Imperial Stout

Olde Hickory Shows Imperial Dominance

Olde Hickory Imperial Dominance unites bourbon and cherries.  While Saison Independence snubs the  “bourbon barrel” establishment”, Imperial Dominance celebrates it. Dominance is part of an emerging series by the North Carolina brewery — A Tale of  Two Barrels.

An Imperial Stout- bold, dark, powerful. Continue Reading →

It’s Hunahpu Brew Day!

Drool a little bit stout lovers. Cigar City Brewing is busy in Tampa, Florida brewing one of the America’s top rated imperial stouts – Hunaphu’s Imperial Stout. This, the  regular edition of Hunahpu is brewed with Peruvian cacao nibs, ancho Continue Reading →

Posted in Coming Soon, Olde Hickory Brewing

Olde Hickory Shows Imperial Dominance

Olde Hickory Brewing Imperial Dominance

Olde Hickory Imperial Dominance unites bourbon and cherries.  While Saison Independence snubs the  “bourbon barrel” establishment”, Imperial Dominance celebrates it. Dominance is part of an emerging series by the North Carolina brewery — A Tale of  Two Barrels.

An Imperial Stout- bold, dark, powerful. Adorned with rich flavors from the bourbon barrel and seductive cherries, the imposing Imperial Dominance believes its position in the heirarchy to be unassailable. But there are rumors of another barrel. Is a revolution on the horizon?

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cherries, Barrel Aged)

Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

10% ABV 


by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Jester King Brewery, New Releases

Jester King Funk Metal Bottles Ready To Go

Jester King is ready to release Funk Metal Sour Barrel-Aged Stout. For this funky release, the brewery took an imperial stout and fermented it with a farmhouse yeast and aged it in oak barrels. The barrels are full of wild yeast and funky souring bacteria that make this beer a must have.

Down below heavy clouds, swollen and green with electric rain, the two-grinned snake waves at us in the arrythmic symphony. We dance up the leg of a star dusted mountain; from its summit our souls are projected into the darkness of the universe as scattered laser light beams. We seek the taste of eternity.  You dig? 

Style: Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged, Sour)
Hops: Millenium, East Kent Goldings
Malts: Pale malt, Black, Carafa, Dark Crystal

Flavor? Per JK: The finished beer retains aromas of chocolate and roast but takes on a distinct vinous character and sour complexity from extended aging and fermentation in oak barrels.

Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: December, 2012

8.2% ABV, 29 IBUs 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

It’s Hunahpu Brew Day!

Drool a little bit stout lovers. Cigar City Brewing is busy in Tampa, Florida brewing one of the America’s top rated imperial stouts – Hunaphu’s Imperial Stout. This, the  regular edition of Hunahpu is brewed with Peruvian cacao nibs, ancho & pasilla chiles, Madagascar vanilla beans, and cinnamon.

The 4th annual Hunahpu release day is March 9, 2013 at the brewery. Last year Cigar City also hosted a Barrel Aged Hunahpu Day, aka clusterfest, 2011. (Click for pics). A new barrel aged edition of Hunahpu is in the works – Brandy Barrel Aged Hunaphu. No ETA on that release.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cinnamon, Vanilla beans, Chili Peppers, Cacao Nibs)

Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: 3/9/13

11% ABV 

Read more: Cigar City

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Odell Brewing

Odell Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout Arrives in January

Newbie from Odell Brewing – Lugene. A stout brewed with milk chocolate. Look for this beer to debut this January. Apparently, the beer is named for a local dairy farmer.

If you’ve ever been to our brewery, you’ve likely seen the old, beat-up truck that hauls away our spent grain. (That truck belongs to Lugene, who’s been feeding his dairy cows the hearty malt for over a decade. Named in his honor, Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout is brewed with milk sugar and milk chocolate. (The rich and iht creamy brew reminds us of a cold glass of chocolate milk and our hometown “Aggie” roots. 

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ milk chocolate)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Seasonal Release.
Arrival: January 2013

8.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Intuition Ale Works, New Beers

Intuition Ale Works Underdark Imperial Stout

Intuition Ale Works Underdark Imperial Stout

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Clown Shoes Brewing, Coming Soon

Clown Shoes Celebrates 3 Years with Luchador El Fuego

Clown Shoes Luchador El Fuego

Clown Shoes (Ipswich, MA) celebrates 3 years with Luchador El Fuego. The beer is a 100% barrel aged edition of they brewery’s Chocolate Sombrero with a couple of extra editions. Wrestle with this: the beer is chocolate imperial stout, brewed with Ancho chili powder, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. For this edition, they added extra ancho chilies and chipotle peppers. Then aged it Wild Turkey and Heaven Hill barrels.

Our third anniversary beer up sizes Chocolate Sombrero, using extra ancho chili and adding chipotle peppers. We aged the brew 100% in Wild Turkey and Heaven Hill barrels. May it leap onto your palate majestically, like a luchador who flies into the ring from atop the highest rope.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Vanilla, Chipotle & Ancho Chilis, Cocoa, Barrel Aged)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: Mid-Late December, 2012

11% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Founders Brewing

This Pile Of Chocolate Goes into Founder’s Breakfast Stout [PIC]

Founder’s Brewing’s Breakfast Stout is brewed with flaked oats,

Sumatra & Kona coffee, and most importantly chocolate. The brewers have to take a mallet to chocolate bars to  break it up for the brewing process.  Above is the picture of nearly 150 lbs of chocolate used in the seasonal brew.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ coffee, chocolate)
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft. Sept – Feb, Seasonally

8.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay