Lagunitas just finished blending the rye bourbon barrel aged edition of Cappuccino Stout from the barrels. This barrel aged edition is a small batch, draft only offering by the brewery.
Style: Imperial Stout brewed with coffee. (Barrel Continue Reading →
Foothills Brewing has announced that the next release of Sexual Chocolate is January 27, 2012.
For those of you new to our beer, the Sexual Chocolate is a Russian Imperial Stout infused with organic cocoa nibs. Opaque black in color, Continue Reading →
Hangar 24 Brewing (Redlands, CA) will be pre-selling bottles of Pugachev’s Cobra today at 4 pm. Cobra is an Russian imperial stout, aged in bourbon barrels. The 3rd release in the brewery’s Barrel Roll Collection. What’s behind the name? Pugachev’s Continue Reading →
North Coast Brewing’s 14th Anniversary release — Barrel Aged Old Rasputin, aka XIV has started hitting shelves. The west coast of course has been seeing the first bottles.
This anniversary beer is the brewery’s medal winning Old Rasputin, aged in bourbon barrels.
Per North Coast:
Rasputin Continue Reading →
What’s on deck from Clown Shoes Brewing in 2012? Here’s a cheat sheet:
Cocoa Powder– Imperial Chocolate Stout
LMPG– Let My People Go Pale Ale- Pale Ale, hopefully made with freeze dried pineapple (depends how the test batches come out). Will have Continue Reading →
Clown Shoes Brewing’s Vampire Slayer will mark the brewery’s 2nd Anniversary. (Hoppy Feet was Year 1). This stout might actually be a fix for the Twilight vampires out there. It’s brewed with real holy water, from Discount Catholic Products. The Continue Reading →
Boulevard Brewing Imperial Stout. 54% Stout, 46% aged in Whiskey Barrels. Best by 10/11/12
Availability: Draft only, as of 12/1/11
11% ABV
Other recent “Draft only” brews include Rye-On-Rye Ale, Test Tripel Julep, Nutcracker Ale, Love Child 1, and Test Double Pale Ale.
Lagunitas just finished blending the rye bourbon barrel aged edition of Cappuccino Stout from the barrels. This barrel aged edition is a small batch, draft only offering by the brewery.
Style: Imperial Stout brewed with coffee. (Barrel Aged)
Availability: Draft only, rare appearances in Lag’ markets
> 8% ABV
Foothills Brewing has announced that the next release of Sexual Chocolate is January 27, 2012.
For those of you new to our beer, the Sexual Chocolate is a Russian Imperial Stout infused with organic cocoa nibs. Opaque black in color, it offers notes of espresso, blackstrap molasses, toffee, and dark fruits that mask an alcohol content approaching ten percent.
There is a barrel aged release that comes later in the year.
UPDATE: 1/27 – Keg Release. 1/28 – Early AM, bottles.
Hangar 24 Brewing (Redlands, CA) will be pre-selling bottles of Pugachev’s Cobra today at 4 pm. Cobra is an Russian imperial stout, aged in bourbon barrels. The 3rd release in the brewery’s Barrel Roll Collection. What’s behind the name? Pugachev’s Cobra is a plane maneuver where the pilot lifts the nose of the plane nearly vertical, then back to attack position. Invented by Victor Pugachev. For this stout, Hangar 24 filled 250 bourbon barrels with the stout in March, 2011. It has been aging over 8 months. The beer is officially released this Saturday, 12/10.
Get ready for an assault on your senses with PUGACHEV’S COBRA, an intense Russian Imperial Stout. This rich, black beauty with a thick caramel head is bursting with aromas of chocolate, vanilla, oak, bourbon, licorice and dark fruits, while flavors of chocolate-covered plum, sweet malt, bourbon, and roasted coffee explode on your pallet. This is no ordinary beer; three different dark roasted malts and rich maple syrup are combined in a truly unique brewing process to create complexity and depth. Once fermented, it’s then aged for eight months in freshly emptied bourbon barrels. This powerful concoction is designed to be enjoyed now with friends or cellared to perfection and savored in the years to come.
Style: Russian Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750 bottles, corked & caged.
16.5% ABV
Today at the brewery:
On tap at 4PM:
-Non barrel-aged Pugachev’s Cobra (Russian Imperial Stout)
–Small Stout (made from Pugachev’s 2nd runnings)
–Polycot (yes, we said Polycot. We know it has nothing to do with Pugachev’s Cobra…but we miss it too, so why not!?).
5:00PM – We’ll open a couple cases of Humpty Bump, Release No. 02 in our Barrel Roll Series
6:00PM – We’ll open a couple cases of Immelmann, Release No. 01 in our Barrel Roll Series
6:00PM-9:00PM Wednesday night music on the patio (we’re making it an every-Wednesday-night-
North Coast Brewing’s 14th Anniversary release — Barrel Aged Old Rasputin, aka XIV has started hitting shelves. The west coast of course has been seeing the first bottles.
This anniversary beer is the brewery’s medal winning Old Rasputin, aged in bourbon barrels.
Per North Coast:
Rasputin XIV is Here!
For the past few years, barrel-aged Old Rasputin has been released in such limited quantities that it has been available only at the brewery retail shop. However, we have received so many requests for this beer that for the 12th anniversary, NCBC produced enough Old Rasputin XIV to put into broader distribution. There’s certainly not a flood of it, but it is available in select areas. Check the distributor in your area to find where to get it.
Style: Imperial Stout (barrel aged)
Taste Expectations: Everything you have come to love about Old Raspy (Chocolate, coffee, roasty malts) creamy, full bodied flavor. Now with oaky vanilla.
Availability: 16.9 oz bottles. Corked/Caged. One time anniversary release.
11.2%ABV
What’s on deck from Clown Shoes Brewing in 2012? Here’s a cheat sheet:
Cocoa Powder– Imperial Chocolate Stout
LMPG– Let My People Go Pale Ale- Pale Ale, hopefully made with freeze dried pineapple (depends how the test batches come out). Will have Moses wearing Clown Shoes while parting the waters on the label.
The Barista Breakfast Brown – 10% ABV brown with cold water extracted coffee from our friends at Barismo.
The Billionaire – this will be a big barleywine with some English and some American elements.
Lest we forget, the 2nd Anniversary release: Vampire Slayer
Clown Shoes Brewing’s Vampire Slayer will mark the brewery’s 2nd Anniversary. (Hoppy Feet was Year 1). This stout might actually be a fix for the Twilight vampires out there. It’s brewed with real holy water, from Discount Catholic Products. The brewery has been asking priests to come bless the beer with their own holy water, a request that the Catholic Church hasn’t been too keen on.
In a world full of uncertianty, hardship and people trying to hold us back, do we need Vampires too? Clown Shoes says, “No! Die, monsters die!” Our second anniversary ale incorporates signature dark malts, holy water, and malt smoked locally with hickory, beechwood, and vampire killing steaks.
Style: Smoked Imperial Stout
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: January-February, 2012
11% ABV
Boulevard Brewing Imperial Stout. 54% Stout, 46% aged in Whiskey Barrels. Best by 10/11/12
Availability: Draft only, as of 12/1/11
11% ABV
Other recent “Draft only” brews include Rye-On-Rye Ale, Test Tripel Julep, Nutcracker Ale, Love Child 1, and Test Double Pale Ale.
