Peaches

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle, aged with peaches

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle will be available in bottles on March 12th, 2016.

This beer started off as Maybelle, the brewery’s barrel-aged farmhouse ale. Why stop there, right? Clarabelle is Maybelle, that has been fermented with Brettanomyces with Oregon peaches.

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Lost Abbey Veritas 016 Release Details

Lost Abbey Veritas 016 will be released at the annual “Barrel Night” hosted by the brewery on Saturday, November 7th in San Marcos, California.

Lost Abbey Veritas 016  was inspired by a previous sour, Spontaneous Cheer, and is the 16th version of the blended sour barrel-aged Continue Reading →

Posted in The Commons Brewery, New Releases

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle, aged with peaches

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle will be available in bottles on March 12th, 2016.

This beer started off as Maybelle, the brewery’s barrel-aged farmhouse ale. Why stop there, right? Clarabelle is Maybelle, that has been fermented with Brettanomyces with Oregon peaches.

Clarabelle started off as Maybelle, our barrel aged farmhouse ale. It was then aged in gin barrels from Ransom Spirits before finishing in a stainless steel tank with a blend of Brettanomyces and 500 pounds of Oregon grown peaches from Baird Family Orchards.

The Commons Brewery Clarabelle will be available in 11.2 ounce bottles for a limited time.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches, Barrel-Aged. Gin.)
Availability: 11.2oz Bottles
Release: 3/12/16

7.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Short's Brewing, New Releases

Short’s Peachy Pom Pom, a new fruited sour

Short’s Peachy Pom Pom is the brewery’s second bomber bottle release of 2016.

If you are fan of sour fan, Peachy Pom Pom is just that. The American wild ale is brewed with peaches and pomegranates.

Tart berry aromatics accentuate the sweet and sour fruit flavors within this beer. A huge tangy mouthfeel with some initial acidic citrus qualities shocks the palate before a clean and lightly dry finish.

Short’s Peachy Pom Pom is available in 22 ounce bottles, on shelves in Michigan only. (According to the brewery.)

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches, Pomegranates)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Release: Early March, 2016

7% ABV, 2 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in 4 Hands Brewing, Bale Breaker Brewing Company, New Releases, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Sorry Not Sorry, brewed with 4 Hands & Bale Breaker [Released]

Stone Sorry Not Sorry, a new imperial IPA brewed with peaches, has been released by the Escondido, California based brewery.

Stone Sorry Not Sorry is a part of the brewery’s ongoing collaboration series, brewed with Saint Louis, Missouri’s 4 Hands Brewing and Yakima, Washington’s Bale Breaker. On the annual pilgrimage to Washington for hop selection, Stone brewmaster suggested this collaboration needed to happen. Since it’s Stone, of course it did.

This very hop forward offering has one more important element – pureed peaches. Chosen to work well the with experimental hop varieties found in Stone Sorry not Sorry.

The idea for this bright and bitter beer was born during Stone Brewmaster Mitch Steele’s annual hop-selection pilgrimage to Yakima, Washington. While touring Loftus Ranches (a farm owned and operated by the same family for generations which recently expanded to Include on-property craft brewery Bale Breaker Brewing Co.), Steele felt inspired…while power-huffing hops no doubt…to suggest a brewing collaboration with Stone and our good friends from St. Louis.4 Hands Brewing Co. A powerhouse within the midwest brewing sect, 4 Hands has been on our official “awesome brewers we gotta collaborate with” list for some time. When considering the direction they’d take, it was decided that since Loftus Ranches was the first hop farm to commercially grow beloved Simcoe variety, leading with that piney, stone fruit-like hop was a must. But collaborations are about uncharted territory. Thus, the trio decided that pureed peaches hold be added to ‘up’ the fruit factor, while experimental HBC 342 and HBC 344 hops were selected to introduce notes of berries, citrus, tropical fruit and grassiness to this IPA. Yes, we made another IPA. We’ll concede that it’s not surprising. Our love of hoppy beers runs like a deeply entrenched mutherlode (yes, we meant to spell it that way) of humulus lupulus coursing through our veins. Ditto 4 Hands and Bale Breaker. So for those who’d have preferred to see us craft a milk stout, ancient ale or barrel-aged offering, that’s okay…we’ve made all of those in the past few months too. But we are who we are: an unapologetic band of hopheads psyched to explore the ever-expanding network of nooks and crannies within the IPA universe. So happy to have you join us!

Stone Sorry Not Sorry is available in 22 ounce bottles and draft for a limited time.

Style: Imperial IPA (w/ Peaches)
Hops: Warrior, Simcoe, Mosaic, HBC 342 and HBC 344
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: 11/9/15

9.3% ABV, 70 IBUS

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Free Will Brewing, New Beers

Free Will Brewing Peach Sour

Free Will Brewing Peach Sour

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, SweetWater Brewing, Videos

SweetWater The Pit & The Pendulum Going Year Round

SweetWaterThe Pit & The Pendulum recently joined the brewery’s (new for 2015) Big Bottle Series. The American wild ale is brewed with peaches, and finished with Brettanomyces. If you missed your shot at a bottle of this one, good news. SweetWater will be making this beer available nearly year-round.

Making SweetWater The Pit & The Pendulum is one of the more complicated beers to produce in the brewery’s lineup, so you’ll see it a production permits.

SweetWater The Pit & The Pendulum starts as a Belgian-style, fermented with Ardennes yeast (same yeast as Spinnerbait), and peach puree from Titan Farms in South Carolina, then finished with Brettanomyces yeast.

Beer Street Journal followed the SweetWater Pit & The Pendulum from Titan Farms, to brew day, to bottle. Right now the beer has a very fresh peach flavor, with a hint of Brettanomyces on the finish. Over time, the Brett will really start to pop, giving the beer an added dimension. Drink fresh and six months down the road.

SweetWater The Pit & The Pendulum is now available in 750ml bottles.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Peaches)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Corked & Caged.
Release: Late July, 2015

8.3% ABV

Below, a Beer Street Journal look at the first corked & caged release…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Lost Abbey

Lost Abbey Veritas 016 Release Details

Lost Abbey Veritas 016 will be released at the annual “Barrel Night” hosted by the brewery on Saturday, November 7th in San Marcos, California.

Lost Abbey Veritas 016  was inspired by a previous sour, Spontaneous Cheer, and is the 16th version of the blended sour barrel-aged in oak casks featuring the first-ever use of white peaches in the Veritas iterations. Previous Lost Abbey Veritas brews, including the GABF Gold-Medal winner, Veritas 015, have been barrel-aged, and combined Brettanomyces yeast with fruits such as nectarines, cherries, peaches, and apricots.

150 tickets for the annual “Barrel Night” will go on sale Tuesday, October 6th at 12pm (PST) for $200, and will include an exclusive dinner created by San Diego’s own Christian Graves, 5 single-barrel tastings from The Lost Abbey Oak Aging Program, and 4 bottles of Veritas 016. The event is on November 7th.

Lost Abbey Veritas 016 will also be sold online at retail value, $41, during a secondary release on Tuesday, October 13th at 12pm (PST). Purchases will be limited to 3 bottles/person due to the high-demand of this brew, and bottles will be available to pickup the weekend of November 14th & 15th at the San Marcos taproom.

Hint: Don’t miss out on this extra-special brew…tickets for the release sold out last year in under 60 seconds.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ White Peaches, Oak Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Corked & Caged.
Arrival: 11/7/15

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Mountain Town Brewing Company, New Beers

Mountain Town Peach Gruit

Mountain Town Peach Gruit

by Reid Ramsay