Wine Aged

7venth Sun Wizard Burial Ground

7venth Sun Wizard Burial Ground, a Belgian-style golden ale, aged two years in chardonnay barrels with “micro flora” or wild yeast.

Style: American Wild Ale (Wine Barrel Aged. Chardonnay)
Availability: 16.9oz bottles, wax capped. Extremely limited

9% ABV

Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Citrus Bottles Released

Citrus and wheat collide in Almanac Beer Company’s Farmers Reserve Citrus. Bottles of this refreshing summer offering have shipped from Northern California.

The brewery takes a sour blonde wheat beer, then adds zest of Buddha’s Hand, Bergamont oranges, and aged it in wine Continue Reading →

More Wild: Allagash Brewing Helena

Allagash Brewing (Portland, ME) has a steady stream of releases coming soon. Currant Affair, Fluxus 2014,  and Nancy, just to name a few.

Tack on Allagash Helena, a presumably American wild ale aged in oak wine barrels. Helena is a 12.7oz Continue Reading →

Firestone Walker & Three Floyds Collaborate

Today, Firestone Walker unveils Ol’ Leghorn, a collaboration with 3 Floyds.

The beer is a hoppy blonde barleywine, brewed with English ale malts, and no specialty malt. After brewing, Ol’ Leghorn was racked to bourbon and wine barrels for aging. In Continue Reading →

Posted in Almanac Beer Co., Coming Soon, Headlines

Almanac Plans Second Pumpkin Offering

Almanac Beer Co has one pumpkin offering on the books, Heirloom Pumpkin. The ale is aged in a blend of rye and brandy barrels. To be bottled in August, is a new fall offering – Almanac Dark Pumpkin Sour.

This new offering features the same heirloom pumpkins from Cali based Bodega Bay, that have been caramelized for a sweet taste that is a departure from Heirloom Pumpkin.

Autumn in California means changing colors, cooler evenings and festive meals celebrating the bountiful fall harvest. Aged in used wine barrels, the dark sour pumpkin beer is inspired by the season, merging roasted dark malts with the sweet flavors of caramelized heirloom pumpkins from Bodega Bay and a touch of pumpkin pie spice. Serve this complex ale alongside Mom’s classic pumpkin pie. 

Almanac Dark Pumpkin Sour is slated to be bottled in August.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Pumpkin)
Availability: 375ml Bottles
Arrival: Fall, 2014

7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Seventh Sun Brewing

7venth Sun Wizard Burial Ground

7venth Sun Wizard Burial Ground, a Belgian-style golden ale, aged two years in chardonnay barrels with “micro flora” or wild yeast.

Style: American Wild Ale (Wine Barrel Aged. Chardonnay)
Availability: 16.9oz bottles, wax capped. Extremely limited

9% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Almanac Beer Co., New Releases

Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Citrus Bottles Released

Citrus and wheat collide in Almanac Beer Company’s Farmers Reserve Citrus. Bottles of this refreshing summer offering have shipped from Northern California.

The brewery takes a sour blonde wheat beer, then adds zest of Buddha’s Hand, Bergamont oranges, and aged it in wine barrels. A great compliment to summer food, and summer temperatures.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Buddha’s Hand, Oranges. Wine Barrel Aged)
Availability: 375ml Bottles

7% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Beers, Trinity Brewing

Trinity Brewing Damn, It Feels Good to be a Gangsta!

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Allagash Brewing, Coming Soon, Headlines
Posted in 3 Floyds Brewing, Firestone Walker Brewing, Headlines, New Releases

Firestone Walker & Three Floyds Collaborate

Today, Firestone Walker unveils Ol’ Leghorn, a collaboration with 3 Floyds.

The beer is a hoppy blonde barleywine, brewed with English ale malts, and no specialty malt. After brewing, Ol’ Leghorn was racked to bourbon and wine barrels for aging. In addition, a fresh hoppy batch of beer was blended with the barrel aged beer to give Leghorn a hoppy layer to go along with all the bold barrel notes.

Firestone Walker/3 Floyds Ol’ Leghorn debuts today (May 31st) on draft at the Firestone Walker Invitational Beer fest in Paso Robles, California. 22oz bottles go on sale June 1st at 10 am in the brewery store. Limited distribution to follow.

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged. Bourbon. Wine Barrel.)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Limited Release

10.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Allagash Brewing, Don't Miss This, New Releases

First Blueberry Beer From Allagash Launches This Month

The first ever blueberry beer that Allagash Brewing (Portland, ME) has ever created, Little Sal, launches on May 19th.

Little Sal is brewed with local Maine blueberries and aged in red wine barrels with souring bacteria Lactobaccilus and Pediococcus.

Bottles go on sale at the brewery at 10 am. Very small quantity available for this release.

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Blueberries. Barrel Aged. Wine Aged.)
Availability: 12.7oz Bottles

 6.1% ABV

by Reid Ramsay