Topic Archives: Raspberries
Stone Give Me Stout or Give Me Death, a Virginia collaboration
Stone Give Me Stout or Give Me Death, a Virginia based collaboration, debuts this week.
The Escondido, California based Stone Brewing has a second American home now in Richmond, Virginia. To commemorate their new digs, the brewery (no stranger to collaboration) has partnered with Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, Ardent Craft Ales and the governor of Virginia. Starting this week, their collaboration debuts.
RELATED: Stone Collaboration Series
The patriotically inspired Stone Give Me Stout or Give Me Death, echoes the words of Patrick Henry, who spoke the famous words “Give me liberty, or give me death!” is Richmond in 1775. The base beer is an imperial stout, brewed with Virginia grown blackberries and raspberries.
“Stone Brewing has built an incredible operation here that is already benefiting the City of Richmond’s economy and its quality of life. Now with its first collaboration with local mainstays, Ardent Craft Ales and Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, Stone has created an excellent platform for future partnerships with the Virginia craft beer industry. It was a great honor to contribute to the production of this stout that touts both the history of our Commonwealth and its rich agricultural offerings, and an even greater honor to drink it!” – Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.
Stone Give Me Stout or Give Me Death is available in 22 ounce bottles and draft starting the week of December 12th, in limited distribution.
Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Blackberries, Raspberries)
Hops: Belma, Nugget
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Distribution: AR, AL, DC, DE, GA, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, NH, NY, PA, RI, VA and at CA Stone Brewing locations only
Debut: 12/12/16
9.5% ABV
Wicked Weed Red Atrial, a Jester King collaboration sells out
Wicked Weed Red Atrial sounds like a legendary collaboration. It’s took about an hour to sell out.
Jester King Atrial Rubicite is one of the brewery’s most sought after fruited sour ales. Jester King adds Washington raspberries to the oak matured sour beer, and allowed to re-ferment to boast dryness.
Wicked Weed Red Angel is a red sour ale – the red coming from 1.5 pounds of raspberries per gallon. Easily one of the best in the series.
Wicked Weed Red Atrial is a 50/50 blend of Red Angel and Atrial Rubicite, taken a step further. Each brewery independently aged their base beer on 5 pounds per gallon of raspberries, then combined the two beers onto 4 pounds per gallon of fresh raspberries to re-ferment in puncheons for an additional two months.
Blenders and cellarmen from Wicked Weed and Jester King were tasting their most prestigious raspberry sour ales side by side, and the inevitable idea of a blend quickly emerged. Red Angel was combined in a snifter with Atrial Rubicite and the stunned silence of each taster confirm that this is a beer to bring to the people. This combination is more than the sum of its beautiful parts. Experience raspberry sour alchemy in Red Atrial.
Wicked Weed Red Atrial was a 500 milliliter bottle release, available at the Funkatorium in Asheville on November 26th.
Style: American Sour/Wild Ale (w/ Raspberries. Oak Aged)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Debut: 11/26/16
6.4% ABV
A brewery first: Good People Funk Farm Sour Blonde
Good People Funk Farm Sour Blonde, the first sour/wild ale release by the Birmingham, Alabama brewery, debuts September 24th.
What you see above is the the first beer in the series – Funk Farm Sour Blonde Ale with Blackberries and Raspberries. The color is absolutely striking. Thank the hefty helping of blackberries and raspberries that this sour blonde has been spending 8 months with in French oak red wine barrels. The beer is juicy with a touch of lactic tartness – all that good that has gotten you addicted to sour beer in the first place. In short, wine, barrels, funky, sour.
Despite not distributing very far from their home, the Good People lineup is known quite well across the southeast. Having been addicted to beers from Good People like Snake Handler and Brown Ale, the Funk Farm Series has given us a new series from the deep south brewery to dream about. A fantastic first release in what is sure to be a successful, wild lineup.
Good People Funk Farm Sour Blonde Ale (Blackberries and Raspberries) debuts Saturday at the brewery in Birmingham, Alabama.
Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (w/ Blackberries, Raspberries. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles. Limited.
Debut: 9/24/16
?? ABV
Carolina Bauernhaus Feral Barrel Blackberry debuts September 16th
Carolina Bauernhaus Feral Barrel Blackberry will debut on September 16th.
The Anderson, South Carolina based brewery released their first bottles in June. Since then bottle releases have been frequent. Carolina Bauernhaus Feral Barrel Blackberry is the brewery’s American wild/sour ale, aged for six months in a mix of wine and bourbon barrels, using native South Carolina yeast, as well as yeast from SouthYeast Labs.
In the six weeks prior to bottling, the beer was aged on a massive amount of locally grown blackberries.
A dark wild ale featuring regional malts and fermented in Cabernet wine barrels with our house blend of native yeasts, and Brettanomyces and soured with our own strain of Lactobacillus isolated by SouthYeast Labs from opuntia fruit in La France, SC. This beer was aged on local blackberries for a dark fruit note balanced by bright acidity and a rich malty body.
Carolina Bauernhaus Feral Barrel Blackberry is a 22 ounce bottle release.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Raspberries. Barrel Aged. Bourbon. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft. Limited.
Debut: 9/16/16
5.7% ABV
Three Taverns Rapturous (raspberry sour) finally canned
Three Taverns Rapturous, an early entry in the brewery’s Sour Asylum Series, is being canned for the first time today.
Rapturous is a fruited variation of Three Taverns Sour Asylum #4, the fourth edition of the brewery’s lactobacillus kettle soured beers. The 100% pilsner malt beer was finished with California ale yeast.
Three Taverns Rapturous is aged on fresh raspberry puree, for a fruit forward finish (personally, one of our favorite beers made by the Decatur, Georgia based brewery).
Rapturous will be available in 12 ounce cans, and is already available on draft. Later this month, the brewery debuts A Night on Ponce as their second can release.
Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (w/ Raspberries)
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft.
Debut (Cans): TBA
5% ABV
Image: Three Taverns
Cascade Blackcap Raspberry
Cascade Blackcap Raspberry
Carolina Bauernhaus Feral Barrel Raspberry debuts
Carolina Bauernhaus Feral Barrel Raspberry will be the third bottle release by the Anderson, South Carolina based brewery.
The base beer for Feral Barrel Raspberry is a dark wild ale, brewed with South Carolina region malts. It is initially aged for four months in sorghum rum barrels with native wild yeast from SouthYeast labs and two Brettanomyces strains.
For the past two months, Feral was aged on what the brewery calls a “massive” amount of red raspberries and tart cherries.
A dark wild ale featuring regional malts fermented and aged four months in sorghum rum barrels with a blend of native yeasts and brettanomyces.We added a massive amount of red raspberries and tart cherries and then aged for two more months. Jammy fruit notes are balanced by a rich malt forward body and a tart dry finish.
The brewery’s first bottle came in June – June Princess, followed shortly by Raspberry Petite Sour in July.
Carolina Bauernhaus Feral Barrel Raspberry will available in 750 milliliter bottles at the brewery on August 9th. Limited distribution to follow shortly after.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Cherries, Raspberries. Barrel Aged. Rum.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Debut: 8/9/16
7.4% ABV
