Vanilla Beans

Terrapin/Shmaltz Reunion 2013 on Shelves

Terrapin Beer Co & Shmaltz Brewing’s “Beer For Hope” collaboration arrives for another year of good feeling drinking. This year’s release is based off of 2012′s recipe, but with a new addition – coffee. The base imperial brown ale has cocoa Continue Reading →

Cigar City Hunahpu Imperial Stout 2014

You’ve got a bit of time to wait until you see this beer again. Cigar City Brewing’s Hunahpu Imperial Stout will make another appearance on March 8, 2014. Hunahpu, a massive imperial stout, is brewed with cocoa nibs, ancho and Continue Reading →

Prairie Artisanal Adding 12oz Bottles.

Prairie Artisanal Ales (Oklahoma) is added 12oz bottles to their lineup. Among those is Vanilla Noir, an imperial stout aged in whiskey barrels.

Prairie is pretty much on fire lately, making quite a splash in the beer world if social media Continue Reading →

Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Headlines, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin & Cigar City Create “Southern Slice”

Recently, Terrapin Beer Company’s “Spike” went down to Cigar Cigar Brewing in Tampa to collaborate. If you know anything at all about these two breweries, neither strays away from creativity.

That’s how Southern Slice got started. The group wanted to capture the taste and flair of a southern staple, pecan pie. After deciding to use a dark lager as a base, vanilla beans and pecans were give the beer a pie like flavor.

Southern Slice will be packaged in 750ml bottles.

Style: Dunkel Lager (w/ Vanilla Beans, Pecans)
Availability: 750ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Baxter Brewing Co, Coming Soon

Baxter Brewing’s Phantom Punch Returning in October

Baxter Brewing is getting ready to release another round of Phantom Punch Winter Stout.

The beer is brewed with cocoa nibs and vanilla beans to compliment the roasted chocolate and caramel malts. Look for it in Baxter’s distribution network starting in mid-October, 2013.

Style: Stout (w/ Vanilla Beans, Cocoa Nibs)
Arrival: October, 2013

6.8% ABV

Ed Note: Amended article to reflect the beer is returning Thanks @BrewboundFern

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Seasonal Return, Shmaltz Brewing, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin/Shmaltz Reunion 2013 on Shelves

Terrapin Beer Co & Shmaltz Brewing’s “Beer For Hope” collaboration arrives for another year of good feeling drinking. This year’s release is based off of 2012′s recipe, but with a new addition – coffee. The base imperial brown ale has cocoa nibs from Nashville’s Olive & Sinclair, vanilla beans, and cinnamon too.

Style: Brown Ale (w/ Cinnamon, Cocoa Nibs & Shells, Vanilla Beans, Coffee)
Hops: Willamette
Malts: Pale 2 Row, Victory, Special Roast, Crystal, Brown Malt, Chocolate
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft. All Terrapin markets.

8% ABV, 38 IBUs 

Pic via @redstoneliquors

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, Don't Miss This

Cigar City Hunahpu Imperial Stout 2014

You’ve got a bit of time to wait until you see this beer again. Cigar City Brewing’s Hunahpu Imperial Stout will make another appearance on March 8, 2014. Hunahpu, a massive imperial stout, is brewed with cocoa nibs, ancho and pasilla chilies, cinnamon, and Madagascar vanilla beans. Crazy delicious.

In Mayan mythology, Hun Hunahpu was the father of the hem twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Hun Hunahpu, with his brother Hunahpu. vies Vidal by the Dark Lords of the and slain. Hun Hunahpu’s corpse morphed into a cacao tree, his head becoming a cacao pod, which in typically awesome mythology fashion, spit upon the hand of a young maiden named, Xiquic who promptly became pregnant with the hero twins. The twins would ultimately grow up to avenge their father and uncle and defeat the Dark Lords and ascend to the heavens to become the moon and sun.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Cinnamon, Vanilla beans, Chili Peppers, Cacao Nibs,)

Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: March 8th, 2014 (Brewery Release, Tampa)

11% ABV 

Ed note: Corrected date to March 8, 2014

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Don't Miss This, Prairie Artisanal Ales

Prairie Artisanal Adding 12oz Bottles.

Prairie Artisanal Ales (Oklahoma) is added 12oz bottles to their lineup. Among those is Vanilla Noir, an imperial stout aged in whiskey barrels.

Prairie is pretty much on fire lately, making quite a splash in the beer world if social media is anything of an indicator. Expect big things from this brewery.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Vanilla Beans. Barrel Aged. Whiskey.)
Availability: 12oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

11% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Shmaltz Brewing, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin & Shmaltz Team Up Again on Cancer Fighting Brew

Shmaltz Brewing Company (Clifton Park, NY), Terrapin Beer Company (Athens, GA), Alan Shapiro (SBS Imports) have teamed up to release another round of Reunion Ale. Subtitled A Beer For H0pe, a portion of the proceeds is donated to the Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer.

This year’s feel good release is based off of 2012’s recipe, but with a new addition – coffee. The base imperial brown ale has cocoa nibs from Nashville’s Olive & Sinclair, vanilla beans, and cinnamon too. Look for bottles of this beer to hit shelves soon alongside fundraising events.

Style: Brown Ale (w/ Cinnamon, Cocoa Nibs & Shells, Vanilla Beans, Coffee)
Hops: Willamette
Malts: Pale 2 Row, Victory, Special Roast, Crystal, Brown Malt, Chocolate
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft. All Terrapin markets. Late September, 2013

8% ABV, 38 IBUs 

Worldwide, over 1,000 people per day are diagnosed with this cancer of the plasma. IMBCR is one of the world’s leading independent researchers. Their work not only affects myeloma patients, it also produces benefits in areas such as lymphoma and breast cancer.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Seasonal Return, The Bruery

2013 Bruery White Chocolate. It’s Out There

Bruery White Chocolate 2013

What happens when you take a wheatwine (think White Oak), aged it in bourbon barrels with vanilla beans and cacao nibs? Something ridiculous. The Bruery’s White Chocolate. You’ll be hard pressed to find this bottle of sexy very far from Orange County, California, but like a luxury car or the Iron Man suit, you just want it. I wouldn’t chug this at a football game, but I would sip this at home by fire, surrounded by rich mahogany and many leather bound books.

Currently on sale at The Bruery’s tap room for $29.99 a bottle. No limit. If you love us, grab us a bottle(s). That’s what real love is.

Style: Wheatwine (w/ Vanilla Beans, Cacao Nibs, Barrel Aged. Bourbon)
Availability: 750 ml bottles

14.25% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay