Imperial Stout

Lost Abbey’s Track #10: Meatloaf, Ships

The Lost Abbey’s Track #10, the highest rated offering from from the brewery’s Ultimate Box Set, has shipped again. The set was a series of one-off releases, featuring special blends and treatments from Lost Abbey’s lineup. This isn’t the Continue Reading →

Three Taverns Imaginarium: El Recluso

Three Taverns Craft Brewery (Decatur, GA) advances their new Imaginarium Project at the brewery this weekend. The project is designed to unleash the creative energies and imaginations of the brewery’s five employees.

This weekend’s release features Theophan the Recluse infused with serrano peppers, cocoa Continue Reading →

Posted in Almanac Beer Co., Coming Soon, Don't Miss This

Almanac Cognac Barrel Noir Looks to Join Farm To Barrel Series

Almanac Cognac Barrel Noir takes aim at the brewery’s Farm to Barrel Series. These small batch barrel aged offerings typical feature local fruits, mixed with wine, bourbon or spirits barrels.

Almanac Cognac Barrel Noir is a base imperial stout that spent some time with popular cognac, Rémy Martin.

This very limited release is a love letter to barrel aging. We started with an imperial stout brewed with our favorite dark malts. We aged the beer for over a year in large Remy Martin Cognac puncheons where the beer breathed in the rich oak, vanilla and cognac aromatics of the barrels – resulting in this contemplative black ale.

Almanac Cognac Barrel Noir will be available in 375ml bottles.

Style: Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged. Cognac.)
Availability: 375ml Bottles
Release: TBA

10% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Lost Abbey

Lost Abbey’s Track #10: Meatloaf, Ships

The Lost Abbey’s Track #10, the highest rated offering from from the brewery’s Ultimate Box Set, has shipped again. The set was a series of one-off releases, featuring special blends and treatments from Lost Abbey’s lineup. This isn’t the first beer from the series that saw a wider release, as last year Track #8 showed up on shelves.

The original details about this release below…

The Lost Abbey released Track #10 on October 20, 2012. This edition is fresh Serpent’s Stout aged in bourbon barrels.  Right before packaging, the brewery added 17 lbs of Ryan Brothers coffee and 4 lbs of TCHO cacao nibs. Each of the Ultimate Box Set beers echoes a hard rock track. For #10, it’s Meatloaf’s Bat Out Of Hell.

Late in November of 2011, Mike Rodriguez our head brewer asked about creating a Coffee and Cacoa Nib version of Serpent’s Stout for the San Diego Strong Ale Festival. The beer was a hit with our fans. When we wrote up the syllabus for the Ultimate Box Set, we knew a version of this beer would be included.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee, Cacao Nibs, Barrel Aged)
Availability:  12.7 oz bottles. Limited
First Release: 10/20/12
Release #2: January, 2015.
Distribution: Entire Lost Abbey Network

13.5% ABV

Image via Lost Abbey. Read more: Lost Abbey Ultimate Box Set Lost Abbey Track #10

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Three Taverns Brewery

Three Taverns Imaginarium: El Recluso

Three Taverns Craft Brewery (Decatur, GA) advances their new Imaginarium Project at the brewery this weekend. The project is designed to unleash the creative energies and imaginations of the brewery’s five employees.

This weekend’s release features Theophan the Recluse infused with serrano peppers, cocoa nibs, vanilla bean + cinnamon sticks. These unique offerings could be future full scale releases by Three Taverns.

Image via Three Taverns

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Third Rail Beer

First Bottles: Third Rail Alternate Side Imperial Stout

Third Rail Beer (New York, NY) is ready to release their first bottle, Alternate Side Imperial Stout.

Alternate Side is brewed with Guajillo and Chipotle chili peppers, and a blend of dark malts.

Brewmaster Loren Taylor-Raymond says “Alternate Side is a bold Imperial Stout brewed with a blend of specialty dark malts that deliver a full body and rich flavors of strong coffee, dark caramel, and spicy rye. As those flavors fade the smoke and warmth of aging on Guajillo and Chipotle peppers and Mexican Cinnamon reveal another side to this complex beer.”

Third Rail Alternate Side will be available in 22oz bottles. Debuts in February, 2015.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Chili Peppers)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Release: February, 2015

9.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Westbrook Brewing Co

Westbrook 4th Anniversary: Chocolate Coconut Almond Imperial Stout Released

Westbrook Brewing Company is rolling up on their 4th Anniversary, and that means a new birthday offering.

Westbrook 4th Anniversary is an imperial stout, brewed with chocolate, coconut, and almonds. The coconutty offering was brewed in late, 2014.

To catch you up, Westbrook 1st Anniversary was Mexican Cake, first released in 2012. The demands requests for it were so high, it has become an annual release with barrel aged variants. The 2nd Anniversary was Cap’n Skoon’s Ballistic Stout.

Westbrook 3rd Anniversary was Chocolate Orange Stout. 4th Anniversary Chocolate Coconut Almond Imperial Stout will be available in 22oz bottles and draft. The brewery suggests drinking 4th Anniversary as fresh as possible (even if it IS 10% ABV.)

Westbrook 4th Anniversary: Chocolate Coconut Almond Imperial Stout is available in 22oz bottles and draft.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Chocolate, Almonds, Coconut)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Limited release.
Released: January, 2015

10% ABV

This article was updated to reflect the release of this beer.  

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Blue Pants Brewery, Coming Soon

Blue Pants Double Stuff Pinstripe Stout Releases Soon

Blue Pants Brewery (Madison, AL) will soon release Double Stuff Pinstripe, a variant of their cold weather seasonal.

While Pinstripe is a coffee stout with hints of chocolate, Double Stuff Pinstripe features extra cocoa nibs to bump up the chocolate, and vanilla and lactose to boost the dessert-like flavor.

Take Pinstripe, our rich, chocolatey export stout and add cocoa nibs to bump up the chocolate to a whole new level. Then, add lactose and vanilla to provide a frosting like middle and you have Double Stuff Pinstripe. Are most decadent, popular variant from Pinstripe Fest 2014.

Blue Pants Double Stuff Pinstripe Stout will be available in 22oz bottles.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee, Cocoa Nibs, Lactose, Vanilla Beans)
Availability: 22oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, New Releases, Saint Arnold Brewing

Saint Arnold Divine Reserve #5 To Return as Bishop Barrel #8

Saint Arnold Brewing (Houston, TX) will re-release Divine Reserve #5 as Bishop’s Barrel #8 in the series..

Divine Reserve #5 was a Russian Imperial Stout that is among the brewery’s best, and highest rated. The brewery re-brewed the award winning recipe and have been aging it in Woodford Reserve bourbon barrels for going on two years.

12oz bottles of Divine Reserve #8 in Texas and Louisiana starting Monday, January 12th.

Style: Russian Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 12oz Bottles. Limited Release.
Arrival: 1/12/15

11% ABV, 38 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay