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Hardywood Farmhouse Pumpkin Ale kicks off fall in Richmond
Hardywood Farmhouse Pumpkin Ale debuts today at the brewery in Richmond, Virginia.
Easing into the fall season, Hardywood Farmhouse Pumpkin combines a base flavor of a Belgian-style farmhouse ale, with Virginia flame-roasted sugar pumpkins plus a little brown sugar.
Tack on fresh ground cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, ginger, and allspice for that touch of fall flavor. The end result is another fantastic Hardywood offering.
A great accompaniment to butternut squash soup or oven baked yams, Farmhouse Pumpkin is also right at home with spiced pies, especially bourbon pecan pie, apple pie and, of course, pumpkin pie with fresh whipped cream.
Hardywood Farmhouse Pumpkin Ale is available in 750 milliliter bottles and draft, seasonally.
Style: Farmhouse Ale (w/ Pumpkin, Brown Sugar, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmeg, Ginger, Allspice.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft. Seasonal release.
Latest Return: September, 2016
8.5% ABV, 21 IBUs
Image: Hardywood
Great Divide Nadia Kali Hibiscus Saison is fresh & beautiful
Great Divide Nadia Kali had made a June debut. The beer kicks off the Denver, Colorado based brewery’s new Tank Farm Series.
Hibiscus gives Great Divide Nadia Kali its pink color. The brewery didn’t stop there, however. The saison also boasts ginger and lemon peel as well.
…while ginger root gives it a subtle spice and hint of woodsy maturity, and lemon peel adds a citrus tartness to keep you on your toes. Full of complexity and intrigue, this unfiltered beauty will show you just how deceiving looks can be.
The most striking aspect of this beer is the color. Slightly pink – almost glows in the sun. No doubt you are drinking a full flavored saison, as the yeast tells most of the story. The ginger and lemon bolster a nice, fresh flavor. A great warm weather drinker. Remember, it’s still hot out there.
Great Divide Nadia Kali started shipping in 12 ounce bottles and draft in June, 2016 as a seasonal release.
Style: Saison (w/ Ginger, Lemon Peel, Hibiscus.)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Debut: June, 2016
6.3% ABV
Image: Beer Street Journal
Boulevard Funkier Pumpkin debuts
In 2015, Boulevard Brewing released a slightly tart pumpkin beer, Funky Pumpkin. (Imagine a slightly tart pumpkin beer with spices, and you’re close). Certainly building off of the success of that release is a new Smokestack Series offering, Boulevard Funkier Pumpkin.
Boulevard Funkier Pumpkin is funkier indeed – the brewery has allowed the wild yeast Brettanomyces more time to develop the flavor of the beer.
RELATED: Boulevard Rye-on-Rye “Sazerac”
Never content with brewing “to style,” our brewers’ approach to Boulevard Funkier Pumpkin is far from your standard take on pumpkin spice beers (much like its sibling, Funky Pumpkin). Here they’ve given bretranomyces additional the to develop, adding further complexity and character. Subtle pumpkin flavor is accented by traditional spicing in a beer that showcases the hallmark earthy notes of our house wild yeast strain.
Boulevard Funkier Pumpkin debuts the week of August 8th in Kansas City, Missouri. Other markets will follow.
Funky Pumpkin is shipping alongside this new release starting this week.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Pumpkin, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Ginger, Allspice.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft. Limited.
Debut: August, 2016
8.5% ABV
Recently released in the brewery’s Smokestack Series: Boulevard Rye-on-Rye “Sazerac”
Avery Chai High is an exotic, spicy fall release
Avery Chai High will soon join the Boulder, Colorado brewery’s fall seasonal lineup.
As the name suggests, Avery Chai High is brewed with chai tea. Despite trying this new beer, we still don’t know what the base beer actually is.
Mediate on this transcendent, rich, and robust spiced seasonal of a decidedly different sort.
This release has a very exotic flavor. The beer tastes creamy, with strong notes of black tea and ginger, with a touch of clove and cinnamon. In a sea of fall lagers, this one will be a standout.
Avery Chai High is a 12 ounce can and draft seasonal offering starting in August.
Style: (w/ Ginger, Various Spices, Chai Tea)
Hops: Bullion, Columbus, Sterling, Hersbrucker
Malts: 2-Row, Chocolate Malt, Munich, Honey, C-120
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft.
Release: August, 2016
5.2% ABV
Avery El Gose joined the brewery’s canned lineup in July.
Allagash Fluxus 2016 debuts, with gin & ginger
Allagash Fluxus 2016 is ready for the public. The beer’s style changes annually, a commemoration of Allagash selling their first beer in 1995.
This year’s recipe is saison brewed with a plethora of Allagash base malt, including barley, rye, and wheat. After a heathy dosing of Noble hops, and ginger root, the beer was then partially aged in gin barrels. The barrels previously held Barr Hill Tom Cat Gin, made by Caledonia Spirits in Hardwick, Vermont.
The result is a highly aromatic saison with overtones of ginger and botanicals, a hint of vanilla in the flavor, and a vibrant finish.
Allagash Fluxus 2016 is a part of the brewery’s Tribute Series, with the likes of Hugh Malone, Victor and Victoria.
Style: Saison (w/ Ginger. Partial Barrel Aging. Gin.)
Hops: Northern Brewer, Tettnang, Perle
Malts: Allagash 2-row Malted Barley Blend, Malted Rye, Malted Wheat
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft. One-Off.
Debut: July, 2016
8.5% ABV
Flying Dog Saw Bones, because Civil War amputations sucked
Flying Dog Saw Bones, dubbed a ginger table beer, has hit shelves for those near the brewery.
As a kid, my parents took my sister and I to nearly every single Civil War battlefield imaginable. Flying Dog Brewery, located in Frederick, Maryland, has one (Monocacy Battlefield) plus an deeper history. The town is right on the Mason-Dixon line, and was home to both the Union and Confederate soldiers during the war. As you can imagine from such a bloody war, there were a lot of wounded. Frederick’s Mercy Street became a bit of a medical ground zero for both sides.
Civil War medicine was rudimentary – lacking penicillin, and anesthesia was limited to ether and chloroform (nothing like today), soldiers would have to bite down on sticks, or bullets, while the doctor literally sawed through their bones for an amputation. (No penicillin means infection. It was better to cut and live, than suffer sepsis and death.)
Often a ginger and lemon “cure-all” was used by doctors to treat patients. Ginger was used to fight gangrene. In that same vein, Flying Dog Saw Bones is born. Enlisting the help of their hometown’s National Museum of Civil War Medicine, a ginger-lemon Belgian-style table beer.
Ginger and lemon take center stage on this crisp Belgian-style table beer. Clean on the palette with subtle hints of spice and malt coming through on the finish, this is just what the doctor ordered
The light and crisp, low ABV beer is available all summer for your non-medical needs. Perhaps when you drink one you might pour a little out for those that had no option but the saw to remove a limb. Perhaps thank Alexander Fleming for penicillin as well. Dude deserves a beer.
A special release party is planned for June 10th at Flying Dog. The party includes musket loading demonstration and a “live” amputation.
Style: Herb/Spice Beer (w/ Ginger, Lemon)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Summer seasonal
Debut: June, 2016
4.7% ABV
Bissell Brothers i-Lucky returns March 15th
Bissell Brothers i-Lucky returns to the Portland, Maine based brewery’s lineup on March 16th.
The IPA, a homage to restaurant workers everywhere, is an IPA brewed with rice and ginger.
This ale bursts with soft lemon flavor from Sorachi Ace & Lemondrop hops, and is characterized by a brilliant ginger presence that is bright but not overpowering.
Bissell Brothers i-Lucky is a 12 ounce can offering. Rotating availability.
Style: IPA
Hops: Sorachi Ace, Lemon Drop
Malts: Pilsner, Flaked Rice, Vienna, Malted Rice
Availability: 12oz cans
7% ABV
Pic: Bissell Brothers
