Rye Beer

A New Westbrook Can: One Claw

Westbrook Brewing Co (Mt Pleasant, SC) is dedicating their new can to those who always have a Westbrook beer hand. This rye beer is brewed with lots of brewery founder Edward’s favorite hops. You have a lot to look forward Continue Reading →

A Closer Look at Stone Farking Wheat w00tstout

Stone Brewing Co’s Founder Greg Koch, Fark.com Founder Drew Curtis, and Actor/Home brewer Wil Wheaton have teamed up for the next Stone collaboration. The aptly named Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout features an imperial stout brewed with pecans, wheat & rye, Continue Reading →

Posted in Stone Brewing Co., Videos

WATCH: Farking Wheaton w00tstout [VIDEO]

This is a collaboration you don’t want to miss…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Debuts 3 Different Farking Wheaton w00tsout Bottles

Today Stone Brewing introduced the bottle art for their upcoming Farking Wheaton w00tstout. This collaboration between Stone’s Greg Koch, Wil Wheaton, and Drew Curtis is an imperial stout brewed with pecans, wheat & rye, partially aged in bourbon barrels. With bottle art ready to go we’re one step closer to some serious beer-geekdom.  Look for this beer in July in every state they distribute, except Ohio due to ABV laws.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Pecans, Rye, Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: July 2013

13% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Westbrook Brewing Co

A New Westbrook Can: One Claw

Westbrook Brewing Co (Mt Pleasant, SC) is dedicating their new can to those who always have a Westbrook beer hand. This rye beer is brewed with lots of brewery founder Edward’s favorite hops. You have a lot to look forward to.

One Claw is a rye pale ale made with a heavy handful of malted rye and scoops of our favorite hop varieties. One Claw is dedicated to those who carry a Westbrook home, to their friend’s house, or to someone who has never had it before. Cheers to you, fellow One Claw!

Style: Rye Beer
Availability: 12oz Cans
Arrival: TBA

5.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Leinenkugel's Brewing

Leinenkugel Big Eddy Ryewine Arrives in June

The next addition in the Leinenkugel Big Eddy Series arrives this June- Ryewine Ale. Much like the rest of the Eddy Series, the release is a high octane offering, an American barleywine.

A rare blend of rye malts gives a spicy complexity to a brew with the unforgettable depth of an American barleywine ale.

Style: Barleywine (w/ Rye)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: June, 2013

10% ABV 

Read more: Big Eddy Series

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Stone Brewing Co.

A Closer Look at Stone Farking Wheat w00tstout

Stone Brewing Co’s Founder Greg Koch, Fark.com Founder Drew Curtis, and Actor/Home brewer Wil Wheaton have teamed up for the next Stone collaboration. The aptly named Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout features an imperial stout brewed with pecans, wheat & rye, partially aged in bourbon barrels. Nerds, beer nerds, & Fark lovers a like anxiously await a release date for this whopping 13% brew. The label tells the story:

Wil Wheaton first called us in 2004 ask if it’d be OK for him to put the Arrogant Bastard logo on his blog’s website (back when people still asked permission to do such things), and I just so happened to answer the phone (back when I still answered the main line sometimes). Since he was so damn enthusiastic about our beers, I said ‘Sure, no problem,’ all the while thinking ‘Hmmm…this guy’s name sounds familiar.’

Months later, in a serendipitous turn of fate, I reached out to our 10,000th email newsletter subscriber…drumroll…Wil Wheaton. Since his gigs in the iconic Stand By Me and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wil has become quite the renaissance man, adding author, w00tstock innovator, and homebrewer to his resume. His enthusiasm for the fermentable arts and our beer was such that after many occasions of sharing grog over the years, we decided it was time to brew in collaboration.

It was a no-brainer for us to choose Drew Curtis–who many know as the twisted mind behind Fark.com–as our third cohort. Drew was an old friend of Wil’s that I had serendipitously met (when he saw me and told me, ‘Dude, I love your beer) and enjoyed many beers with at the famous TED conference three years in a row. The beer you hold before you is an imperial stout made with wheat (Wil pretty much insisted), and we also paid tribute to Drew’s Kentucky roots by adding rye and pecans to the mix and partially aging the beer in bourbon barrels. The result? Nothing short of serendipitous.”

Greg Koch @stonegreg CEO & Co-founder, Stone Brewing Co. & Beer Seek

“Being a geek isn’t about what you love; it’s about how you love it. I’m a sci-fi geek, a disruptive technology geek, and a tabletop game geek. I’ve been lucky to do lots of work in those fields, but this is the first time I got to be a professional beer geek, and it was awesome.”

Wil Wheaton | @wilw  Actor, Homebrewer & Professional Seek

“Beer tastes like my website…all over the map, but I’ve never met a beer I didn’t like.”

Drew Curtis | @drewcurtis Founder, Fark.com & News Geek

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Pecans, Rye, Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

13% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Southern Tier Brewing

Southern Tier Upcoming Seasonal: 2XRYE

A new Southern Tier Brewing Co (Lakewood, NY) builds up to another seasonal in the “2X” series – 2XRYE. Beer Street Journal mentioned this release last week, so fans of this brewery keep it on your radar. You see this 12oz offering combines 3 hops and 5 malts, heavy on the rye.

Style: Rye Beer
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

8.3% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Red Brick Brewing

Red Brick’s Black-Eye Rye Arrives in April

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) preps for the 6th release in the Brick Mason Series– Black-Eye Rye. The first black IPA release from the brewery, and the first time making a rye beer.

Black-Eye Rye, the 6th release from Red Brick’s Brick Mason series, is an American-Style India Black Ale brewed with rye. Inspired by one of our favorite beer styles, it is black in color without the heavy chocolate or roasted characteristics that are present in most dark ales. We feature Cascade, Chinook and Citra hops for citrus and piney flavors and aromas. This beer carries a hoppy punch, like a Double IPA with a healthy addition of rye for added complexity.

Style: Black IPA (w/ Rye)
Hops: Cascade, Chinook, Citra
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft

Arrival: April, 2013

8% ABV, 80 IBUs (fairly bitter)

by Reid Ramsay