Flying Dog’s newest release Secret Stash Harvest Ale is hitting shelves this week. Secret Stash is an ever-evolving recipe that celebrates the fruits of each year’s crop. This year, we’re using fresh Cascade and Chinook hops balanced with soft red Continue Reading →
Brewed with two-row caramel and Euro-Pils malts to create a rich amber color and medium body. Chinook hops from the Pacific Northwest provide fragrant hop aroma and are balanced with Columbus and German Perle hops Continue Reading →
New York’s Bronx neighborhood is boasting it’s first brewery in over 50 years – Bronx Brewery. Steve O’Sullivan had the idea to start a brewery in 2009, bringing in friends s Chris Gallant, Damian Brown and Kirk Voltz.
Full Sail celebrates the hop harvest season with a long winded press release…
Hood River, Or — One of the secrets to the wonderful flavors in beer is hops. Located in the heartland of hops, every year the Full Sail brewers wait with Continue Reading →
Lost Abbey just released their Fallbrook Estate Homegrown pale ale brewed with hops fresh local hops. Ryan Tillotson, media brewery guy interviewed head brewer Mike Rodriguez. [LostAbbey]
Flying Dog’s newest release Secret Stash Harvest Ale is hitting shelves this week. Secret Stash is an ever-evolving recipe that celebrates the fruits of each year’s crop. This year, we’re using fresh Cascade and Chinook hops balanced with soft red wheat, sweet corn, potatoes, and honey.
Whether it’s a diet-breaking bag of cookies, dinner rolls in an 80 year old’s purse, or money in the mattress, everyone has a secret stash. For us, it’s the locally-sourced ingredients we use in our Secret Stash Harvest Ale. A celebration of Maryland’s agricultural roots, each year’s batch will be a little different. And we’ve found the perfect person to share our stash with. Brewed with honey and spices. 5% ABV / 12 oz. bottles
Style: Pale Ale Availability: 12oz bottles, draft. Arrival: Mid-September, 2011
5.5% ABV
Tapping parties coming up this week:
To celebrate the fruits of this year’s harvest, we’re hosting release parties next week all around Maryland, DC, and Virginia.
Brewed with two-row caramel and Euro-Pils malts to create a rich amber color and medium body. Chinook hops from the Pacific Northwest provide fragrant hop aroma and are balanced with Columbus and German Perle hops in the finish to create a flavor that is unique to Allegheny Pale Ale.
Style:Pale Ale Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft. Year round
New York’s Bronx neighborhood is boasting it’s first brewery in over 50 years – Bronx Brewery. Steve O’Sullivan had the idea to start a brewery in 2009, bringing in friends s Chris Gallant, Damian Brown and Kirk Voltz.
Bronx Pale Ale finally debuted on September 8th, at the Bronx Ale House.
“It’s been a fun ride and it’s great to be where we are right now,” Gallant said. “We knew we had something special but we were never satisfied. We came up with better ingredients for a perfect ale, and Damian really brewed one heck of a beer. Everybody seems to love it and we couldn’t be happier.”
About Bronx Pale: This deep amber, American-style pale ale is brewed with five different barley malts, generous additions of Cascade and Centennial hops, and a unique strain of yeast. The British, German and American malts used provide a blend of caramel, biscuit, and nutty malt flavors. The hops provide a gentle, pleasant bitterness with an intense floral and citrus aroma. It is dry-hopped, unfiltered and unpasteurized.
6.3% ABV, 34 IBUs
Bronx Pale is brewed at Cottrell Brewery in Pawcatuck, Connecticut. There are about 15 places in New York pouring the beer at the moment. No immediate details on future releases, or physical brewery plans. [YourNabe via BronxBrewery]
Full Sail celebrates the hop harvest season with a long winded press release…
Hood River, Or — One of the secrets to the wonderful flavors in beer is hops. Located in the heartland of hops, every year the Full Sail brewers wait with thirsty anticipation for hop harvest and the chance to celebrate by brewing fresh hop beers. When the hops are at their peak, the Full Sail brewers truck out to the hop fields to collect the aromatic bounty. These seasonal wonders will go from field to brew kettle within a matter of hours and the magic begins.
“As brewers we are always reliant on nature’s bounty, from the quality of the barley harvest to how the hops weathered through the Oregon summer. But no moment brings this relationship to sharper focus than our fresh hop beers. This year, we celebrate the season’s first hops with four different beers: Lupulin, 3 brews of ale each featuring a different hop variety, and Hopfenfrisch, a Pilsner lager, showcasing a fourth variety. All highlight the brewer’s art as well as nature’s gift,” said Full Sail Executive Brewmaster, Jamie Emmerson.
“When we brew with fresh hops, timing is everything,” added Emmerson. “There’s such a small window of time to take advantage of these fresh hops. We need to get them into the brew kettle within hours of picking while their oils and resins are still at their peak. It takes five to seven times more hops to brew a fresh hop beer, and it’s absolutely worth it. The result is a subtle range of fresh hop flavors and aromas that you can only get brewing with fresh hops.”
According to Emmerson, each hop variety reaches peak maturity at a different time during harvest. “For this year’s fresh hopped beers we brewed four different batches waiting each time for the right hops. To highlight the unique flavor of the different hop varieties, we brewed three ale batches using the same malts, but different hops. The beer’s balanced caramel character and malt body really let the hops shine brightly through on the palate. In the first batch we used Tettnangs, a classic old world noble hop. This beer has a full herbal character with a smooth spiciness. Next, we used Centennial hops which add a large fruity orange grapefruit citrus flavor. Then we brewed with big bold Magnum hops, a high alpha hop that imparts more bitterness per pound. The Magnum hops lend a subtle citrus flavor with a crisp hop flavor and finish. The flavors are slight orange and lime. In the lager version, Hopfenfrisch Pilsner lager, we used fresh harvested Perle, a close cousin to the North Brewer hop, which give the beer a strong herbal character with classic pils hop aromas. Combined with our lager yeast, these flavors make for a classic pilsner beer which give the beer a pleasant hop character. This pale gold aromatic brew was left unfiltered to preserve its smooth body and honeyed malt flavors. This beer is crisp and clean.” The hop varieties were locally grown at Indie Hops, BC Hop farm and Sodbuster and Goschie Farms, which are both Salmon Safe certified hop growers.
Full Sail’s Fresh Hop beers are a veritable hop lover’s delight. The tiny lupulin glands inside the hop flowers, packed with sticky resins and essential oils, provide all that wonderful bitterness, flavor and aroma. These beers are all about hops; wet hopped, kettle hopped, hop back hopped, and dry hopped in the fermenter with 150 pounds of hops per batch. That’s 7.5 pounds of hops per barrel! Most products this fresh last only a short time. Please enjoy while you can.
About Full Sail Brewing Company:
The independent and employee-owned Full Sail Brewery is perched on a bluff in Hood River, Oregon, overlooking the most epic wind and kite surfing spot in the world. At this very moment 47 specialists in the liquid refreshment arts are crafting barley and hops into your next beer. Among the company’s most popular brews are Full Sail Amber, IPA, Pale, LTD, Session and Session Black Premium lager. Founded in 1987, the Full Sail crew has been fermenting godlike nectar for 24 years. Committed to brewing great beer andsustainable practices their award winning brews are now available in 28 states. The Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub is open seven days a week. Swing by for a pint, grab a bite, tour the brewery, or just soak up the view. http://www.fullsailbrewing.com ###
Lost Abbey just released their Fallbrook Estate Homegrown pale ale brewed with hops fresh local hops. Ryan Tillotson, media brewery guy interviewed head brewer Mike Rodriguez. [LostAbbey]
Boulevard Brewing (Kansas City, Missouri) Test Double Pale Ale
