Wine Aged

Monday Night Laissez-Faire Debuts Today

Monday Night Laissez-Faire, a wheatwine aged in red wine barrels, makes its first public debut today. The beer has been aging at the brewery for 10 months.

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Green Flash Natura Morta Cherry, a Cellar 3 Offering

Green Flash Natura Morta Cherry takes aim at the brewery’s Cellar 3 Series. The San Diego based brewery opened a new barrel aged location/warehouse/tap room dubbed ‘Cellar 3′ this year, from which beers like Flanders Drive, Silva Stout, and Natura Morta Plum are a part.

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Posted in Monday Night Brewing, New Releases

Monday Night Laissez-Faire Debuts Today

Monday Night Laissez-Faire, a wheatwine aged in red wine barrels, makes its first public debut today. The beer has been aging at the brewery for 10 months.

Laissez-Faire, Noun -les eh fair; French le-sey-fer To Allow the beer to hang out in a red wine barrel for months on end.

Recent releases in the Black Tie Series includes Spirit Animal, and Tie Four One, the brewery’s 4th Anniversary offering.

Monday Night Laissez-Faire is a 22 ounce bottle offering. The brewery debuts this newbie with a very special lineup at Brick Store Pub in Decatur, Georgia.

Style: Wheatwine (Barrel Aged. Red Wine.)
Hops: Chinook, Columbus, and Willamette
Malts: Pilsner, Caramel, Flaked Oats
Yeast: Champagne

Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: September, 2015

12% ABV

The Brickstore lineup includes:

  • Tie 4 On Quad aged on oak
  • Spirit Animal Sour aged on French oak and rose hips
  • Bed Head Imperial IPA brewed with locally roasted Batdorf & Bronson coffee
  • Blood Orange Blind Pirate, an IPA brewed with Italian blood orange juice
  • Serrano Eye Patch
  • Nitro Drafty Kilt
  • Cask of Gun Show Belgian Strong brewed with pears
  • Laissez-Faire
Monday Night Laissez Pull

Peter Kiley, Head Brewer at Monday Night, pulling a sample of Laissez-Faire. Wheatwine aged in red wine

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

Avery Vallum Barrel-Aged Wild Grape Ale, Barrel Aged #30

Avery Vallum Barrel-Aged Wild Grape Ale will be the 30th entry into the brewery’s barrel aged series.

The 100% spontaneously fermented beer uses Cabernet Franc grapes, and Cabernet Sauvignon barrels.

Yet another 100% spontaneous fermentation! The wild yeast living on on the grape skins once again did all the heavy lifting. Now do a 12 oz curl into your favorite drinking glass. Sip. Repeat. Feel the Burn.

Avery Vallum will be a 12 ounce bottle offering. These releases are limited, with a majority sold at the brewery on release day.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Cabernet Franc Grape Must. Wine Aged.)
Availability: 12oz Bottles
Release: TBA

9.6% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Stone Brewing Co.

Stone Xocoveza Extra Anejo Released in Quingenti Series

Stone Brewing Co. (Escondido, CA) released a collaboration – Xocoveza Mocha Stout last year. The beer was a creation of home brewer Chris Banker, who brewed with not only the Stone team, but Cerveceria Insurgente from Mexico.

Stone Xocoveza Extra Anejo will grace the brewery’s coveted Quingente Millilitre Series, a souped-up version of the original release. In addition to the cocoa, coffee, peppers, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg that was added to Xocoveza Mocha Stout, Stone has aged this edition in both red wine barrels and tequila barrels.

The base beer is the recipe of 2014 Stone Homebrew Competition winner Chris Banker, an intensely flavorful milk stout brewed with coffee and spices to mimic the rich flavors of Mexican hot chocolate.

Stone Xocoveza Extra Anejo will be available in 500ml bottles in very limited quantities. No distribution. Bottles were released at Stone World Bistor today.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Coffee, Chocolate, Chilies, Lactose. Barrel Aged. Tequila. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 500ml bottles
Arrival: Late July, 2015

12.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Almanac Beer Co., Seasonal Return

Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Citrus Returns (New Recipe)

Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Citrus has made a return to shelves. The sour ale’s recipe has been tweaked for its 2015 summer release.

The base beer is a sour blonde ale aged in wine barrels, nuanced by Buddha’s Hand citrons, plus yuzu and blood oranges from San Francisco’s Hamada Farms.

Hand-chopped and zested fruit was added to the beer, which has been allowed to barrel age since the winter citrus harvest, creating a refreshing sour ale that highlights the natural tartness of fresh citrus.

Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Citrus is available in 375 milliliter bottles.

Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (w/ Buddha’s Hand, Yuzu Fruit, Blood Orange. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 375ml Bottles
Return: July, 2015

7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Headlines, New Releases, Videos, Wild Heaven Craft Beers

Inside Wild Heaven’s First Bottled Sour, Dionysus [VIDEO]

Wild Heaven Craft Beers (Decatur, GA) has just released Dionysus, their first bottled sour offering/second barrel aged offering.

Wild Heaven Dionysus is actually a blend of six different beers, as head brewmaster Eric Johnson explains in the video above.

Instead of being one sour beer, Johnson created six, carefully soured and chosen to be Wild Heaven Dionysus. The base is Eschaton an oaked Belgian-style quadrupel. Three other beers, fermented with three different strains, aged in Bordeaux barrels, were then blended into the base. Tack on two more sour, barrel aged offerings and this cuvee is born.

Wild Heaven Dionysus is available in now in Georgia in 750 milliliter bottles. It follows Civilization, a tequila barrel-aged barleywine.

Style: American Wild/Sour Ale (Barrel Aged. Tequila. Wine Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles. Limited Release.
Release: July, 2015

10.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Green Flash Brewing, Headlines

Green Flash Natura Morta Cherry, a Cellar 3 Offering

Green Flash Natura Morta Cherry takes aim at the brewery’s Cellar 3 Series. The San Diego based brewery opened a new barrel aged location/warehouse/tap room dubbed ‘Cellar 3′ this year, from which beers like Flanders Drive, Silva Stout, and Natura Morta Plum are a part.

Green Flash Natura Morta Cherry‘s base is a saison, aged in oak vats with Brettanoymces yeast, then aged in red wine barrels with cherry puree.

This refined evolution of our Belgian-style Saison is foudre-fermented with Brettanomyces, then aged in red wine barrels with dark sweet cherry puree. After six months, an effervescent crimson ale is released, offering notes of ripe stone fruit and barrel drawn tannins. Retaining hints of earthy wild yeast, Natura Morta Cherry finishes like a fine Beaujolais.

Each Natura Morta release will contain a difference fruit to nuance the wild ale. Green Flash Natura Morta Cherry will be available in 750 milliliter bottles.

The brewery has not yet announced this offering.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Cherries. Barrel Aged. Wine Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Corked & Caged. Limited release.
Release: 7/12/15 (First release)

5.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Wicked Weed Brewing Co

Wicked Weed Succession, a Collab with Biltmore Wines debuts

Wicked Weed Succession, the brewery’s collaboration with Asheville’s Biltimore Wines has debuted.

Wicked Weed Succession is a barrel-aged golden sour, brewed with riesling must (fresh pressed grapes with skins, seeds and stems.)

The wine barrel aged offering tapped on Sunday, July 12th at the Biltmore Estates, and is now available at the Funkatorium in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Grape Must. Wine Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 500ml Bottles
Release: 7/12/15

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay