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Red Hare Watership Brown Coming To Cans
This will be the third can offering from Red Hare Brewing Company (Marietta, GA). Long Day Lager was the first of the canning line, followed by Gangway IPA. Soon you’ll see Watership Brown Ale.
Style: Brown Ale
Availability: Year Round. Draft, soon 12 oz cans
Arrival: TBA
7.2% ABV
Terrapin “Wake and Bake” Returns for 2012
Terrapin Beer Co’s Wake & Bake (WnB) is back for another season. “Bake” is a tasty oatmeal imperial stout featuring coffee from Jittery Joes in Athens, Georgia. Typically the last release in Terrapin’s “Monster Beer Tour” Series each year.
Black as night, this coffee stout is thick, rich and full of real coffee flavor. Brewed with the Terrapin Wake-n-Bake coffee blend created by Terrapin & Jittery Joe’s Coffee.
Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee)
Hops: Chinook, Northern Brewer
Malts: 2- Row Pale Malt, Flaked Oats, Flaked Barley, Chocolate Malt, Black Malt & Roasted Barley
Coffee: Premium blend of Costa Rican, Guatemalan, & Zimbabwe : Premium blend of Costa Rican, Guatemalan, & Zimbabwe
Taste Expectations: Lots of coffee, mixed w/ malt sweetness with a bit of chocolate. Creamy, smooth, complex.
Availability: 12oz/4 packs. Some draft. Special casks.
Cellar: Yes. Brewery recommends 2-3 years. (Under proper conditions)
8.1% ABV
Boulevard Rye on Rye Returns
Boulevard Brewing’s Rye-on-Rye, part of the Smokestack Series, has returned. For this release, the brewery aged part of the beer in rye whiskey barrels. Rye beer, rye whiskey barrels. Hope you love both.
Why Rye? This assertively flavorful grain is more often associated with whiskey than with ales. Even in that arena, it has largely been eclipsed by corn and barley, the sources of bourbon and scotch. But when we procured some seasoned barrels from our friends at Templeton Rye, we asked ourselves, “Why not?” Why not brew a rich, tawny rye ale, then mellow it in the warmth of charred oak rye whiskey casks? Two kinds of malted rye provide spicy sweetness, giving way to notes of caramelized wood and the citrusy tang of Perle, Magnum, and Saphir hops before easing into a dry, lingering finish.
Style: Rye Beer (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750ml bottles, corked & caged
Taste Expectations: See above
11% ABV
Choc Beer Launches Distro In Atlanta
Choc Beer (Krebs, OK) has started shipping to Atlanta. The brewery reintroduced the nearly 100 year old brand and vision in 1995. Joe Pritchard, the grandson of the the original founder Pietro Piegari has worked tirelessly to put Krebs, Oklahoma on the beer map. Successful? I’d say. Choc Beer’s brews are now in the Peach State.
The initial launch lineup:
OPA “Oklahoma Pale Ale” – (12oz, 6 pks)
Winter Stout – (12oz, 6 pks)
Signature Series Dubbel – 750 ml Corked & Caged
Signature Series Biere De Garde – 750 ml Corked & Caged
More offerings to follow.
Jewish Santa Loves SweetWater “Festive”
Just watch. Preferably with a Festive in hand.
Red Brick “The Lost Years” Barrel Aged Strong Ale in 2013
Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) will add The Lost Years to the Brick Mason lineup in 2013. Lost Years will be the fifth edition in Red Brick’s lineup. Strong ale in bourbon sound good to you?
Style: American Strong Ale (Barrel Aged, Jim Beam)
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft.
Arrival: 1st Quarter 2013
?? ABV
SweetWater Wants You To Get “Some Strange”
SweetWater Brewing Company (Atlanta, GA) wants you to get Some Strange. In this case, an imperial black IPA. This Dank Tank release is inspired by Capt. Danky’s night out at The Cheetah & Johnny’s Hideaway. If you lived in Atlanta, you’d know what that is.
Living large with his 7 year squeeze, Capt. Danky was suddenly blindsided as he discovered General Betrayus under the sheets with his ho. Unstable, delirious, and in desperate need of relief, he headed to the Cheetah to drown his sorrows with a few motorboats. After his wallet was drained by a lonely dental hygienist student, she whispered in his ear the 411 on a swinging late night dance club called Johnny’s Hideaway where he might get lucky. Wearing his big boy pants, he jumped in the first cab and beelined it to the hopeful honey hole. A stupefied Capt. Danky slipped in and was immediately pounced on by the house mama who set her meat hooks into him to do a little dirty dancing. Capt Danky was swept off his feet by this big ol’ beauty and lured back to her cougar den for some Danky Spanky. Capt Danky awoke with an ear to ear hicky and massive claw marks on his chest, back, and sack-a-jo-wia. He slowly rolled over and uncrusted his eyes, hoping to figure out what was saddled up next to him under the leopard skin sheets. As his vision cleared, he gagged, learning he had ‘seasoned” a big fat black double IPA. Horrified, he grabbed his ring off the nightstand and jumped out the window before it was awake and ready for roust two. Here’s to hoping his buddies never discover his bag-age. Get Some Strange!
Before you get Some Strange, be on the look out for The Gimp, another boozy offering to be released before the end of 2012.
Style: Imperial IPA (Black IPA)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: 2013
10% ABV
read more: SweetWater
