Bridgeport Brewing will be releasing the 4th generation of Stumptown Tart this spring. Each year, Stumptown is different. Previous years included a coffee based release, raspberries, & cherries.
This 4 year features Oregon grown strawberries and Pacifie Northwest malted barley & Continue Reading →
21st Amendment Brewing mentioned on Twitter today that their Hell Or Highwatermelon Wheat has come off the canning line today with their spiffy new artwork. Love the American theme. Apparently that bridge is being refurbished.
It’s Aprihop season again! Dogfish Head Brewing’s spring seasonal has shipped. Apricots and hops really make this beer. Just read Dogfish’s description:
Aprihop is our fruit beer for hopheads!
It is an American IPA brewed with Pilsner and Cystal malts massively hopped Continue Reading →
21st Amendment Brewing’s “Hell or High Watermelon” wheat ale arrives again in March 2011. Like Brew Free or Die, the beer has a new label. Sent to me by a one of their brewery reps – aka “Can Evangelists”, Continue Reading →
Abita Brewing’s Strawberry Lager has to be one of their most popular offerings. I see very few lagers fly off the shelves faster than this one. A great beer for warmer weather, and made with real fruit, this is a Continue Reading →
Ris a la mande is a Christmas dish composed of rice pudding, whipped cream, vanilla, chopped almonds and topped with cherry sauce. The dessert is served cold. This new beer is based on this Danish dessert from Mikkeller – Ris Continue Reading →
You have actually had a beer from Brouwerij Liefmans recently. It was under a different name – Ommegang Zuur. Zuur was a collaboration between Liefmans and the Cooperstown, New York Brewery. Zuur contained a specialty blend of some of Liefmans signature beers. Founded in 1679, Liefmans creates blended beers, originally meant to preserve the beer in the winter prior to refrigeration. The beers were/and still are brewed, and matured for close to 2 years. Before bottling, the beer is blended with young, sweet beer to freshen the beer. Goudenband is the flagship example of this technique.
The three bottles to the left have been out of the market for a while (or not sold in the U.S. at all until now.) Three titles have just appeared –
Bridgeport Brewing will be releasing the 4th generation of Stumptown Tart this spring. Each year, Stumptown is different. Previous years included a coffee based release, raspberries, & cherries.
This 4 year features Oregon grown strawberries and Pacifie Northwest malted barley & wheat. Then blended with strawberries. Expect a fresh strawberry based fruit beer.
Availability: 22oz bombers.
Arrival: Typically released in May each year
7.7% ABV
21st Amendment Brewing mentioned on Twitter today that their Hell Or Highwatermelon Wheat has come off the canning line today with their spiffy new artwork. Love the American theme. Apparently that bridge is being refurbished.
It’s Aprihop season again! Dogfish Head Brewing’s spring seasonal has shipped. Apricots and hops really make this beer. Just read Dogfish’s description:
Aprihop is our fruit beer for hopheads!
It is an American IPA brewed with Pilsner and Cystal malts massively hopped in in the continuous fashion. The flavor is complimented by the addition of Apricots.After fermentation the beer is dry hopped with irresponsible amounts of Amarillo hops. The beer is hoppy in the aroma with the apricots playing a supporting complimentary role.The flavor is rich with late hop flavors and it’s bitterness is tempered by just the right amount of malt sweetness and fruity undertones from the apricots. This is one of our most popular seasonal beers and we’ve been brewing it each spring for quite a while now. We release the beer each March and you should find it on the shelves through May.
Style: American IPA
Hops — Amarillo
Malts — Crystal, Pilsner
Fresh Apricots
Availability — March — May. 12oz/4pks, Draft Offerings
7% ABV
Fun Fact: Aprihop was first brewed in 1997
21st Amendment Brewing’s “Hell or High Watermelon” wheat ale arrives again in March 2011. Like Brew Free or Die, the beer has a new label. Sent to me by a one of their brewery reps – aka “Can Evangelists”, I really like this new update.
Monk’s Blood is still set to arrive in February, followed by Hell or High Watermelon….
