Oak Aged

Cigar City White Oaked Jai Lai in a Can?

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Allagash FV13 Arrives [VIDEO]

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Posted in New Beers, Trinity Brewing

Trinity Ten Minutes of Pleasure Berliner Weisse

Trinity Ten Minutes of Pleasure Berliner Weisse

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, New Belgium

New Belgium Paardebloem Coming to Lips of Faith

A new collaboration is coming to New Belgium’s Lips Of Faith Series. Paardebloem pairs the Fort Collins based brewery with RedRock Brewery (Salt Lake, UT).

Using dandelion greens to bitter a Belgian-style ale blossomed from out brewers collaborating with Red Rock Brewing. This being our sixth interpretation together since 2008. Expect a wonderfully complex ale fermented with wild Belgian yeast and blended with just a touch of w0od-aged beer. Bitterness imparted from dandelion greens and grains of paradise will have you blowing wishes for sips.

Style: Belgian Strong Ale (w/ Peach Juice, Grains of Paradise, Dandelion Greens, Partially Oak Aged)
Availability: 22oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

9% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon

Cigar City White Oaked Jai Lai in a Can?

Inside this can will be an oak aged beer. Only a handful of those that I can think of. Cigar City’s final addition to their can line (for now) will be their White Oak Aged Jai Alai. Cigar City’s distribution has varied (on pretty much everything) so fingers crossed for summer drinking.

“The white oak adds smoothing notes of vanilla and slight hints of dill to the aroma and flavor profile. The finish is elegantly dry due to the light tannin notes from oak aging and though still loaded with hop flavor, hop bitterness is more restrained.”

Style: IPA (White Oak Aged)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft, 12 oz Cans (Soon)
Arrival: TBA

7.5% ABV 

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Jester King Brewery

Jester King Salt Lick: Wood Smoked Saison

Jester King Salt Lick

Jester King (Austin, TX) continues to push the flavor boundaries with Salt Lick, a smoked saison. The beer is a collaboration of sorts. A portion of the malt was smoked over pecan wood  at Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, Texas.

First came the witches, and soon after there were vampires. They came in droves and each time one popped up it seems to be better looking then the last., each polished to a blinding luster. For a brief moment even werewolves even had there moment in the spotlight, plucked and preened to studio perfection. Then, to our astonishment, monsters comprised of nothing more than smoke joined this pop phenomenon – and that we couldn’t resist.

Style: Saison (Partially Oak Aged, Smoked)
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

6.7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Allagash Brewing, New Releases

Allagash FV13 Arrives [VIDEO]

It was born in a standard steel fermenter, relocated to a 2700 gallon foudre (giant oak tanks used for aging usually wine) where it resided for the past 4 years, and then hand bottled and labeled just for your mouth’s enjoyment. Meet FV 13, Allagash’s first foudre beer, available starting today. This American Wild Ale “is a blend of wild yeast and bacteria, a base beer with lots of malt character, and about four years of patience. The finished beer is copper in color, with an aroma of cherries and caramel. The flavor is a blend of sweet and tart, with notes of fruit and caramelized sugar.”

Limited quantities of FV 13 will be available in limited quantities to Allagash’s entire distribution area.

Style: American Wild Ale (Oak Aged)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles

8.9% ABV

FV 13 Release – Allagash Brewing Company from Allagash Brewing on Vimeo.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Jester King Brewery

Jester King’s Mystery Raspberry Sour

In quite a cryptic email, Jester King says last month they added 2,000 lbs of raspberries from Washington state to oak barrels with a ‘wild, sour beer.’ No indication was provided of what this beer was, is, or will be, just that it happened. They aren’t sure how it will turn out or when it will be bottled but “if all goes well, we’ll be able to release our first fruited barrel-aged, sour beer sometime later this year.” Stay tuned for more details…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Great Divide

Rare Offering: Great Divide Barrel Ages Choco Yeti

A rare sighting coming to a select few this Valentine’s Day. Great Divide will tap a bourbon barrel aged edition of Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti.  This particular Yeti is an imperial stout with cocoa nibs, a dash of cayenne and aged in oak. Throw it in a Jim Beam barrel and you have a rare treat even a jilted lover on greeting card day could fall in love with.

Find this creature at the brewery’s tap room in Denver, Colorado on V-Day, 2013.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cacao Nibs, Cayenne, Oak Aged, Barrel Aged)
Availability: Draft only

9.5% ABV (+)

by Reid Ramsay