Imperial IPA

Ommegang One Of The Gang Debuts Thursday

Ommegang’s recent collaboration with The Blue Tusk debuts this Thursday.  One-Of-The-Gang is big time hoppy Belgian IPA.

One.Of.The.Gang is a “hoppy Belgian-style tripel,” says the Tusk’s Mike Yorton, who created the brew with Ommegang’s director of beer development, Jason Parrish. It’s Continue Reading →

Jailhouse To Have A Hop Riot

Jailhouse Brewing (Hampton, GA) will bring you a Hop Riot in January, 2012.  Initial details indicate that Hop Riot will be a double IPA based off of Midnight Special.

Availability: 22oz bottles, Draft.
Arrival: January, 2012

Coming soon is the brewery’s 1st barleywine Continue Reading →

Surly Abrasive ’11 Ships Next Week

Surly Brewing mentioned today that this years batch of Abrasive Ale will go out next week.  Abrasive was first brewed in 2008, and has done nothing but gained popularity ever since.

Style: Double Oat IPA
Hops: Warrior, Citra
Malts: 2-Row, Golden Promis, Oats, Continue Reading →

Mikkeller Ov-Ral Imperial IPA

Coming soon from Mikkeller, Ov-Ral.  Loosly translating (guessing) Ov-Ral from Danish means “pebbles,” “Rubble” or “gravel.”

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 11.2oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

10.5% ABV 

Brooklyn Blast Goes Year Round

Brooklyn Brewing’s Blast will become a year round offering soon.  Blast is a hoppy imperial IPA released over a year ago in the brewery’s Brewmaster’s Reserve Series.

The first in a line of Brewmaster’s “Special Reserve” beers, BLAST! Is a riotous Continue Reading →

Posted in New Releases, Ommegang

Ommegang One Of The Gang Debuts Thursday

Ommegang One Of The GangOmmegang’s recent collaboration with The Blue Tusk debuts this Thursday.  One-Of-The-Gang is big time hoppy Belgian IPA.

One.Of.The.Gang is a “hoppy Belgian-style tripel,” says the Tusk’s Mike Yorton, who created the brew with Ommegang’s director of beer development, Jason Parrish. It’s a limited-edition brew made exclusively for The Blue Tusk.

It’s likely the hoppiest beer Ommegang has ever produced (though probably not at the hop limit for the Tusk crowd).

Style: Belgian IPA
Availability: Draft Only
Arrival: 12/15/11

8.6% ABV 

[Syracuse.com]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in SweetWater Brewing

SweetWater’s Next Dank Tank: A Hopped Up 420 IPA

SweetWater Dank Tank 420 IPAGreat surprise this AM – SweetWater’s next Dank Tank release has been revealed.  A hopped up 420 IPA.  For those of you that don’t know – 420 is the brewery’s signature pale ale.  This next release- billed at an F’up after el Danko met a wookie and partied at the Clermont Lounge with Blondie – is nearly double the strength of 420 Pale.  Don’t have the pleasure of living in Atlanta?  Get to know The Clermont Lounge.  We’ve taken many a brewer that has come to town to this institution.  All shall remain… errr… nameless.

Tingling with excitement, el dank hopped the fur bus and rolled to the panic show at The Fox.  Boogieing down to Chilly Water, he noodled into a cute little wookie that blew his mind and yanked him from some post show get down at the Clermont lounge.  Stumbling and bumbling with blondie, he got booted, and went home for some shut eye.  Dreaming of the wet wookie, he awoke to his dog licking his tongue, realizing he was late for his night shift at SweetWater.

Fumbling through his brew and dry hopping duties, el danko hit the wall, and passed out mid-shift. Waking up to Nick Nock screaming WTF, he frantically ran around putting out fires.  As the haze cleared he realized he had left the mill running, jacking up the OG and dry hopping the wrong tank.  Fuddied up after the most insane 36 hours, el Danko pondered his delirious creation, a chubby 420 India Pale Ale! Huh??? Ducking trouble, he quickly swept the abominable snowman  under the rug, as he sent the 420 IPA to the bottling line boys in an effort to hide his momentoustus F- up.

