Oak Aged

Mikkeller Spontaneous Series: SpontanGooseberry

Mikkeller (Denmark) released a series of spontaneously fermented beers in 2012, each featuring a different fruit addition. 2013 should see a new round of those funky beers. The base beer for SpontanGooseberry is a lambic. Mikkeller threw in gooseberries for this addition.

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Great Divide Preps 19th Anniversary

Great Divide Brewing (Denver, CO) has been in the brewing business for 19 years. Each year, Great Divide celebrates with an anniversary release – typically a wood-aged imperial IPA. Things don’t stay the same forever. The 2013 celebration looks to Continue Reading →

Posted in Innis & Gunn

A New Innis & Gunn Offering: Canadian Cherrywood Aged

Innis & Gunn Canadian Cherrywood Aged

Innis & Gunn excels at wood/barrel aging. You could call them Scottish experts on the subject. Tack this one onto the repertoire – Canadian Cherrywood Aged. For this edition, a scotch ale was aged on cherrywood, and a touch of Canadian maple syrup was added.

This limited bottling of Innis & Gunn has be matured over Canadian Black Cherrywood a then finished with the addition of maple syrup. our knowledge, this is the first time th Cherrywood has been used to mature a bee The result is a really full bodied Scotch Ale with a rich lasting finish.

Style: Scotch Ales (w/ Maple Syrup. Cherrywood Aged)
Availability: 750ml bottles, Draft
Arrival: June, 2013

8.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Mikkeller

Mikkeller Spontaneous Series: SpontanGooseberry

Mikkeller SpontanGooseberry

Mikkeller (Denmark) released a series of spontaneously fermented beers in 2012, each featuring a different fruit addition. 2013 should see a new round of those funky beers. The base beer for SpontanGooseberry is a lambic. Mikkeller threw in gooseberries for this addition.

The gooseberry is native to Europe, grows on a bush, and basically tastes like a sour grape. We’re pretty sure you can expect a base SpontanAle without fruit additions for your comparison.

Style: Lambic (w/ Gooseberries. Oak Aged)
Availability: 11.2oz bottles
Arrival: TBA (2013)

7.7% ABV 

Lambic, The Rundown. 

A lambic is a spontaneously fermented beer. What’s that? The beer is exposed to wild yeasts and bacteria. In this case (most likely) these wild yeasts live in the oak of the barrels they are aged in. The result is a tart/sour tasting beer. 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in The Bruery

The Bruery Adds Peaches to Sour in the Rye

The Bruery Sour in the Rye Peach

A fruitier version of Sour in the Rye? Sour is an yearly release by The Bruery, a rye beer that spends more than a year funking up in an oak barrel. In a new 2013 twist, the brewery is adding peaches and nectarines to the barrel.

Deliciously sour, bursting with spicy rye notes and hints of oak fro the barrels aged within.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches, Nectarines, Oak Aged)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

7% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Great Divide

Great Divide Preps 19th Anniversary

Great Divide Brewing (Denver, CO) has been in the brewing business for 19 years. Each year, Great Divide celebrates with an anniversary release – typically a wood-aged imperial IPA. Things don’t stay the same forever. The 2013 celebration looks to use birch syrup. Birch sap makes a great sweetener for pancakes & waffles, even beer.

19TH ANNIVERSARY ALE isn’t just a wood-aged ale. It’s a compass–a reminder of where we’ve been and where we’re going. Brewed with pure birch syrup and aged on birch wood, this beer embraces reverential tradition and revolutionary innovation.As we celebrate our 19th year, we hope yorill join us for the road ahead. 

Style:      (w/ Birch Syrup, Birch Wood Aged)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

10.2% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon, Widmer Brothers Brewing

Widmer Brothers/ Cigar City Collab: Gentleman’s Club

Widmer Brothers Gentleman's Club

Meet newbie creation from Widmer Brothers (Portland, OR) Gentleman’s Club – a collaboration with Cigar City Brewing. True to form with both breweries, the beer boasts an interesting list of additions. Look for cherries, lemons, and oranges in this brew, aged on oak spirals. (Little spiral oak pieces used to enhance the flavor.)

You’ll note the “old fashioned style ale” is an homage to the “Old Fashioned” cocktail made with orange & lemon dating back to the late 1800’s, invented in a gentleman’s club. The brewers of Cigar City (Tampa) road tripped

out to Widmer in Oregon for this collaboration, who will package this brew.

Style: American Strong Ale (w/ Cherries, Oranges, Lemons, Oak Aged)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: TBA

9.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Brouwerij Bavik, Coming Soon

Petrus Red Headed Stateside (Now Available)

UPDATED.  A new release from Brouwerij Bavik, Petrus Red is headed stateside. Petrus Red is actually a new brown ale, blended with 85%/15% blend of Petrus Pale Ale, aged in oak with red cherries.  The beer comes into the United States through Global Beer.

Style: Flanders Oud Bruin (Blended, Oak Aged, w/ Cherries)
Availability: Bottles
Arrival: Available now to most markets.

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Ska Brewing

Ska Seasonal Stout #4: Estival Cream Stout

We here at Beer Street Journal were just informed that the 4th edition in Ska Brewing’s Seasonal Stout Series will be Estival Cream Stout. Brewed with dried orange peel, orange blossom honey, with oak. Vernal Minthe Stout, the third release in the series, arrives tomorrow (March 20th) for the Spring crossover.

 

 

by Reid Ramsay