Abita Brewing’s Strawberry Lager has to be one of their most popular offerings. I see very few lagers fly off the shelves faster than this one. A great beer for warmer weather, and made with real fruit, this is a light fresh offering that is hard to pass up. I don’t care who you are.
Commercial Description:
Strawberry Harvest Lager is a wheat beer made with real Louisiana strawberries, picked late in the season when they’re at their swee This brew has earned quite a reputation in a short time, causing the brewery to up their production year after year. When this brew is found, emails and phone calls fly to friends informing them of the store’s location. Strawberry Harvest is a crisp, light lager with just a hint of strawberry sweetness. It is wonderful with desserts or lighter fares such as salads and pastas. Fresh cheeses such as Burrata, chevre, Creszenza, mozzarella or Teleme pair well with Strawberry Harvest.
Style: Fruit Beer
Taste Expectations: Strawberry pops in the nose, and in flavor. Fresh strawberry flavor. This beer is light, crisp and easy drinking.
Availability: 12oz/6pks. No draft in 2011.
4.2% ABV
Ris a la mande is a Christmas dish composed of rice pudding, whipped cream, vanilla, chopped almonds and topped with cherry sauce. The dessert is served cold. This new beer is based on this Danish dessert from Mikkeller – Ris a la M’ale. This new offering in the United States keeps this Christmas treat in mind, to be drank with the dish or alone.
Commercial Description:
‘Rice a la M’ale’ is to be enjoyed as a dessert, similarly to the one of the same name that inspired it, Risalamande. In this new beer, the one-man brewer has, among other things, experimented with cherries and almonds. “I’d make a new Christmas beer and think it’s fun to experiment with new ingredients and spices so it was natural to try to make a dessert that can be drunk to risalamande,” explains the brewer. In the new ‘Rice a la M’ale’ the man behind Mikkeller used all the ingredients of the Danish Christmas dessert: rice, vanilla, sugar, salt, cream / milk and then cherries and almond extract.
The result is a slightly tart ale, which must provide the counterpoint to the sweet risalamande-dessert.”
Style: Fruit/Vegetable Beer
Taste Expectations: Cherries & Almonds. Mouthfeel almost like a saison. Spices
Availability: 12.7 oz Corked/caged. Paper wrapped.
8% ABV
You have actually had a beer from Brouwerij Liefmans recently. It was under a different name – Ommegang Zuur. Zuur was a collaboration between Liefmans and the Cooperstown, New York Brewery. Zuur contained a specialty blend of some of Liefmans signature beers. Founded in 1679, Liefmans creates blended beers, originally meant to preserve the beer in the winter prior to refrigeration. The beers were/and still are brewed, and matured for close to 2 years. Before bottling, the beer is blended with young, sweet beer to freshen the beer. Goudenband is the flagship example of this technique.
The three bottles to the left have been out of the market for a while (or not sold in the U.S. at all until now.) Three titles have just appeared –
Liefmans Goudenband – Flanders Oud Bruin, 8% ABV.
is a brown beer of high fermentation, brewed with special malts. This beer will mature for 4-8 months in the cellars. The taste of this typical provision beer evolves positively over time.
Liefmans Cuvee-Brut – Lambic, 6% ABV.
This Kriek is made with a completely different method from Kriek Lambic. It starts with old brown beer which is macerated with fresh whole cherries in shallow, horizontal tanks (every 100 liter brown beer holds 13 kg cherries). Then it matures for about 1 year, afterwards it is blended with both Oud Bruin and Goudenband of different ages. The result is a well balanced sour and sweet Kriek of great complexity.
Liefmans Fruitesse – Fruit Beer, 4.2% ABV
A fresh beer blend, maturing 18 months on cherries in the cellars at Oudenaarde – which is artfully blended with natural juices of cherry, bilberry, elderberry strawberry & raspberry. The result is a pleasantly sweet, sparkling, and refreshing beer with a soft foam head.
Availability: 750 ML, Corked/Caged bottles. Less than $10 a bottle.
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