IPA

Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye Arrives

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 Daly Double Arrives Friday

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 →

Elysian Brewing Bottling Idiot

Elysian Brewing looks to be bottling Idiot Sauvin IPA this year.  This Manic IPA release features Nelson Sauvin hops, a New Zealand variety that adds wine-like flavors to beer.   Idiot has be spotted on tap recently.

The star of this Continue Reading →

Oskar Blues Hoppy Deviant In Tallboys

Oskar Blues (Lyon, CO) will be bringing Deviant Dale’s Pale Ale to 16oz tallboys in 2012.  This hopped up offering launched last January on tap at Colorado Old Chicago restaurants.  It was the first collaboration on a exclusive brew that Continue Reading →

Sierra Nevada Red-oric

Sierra Nevada Red-oric.

Availability: Draft Only, As of 12/23/11

8% ABV

Brewed by 2 individuals in Indiana.  Read more on this brew HERE.

 

Why Lagunitas Still Sucks

So this season, Brown Shugga’couldn’t be made by Lagunitas Brewing.  They weren’t happy about it at all, but DID make Lagunitas Sucks – an IPA attempting to smooth over hurt feelings.  As it turns out, Sucks has been quite popular. Continue Reading →

Southampton Burton IPA

Southampton Burton IPA.  Obviously an English IPA (re: Burton)  Could be a name tweak to the brewery’s IPA?

Availability: 12oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

6.5% ABV 

Posted in New Releases, Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye Arrives

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

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Half Acre Brewing, New Releases

Half Acre Daly Double Arrives Friday

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.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Elysian Brewing

Elysian Brewing Bottling Idiot

Elysian Idiot SauvinElysian Brewing looks to be bottling Idiot Sauvin IPA this year.  This Manic IPA release features Nelson Sauvin hops, a New Zealand variety that adds wine-like flavors to beer.   Idiot has be spotted on tap recently.

The star of this show in this beer is the citrus and passion fruit aroma and flavor of the New Zealand Nelson Sauvin hops.   Our Manic IPA Series allows us to indulge in our hop obsession and share with you some of our favorite varietals.  

Style: American IPA
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft.
Arrival: January, 2012

6.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Oskar Blues Brewing

Oskar Blues Hoppy Deviant In Tallboys

Oskar Blues Deviant Dales PaleOskar Blues (Lyon, CO) will be bringing Deviant Dale’s Pale Ale to 16oz tallboys in 2012.  This hopped up offering launched last January on tap at Colorado Old Chicago restaurants.  It was the first collaboration on a exclusive brew that was intended for OB’s tap rooms.

What’s Deviant Dale’s?

It’s a double edition fo the perennial favorite – Dales’s Pale Ale.  The brewery describes it as “a sensory assault for Hop Lovers.”   There are 4 hop editions during the hop process, and final massive dry hop of Columbus hops. Hops, hops and more hops.  Not just for tap handles anymore.  We’re talking tallboys baby!

Style: IPA
Availability: Draft, & soon 16oz tallboy cans
Arrival: TBA

7.5% ABV 

Let’s sling a little mud, girl.  Sippin on a tallboy

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada Red-oric

Sierra Nevada Red-oricSierra Nevada Red-oric.

Availability: Draft Only, As of 12/23/11

8% ABV

Brewed by 2 individuals in Indiana.  Read more on this brew HERE.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Coming Soon, Lagunitas

Why Lagunitas Still Sucks

Lagunitas Still SucksSo this season, Brown Shugga’couldn’t be made by Lagunitas Brewing.  They weren’t happy about it at all, but DID make Lagunitas Sucks – an IPA attempting to smooth over hurt feelings.  As it turns out, Sucks has been quite popular.  Ok, so it’s no Shugga’ but a tasty substitute.

Remember when I mentioned you’ll see it again?  If you missed your shot at this tasty second stringer, you’ll get you’re shot with Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Leftover Ale. Here’s some good bad or bad good news.  It’s taking the place of Big Hairy Eyeball.  Recently, Lagunita’s new brewhouse ate it en route to Petaluma.  The delay has set production back even more.  So, more Sucks, less Balls. err.. Eyeballs. Hairy ones.

Big Hairy Eyeball will return in 2013.   Some beer is better than no beer right?

In other Lagunitas news: More Bourbon Cappuccino Stout headed your’re way, Fusion 8, & some Butterfly Videos

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Southampton Publick House

Southampton Burton IPA

Southampton Burton IPASouthampton Burton IPA.  Obviously an English IPA (re: Burton)  Could be a name tweak to the brewery’s IPA?

Availability: 12oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

6.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay