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Mikkeller Blends Two For Holiday Offering

When you blend a lambic with a saison, you have Mikkeller’s upcoming holiday release – Win Bic. A little backstory, Mikkeller has just released a new round of spontaneously fermented brews (lambics) dosed with different fruits. You take that bottle Continue Reading →

Mikkeller Spontaneous Series: SpontanGooseberry

Mikkeller (Denmark) released a series of spontaneously fermented beers in 2012, each featuring a different fruit addition. 2013 should see a new round of those funky beers. The base beer for SpontanGooseberry is a lambic. Mikkeller threw in gooseberries for this addition.

The Continue Reading →

Mikkeller’s Sour Cherry Offering

Mikkeller gets a little sour. Spontan Cherry is an oak aged sour ale by the Danish gypsy brewery. Frederiksdal refers to the estate from which the beer gets its sour cherries.

Style:  Wild Ale (w/ Cherries, Oak Aged, Sour)
Availability: 12.7 Continue Reading →

Surly Begins Brewing Pentagram

Today Surly is brewing Pentagram, an American Wild Ale that will age in red wine barrels until 2013. Surly has mentioned that they hope Pentagram will be an annual bottle release.

Ithaca Le Bleu Pushed To January

Ithaca Brewing’s Le Bleu won’t make the 12/31 release date this year.  It’s looking like January, 2012.

Bleu, our delightful darling of a barrel-aged blueberry sour ale will be ready when it wants to be ready, and that is Continue Reading →

Boulevard’s First Love Child

Boulevard Brewing has plans on bottling Love Child 1.  This child is a bourbon barrel aged ale with cherries.  This is Love Child #1, insinuating an impending series.

Our series of “wild” ales, barrel-aged with boisterous cultures like Lactobaccillus and Brettanomyces, Continue Reading →

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by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Mikkeller

Mikkeller Blends Two For Holiday Offering

When you blend a lambic with a saison, you have Mikkeller’s upcoming holiday release – Win Bic. A little backstory, Mikkeller has just released a new round of spontaneously fermented brews (lambics) dosed with different fruits. You take that bottle of funky, and blend it with a saison, you have yet another unforgettable release from the world’s most prolific gypsy brewer.

Look for this late fall, 2013.

Style: Wild Ale
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Mikkeller

Mikkeller Spontaneous Series: SpontanGooseberry

Mikkeller SpontanGooseberry

Mikkeller (Denmark) released a series of spontaneously fermented beers in 2012, each featuring a different fruit addition. 2013 should see a new round of those funky beers. The base beer for SpontanGooseberry is a lambic. Mikkeller threw in gooseberries for this addition.

The gooseberry is native to Europe, grows on a bush, and basically tastes like a sour grape. We’re pretty sure you can expect a base SpontanAle without fruit additions for your comparison.

Style: Lambic (w/ Gooseberries. Oak Aged)
Availability: 11.2oz bottles
Arrival: TBA (2013)

7.7% ABV 

Lambic, The Rundown. 

A lambic is a spontaneously fermented beer. What’s that? The beer is exposed to wild yeasts and bacteria. In this case (most likely) these wild yeasts live in the oak of the barrels they are aged in. The result is a tart/sour tasting beer. 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Mikkeller

Mikkeller’s Sour Cherry Offering

Mikkeller Spontan Cherry

Mikkeller gets a little sour. Spontan Cherry is an oak aged sour ale by the Danish gypsy brewery. Frederiksdal refers to the estate from which the beer gets its sour cherries.

Style:  Wild Ale (w/ Cherries, Oak Aged, Sour)
Availability: 12.7 oz bottles

7.7% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Coming Soon, Surly Brewing

Surly Begins Brewing Pentagram

Today Surly is brewing Pentagram, an American Wild Ale that will age in red wine barrels until 2013. Surly has mentioned that they hope Pentagram will be an annual bottle release.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Ithaca Brewing

Ithaca Le Bleu Pushed To January

Ithaca Brewing’s Le Bleu won’t make the 12/31 release date this year.  It’s looking like January, 2012.

Bleu, our delightful darling of a barrel-aged blueberry sour ale will be ready when it wants to be ready, and that is NOT on Dec. 31st this year. We are closely monitoring its progress. Please check back in mid-January 2012 when we announce any release updates.

About Le Bleu:
Brewed with New York State Blueberries and Brettanomyces, Le Bleu is a blend of barrels filled in 2007, 2008, and 2009. It’s finished in the bottle with Champagne yeast.Enjoy the dusty rose appearance, mouthwatering aroma of ripe berries, piquant flavor and quick finish.

Hops:Acidulated, Northern Brewer
Malts: 2-Row, American Wheat
Other: Blueberries, Brettanomyces, and Champagne yeasts

Style: American Wild Ale
Availability: 750ml bottles. Seasonally

5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Boulevard’s First Love Child

Boulevard Love Child 1Boulevard Brewing has plans on bottling Love Child 1.  This child is a bourbon barrel aged ale with cherries.  This is Love Child #1, insinuating an impending series.

Our series of “wild” ales, barrel-aged with boisterous cultures like Lactobaccillus and Brettanomyces, develop such complexity that we created this gauges to indicate levels of the three most prominent flavor characteristics.  Each Love Child has it’s own unique balance and emphasis. 

Style: Wild Ale (Barrel Aged)
Adjuncts: Cherries
Availability: 750ml bottles, Draft. 1,392 bottle run. 
Arrival: TBA

12.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay