The Wine and Cheese Place a beer mainstay in the Saint Louis is celebrating 30 years in true beer lover style. They will be collaborating with local Missouri breweries to create 4 unique, barrel aged beer for sale at their Continue Reading →
St. Arnold’s Pumpkinator started out as part of their Divine Reserve Series. It was so well recieved when it was released back in 2009 that they decided to brew this Imperial Stout/Pumpkin Ale again as a seasonal. The Continue Reading →
Meet Sam Adams Longshot American Homebrew Contest Winner #1 – Joe Formanek. Winners were just announced at GABF a couple of weeks ago. Five Crown Imperial Stout is 1 of 3 that will be appearing in the mixed 6 pack.
Mother Earth Brewing has scheduled the release of it’s winter seasonal, Silent Night, for December 1st. It will be released in corked 750ml bottles and draft. Bottles will be available at the taproom and some kegs will make Continue Reading →
Black as night and every bit Imperial, this RIS was originally launched to tremendous accolades. Going further, this Stranahan’s Whiskey barrel aged version meshes the rich chocolates, the coffee-like aromatics with the sweet whiskey nose and drying character of the oak. Slightly behind on the palette are the hops — held in restraint by the wonderfully full mouthfeel and broad flavors brought on by the perfect blend of so many malted barley varieties.
Style: Imperial Stout (barrel aged) Taste Expectations: Vanilla, dark fruits, oak. Chocolate & coffee. Availability: 750 ml bottles. Draft.
Wine & Cheese Celebrates 30 With Bad A$$ Barrel Aged Collabs
The Wine and Cheese Place a beer mainstay in the Saint Louis is celebrating 30 years in true beer lover style. They will be collaborating with local Missouri breweries to create 4 unique, barrel aged beer for sale at their store.
The Collaboration Series started with our decision to start choosing and purchasing our own barrels of Bourbon for our store. The first bourbon we chose was our own Single Barrel of Buffalo Trace Bourbon. Buffalo Trace bottled our bourbon for us and allowed us to keep the empty barrel that it aged in for years. Instead of cleaning and finishing the barrel for display as they usually do for retailers that buy a full barrel Buffalo Trace agreed not to wash or rinse the barrel — they just sealed it up and shipped it to us. Why? We had a great idea to take the barrel and give it to our friends at Schlafly to make a wood-aged beer using our bourbon barrel!! As a result, we have a whole barrel of Bourbon and soon a whole barrel of beer aged in the same cask!
Currently, they have 4 breweries lined up for The Wine and Cheese Place Collaboration Series.
Collaboration 1: Buffalo Trace. Schlafly Brewing’s Quad. In barrels since 8/5/11
Collaboration 2: 9 Year Old Knob Creek Barrel, sent to Perennial Artisanal Ales. Filled with Heart Of Gold Wheatwine. In barrel since 10/6/11
Collaboration 3: Elijah Craig 12 Year Bourbon Barrel. Four Hands Brewing Company. Filled with Espresso Vanilla Stout. To be barreled Nov, 2011.
Collaboration 4: Buffalo Trace Barrel. 2nd Shift Brewing. The brewery wants you to vote on the beer (click here to vote). Barreled ASAP.
Availability: 18-22 cases of 750-ml bottles. All locations.
Pumpkinator Release & St. Arnold’s Most Interesting Man In The World
St. Arnold’sPumpkinator started out as part of their Divine Reserve Series. It was so well recieved when it was released back in 2009 that they decided to brew this Imperial Stout/Pumpkin Ale again as a seasonal. The Imperial Stout base has lots of pumpkin added to it and was dry spiced. Pumpkinator has been sitting in the tanks since late August until it was just bottled and released today! People were lined up before 10AM in Houston to get their 4 bottle allotment. Pic via Beer, TX. [Chron]
Check out Brewer Dennis Rhee, St. Arnold’s Most Interesting Man in the World, talking about brewing Pumpkinator:
Ninkasi Imperiale Stout is making it’s debut this week – a completely new 22oz bomber release joining the winter 4 pack. Single release to follow.
Strong, dark and brooding, Imperial Stouts were originally crafted by the British to survive the long journey to Russia through rain, sleet, and snow. Full bodied and surprisingly smooth, Imperiale Stout has a big roast hit up front, and rich, dark malt flavors balanced by ample hop bitterness.
Meet Sam AdamsLongshot American Homebrew Contest Winner #1 – Joe Formanek. Winners were just announced at GABF a couple of weeks ago. Five Crown Imperial Stout is 1 of 3 that will be appearing in the mixed 6 pack.
About Five Crown: For the past 15 years, Joe has been brewing his Russian Imperial Stout. This malt forward ale has a rich complexity, with roasty chocolate notes, yet enough hop bitterness to balance out the sweetness. This satisfying winter brew is full bodied with an enjoyable velvety smoothness.
Mother Earth Silent Night With A Coffee Twist Releases 12/1
Mother Earth Brewing has scheduled the release of it’s winter seasonal, Silent Night, for December 1st. It will be released in corked 750ml bottles and draft. Bottles will be available at the taproom and some kegs will make it out across the state.
Right now this festive brew is making its way to 24 whiskey barrels where it will sit for about 2 months. Then it will be transferred to a brite tank for carbonation before being bottled.
As a special treat this year, Mother Earth Brewing has collaborated with Counter Culture Coffee (Durham, NC) and Silent Night was seeped in the whirlpool with a custom coffee blend made just for the brewery.
Some news from Alaska, Anchorage Brewing has a good bit brewing.
Tide and it’s Takers Triple is next for the young brewery – a triple with Sorachi Ace & Stryian Golding hops, aged in French oak with brett.
Anadromous Belgian Black Bier. Summit Hops. Pinot Noir barrels. Brewed with Kodiak Salmon Berries and brett. Triple Fermented. 8.5% ABV & 30 IBU’s. November release.
Darkest Hour Belgian Imperial Stout. Summit Hops Brewed with molasses, brown sugar & Italian black licorice. Double barrel aging: Rye Whiskey & Pinot Noir barrels. 13% ABV & 33 IBU’s. December Release.
Anchorage also is debuting (or debuted at this point) Anticipation Imperial Stout, 9%. A collaboration with Gabe Fletcher of Anchorage, and Sleepy Lady Brewing.
The above beers join Bitter Monk & Love Buzz Saison, and Whiteout Wit.
Nebraska Brewing’s Black Betty makes a reappearance on October 27, 2011. Aged in Stranahan’s whiskey, soon to be hard to come by.
