Imperial IPA

Lonerider E’s First Rodeo

Lonerider Brewing Company (Raleigh, NC) has released a new imperial IPA collaboration with Bottle Revolution (bottle shop in Raleigh) – E’s First Rodeo.

E’s First Rodeo represents our Double IPA beer, featuring four distinct varieties of carefully selected hops, including 2013 Continue Reading →

Dogfish Head Creates Wasabi Beer

A new music inspired collaboration rises from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (Milton, DE). This beer uses wasabi. What? I know. Read on.

Julianna Barwick is an American musician that hails from Louisiana. Her music uses multiple loops of her voice to create Continue Reading →

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Lonerider E’s First Rodeo

Lonerider Brewing Company (Raleigh, NC) has released a new imperial IPA collaboration with Bottle Revolution (bottle shop in Raleigh) – E’s First Rodeo.

E’s First Rodeo represents our Double IPA beer, featuring four distinct varieties of carefully selected hops, including 2013 crop Amarillo, Dark crystal and Vienna malts support the hop profile and provides the coppery amber appearance. A gutsy beer for the gutsy lady this is made for!


Lonerider E’s First Rodeo is available in limited quantity in 22oz bombers and draft.

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Limited release.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Collaborates with Musicians in New Imperial IPA

Music and craft beer are on a roll. There are so many brewers collaborating with musicians. Coming soon to Stone Brewing Co.’s Collaboration Series is Collective Distortion IPA. This future offering is the brainchild of Kyle Hollingsworth of The String Cheese Incident, and Keri Kelli of Alice Cooper. Together they created an imperial IPA brewed with elderberries and coriander.

In bringing together artisans front disparate aural planes, one might expect an offbeat, feedback-warned cacophony,shrill to the point of unlistenable. Yet, by inviting Kyle Hollingsworth, keyboardist for eclectic, Jam-prone sextet, The String Cheese Incident, and Karl Kelli, wailing rock guitarist of Slice Cooper fame, we were able to make truly beautiful music. Turns out, these musicians have a great deal in common, both with each other and with Stone. We all enjoy turning things up toll, and that is represented in this collaborative offering, an imperial India pale ale ably backed by Nugget, Comet and Calypso hops, and amplified care of a generous dry-hopping with Vic’s Secret, a new Australian hop, adding citrus and tropical fruit oomph.To give this modern masterpiece some soulful, classic character, we traced the roots of brewing to the days when Old World herbs were used to spice beers, adding in coriander and, a first for us, elderberries. To stand up to that sumptuous spice and blaring bitterness, we added golden naked oats, which are lightly roasted and add body and enhanced mouthf eel to the brew like a steady, unbreakable backbeat to an incendiary ram solo. Sit back, crank the volume and get lost in this operatic incarnation of genres combined in the name of invention.

Kyle Hollingsworth has done another craft heer collaboration with Boulder Beer Company – Hoopla. Look for Stone Collective Distortion IPA in 22oz bottles and draft.

Style: Imperial IPA (w/ Elderberries, Coriander)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

9.2% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Dogfish Head, Headlines

Dogfish Head Creates Wasabi Beer

A new music inspired collaboration rises from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (Milton, DE). This beer uses wasabi. What? I know. Read on.

Julianna Barwick is an American musician that hails from Louisiana. Her music uses multiple loops of her voice to create the melody. Her go-to ingredient is wasabi, and Dogfish is happy to oblige. Meet Dogfish Head Rosabi, brewed with wasabi and bittered with Japanese root.

The vivid rose hue of comes from a combination of Munich and Caramel malts and a touch of red rice from Louisiana, birthplace of musician and collaborator Julianna Barwick. Citrusy Simcoe and Centennial feed Juhanna’s love of hops, and the star of the show is her go-to ingredient: wasabi. What’s hoppy? …Wasabi. The Japanese root adds bittering and herbal notes similar to hops, with its subtle heat creeping in after the kick of carbonation. It’s expansive from start to finish. So go ahead, take a sip, toss your head back, and howl at the red Rosabi moon.

Look for Dogfish Head Rosabi in 750 ml bottles and draft.

Style: Imperial IPA (w/ Wasabi, Japanese Root)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Enjoy By 5.16.14 – Just 5 “States”

Stone Brewing Co’s current round of Enjoy By IPA “expires” on 4.20.14. You’ve got three days until the beer magically disappears in the bottle.

Coming up right behind 4.20 is Enjoy By 5.16.14 – headed to just 5 places – Alabama, California, Oregon, South Carolina, and Puerto Rico.

As I’m sure you know by now, the IPA is brewed, shipped and meant to be drank within the timeframe marked on each bottle. Emphasizing fresh beer is better beer.

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft.

8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay