Porters

Heavy Seas Adds A Fresh Haarvest

Heavy Seas Brewing (Baltimore, MD) will be adding a wet hopped beer to the Mutiny Fleet this year.

The style will vary, each using wet (fresh, not dried) hops from around Baltimore, Maryland.  The 2011 edition is a fresh hopped porter.

Label:
Our Continue Reading →

Magic Hat Reviving Ravell

Magic Hat Brewing (Burlington, VT) is bringing back Ravell.  Looks like the last time this beer surfaced was around 2008.  Ravell is a porter brewed with vanilla beans.  When released, this beer seasonally arrives in October.

An enormous play in one Continue Reading →

Cigar City July Releases

Cigar City Brewing is releasing 2 special offerings this month.

Tomorrow 7/13  is Jose Marti aged on French Oak. 750ml bottles go on sale at the brewery, 4pm. $15.  Limited draft available.

On Saturday 7/23, Imperial Milk Porter aged in Colorado Stranahan Continue Reading →

Foothills Brewing People’s Porter

Foothill’s Brewing’s (Winston-Salem, NC) People’s Porter.

An English-style Robust Porter — Dark Brown in color with a ruby hue — Chocolate and sweet toffee aroma —  Firm unsweetened chocolate flavor with moderate notes of caramel and toffee, an herbal hop bitterness up Continue Reading →

Uinta’s Skipping Stone, King’s Peak

Uinta Brewing looks to be adding a new summer offering – Skipping Stone Summer Lager, or renaming “Sum’r.”   Sum’r is an organic summer ale, while Skipping Stone has no USDA certification on it.  They are continuing their new label Continue Reading →

Posted in Coming Soon, Heavy Seas

Heavy Seas Adds A Fresh Haarvest

Heavy Seas Brewing (Baltimore, MD) will be adding a wet hopped beer to the Mutiny Fleet this year.

The style will vary, each using wet (fresh, not dried) hops from around Baltimore, Maryland.  The 2011 edition is a fresh hopped porter.

Label:
Our special HOP HAARVEST ALE is designed to showcase the special flavors derived from our locally grown, Maryland “wet” hops.  The 2011 release is a 5% alc/vol porter in style.  We hope you enjoy the unique profile that comes from freshly harvested hops!

Style: Porter
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: Not on the HS calendar. Estimated early fall, 2011.

5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Magic Hat Brewing, Uncategorized

Magic Hat Reviving Ravell

Magic Hat Ravel

Magic Hat Brewing (Burlington, VT) is bringing back Ravell.  Looks like the last time this beer surfaced was around 2008.  Ravell is a porter brewed with vanilla beans.  When released, this beer seasonally arrives in October.

An enormous play in one significant act, Ravell was a porter brewed with whole vanilla beans, once available when young William and father John deem it so. 

Style: Porter
Hops: Apollo
Malts: Pale, Crystal, Chocolate
Yeast: English Ale
Vanilla Beans

Availability: 12oz/6pks. Draft.  Oct-Jan, seasonally. (When brewed.)

5.8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, New Releases

Cigar City July Releases

Cigar City Porter Jose Marti

Cigar City Brewing is releasing 2 special offerings this month.

Tomorrow 7/13  is Jose Marti aged on French Oak. 750ml bottles go on sale at the brewery, 4pm. $15.  Limited draft available.

On Saturday 7/23, Imperial Milk Porter aged in Colorado Stranahan Whiskey barrels.  750ml bottles are $20. No Limit.

Also, be on the lookout for Big Dummy Ale – just approved on draft, and more info on Barrel Aged Hunahpu coming soon.

Cigar City Big Dummy Ale

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Beers

Foothills Brewing People’s Porter

Foothills People's PorterFoothill’s Brewing’s (Winston-Salem, NC) People’s Porter.

An English-style Robust Porter — Dark Brown in color with a ruby hue — Chocolate and sweet toffee aroma —  Firm unsweetened chocolate flavor with moderate notes of caramel and toffee, an herbal hop bitterness up front and a slight note of espresso in the finish.

Style: Porter
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft

6% ABV, 42 IBUs

 

Update 1/22/12 – Barrel aged edition coming soon: https://beerstreetjournal.com/foothills-barrel-aged-porter-coming-to-bottles/

 

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Port Brewing Company

Homebrewers: Here’s The La Cruda Recipe

In honor of the re brew of La Cruda Porter for The National Homebrewers Conference this week, Port Brewing has released the scaled down (batch size) for La Cruda. Tomme Arthur got his start at Cervecerias La Cruda (The Hangover Brewery) in San Diego California.  La Cruda was a recipe from that era.  Below is recipe for your brewing pleasure.  Apparently this beer was one of the worst selling beer at the brewery, BUT a gold medal winner.

La Cruda Porter

A ProMash Recipe Report

Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (Gal):         5.00    Wort Size (Gal):    5.00
Total Grain (Lbs):       12.25
Anticipated OG:          1.065    Plato:             15.95
Anticipated SRM:          35.7
Anticipated IBU:          26.9
Brewhouse Efficiency:       75 %
Wort Boil Time:             90    Minutes

Grain/Extract/Sugar

   %     Amount     Name                          Origin        Potential SRM
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 81.6    10.00 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row)              America        1.036      2
  4.1     0.50 lbs. Crystal 75L                   Great Britian  1.034     75
  8.2     1.00 lbs. Crystal 150L                  Great Britain  1.033    150
  5.1     0.63 lbs. Chocolate Malt                Great Britain  1.034    400
  1.0     0.13 lbs. Roasted Barley                America        1.028    450

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.

Hops

   Amount     Name                              Form    Alpha  IBU  Boil Time
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  0.71 oz.    -Cascade - 2008                   Pellet   5.40  15.5  90 min.
  0.81 oz.    -Mt. Hood                         Pellet   4.40  10.4  30 min.
  1.34 oz.    Tettnanger                        Pellet   4.50   1.0  1 min.

Yeast
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White Labs WLP028 Edinburgh Ale

Mash Schedule
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Mash Type: Single Step

Grain Lbs:   12.25
Water Qts:   16.00 - Before Additional Infusions
Water Gal:    4.00 - Before Additional Infusions

Qts Water Per Lbs Grain: 1.31 - Before Additional Infusions

Saccharification Rest Temp : 152  Time:  60
Mash-out Rest Temp :         165  Time:  10
Sparge Temp :                170  Time:   0

Total Mash Volume Gal: 4.98 - Dough-In Infusion Only

All temperature measurements are degrees Fahrenheit.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Uinta Brewing

Uinta’s Skipping Stone, King’s Peak

Unita Brewing Skipping StoneUinta Brewing looks to be adding a new summer offering – Skipping Stone Summer Lager, or renaming “Sum’r.”   Sum’r is an organic summer ale, while Skipping Stone has no USDA certification on it.  They are continuing their new label trends.  Unless they are renaming a current offering, this looks to be a completely new beer.

More info to come…

Also, King’s Peak Porter get’s a new label with the brewery’s new logo and art.

Uinta Brewing Kings Peak Porter

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Port Brewing Company

Port Revives La Cruda Brewing Recipe

Tomme Arthur of Port Brewing got his start at Cervecerias La Cruda (The Hangover Brewery) in San Diego California.  He was the assistant of Troy Hojel at the time, creating recipes that he still uses at Port Brewing.  La Cruda closed it’s doors in March, 1997.  After that, Arthur then went to work for White Labs, a leader in yeast creation/sales.  By May of 1997 Tomme Arthur was hired by Port Brewing and the rest is history.

Tomme & Port got the band back together to brew a recipe from the Hangover era – Makanudo Porter, now bearing the closed brewery’s name – La Cruda.  In the name of homebrewing, La Cruda pays homage to brewing suppliers like White Labs,

In 1996 a little brewpub named Cervecerias La Cruda opened in downtown San Diego.  While open for less than a year, the beers were nothing short of remarkable, and that fall, brewer Troy Hojel and his assistant, Tomme Arthur, won the Gold Medal for Robust Porters at the Great American Beer Festival.  The Makanudo Porter was only the third San Diego beer to ever to earn a GABF medal.  2011… San Diego is now the epicenter of Craft Brewing and our homebrewing community thrives like never before.   This past April Troy Hojel, Skip Virgilio and Tomme Arthur, each a homebrewer who followed their dreams and turned pro, reunited for the first time in 15 years and recreated  that legendary La Cruda Porter.  Their hope was to send a message in a bottle out to homebrewers everywhere: Never stop daring, Never stop experimenting. An most of all, never stop imagining the places beer can take us.

In the name of homebrewing, La Cruda pays homage to brewing suppliers like White Labs, HopUnion, BrewCraftUSA,  & The Country Malt Group.

Style: Porter

Availability: 22 oz bottles, draft. Brewed for American Homebrewer’s Conference in June.  Draft potential in San Diego area.

6.7% ABV

 

 

by Reid Ramsay