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Featured Beers - November 2012
Featured Brewery & Beer |
The U.S. Microbrewed Beer Club
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The U.S. and International Variety Beer Club
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The Hop-Heads Beer Club
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The International Beer Club
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The Rare Beer Club®
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4 styles: 12 bottles |
4 styles: 12 bottles |
3 styles: 12 bottles |
2 styles: 12 bottles |
2 styles: 2, 4 or 6 btls |
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Brouwerij Rodenbach - Rodenbach Vintage 2010 – Barrel 144 | |||||||||||||||
The Bruery - 5 Golden Rings | |||||||||||||||
Brasserie Meteor - Bière de Noël | |||||||||||||||
Hacker-Pschorr Bräu - Hefe Weisse Natürtrub | |||||||||||||||
Shmaltz Brewing Company - He’Brew Messiah Nut Brown Ale | |||||||||||||||
Shmaltz Brewing Company - Coney Island Mermaid Pilsner | |||||||||||||||
The Duck Rabbit Craft Brewery - Amber Ale | |||||||||||||||
The Duck Rabbit Craft Brewery - Milk Stout |
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- Style: Brown ale
- ABV: 5.6%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 21
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Warrior, German Tradition, Cascade
- Malts: 2-Row pale, Carapils, Crystal, Chocolate, Kiln Amber
- Country: United States
This brown ale pours an attractive deep brown, capped by an attractive crop of light brown foam that leaves a bit of lace as you drink. While there’s a light nuttiness on the nose, look for more prominent notes of brown bread, toasty grain, and a hint of sweet chocolate, with the hops leaning toward earthy with a bit of herbal spice. On the palate, we found toasted bread and bread crust to be at the center of the very satisfying malt core, along with caramel...
- Style: Milk Stout
- ABV: 5.7%
- Serving Temperature: 45-55º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Nugget, Fuggle
- Malts: Delicious dark malts! (per the brewer)
- Country: United States
What is a milk stout? Despite the name, it doesn’t taste like milk, although there’s a similar faint sweetness from the lactose (milk sugar) added during brewing this style of beer. This sugar cannot be metabolized by the yeast, remaining in the beer and providing extra heft to the body and an extra dimension of sweetness to balance the sharpness of the dry, roasted flavors. Duck Rabbit specializes in dark beers...
- Style: Pilsner
- ABV: 5.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass
- Hops: Warrior, Tettnang, Amarillo, Crystal
- Malts: 2-Row pale, Carapils, Vienna, Rye, Wheat
- Country: United States
The Coney Island line of craft lagers is known for putting a fresh spin on more traditional lager styles, and their Mermaid Pilsner is no exception. Employing hop varietals not traditionally found in the style, along with dry-hopping (with Amarillo and Crystal), and a complex grain bill featuring rye malt, Shmaltz has crafted a more complex and satisfying experience without losing sight of the balance and refreshment that good pilsners deliver. On the pour...
- Style: Hefeweizen
- ABV: 5.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 16
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Weizen Glass
- Country: Germany
This brew is intriguing right off the bat, as the orange color is quite deep for a (non-dunkel) hefeweizen. As expected, it’s hazy with suspended yeast, and the beer is also highly carbonated, per the style. The aromas that burst forth are quintessential hefeweizen; look for prominent banana and clove notes, a light bready character, a touch of bubblegum, and spicy hop and yeast notes. The aromas come through in the flavor too, with perhaps a bit...
- Style: Flanders Red Ale
- ABV: 7%
- Serving Temperature: 50-55ºF
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Snifter, Flute, Wine Glass
- Country: Belgium
The result of more than two years of aging under the watchful eye of brewmaster Rudi Ghequire, Rodenbach Vintage is unique among Rodenbach’s beers as it is drawn exclusively from one foeder; in this case, for 2010, it’s lucky barrel number 144. Each foeder is its own ecosystem, a mixture of yeasts, funky bacteria, and old wood saturated by the Devil’s cut of every beer that came before – which, with as much as 150 years of age on each...
- Style: Amber Ale
- ABV: 5.5%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Nugget, Fuggle
- Malts: Lots of caramel malts! (per the brewer)
- Country: United States
This medium amber-brown brew is the lightest-colored beer in the Duck-Rabbit line up, and is quite dark for an amber ale. They live up to their motto as "The Dark Beer Specialists"—this is another dark, delicious brew. On the nose, expect very prominent and very toasty bready notes with a touch of brown sugar. Look also for notes of fresh grist (brew-speak for grains) and a slight Belgian-candy like sweetness. The hops are...
- ABV: 5.8%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Snifter
- Country: France
This Christmas beer pours a deep coppery-amber color with a medium-sized head that leaves some lacing as it recedes to a collar. On the nose we found a bit of Belgian mustiness, along with bready notes, mild brown sugar and caramel, and a touch of nuttiness. Spicy notes overlay an earthy quality. On the palate this brew is sweet, with caramel malt flavors and fruity notes reminiscent of apple, pear, and orange candies, along with a faint nutty quality...
- Style: Spiced Strong Dark Ale
- ABV: 11.5%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Oversized Wine Glass
- Country: United States
The Twelve Days of Christmas series continues! So far, each year’s beer has been a strong, dark ale. In the initial years of the series, the brewers worked some ingredient(s) or technique into the recipe that suited the verse—French oak in 2 French Hens, for example. But we were advised by the brewery a couple years back not to expect future releases to integrate ingredients that have anything to do with the verses, since this was never part of...
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