Vegetable/Fruit Beer

Finch’s Beer Co Working Up Mint & Peach Brew

Finch’s Beer Co. (Chicago, IL) combines peaches & mint in a new potential release. Bad mamey mamma sounds a bit like a julep.

Style: ???  (w/ Mint, Peaches)

Availability: Draft only, as of 9/20/12
Arrival: TBA

5% ABV 

A little Carl Carton love…

Posted in Coming Soon, Sam Adams

Samuel Adams Blueberry Hill Lager Heads For Bottles

Samuel Adams Blueberry Hill Lager is slated for bottles this year. The brew debuted on draft last year. Brewed with real blueberries.

A fresh take on a fruit beer. This crisp, unfiltered lager is aged on blueberries for a pleasant blueberry aroma and taste. To taste this fruity character in a new direction, we brewed with Tettnang Noble hops for an added subtle citrus note. A delicious blend of flavors with a smooth lager finish.

Style: Fruit Beer (Lager) (w/ Blueberries) Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: Bottles, TBA

5.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Finch's Beer Co

Finch’s Beer Co Working Up Mint & Peach Brew

Finch's Bad Mamey Jamma

Finch’s Beer Co. (Chicago, IL) combines peaches & mint in a new potential release. Bad mamey mamma sounds a bit like a julep.

Style: ???  (w/ Mint, Peaches)

Availability: Draft only, as of 9/20/12
Arrival: TBA

5% ABV 

A little Carl Carton love…

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Seasonal Return, Sixpoint Craft Ales

Sixpoint Autumnation 2012 Features Pumpkin, Citra

Sixpoint Autumnation returns. The wet hopped perennial favorite is back celebrating the fall harvest. Autumnation changes a bit each year. An online poll decided the hop strain will accompany the pumpkin in the 2012 release. Citra won the place of honor this year. Some folks from the brewery travelled to Yakima, Washington for the hop picking festivities.

Our own Brewmaster Jan Matysiak and Sixpoint Brewer Heather McReynolds traveled to Yakima to observe the festivities of the hop harvest this September. “During the time of harvest and processing, one can actually smell the hops when walking through the city of Yakima. It’s truly astounding” said Matysiak. McReynolds was equally impressed. “Being in Yakima was a truly great experience,” she remarked. “One that every brewer and homebrewer should have at least once.”

Style: Fruit/Vegetable (w/ Pumpkin, Ginger, Wet Hopped)
Availability: Cans, Draft. Fall seasonal
6.7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Miller Coors, Redd's Brewing Company

Miller Coors Launches Redd’s Apple Ale

Redd’s Apple Ale (Albany, GA) has officially launched. The beer is “Crisp like an Apple. Brewed like an ale.” This is no cider, it’s a golden ale with red apple hints. The beer is a foreign brand owned by SABMiller, and now brewed at the MillerCoors plant in Albany.

“We are proud to introduce a refreshingly crisp brew that showcases the natural flavor of apples,” said Andrew Zrike, brand manager of Redd’s Apple Ale.  “By blending the flavor of apples into a golden ale, Redd’s Apple Ale is the perfect choice for the times when you want a refreshing and sweet alternative to your everyday beers.”

Style: Fruit Beer (Apples)
Availability: 12 oz bottles
Area: AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, ME, MI, MO, OK, TX

5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Videos, Widmer Brothers Brewing

The Inspiration Behind Widmer’s New SXNW [Video]

Widmer brewmaster Joe Casey explains the inspiration behind SXNW, a beer brewed with pecans, spice, cocoa nibs and green chilies.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Mother Earth Brewing

Peaches Next Up In Mother Earth Window Panes Series

The second edition in Mother Earth Brewing’s (Kinston, NC) Window Panes Series approaches. Panes is a series of North Carolina inspired beers (there will be 4) that will contain fruit  from the states farms, then aged in pinor noir, chardonnay, or brandy barrels. The total production per release is limited to just 20 barrels. (620 gallons.) Blackberries was the featured fruit in release #1.

Uncork a bottle of Peach Window Pane and savor the fresh flavors of North Carolina. Second in a series of four North Carolina inspired beers, Peach Window Pane is a double American wheat fermented with vast quantities of luscious North Carolina fruit, then aged in Chardonnay barrels for three months. Anticipate a prevailing aroma of fruit and chardonnay, blended with a subtle amount of oak. Also expect dominant fruit flavor joined by a slight oak character and sourness that keeps you wanting more. 

Style: Wheat Beer (w/ Peaches, Wine Barrel Aged)

Availability: 750 ml bottles, Corked/Caged. Sold at brewery & select stores
Arrival: October, 2012

8.2% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Seasonal Return, Short's Brewing

Short’s Key Lime Pie 2012 Just Days Away [VIDEO]

Short’s Brewing (Bel Aire, MI) is just days away from releasing Key Lime Pie 2012. The pie flavored treat is brewed with fresh limes, milk sugar, graham cracker, and marshmallow fluff. Short’s literally recreated the pie flavor in a beer.

The prominent flavors are immensely sweet, yet tart, with subtle hints of graham cracker coming through in the nose.

The video below should tell you everything you need to know.

Style: Fruit Beer (w/ Graham Cracker, Marshmallow Fluff, Limes, Milk Sugar)
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft. Limited release.

5.75% ABV

2012 Short’s Key Lime Pie Release from Short’s Vimeo on Vimeo.

by Reid Ramsay