Topic Archives: Strawberries
Wicked Weed Brettaberry returns with hot new artwork
Wicked Weed Brettaberry is returning to shelves once again. This year it is sporting some sexy new artwork.
A ton of fruit (literally and figuratively) goes into making Wicked Weed Brettaberry. The Brettanomyces heavy beer has around one half pound per gallon of strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and honey, taking fruit to the next level.
A half pound per gallon of strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries are packed into this effervescent Brettanomyces ale. These berries combine with honey to create the bursting fruit flavor of a freshly baked berry pie. Blended with a light portion of our golden sour and aged in French oak foeders, Brettaberry then bottle conditions until ripe for the picking.
Wicked Weed Brettaberry is a 500 milliliter bottle offering, seasonally.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Blackberries, Blueberries, Strawberries, Honey. Oak Aged.)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Latest Return: August, 2016
5.5% ABV
Last year bottle artwork. Pic: Beer Street Journal
Short’s Strawberry Short’s Cake is alcoholic dessert
Short’s Strawberry Short’s Cake is back for Summer 2016.
The base beer for this perennial favorite a golden ale, brewed with fresh strawberries and milk sugar. (That’s lactose for those science-y folks). The end result is a creamy dessert beer that smells and tastes just as it’s billed.
The flavors of shortcake and fresh strawberries transform this beer into rose-colored party nectar that is pleasingly sweet with hints of cream. Biscuit flavors and aromas arise from the use of large amounts of Victory malt.
Summer of 2016 is when we finally got to try this beer for the first time. The strawberries are fresh, the beer is smooth (thanks to the milk sugar), and really reminds us of a a dessert at a hot summer barbecue. So much so, there was a point where you almost want to chew it. Trust us, drinking it is easier.
Short’s Strawberry Short’s Cake is a 12 ounce bottle and draft offering. Seasonally.
Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Strawberries)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Summer Seasonal.
Latest Return: Late June, 2016
5% ABV, 10 IBUs
Image: Beer Street Journal
Wicked Weed Bombadile returns to Canvas Series
Wicked Weed Bombadile, available once in the past, will soon return to the Canvas Series.
The base farmhouse ale has been fermented with Brettanomyces yeast, and fresh Florida grown strawberries in a French oak foeder.
The Florida forest is a fight for life from undergrowth to treetop. The woodland encircles itself, squelching sections as others grab hold and flourish. The live oak observes this scramble from its perch of power and permanence. Amidst the hurricanes and heat waves, the alligators and oranges, emerges the true crimson crown of our southern peninsula. Ripened and radiant from the Florida sunshine, the strawberry is king of this bountiful land. Bombadile is a Brettanomyces farmhouse ale fermented with a half pound per gallon of ripe Florida strawberries and delicately aged in a French oak foeder.
Wicked Weed Bombadile has beautiful artwork update in time for this return. Available in 500 milliliter bottles.
Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Strawberries. Oak Aged.)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Return: July, 2016
4.2% ABV
Image: Wicked Weed
J. Wakefield Ronan the Strawbarian
J. Wakefield Ronan the Strawbarian.
Style: American Sour/Wild Ale (w/ Strawberries)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Debut:
PIC: Beer Street Journal
Mustang Strawshitaw
Mustang Strawshitaw
Asheville Brewing Love Ninja kicks in January 1st
Asheville Brewing Love Ninja kicks off 2016 on January 1st.
This seasonal ninja is a porter brewed with lactose (a milk porter), plus additions of vanilla beans, strawberries, and cocoa powder from French Broad Chocolate Lounge in Asheville, North Carolina.
“The aroma is fantastic,” says Scott Stuhr, lead cellar man at Asheville Brewing Company. “This beer smells like strawberry-chocolate cake. The aroma will knock your head off.”
Asheville Brewing Love Ninja is a 22 ounce bottles offering, that follows December’s Ninjabread Man.
Style: Milk Porter (w/ Strawberries, Chocolate, Vanilla Beans)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft
Release: 1/1/2016
5.2% ABV, 26 IBUs
A-B’s Newest Flavor: Shock Top Strawbanero Wheat
Meet the new “Limited Edition” offering from Anheuser-Busch – Shock Top Strawbanero Wheat.
This iteration of the Belgian-style wheat beer uses habanero peppers, strawberries and orange peels. Shock Top Strawbanero Wheat joins the lineup of fairly off the wall styles like Honeycrisp Apple Wheat, Spiced Banana Wheat, Shockolate Wheat, and Twisted Pretzel Wheat.
Those feeling adventurous enough to track down Shock Top Strawbanero Wheat will most likely have to do so in the Shock Top mixed packs.
The beer has not yet been announced.
Style: Witbier (w/ Strawberries, Orange Peels, Habanero Peppers)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft
Release: TBA
5.5% ABV
