Stout

Stoudt’s Brews a Chocolate Cherry

Chocolate cherry stouts are all the rage. Not convinced? Click the cherries link below. You’ll find a few.

Stoudt’s Brewing (Adamstown, PA) is adding Chocolate Cherry Stout to their small batch, Brewer’s Reserve Series. This offering is reminiscent of a special Continue Reading →

Red Brick Launches Draft Only Series

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) will launch a new series of draft only offerings for the Atlanta market.

The series will feature various experimental recipes from the brewery’s employees as well as head brewer Garrett Lockhart. The first in the series Continue Reading →

Flying Dog To Bottle Mint Chocolate

Flying Dog’s Brewhouse Rarities Series is mostly draft only, one-off creations. Every so often one of these offerings gets promoted to bottles.

Coming soon to both draft and 12oz bottle is Flying Dog Mint Chocolate Stout.  The name is pretty explanatory. Continue Reading →

Posted in Baxter Brewing Co, DC Brau Brewing Co, Headlines, New Releases

DC Brau & Baxter Brewing Create New Can Collab

Lewiston, Maine’s Baxter Brewing and DC Brau (Washington D.C.) have teamed up on a new collaboration beer – Daughters of Poseidon. A stout/ipa hybrid brewed with oysters.

Brandon Skall, founder of DC Brau and Luke Livingston of Baxter Brewing met a couple of years ago at the American Craft Beer Festival in Boston. Their breweries were founded about a year apart, and both can their offerings. Both breweries are even close to the ocean. Why not collaborate?

The result is a unique recipe, more like a dark IPA than a stout, brewed with precisely the same ingredients at both DC Brau and Baxter. Except that the DC version uses locally sourced Rappahannock Oyster Co. Olde Salt oysters, and the Maine version uses oysters from Glidden Point Oyster Company in the Pemaquid (ME) area.

The duo spent time each oysters on the water in Boston during their time at the festival. A perfect way to remember their meeting was to add oysters to the collaboration. 800 pounds worth, to be exact. DC Brau/Baxter Daughters of the Poseidon will be available in 16oz cans for a limited time.

Style: Stout (w/ Oysters)
Availability: 16oz Cans
Arrival: May 8th, 2014

Release Events:

Meridian Pint (Washington D.C) 5/8, 5 pm
Deep Ellum (Boston, MA) – 5/29
American Craft Beer Fest – 5/30 – 5/31

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Stoudts Brewing

Stoudt’s Brews a Chocolate Cherry

Chocolate cherry stouts are all the rage. Not convinced? Click the cherries link below. You’ll find a few.

Stoudt’s Brewing (Adamstown, PA) is adding Chocolate Cherry Stout to their small batch, Brewer’s Reserve Series. This offering is reminiscent of a special release a few years ago when chocolate and cherries were added to Fat Dog Imperial Stout.

Stoudt’s Chocolate Cherry Stout will be packaged in 22oz bottles.

Style: Stout (w/ Chocolate, Cherries)
Availability: 22oz Bombers
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Breakside Brewery, Don't Miss This, New Releases

Breakside’s Sea Salt Caramel Beer Gets Upgrade

Breakside Brewery (Portland, OR) is ready to release their very popular Salted Caramel Stout. The beer has been available before on draft and will now be making its first appearance in bottles.

Salted Caramel Stout is a collaboration with Salt & Straw Ice Cream out of Portland, Oregon.  The base beer is a rich stout mixed with sea salt and specially salted caramel. The final product is a beer that boasts caramel flavors mid palate with a hint of salt in the finish.  A bit like the saltwater taffy, right?

Breakside Salted Caramel Stout will be available in 22oz bottles & draft from February to April, 2014.

Style: Stout (w/ Sea Salt, Caramel)
Hops: Newport
Malts: Two Row, Chocolate, Roasted Barley, CaraMunich, Flaked Barley

Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. 2/1-4/1.
Area: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, Japan.

6.7% ABV, 28 IBU

If you go: 

Salted Caramel Stout Bottle Release Party
Thursday Jan. 30th 5-8pm
Belmont Station
4500 SE Stark
Portland, OR

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Don't Miss This, Red Brick Brewing

Red Brick Launches Draft Only Series

Red Brick Brewing (Atlanta, GA) will launch a new series of draft only offerings for the Atlanta market.

The series will feature various experimental recipes from the brewery’s employees as well as head brewer Garrett Lockhart. The first in the series – Holy Brother Belgian Stout.

Red Brick Holy Brother Belgian Stout will ship in February, 2014.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Duclaw Brewing, Headlines

COCOA FUEGO! Duclaw Puts Chili & Chocolate Together

COCOA FUEGO! The sound of yelling me Duclaw Brewing’s cchocolate, spicy offering.

Chocolate and chilies go quite nicely together. The hot and the sweet play off of each other very well. Duclaw Brewing knows this, and combined the two in a base stout.

The silky smooth stout is full-bodied with warm aromas of cocoa and roasted malt, a subtle hop presence, and a spicy chipotle pepper bite perfectly tempered by luscious dark chocolate. A new movement in flavor is rising…

Duclaw Cocoa Fuego will be available in 12oz bottles.

Style: Chili Beer (w/ Chocolate, Chipotle Peppers)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Flying Dog Brewing, Headlines

Flying Dog To Bottle Mint Chocolate

Flying Dog’s Brewhouse Rarities Series is mostly draft only, one-off creations. Every so often one of these offerings gets promoted to bottles.

Coming soon to both draft and 12oz bottle is Flying Dog Mint Chocolate Stout.  The name is pretty explanatory. Flying Dog has taken a chocolate stout and added mint. Look for release information updates soon. Judging by the 2014 Release Calendar, Flying Dog Mint Chocolate Stout is planning for February.

Style: Stout (w/ Chocolate, Mint)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft
Arrival: TBA

5.7% ABV

Read more: Flying Dog Brewhouse Rarities

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Anderson Valley Brewing Company, Headlines

Anderson Valley’s Barrel Aged Series: Huge Arker Bourbon Barrel

Last year, Anderson Valley partnered with Wild Turkey Distillery.  The move was to give the brewery more access to bourbon barrels, allowing all their markets as taste of their barrel aged offerings.

First up in the barrels was Barney Flatts Oatmeal Stout. First available in draft in 2012, bottles arrived in early 2013. Another brew joining the series is Huge Arker Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout.

The imperial stout (stout?) spent 6 months in Wild Turkey prior to bottling. As with release #1, expect both draft and bottles offerings.

Style: Stout (Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft
Arrival: TBA

6.9% ABV

Ed. Note: Anderson Valley has a Russian imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels by the name of Huge Arker that has made a tap room appearance. That release is around 11% ABV.

by Reid Ramsay