Peaches

Lost Abbey Track #2: Stairway To Heaven

The second release of Lost Abbey’s Ultimate Box Set Series releases this Saturday, February 18th, 2012.

The Beer:
From the Remixed Tracks, this is a blend of Cuvee from bourbon barrels blended into The Angel’s Share (bourbon) with peaches and topped off Continue Reading →

Field To Fermenter With Peachfork Wheat

Breckenridge Brewing celebrates the Colorado harvest season with Peachfork Wheat.  This wheat beer features fresh Colorado peaches, pureed just yesterday and added to the beer.

The peaches come from Peachfork Orchards & Vineyard of Palisade, Colorado.  Peachfork has been seen one Continue Reading →

Posted in Dogfish Head, Founders Brewing, Seasonal Return

Dogfish Head Festina Peche & Founder’s Cerise Return

Two fruity offerings have returned.  Dogfish Head Festina Peche, and Founder’s Cerise. 

Festine Peche is berliner weisse, brewed with peaches.  4.5% ABV

Festina Peche, since the natural peach sugars are eaten by the yeast, the fruit complexity is woven into both the aroma and the taste of the beer so there is no need to doctor it with woodruff or raspberry syrup. Just open and enjoy!

Founder’s Cerise fruit/vegetable beer chock full of cherries.  53 lbs in fact.  Harvested from Benton Harbor, Coloma, Grand Rapids and Traverse City.  The cherries are added at 5 different stages of fermentation in order to achieve a perfect balance of sour cherry and malt palette.  Cerise has a big malt bill to compliment the cherries, caramel being notable.  Cerise has a sweet, crisp mouthfeel. 6.5% ABV

Both are available in 12oz bottles, and draft.  Early summer seasonals… 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Belgium, Videos

New Belgium & G-Love Create Peach Porch Lounger (with Southern Twist)

Anyone else get a little giggly when news of a new Lips Of Faith beer from New Belgium surfaces?  Before you read any further, click play on the video.  Now keep reading.  Peach Porch Lounger is the result of a musical collaboration with G-Love of G-Love and the Special Sauce.  G-Love, better known as Garrett Dutton, has been home brewing since high school.  Mr. Love is also a big New Belgium fan, reportedly riding a Fat Tire bike to the beach.  The name?  Based off of G-Love’s favorite song – Front Porch Lounger.  The bottle mimics the cover of that album – The Hustle.

An afternoon on the stoop, foot stomps a loop. Southern style poured in 2 glasses, time becomes molasses.  Harmony with hominy grits, peel the peaches and throw out the pits, get some action in the bottles with brettanomyces.  Peach Porch Lounger is just for you.

Style:  strong ale?  (w/ molasses, lemon peel, peach juice)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

9.4% ABV

Read More: Lips Of Faith, New Belgium

The Hustle

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Lost Abbey, New Releases

Lost Abbey Track #2: Stairway To Heaven

The second release of Lost Abbey’s Ultimate Box Set Series releases this Saturday, February 18th, 2012.

The Beer:
From the Remixed Tracks, this is a blend of Cuvee from bourbon barrels blended into The Angel’s Share (bourbon) with peaches and topped off with Project X (our wild fermentation project) to balance the peaches’ sweetness with some acidity. The blend proportions are 60% Angel’s Share, 20% Cuvee de Tomme and 20% Project X.

ABV: 12.5%

Backstory (Liner Notes):

You ever wonder how we’re going to know for sure which Stairway might actually lead us towards heaven?  At Rapture, God’s probably going to roll out some bunk ass rickety rope ladder as one last test of our faith based resolution and seemingly an absolute confirmation for inclusion in his Kingdom.

Devious Satan will unveil his own stairway for us. Under a storm of panic like a captain trolling for lost souls, he’ll take delight harvesting a bounty of smelted riches from that sea of chaos. Baiting a simple blinking neon sign announcing the doors to heaven are open will have the ignorant and sinful gulping the tasty treats of his “easy” step Escalator to Heaven. Upon reaching Faux Heaven, St Peter won’t be there overseeing GSA Angels and their full soul body scanners for souls. For they choose poorly once again revealing all the shame and sin!

Oh the horror, enjoy the Golden Glistening Plunge…

Release: Each individual track release is limited to 350 bottles, so they won’t make distribution. Bottles will be for sale only in the brewery tasting room and must be consumed onsite – no take away. Additionally, these beers are available strictly on a first come, first serve basis; no reservations will be accepted.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Dogfish Head, New Releases

VID: Delaware Native Ale Uses States 1st Honorary Yeast Strain

Delaware now has an honorary yeast strain.  As you can probably imagine, it has something to do with Sam Calagione and Dogfish Head.  

Calagione wanted to create a true Delaware state collaboration.

“Wouldn’t it be neat if in Delaware, we put together a project that celebrates how well all these different communities do work together here in Delaware,” he said he thought at the time. “Maybe in some small symbolic way, we can show that the communities can work well together, even at a time in D.C. when that really wasn’t happening.

So, he went to work.  The beer is called Delaware Native Ale.  It is a collaboration between Dogfish Head, Abbott’s Mill in Milford, Fifer Orchards in Wyoming (Delaware), the University Of Delaware (GO BLUE HENS!) and the Delaware State government.

Abbott’s Mill hasn’t been used for nearly 50 years, milling over 400 pounds of barley.  Fifer Orchards and Calagione collected fruit flies to help carry the wild yeast strain.  Yeast DNA was sequenced at U of D. The orchard also provided peaches and pears for the brew.  DFH employee Chad Collier even provided some homegrown hops to DNA.

Honorary Yeast?   

The yeast – dubbed DNA KA1, was made the states honorary strain by the Delaware Governor, Jack Markell in recent announcement about Delaware Native Ale.

Availability:  Delaware Native Ale will be on tap solely at the Rehobeth Beach Brewpub, tapping for the first time on Halloween.

[Dogfish Head, DelMarVaNow]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, New Belgium

New Belgium Lips Of Faith Jared’s Ale

A new Lips Of Faith entry from New Belgium Brewing – Jared’s Ale. A ale brewed with peach juice.

Availability: Draft only as of 10/26/11

8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Breckenridge Brewing, Seasonal Return

Field To Fermenter With Peachfork Wheat

Breckenridge Brewing celebrates the Colorado harvest season with Peachfork Wheat.  This wheat beer features fresh Colorado peaches, pureed just yesterday and added to the beer.

The peaches come from Peachfork Orchards & Vineyard of Palisade, Colorado.  Peachfork has been seen one other time, laste year as part of the brewery’s Small Batch Occasionals line of beers.

“We really like partnering with small and local providers where possible,” says Todd Thibault, Director of Marketing for Breckenridge Brewery. “Our relationship with The Peachfork is a personal one; one of our employees is the granddaughter of the owners and recently left us to join the family farm. We’re excited to bring Peachfork Wheat around again, and this year we’ve doubled up on the peaches.

About Peachfork Orchards:

Peachfork Orchards and Vineyard is family owned, family farmed, and solar powered.  The Brennan family has been raising fruit there since 1972. What began with 7 acres of dwarf apple trees has blossomed to 32 acres of mouthwatering fruit. The orchard and vineyard are tended with the help of Babydoll Southdown sheep, and ancient breed that are excellent weeders and provide an organic alternative to pesticides and fertilizers.

 Style: Fruit Beer
Availability: Draft
Arrival: Early October 2011

 

 

 

by Reid Ramsay