Flying Dog Brewing has plans to start canning this year. The first cans roll out in March. Here’s a look at Snake Dog IPA. Snake is a year round IPA offering.
Yazoo Brewing is shipping Hop Project #63. The project is a way for brewmaster Linus Hall to experiment using any hops he can get his hands on.
Linus on #63
This is the one I personally have been really anticipating. Last year Continue Reading →
The first cans from Two Brothers Brewing (Warrenville, IL) will roll off the line in April. The brewery just purchased a canning line, and will start with Outlaw IPA.
Excited for the new opportunities that cans will bring, Co-founder Jason Ebel Continue Reading →
I calculate this to be the 4th addition to Widmer Brother’s Rotator IPA Series – Shaddock IPA. The Rotator series features a rotating lineup of hoppy IPAs. Preceeding Shaddock, is Falconer’s IPA, and O’Ryely IPA, X-144 IPA. This new is actually X-114 IPA Continue Reading →
Talk about more than they bargained for. You start with Lagunitas not being able to brew Brown Shugga’ (money and capacity roadblocks), so they brewing a substitute – Lagunitas Sucks. The IPA was a pretty big hit, disappearing from shelves Continue Reading →
Sierra Nevada’s newest offering Ruthless Rye has hit shelves. Ruthless is an IPA brewed with rye malt as a replacement for Glissade.
Ruthless IPA is brewed with this rustic grain for refined flavors — combining the peppery spice of rye and Continue Reading →
Half Acre Brewing is in the process of brewing Daly Double, made in memoriam of a friend Terry Daly. He died recently, and suddenly.
Terry was a fan of music, geometry, his two Huskies, Moon & Luna, and amply hopped craft beer. We’re Continue Reading →
Flying Dog Brewing has plans to start canning this year. The first cans roll out in March. Here’s a look at Snake Dog IPA. Snake is a year round IPA offering.
Yazoo Brewing is shipping Hop Project #63. The project is a way for brewmaster Linus Hall to experiment using any hops he can get his hands on.
Linus on #63
This is the one I personally have been really anticipating. Last year I managed to get my hands on just a little bit of Australian Galaxy hops, which we used as just a finishing hop in one of the Hop Projects. But we couldn’t make very much of it, and I went back to trying to source a larger amount. Well, we got lucky and found enough this year to do a nice long run of Hop Project #63, featuring this great hop from down under, in both a flavor and aroma hop role. It’s got a wonderfully ripe fruity nose, with a long, lingering, and clean bitterness. We made 160 bbls of it so far (equivalent to about 2000 cases) so we should be able to get some out to all the areas that sell Yazoo Hop Project over the next month. Look for it in Nashville first, then Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Jackson and Vicksburg, MS; and very soon along the MS coast!
Style: IPA
Availability: 12oz bottles, limited draft.
The first cans from Two Brothers Brewing (Warrenville, IL) will roll off the line in April. The brewery just purchased a canning line, and will start with Outlaw IPA.
Excited for the new opportunities that cans will bring, Co-founder Jason Ebel says, “I look forward to enjoying Outlaw on the golf course and while fishing this summer. Cans are a convenient package to take just about anywhere with you.”
Jim and Jason Ebel founded the brewery in 1996. The 40,000 square foot brewery is 30 miles south of Chicago.
Style: IPA
Availability: 12oz bottles, 12oz cans, Draft. Year round.
Distribution Area: IL, OH, IN, NY, MN
6.5% ABV
I calculate this to be the 4th addition to Widmer Brother’s Rotator IPA Series – Shaddock IPA. The Rotator series features a rotating lineup of hoppy IPAs. Preceeding Shaddock, is Falconer’s IPA, and O’Ryely IPA, X-144 IPA. This new is actually X-114 IPA brewed with with grapefruit peels.
People sometimes describe the aromas and flavors of hoppy IPAs as “grapefruit.” Hell, why not use some then? Widmer’s brewing team used a simple IPA recipe and added a generous amount of dried grapefruit peel to the end of the boil. The aroma is a melody of citrus, with a slight spice undertone, accentuated by the use of Citra hops. The flavor is that of nice hop forward IPA with the bitterness of grapefruit.
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Style: IPA
Arrival: TBA
7% ABV
Talk about more than they bargained for. You start with Lagunitas not being able to brew Brown Shugga’ (money and capacity roadblocks), so they brewing a substitute – Lagunitas Sucks. The IPA was a pretty big hit, disappearing from shelves and tap handles as fast as it appeared. Bad news stuck Petaluma, California last last year when the brewhouse was destroyed in transit. The result? Big Hairy Eyeball gets bumped from the 2012 schedule. However that opened up the potential to brew Sucks again. This time with a name tweak – Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Leftovers Ale.
Don’t be confused. It’s the same hoppy IPA that has made so many people fall in love so quickly. Arriving on shelves now in 12oz bottles, & draft.
Style: American IPA
Availability: Limited early 2012 release. Sucks/Sucks Leftovers not on future brewing schedule.
7.85% ABV
pic via Chris Hoffman
Sierra Nevada’s newest offering Ruthless Rye has hit shelves. Ruthless is an IPA brewed with rye malt as a replacement for Glissade.
Ruthless IPA is brewed with this rustic grain for refined flavors — combining the peppery spice of rye and the bright citrusy flavors of whole-cone hops to create a complex ale for the tumultuous transition to Spring.
Style: IPA, brewed with rye malt
Availability: 12oz bottles, draft. Seasonal.
Taste Expectations: Spicy rye, mixes with pine & floral hop notes
6.6% ABV
pic via make&appreciate
Half Acre Brewing is in the process of brewing Daly Double, made in memoriam of a friend Terry Daly. He died recently, and suddenly.
Terry was a fan of music, geometry, his two Huskies, Moon & Luna, and amply hopped craft beer. We’re pretty sure that Terry was the foremost consumer of Daisy Cutter Pale Ale. Terry began popping in to buy sixtels of Daisy and before long he stopped by almost everyday just to chew the fat. After a while, he had the authority to walk back into the brewery and go into the cold room to reserve himself kegs and manage his own kegerator inventory for his home Daisy Cutter supply. Being a bright dude, we put him to work wiring things or lending a hand doing whatever needed to be done. He’d turn others on to our beer and took pride in his connection to our brewery. All good breweries acquire people. These people become the larger body that is the meat of your brewing company. Not the tanks or the beers, but the heart of what we do. It has a pulse of its own and its one of the best things about brewing beer for a living. The Daly Double is for Terry and all the other folks that give breweries life . To Terry, Huzzah!
Style: IPA
Availability: 22oz bombers. Growler fills.
Arrival: Friday January 6, 2012. 12 noon.
