IPA

Mikkeller Tiger Baby Hits U.S.

The newest stateside from Mikkeller is Open Window Open Hills IPA.  It celebrates the new album by Danish pop group Tiger Baby.   Open Windows is an IPA brewed with mango and passion fruit.

Style: IPA w/ Mango & Passionfruit
Availability: 750ml bottles.

8% ABV

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Flying Dog Snake Dog Coming To Cans

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 Hop Project #63

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 →

Two Brothers Brewing Launching Cans

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 →

Widmer’s X-114 IPA With Grapefruit Is Shaddock

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 →

Lagunitas Sucks (Holiday Leftovers) Hits

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 →

Posted in Mikkeller

Mikkeller Tiger Baby Hits U.S.

Mikkeller Open HillsThe newest stateside from Mikkeller is Open Window Open Hills IPA.  It celebrates the new album by Danish pop group Tiger Baby.   Open Windows is an IPA brewed with mango and passion fruit.

Style: IPA w/ Mango & Passionfruit
Availability:
 750ml bottles.

8% ABV

Serenade your beer with some Tiger Baby sounds…

Posted in New Beers

Atlantic New Guy IPA

Atlantic New Guy IPA

Posted in Flying Dog Brewing

Flying Dog Snake Dog Coming To Cans

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.

Posted in New Releases, Yazoo Brewing

Yazoo Hop Project #63

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.

Posted in Beer News, New Releases, Two Brothers Brewing

Two Brothers Brewing Launching Cans

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

Posted in Widmer Brothers Brewing

Widmer’s X-114 IPA With Grapefruit Is Shaddock

I calculate this to be the 4th addition to Widmer Brother’s Rotator IPA SeriesShaddock IPA.  The Rotator series features a rotating lineup of hoppy IPAs.  Preceeding Shaddock, is Falconer’s IPA, and O’Ryely IPAX-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

 

Posted in Lagunitas, New Releases

Lagunitas Sucks (Holiday Leftovers) Hits

Lagunitas Sucks The LeftoversTalk 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