The Bruery takes its pastry stouts seriously enough to even have an entire Bakery Series of beers to celebrate them, and the latest release in the series evokes banana nut muffins. It’s named, unsurprisingly, Banana Nut Muffin, and it’s an 8.1% imperial stout brewed with bananas, vanilla, and walnuts, and … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of its 5000 Barleywine release, Portland’s Ecliptic Brewing announced the upcoming March release in its Moon Room Series of lagers: Märzen. This series celebrates the brewery’s second location, the Moon Room in southeast Portland. Press release: Ecliptic Brewing is releasing the next beer in their new … Continue reading
Iron Hill Brewery is canning gold—GABF gold medal gold, that is, in the form of its award-winning King’s Gold American Pilsner. The brewery announced the release of the pils in cans, which dropped earlier this month. It’s a pre-Prohibition style lager brewed with corn and is 5% ABV with 30 … Continue reading
Colorado’s Oskar Blues Brewery is launching a new rotating IPA series it calls its Mutant IPA series, which will feature the “latest mutations in hops and hop technology.” The first in the series is Western Mutant West Coast IPA, which aims for a fresh take on the west coast style … Continue reading
Technically it’s now the day after Valentine’s Day, but I thought it would fun to round up a few of the beers (and cocktail) we enjoyed this weekend and on the day itself—which can certainly be enjoyed anytime for a date night or even just because. Rogue Ales Espresso Martini … Continue reading
Michigan-based Perrin Brewing Company went big on its first specialty release in its 2022 Side Hustle Series, brewing up a fudge cake-infused (really!) pastry stout in collaboration with Beer City Bread Company of Grand Rapids: Imperial Fudge Cake Stout. Details from the press release: Perrin Brewing Company announces the first … Continue reading
Ecliptic Brewing recently hit a milestone, its 5000th beer brewed, and to celebrate, the brewery is releasing that beer this month. Befitting its milestone status, the beer is a special golden barleywine that was aged five months in Ransom Old Tom Gin barrels. 5000 brews is a pretty big milestone … Continue reading
The lifestyle beverages flowed through late December and the month of January, and two new entries into the non-alcoholic beer space from Partake Brewing were sent to me to review: Peach Gose and Radler, both styles of which I hadn’t yet seen in the NA segment. You might recall I … Continue reading
Victory Brewing added a new “Monkey” to its lineup of Belgian-inspired beers that started with Golden Monkey: Berry Monkey, a soured Belgian-style tripel with the addition of raspberry. The rollout is part of a new 2022 campaign named, I kid you not, “It’s Monkey Time.” Press release: As fans continue … Continue reading
Dry January is past, so cutting out alcohol may not be top of mind right now (though I’ve also seen the subsequent months recently called Fit February and Moderation March in the same spirit), but that shouldn’t stop you from moderating your alcohol intake if you so choose. In that … Continue reading