Vegetable/Fruit Beer

Bridgeport Stumptown Tart 2011

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 →

Hell Or High Watermelon Wheat Canned Today

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!

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 →

Mikkeller Ris a la M’ale

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 →

Brouwerij Liefmans

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