IPA

Sea Dog. More hoppy, less fruity.

Sea Dog Brewing (Portland, ME) makes some pretty great fruit infused wheat beers.  What as been missing (outside of Maine) has been a hop infused offering. (Hop infused is a job beer geeks.)   Headed to shelves soon outside of Continue Reading →

Harpoon’s 100 Barrel Rye Celebration

Session 37 of Harpoon Brewing’s “100 Barrel” series has been announced.  This edition celebrates Harpoon’s 25 years of brewing with a Rye based IPA made by the founders of Harpoon.

Harpoon was founded in 1986 by Dan Kenary and Rich Doyle Continue Reading →

Sam Adams Dissects Latitude 48

This spring, Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) is adding single hopped additions of their Latitude 48 IPA.  Names for the 48th Latitude dubbed the “hop belt” of the Northern Hemisphere.  The regular edition of Latitude 48 is a blend of Ahantum, Simcoe, & East Kent Golding hops.  The new editions dissect the hops of the original Lat 48, plus a few extra.  A bit like Mikkeller has done with their single hop IPA series.

What You Need To Know:
Latitude 48 will be available in 6 options. Regular Latitude 48.  Single hopped editions, Adhantum, Simcoe, East Kent Golding, Zeus, Hallertau Mittelfrueh.

From the labels:

Hallertau: …Brewed only with Hallertau Mittelfrueh Noble Hops, a traditional variety of Bavaria’s Hallertau in Germany… Hallertau Mittelfrueh hops contribute a soft bitterness, along with delicate lemony citrus and resinous pine notes, balanced by slight sweetness and full body from the five different malts.

Cigar City Brewing Releases Papaya IPA

Over the weekend at Cigar City Brewing’ s Hunaphu day, Papaya IPA was released.  Papaya has made a couple of small appearances on draft before this big release.

Papaya IPA is a tropical take on Jai Alai IPA with unsweetened dried Continue Reading →

COMING SOON: Terrapin Indiana Krunkles

Confirmed!  Next edition in Terrapin Brewing’s Side Project Series is indeed “Indiana Krunkles.”   A wheat India Pale Ale.

As mentioned earlier this week, the beer and the name were a unconfirmed.  A wheat IPA is basically a hoppy wheat ale, Continue Reading →

It’s Aprihop Season!

It’s Aprihop season again!  Dogfish Head Brewing’s spring seasonal has shipped.  Apricots and hops really make this beer.  Just read Dogfish’s description:

Aprihop is our fruit beer for hopheads!

It is an American IPA brewed with Pilsner and Cystal malts massively hopped Continue Reading →