Imperial IPA

Green Flash’s Green Bullet Goes Big

Green Flash Brewing’s 9th Anniversary beer is now all of the brewery’s national markets. Green Bullet, subtitled a “triple ipa” has been bottled for the first time ever, arriving in 12oz bottles, 22oz bottles and draft.

Named for the New Zealand Continue Reading →

Shmaltz & Cathedral Square’s Collab Arrives

Shmaltz Brewing has released a new collaboration – St. Lenny’s Belgian Style Rye Double IPA, aka the Immaculate Collaboration. St. Lenny’s is a collab with St. Louis, Missouri’s Cathedral Square Brewery.

This beer is the brewery’s Lenny’s RIPA, with Belgian Ale yeast. Hops, rye, Continue Reading →

Posted in Elevation Beer Co, New Releases

Elevation Ships Fresh Hopped “Downpour”

The first of two new seasonals coming from Elevation Beer Company (Poncha Springs, CO) is Downpour.

Downpour is a fresh hop “extra” IPA brewed with over 250 pounds of Colorado fresh hops. That’s over 4 pounds of hops per barrel.

This fresh brew is now shipping around Colorado. Those folks headed to the Great American Beer Festival in Denver will get a taste of this and Inconceivable! Oak Aged Imperial IPA. It officially ships in October.

Style: Fresh hopped Imperial IPA
Availability: 750 ml bottles

8.3% ABV 75 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Don't Miss This, Elevation Beer Co

Elevation Beer Immortalizes The Princess Bride

An absolute classic movie is The Princess Bride. If you haven’t seen the movie, you’re on a beer timeout until you do.

Elevation Beer Company (Poncha Springs, CO) immortalizes the classic movie in a oak aged imperial IPA, Inconceivable! The beer is aged in fresh (virgin) Kentucky oak barrels.

Style: Imperial IPA (Oak Aged)
Hops: Centennial, Citra
Malts: Two Row, Munich, Carared, Carafoam

Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: October, 2013

8.5% ABV, 70 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Victory Brewing Company

Victory Is Bottling A New Imperial IPA

Victory Brewing Company (Downingtown, PA) has affinity for hops. The brewery recently retired Hop Wallop in lieu of new Dirt Wolf.

Now take a look at Hop Ranch, an imperial IPA. that has been seen on tap recently.  The beer is a testament to the hop farmers of the world (especially here in the U.S. where we grow some of the best). DIrt Wolf honors the hops, Hop Ranch honors the farmers that get those juicy, bitter, fruity hops in your glass year after year.

A few different iterations of Hop Ranch have shipped. It seems the brewery has decided on a final recipe to bottle. No release date yet.

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

9% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Green Flash Brewing, New Releases

Green Flash’s Green Bullet Goes Big

Green Flash Brewing’s 9th Anniversary beer is now all of the brewery’s national markets. Green Bullet, subtitled a “triple ipa” has been bottled for the first time ever, arriving in 12oz bottles, 22oz bottles and draft.

Named for the New Zealand hop “Green Bullet” that graces this brew.

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 12oz, 22oz Bottles. Draft. Sept-Dec.

10.1% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cathedral Square Brewery, New Releases, Shmaltz Brewing

Shmaltz & Cathedral Square’s Collab Arrives

Shmaltz Brewing has released a new collaboration – St. Lenny’s Belgian Style Rye Double IPA, aka the Immaculate Collaboration. St. Lenny’s is a collab with St. Louis, Missouri’s Cathedral Square Brewery.

This beer is the brewery’s Lenny’s RIPA, with Belgian Ale yeast. Hops, rye, and a little Belgian flair.

Style: Belgian IPA
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft

10% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in NoDa Brewing, Videos

NoDa Nodable: Totally Jaded Imperial IPA

Jade hops. Nothing but Jade hops. Taps Tuesday, 9/17 at the brewery.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Don't Miss This, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Enjoy By 10.25.13 Market List

This next round of Stone Brewing Co’s Enjoy By IPA is going to ship to a whopping 24 markets this time around. Enjoy By 10.25.13 IPA is currently fermenting.

For those of you not in the know, Stone has created an IPA dubbed “Enjoy By.” The beer is meant to be consumed as fresh as possible. After the very clearly marked date on the bottle, it is returned to the brewery. Enjoy By 10:25

by Reid Ramsay