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

8.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, JailHouse Brewing

Jailhouse To Have A Hop Riot

Jailhouse Brewing LogoJailhouse Brewing (Hampton, GA) will bring you a Hop Riot in January, 2012.  Initial details indicate that Hop Riot will be a double IPA based off of Midnight Special.

Availability: 22oz bottles, Draft.
Arrival: January, 2012

Coming soon is the brewery’s 1st barleywine release – due out this month.

Thx @MrDink

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Seasonal Return, Surly Brewing

Surly Abrasive ’11 Ships Next Week

Surly Brewing mentioned today that this years batch of Abrasive Ale will go out next week.  Abrasive was first brewed in 2008, and has done nothing but gained popularity ever since.

Style: Double Oat IPA
Hops: Warrior, Citra
Malts: 2-Row, Golden Promis, Oats, Light Crystal
Yeast: English Ale

Taste Expectations: Lots of grapefruit, & citrus hops.  Bitter, aggressive, abrasive!
Availability:  16 oz cans, Draft.   December – March, Seasonally.

8.8% ABV

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Mikkeller

Mikkeller Ov-Ral Imperial IPA

Mikkeller Ov-RalComing soon from Mikkeller, Ov-Ral.  Loosly translating (guessing) Ov-Ral from Danish means “pebbles,” “Rubble” or “gravel.”

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: 11.2oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

10.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Brooklyn Brewing

Brooklyn Blast Goes Year Round

Brooklyn Brewing’s Blast will become a year round offering soon.  Blast is a hoppy imperial IPA released over a year ago in the brewery’s Brewmaster’s Reserve Series.

The first in a line of Brewmaster’s “Special Reserve” beers, BLAST! Is a riotous celebration of hops. Here in Brooklyn, we’re half-way between the hop country of Yakima Valley, Washington and the hop country of Kent in England. So we use the bright citrusy American hops to bring the noise and earthy English hops to build the foundation of a hop monster brandishing five pounds of hops per barrel with considerable finesse. The varieties are half American, half English and the malts bring solidity, balance and beautiful flavors to a golden beer that’s ludicrously hoppy, strangely quaffable and oddly compelling. You won’t even know what hit you.

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: Draft only
Taste Expectations: Lots of hops! Pine, Citrus, Grapefruit.  Bitter, and balanced

8.2% ABV

[Brooklyn]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Napa Smith Brewing, New Releases

Napa Smith Hopageddon, A Post-ahopalyptic Beer

Napa Smith Brewing (Napa, CA) is soon to release Hopageddon, a barrel aged imperial IPA.  It truly is a Hopageddon, as this imperial IPA not only wet-hopped, but aged in Chardonnay & Cabernet barrels.

Hopageddon is an end-of-the-world imperial IPA that defies expectations and induces an intense hop-stupor that will leave you wondering what just happened.  At 144 IBUs, Hopageddon glows with a gorgeous fiery orange color and showcases a distinct, full white head.  The added character given by the Chardonnay and Cabernet barrels accentuates explosive papaya and lychee flavors along with herbaceous aromas.  Chewy, grassy, wet-hop flavors, hints of dried apricot, and impressions of barrel tannins are evident in mutiple layers. The distinct Barrel-hopped flavors and shockwave of bitterness lingers on the palate and leaves hopheads with a Post-ahopalyptic yearning for more.  

Style: Imperial IPA (barrel aged)
Hops: Chinook, Cascade, Warrior, Columbus, Mt. Hood, Centennial

Availability: Draft only, 5.2 gal kegs
Arrival: Nov-Dec, 2011

9.2% ABV, 144 IBUs 

by Reid Ramsay