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Bell’s Hopslam is 2 Weeks Away
Bell’s Hopslam is 14 days away. The extremely popular imperial IPA is already in the bottle and returns on January 15th.
If you don’t know what Hopslam is, let’s recap real quick. Michigan based Bell’s Brewery has an imperial IPA brewed with honey that is pretty much crack to hoplovers. Each year, the release causes as much panic (people buying it in bulk) as it does palate happiness.
Bell’s Hopslam is available in 12oz bottles, Mini-kegs, and draft.
Style: Imperial IPA (w/ Honey)
10% ABV
Hardywood’s Gingerbread Stout 2013 Release Set
A popular winter seasonal out of Virginia is Hardywood Park’s Gingerbread Stout. The base beer is an imperial milk stout brewed with honey, cinnamon, and ginger. As it’s been said before – it’s Christmas in a bottle.
Brewed with baby ginger from Casselmonte Farm and wildflower honey from Bearer Farms, Hardywood Gingerbread Stout captures the terroir of central Virginia in a rich, creamy libation with a velvety mouthfeel and an intriguing evolution of flavors from milk chocolate and vanilla to honeycomb and cinnamon to a snap of ginger in the finish.
Bottles go on sale at 2 pm on November 16th, 2013. 4 bottle limit. 32oz and 64oz growlers will be allowed.
Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Ginger, Honey, Lactose)
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: November 16th, 2013
10.6% ABV, 55 IBUs
Next Up in Stone’s Collaboration Series: Suede
Behold the next Stone Brewing Co Collaboration – Suede. For this release, Stone’s Mitch Steele teams up with Megan O’Leary Parisi of Bluejacket in D.C., and Tonya Cornell from 10 Barrel Brewing in Bend, OR. The cross country melding of brewers minds finds them creating an imperial porter with avocado honey, plus jasmine and calendula flowers from Stone Farms. The result? Suede is described by their creators as “soft and seductive” and an “all season wonder.”
A formal announce is to follow from Stone. Look for this new edition in the coming months.
Style: Imperial Porter (w/ Jasmine Flowers, Calendula Flowers, Honey)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA
8.4% ABV
Bayou Teche Barrel Ages Honey Beer
Wild Honey. That’s what Bayou Teche Biere’s Miel Sauvage means when you translate it. That name fits too. This honey ale uses local Louisiana honey from the brewery’s neighbor Bernard Apiaries. Sauvage is actually completely inspired by French farmhouse breweries making Biere de Mel or honey beers.
For added complexity and flavor, Bayou Teche aged this one in spirit barrels. The beer is described as This sorrel colored beer has a pronounced honey aroma and is barrel aged to contribute to a smooth vanilla oakiness.
Look for bottles of this offering in the coming months.
Style: Honey Ale (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: TBA
?? ABV
So Good, Fordham Had to Brew Double
The Mid-Atlantic will get Forham Brewing Company’s (Dover, DE) Spiced Harvest Ale this week.
Last year, the fall offering was so popular that is sold out in just three weeks, so double the amount has been brewed. Harvest Ale is fermented with spices such as cinnamon and clove, making it great for drinking now or Christmas and beyond.
At 6.6% ABV, this Fall Seasonal is reminiscent of pumpkin pie and was awarded the bronze medal in the Herb and Spice category at the European Beer Star competition in 2012. Forget celebrating Thanksgiving only one day a year, with Spiced Harvest Ale you can be thankful one bottle at a time.
Style: Herb/Spice Beer (w/ Cinnamon, Clove, Allspice, Honey, Pumpkin)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
6.6% ABV
Meet Dogfish Head’s New Ancient Ales Addition
Dogfish Head’s (Milton, DE) most creative beer collection is by far the Ancient Ales Series. The brewers work with Dr. Patrick McGovern, a leading expert in ancient beverages to recreate some of the world’s oldest libations. The series started with Midas Touch, and more recently Birra Etrusca Bronze.
Meet this ancient newbie rising from history, Kvasir. Named for a Scandinavian princess, this grog-like base beer features ligonberry, cranberry, birch syrup, honey, cranberry juice and herbs.
She was a leather-clad priestess, a member of the upper class, and in the most northerly limits of Scandinavia, her tomb guarded a recipe for millennia. In her day, before grape wine arrived from the Neu East, alcoholic beverages were cocktails of sugar-rich ingredients like grain, fruit and honey.With help from biomolecular archaeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern and Swedish brewery Nynashamns Angbryggeri, we’ve unearthed the secrets of her tart, complex grog, and we’re sharing our modern interpretation with you.
Style: Herb/Spice Ale (Ligonberry, Cranberry, Birch Syrup, Honey, Cranberry juice)
Availability: 750 ml bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA
10% ABV
