Surly Brewing’s (Brooklyn Center, MN) fifth anniversary beer – “Five” will be available soon. Each year the beer is different, and nothing short of phenomenal. Last year I named Surly “Four” as one of the best beers I Continue Reading →
Exportation Ale is a draft only offering from Sierra Nevada Brewing. Google yields a tapping event for this beer during Philly Beer Week 2011.
Teresa’s Cafe in Wayne, Pennsylvania will host a special tapping for Exportation June 9th, 5pm. Teresa provides Continue Reading →
Mikkeller’s Red Wine barrel aged Big Worse Barleywine has arrived stateside. With this edition, Mikkeller has 4 “Big Worse” barleywine editions. The biggest in the series is “Big WorsT” a massive 19.2% abv barleywine. Slightly smaller, yet still big is Continue Reading →
Raspberry fiends, here’s one for you. Lost Abbey (San Marcos, CA) is releasing Framboise de Amorosa again in 2011. LA touts this beer as “their first foray into the world of raspberry beers.”
Amorosa begins as Lost and Found Ale Continue Reading →
Avery Brewing (Boulder, CO) has a very successful and very rare. Only 248 cases produced. Release date – Friday, 2/25/11.
Experimentation.
Ales and lagers that defy styles or categories. This is what we are about: our driving force, our passion. To further facilitate this innovative spirit, we’ve developed our Barrel-Aged Series where anything, and we mean ANYTHING, goes! Brewed for those as adventurous as we are!
Flavor Profile:
Aged for eighteen months in fresh Cabernet Sauvignon wine barrels, Dihos Dactylion features a primary fermentation using a proprietary blend of saison yeasts, a secondary fermentation of our house brettanomyces wild yeast strain, along with lactobacillus and pediococcus bacteria added to sour things up. Dihos Dactylion bursts with aggressive aromas of red wine and a touch of brett; delightfully sour to the taste, initial lactic acid flavors hit high in the cheekbones before transitioning to complex layers of soft fruit, oaky-tannins and red wine.
Another edition of the Mutiny Fleet by Heavy Seas (Baltimore, MD) that has arrived alongside Bourbon Barrel Aged Below Decks Barleywine, is Cabernet Barrel Aged Below Decks.
Below Decks is an English style barleywine released once a year by the brewery. Continue Reading →
