Topic Archives: Tequila
Inside Wild Heaven’s First Bottled Sour, Dionysus [VIDEO]
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Wild Heaven Dionysus marks the brewery's first sour offering. A blend of six different sours, designed specifically for this cuvee.
Wild Heaven Craft Beers (Decatur, GA) has just released Dionysus, their first bottled sour offering/second barrel aged offering.
Wild Heaven Dionysus is actually a blend of six different beers, as head brewmaster Eric Johnson explains in the video above.
Instead of being one sour beer, Johnson created six, carefully soured and chosen to be Wild Heaven Dionysus. The base is Eschaton an oaked Belgian-style quadrupel. Three other beers, fermented with three different strains, aged in Bordeaux barrels, were then blended into the base. Tack on two more sour, barrel aged offerings and this cuvee is born.
Wild Heaven Dionysus is available in now in Georgia in 750 milliliter bottles. It follows Civilization, a tequila barrel-aged barleywine.
Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (Barrel Aged. Tequila. Wine Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles. Limited Release.
Release: July, 2015
10.5% ABV
Sierra Nevada Lime Ale
Stone Points Unknown IPA with Wicked Weed & Ecliptic Ships
Stone Points Unknown IPA, a three-way collaboration featuring Ecliptic Brewing (Portland, OR) and Asheville, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed Brewing has hit shelves.
if you know anything about these three breweries, then the result of the collaboration will make perfect sense. Not one style was going to to properly envelop these brewery’s styles, so they brewed two beers. Stone Points Unknown IPA is a double IPA, blended with a barrel aged Belgian-style tripel.
In creating our latest collaboration beer, It wasn’t easy deciding how best to pool the resources of brewers from three spatially distant points within the brewing universe: Portland, Oregon brewing legend and Ecliptic Brewing founder John Danis, and Luke and Walt Dickinson, the hop-and-funk brewmaster duo behind Asheville, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed Brewing. It seemed no single beer could adequately convey all that they and Stone Brewmaster Mitch Steele bring to the brewhouse. So, this veritable triad of power opted to brew TWO beers: a traditional Belgian-style tripel and a West Coast imperial IPA. Doing so allowed them to work within the parameters of all styles while taking things in interesting directions, adding a touch of Southern Califomia style and petting into the spirit! The tripelwas transferred into barrels that originally housed red wine before finding a second life as vessels for aging tequila. Four months later,that beer was excavated, then blended at a one-fifth to four-fifths ratio with the freshly brewed double IPA to create the beer you now hold: a hind of the traditional and the new, presenting a variety of diverse flavors that coalesce into something more unique than any one beer our trio could have conceived. Its eventual flavors were a mystery to even the group of master brewers who created it, but now they await the palates of those thirsting to venture to points unknown within the rapidly expanding craft beer galaxy. In other words: You.
Stone Points Unknown IPA is now available in 22oz bottles and draft.
Style: American Strong Ale (Barrel Aged. Tequila.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Distribution: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA and Puerto Rico.
Internationally: Australia; Alberta and British Columbia, Canada; Japan; Singapore; Sweden; and United Kingdom
Release: Mid-May, 2015
9% ABV
Avery Fortuna, Barrel Aged Series #28
Avery Fortuna, the 28th iteration of their Barrel Aged Series, sounds a bit like a margarita.
The American wild/sour ale is aged in tequila barrels with lime zest and salt. The tequila barrels were provided by Suerte Tequila, based in Boulder, Colorado.
As luck would have it, our amigos at Suerte dig our brews as much as we do our tequila. They graciously provided their finest barrels. We filled them and created sour, salty, and citric awesomeness.
Avery Fortuna is estimated to be bottled in May, 2015, available in 12oz bottles.
Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (w/ Limes. Salt. Barrel Aged. Tequila.)
Availability: 12oz bottles. 1197 cases produced.
Release: TBA
6.6% ABV
Odell Myrcenario: Imperial IPA Aged in Jose Cuevo
It’s starts with Mercenary, Odell Brewing’s year round imperial IPA. The hoppy 9%’er is put into tequila barrels where it sits until the the brewery says so. The result, is Odell Myrcenario.
Odell Myrcenario is aged in Jose Cuevo Tradicional barrels. Interestingly, the brewery swapped barrels for beer. The tequila maker is finshing some tequila barrels that once contained beer.
Myrcenario is the result of barrel exchange with our friends just south of the border. We age sure mercenary IPA in Jose Cuevo Tradicional barrels. In return, the folks at Jose Cuervo aged Tradicional in our beer barrels. The brew boasts a spicy, tropical hop character that balances the toasted oak with a surprisingly smooth finish.
Odell Mycenario will be bottled conditioned, in 750ml bottles.
Style: Imperial IPA (Barrel Aged. Tequila.)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Release: TBA
Note: This is a “first look” preview. Details are subject to change at anytime by the brewery.
Red Hare Barrel Aged Gangway IPA, A Bottle Potential
Red Hare Brewing (Marietta, GA) will do two new things when/if Barrel Aged Gangway IPA is released. Launch their first barrel aged packaging, alongside 22oz bottles.
Gangway IPA is a year round offering the brewery has put into Jose Cuervo tequila barrels.
Red Hare’s tequila barrel aged Gangway IPA has been aged in Jose Cuervo tequila barrels to provide the IPA with notes of tequila and an agave finish. A slate sweetness from the tequila barrels lens a unique flavor that blend seamlessly with the IPAs bitter and citrus notes to create a smooth mellow taste.
Red Hare Barrel Aged Gangway IPA will be available in 22oz bottles.
Style: IPA (Barrel Aged. Tequila)
Availability: 22oz Bottles.
Arrival: TBA
6.2% ABV
Note: This is a “sneak peek.” Details, release date, or release at all, are subject to change at anytime by the brewery.
Almanac Tequila Barrel Noir Now Available
Almanac Beer Company has just released a new barrel aged offering in their Farm to Barrel Series – Tequila Barrel Noir. The base beer is a stout, aged in tequila barrels.
This robust American Stout is aged in used Tequila barrels. As it matures, the toasted oak breathes in the beer, infusing the stout with hints of smoke and spice from its former life holding distilled agave. Pair with a San Francisco-style super burrito.
Almanac Tequila Barrel Noir is available in 375ml bottles.
Style: Stout (Barrel Aged. Tequila.)
Availability: 375ml Bottles
Arrival: Late Nov/Dec, 2014
10% ABV
