ken Grossman is a pioneer in the craft beer world. Home brewer turned founder of Sierra Nevada in 1980.) Many of the accomplishments of Ken have been an inspiration to Sam. It is out of the friendship and adoration of each other, these beers are born.
The name Life and Limb is an homage to the American breweries that breathed LIFE in the tree of craft brewing, and the ever growing more diverse LIMBS of it. L&L is a strong ale at 10% ABV with a unique list of ingredients. In this collaboration, Sierra and Dogfish carefully thought out additions to this brew that reflect each brewhouse. Estate barley from Sierra Nevada brewery in Chico, California. Pure maple syrup from the Calagione farm in Massachusetts. Also, for the first time in craft beer, birch syrup from Alaska used for natural carbonation. Yeast strains from both brew houses were combined to make a unique signature. Life & Limb is made to cellar very well. Sam Calagione even mentioned it would be great if one day his children and Ken Grossman’s children raised a glass of 2009 Life and Limb at a beer dinner years in the future.
A sister beer to Life & Limb is dubbed Limb and Life. It is a lighter beer than its companion at 5% ABV. Limb & Life is produced from left over sugars from the first run. Throw in some American hops and you have a nice sessionable compliment to Life & Limb. It is a draft only release, and no word yet on it for Atlanta.
Bottles of Life & Limb are available now @ Hop City. 22 oz — 9.99. (SOLD OUT!!!!!)
Draft opportunities will be posted ASAP.
Taste? After a small taste of Life & Limb last night, I will leave you with this — there is a lot going on in that glass. So get a bottle and get tasting…
The recent collaboration between Allagash Brewing & New Belgium. The brewers took turns at each others breweries to come up with this off the wall recipe. This release was brewed on site at New Belgium in Ft Collins, Colorado. “Vreinden” means friends in Flemish, and joins the brewery’s Lips Of Faith series.
Life and Limb has arrived in Atlanta. There is a lot to talk about with this particular beer. First, the basics. Life and limb is part of a 2 beer collaboration release between Sierra Nevada & Dogfish Head Breweries. The doctrine behind this brew is to dedicate a release to beer drinkers, and beer lovers who support craft beer worldwide.
