Sam Adams Whitewater IPA. A wheat ale brewed with apricots & spices.
This hazy brew combines the crisp character of a white ale with the intense pine and citrus flavors of an India Pale Ale. We took the unique combination to Continue Reading →
Widmer Brothers Brewing’s 3rd addition to their Rotator IPA series – Spiced IPA. The Rotator series features a rotating lineup of hoppy IPAs. Preceeding Widmer, is Falconer’s IPA, and O’Ryely IPA, X-144 IPA.
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA
7% ABV
Clown Shoes Brewing is about to put Supa Hero IPA into the tanks. Release date to follow.
Supa Hero: Batch 1.
Short pours? Drinking Geuze through straws? Dusty bottles growing old in liquor stores? Bwahahahahaha! Meet Boston’s own Supa Here, Captain M. Continue Reading →
The prolific hopmeisters at Yazoo Brewing (Nashville, TN) have released Hop Project #60, bottled 10/21/11.
First wort hopped with Perle, then Magnum at 75 min, Cascade at 30 min, Warrior at 15 min, Columbus at 5 min, and dry hopped with Continue Reading →
You take Dogfish Head 60 Minute and mix it with 90 Minute, add a little maple syrup, and you have 75 Minute IPA -aka Johnny Cask. I can’t believe I first mentioned the appearance of this beer over 2 years Continue Reading →
Leinenkugel is experimenting with a barrel aging program. The first experiments have been with Big Eddy Imperial Stout. Eddy has spent time in bourbon and rye bourbon barrels. Here’s the kicker, these releases don’t really exist. Well, they Continue Reading →
New Holland Mad Hatter IPA
Style: IPA
Hops: Citra, Michigan-grown, Cascade, Centennial
Malts: 2 row, munich, wheat, carapils
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Cans, Draft
7% ABV
Sam Adams Whitewater IPA. A wheat ale brewed with apricots & spices.
This hazy brew combines the crisp character of a white ale with the intense pine and citrus flavors of an India Pale Ale. We took the unique combination to a new level with the sublet addition of apricots, which provide a slight sweetness to balance the bitterness of the hops. Cheers!
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft.
Arrival: TBA
5.8% ABV
Widmer Brothers Brewing’s 3rd addition to their Rotator IPA series – Spiced IPA. The Rotator series features a rotating lineup of hoppy IPAs. Preceeding Widmer, is Falconer’s IPA, and O’Ryely IPA, X-144 IPA.
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA
7% ABV
Clown Shoes Brewing is about to put Supa Hero IPA into the tanks. Release date to follow.
Supa Hero: Batch 1.
Short pours? Drinking Geuze through straws? Dusty bottles growing old in liquor stores? Bwahahahahaha! Meet Boston’s own Supa Here, Captain M. The Protecta of The Bee-ah!This India Pale Ale will be made with the freshest, dankest, most wicked ahhhh-some hops available at brew time.
Style: IPA
Availability: 220z bombers.
Release: TBA
8% ABV
The prolific hopmeisters at Yazoo Brewing (Nashville, TN) have released Hop Project #60, bottled 10/21/11.
First wort hopped with Perle, then Magnum at 75 min, Cascade at 30 min, Warrior at 15 min, Columbus at 5 min, and dry hopped with Columbus.
Style: American IPA
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. Every changing hop experiment.
?? ABV
You take Dogfish Head 60 Minute and mix it with 90 Minute, add a little maple syrup, and you have 75 Minute IPA -aka Johnny Cask. I can’t believe I first mentioned the appearance of this beer over 2 years ago. Finally, this beer will see more glasses. It’s headed for 750ml bottles. The maple syrup is the same from the Calagione Family Farm, the same syrup used in Life & Limb. Cask made it’s debut March 26th, 2009 at what DFH called a “Simul-Cask” event. Simultaneous casks tapped at the brewpub, in Philly, Manhattan, & Boston. It has made various appearances since then. The bottle artwork has little addendum. Groucho glasses on the image of Johnny Cash… (See original artwork below)
There are some situations when 90 is too much. There are other situations when 60 is too little. There are many situations when 75 is juuust right. Bottle conditioned with pure maple syrup for complexity and age-ability and dry hopped out the bejeezum boards.
Availability: 750ml bottles. Draft (pub)
Arrival: March, 2012
7.5% ABV
Leinenkugel is experimenting with a barrel aging program. The first experiments have been with Big Eddy Imperial Stout. Eddy has spent time in bourbon and rye bourbon barrels. Here’s the kicker, these releases don’t really exist. Well, they do – but they don’t. These little 7 oz bottles are just testers. The brewers at Lenie’s took the first release of Big Eddy (2010) and aged it in (2) Heaven Hill for a full year. The flavor of this beer is incredible. (More on that in a minute.)
Also on the way are 2 NEW beers from Leinie’s:
Wee Heavy Scotch Ale. New style for Lenies. 2012 will see the release to 30 key accounts. There will also be a barrel side project for Wee Heavy. More rye bourbon & bourbon.
IPA. The brewery has been itching to release a hoppy offering. April 2012 will see this release.
There are other styles in development, and Leinenkugel’s expands their lineup.
So where does this leave the barrel aging? First public release is about 2 years away. It will take time for the brewery to build up a barrel inventory to move forward with the program.
How does it taste? Lovers of barrel aged beers should already start drooling over this release. Caramel, Raisins, vanilla, molasses, rye & oak. I found myself trying to get the last drops out of the bottle (I had to share 7ozs!) 2 years is too long to wait for more.
Below are pics of of the barrels at Lenies
Big Eddy and it’s Barrel Aged sibling
New Holland Mad Hatter IPA
Style: IPA
Hops: Citra, Michigan-grown, Cascade, Centennial
Malts: 2 row, munich, wheat, carapils
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Cans, Draft
7% ABV
