Posted in Berghoff Brewing, New Beers

Berghoff Dortwunder

by Reid Ramsay April 23, 2012

Posted in Doylestown Brewing, New Beers

Doylestown Brewing R5 Lager Cans

by Reid Ramsay April 23, 2012

Posted in Coming Soon, Red Hare Brewing

Red Hare In Cans: Long Day Lager

Red Hare Brewing (Marietta, GA) looks to be the first brewery in Georgia release their beer in cans. (Not counting the Anheuser-Busch plant in Cartersville.) The canning line has already been ordered and will be arriving in time for installation in May, 2012.

Long Day Lager will be the first beer to be canned. Incidentally, it will also be the first packaging outside of draft by the brewery. SweetWater Brewing has expressed a serious interest in canning also, potentially later this year.

Style: Lager
Availability: 12 oz cans, Draft. Year round. Cans arriving in Summer, 2012

5.25% ABV

Read on more more on the can beer scene

by Reid Ramsay April 19, 2012

Posted in Mahrs BrÃ¤u, New Releases

Mahr’s Mastodon Widely Available

Mahr’s Mastodon. The beer is brewed for the Atlanta, Georgia based metal band Mastodon. The band was touring in Germany, prompting Stephan Michel of Mahr’s Brau to create this lager for the crew. For a beer that was once apparently limited to 200 bottles, it’s now widely available in the United States and Canada.

Let’s be honest: You’re probably more likely to take illegal substances while you listen tothe heavy metal band Mastodon. But Mastodon and their crew had the opportunity to get shitfaced legally while they were playing the recent Sonisphere stop in Hockenheim, Germany on Saturday. Stephan Michel of Mahr’s Brau brewery created a limited edition Mastodon Premium Lager that was handed out to Mastodon and their crew at the show. They were reportedly “swallowing.”

Style: Lager
Availability: 750 ml bottles

5.2% ABV

pic via @GreensBeer

by Reid Ramsay April 10, 2012

Posted in Victory Brewing Company, Videos

Get To Know Victory Lager [Video]

Get a little closer to your beer. No better way to do that than with the folks at Victory who brewed it. Taste Victory.

by Reid Ramsay April 10, 2012

Posted in Anheuser-Busch, New Beers

Budweiser St. Louis Cardinals World Series Champs

by Reid Ramsay April 9, 2012

Posted in New Belgium, New Releases

New Belgium “Shift” Hits Shelves

New Belgium’s newest can offering is now hitting shelves. Shift Pale Lager is ready for your hot weather consumption. Shift is a light bodied lager brewed with Nelson Sauvin hops from New Zealeand. Those hops give you a nice tropical, fruity flavor – much like the Sauvignon wine grape lends to wine. Nelson hops really shine in a lager.

Shift is very approachable at just 5% ABV. It is solely available in 16 oz tallboys, a flavorful pint of lager you can take anywhere. New Belgium just bought a spiffy new canning line (selling the old one to Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, FL). Shift is joined by a few more tallboy counterparts – Fat Tire, and Ranger IPA. Cans are really blowing up in the U.S..

Style: Lager
Hops: Target, Nelson Sauvin, Liberty, Cascade
Malts: Pale, Munich, C-80

Taste Expectations: Nice crisp malt flavor, light hops, floral & tropical. Refreshing.
Availability: 16oz cans (only), Year round.

5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay April 3, 2012

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