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Featured Beers - March 2017
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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River Horse Brewing Company - Oatmeal Milk Stout | |||||||||||||||
RJ Rockers Brewing Company - Bell Ringer | |||||||||||||||
River Horse Brewing Company - Roly Poly Pils | |||||||||||||||
RJ Rockers Brewing Company - Son of a Peach | |||||||||||||||
River Horse Brewing Company - River Horse IPA | |||||||||||||||
River Horse Brewing Company - Hippotizing IPA | |||||||||||||||
RJ Rockers Brewing Company - Rockhopper | |||||||||||||||
Aass Bryggeri - Juleøl Premium | |||||||||||||||
Aass Bryggeri - Bayer | |||||||||||||||
Brouwerij Boon - 2016 Oude Geuze Boon Black Label | |||||||||||||||
Les Trois Mousquetaires - Hors Série Saison Brett |
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- Style: Milk Stout
- ABV: 6.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 14
- Serving Temperature: 50-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Golding, Hallertau
- Malts: Pilsen, Munich, Roasted Barley, Chocolate, Black, Caramel, Oats (and lactose)
- Country: United States
This winter seasonal beer pours an opaque black with a generous cap of brown foam. While there are plenty of black, roasty notes in the aroma, there’s a touch of sweet lactose which comes through to balance. On the palate, the malt core is well-constructed, delivering a nice amalgam of deep caramel, dark chocolate, and roasted malt, without the roast being too heavy-handed and veering off toward acrid astringency. This leaves room for the...
- Style: American Strong Ale
- ABV: 8.3%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 48
- Serving Temperature: 48-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Nugget, Cascade
- Malts: 2 Row Pale, Munich, Caramel 60
- Country: United States
Will RJ Rockers ring your bell with this big 8%+ brew? Well, that depends on how fast you drink it and how many you have. But, in our experience… well let’s just say our beer panel was quite the lively event the night we sampled this one. On the pour, Bell Ringer offers a delicious-looking hazy amber color with an off-white head with decent retention for the high ABV. On the nose, look for a floral and lightly grassy hop profile with subtle...
- Style: Czech Pilsner
- ABV: 5.3%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 28
- Serving Temperature: 42-47° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Flute
- Hops: Hersbrucker, Hallertau, Czech Saaz, Chinook
- Malts: Pilsen, Vienna, Melanoidin, Carapils
- Country: United States
Pouring a bright golden hue and boasting a robust cap of foam, this beer is a looker, especially in a proper pilsner glass. This Czech-style pils uses classic noble hops, including authentic Saaz from the Czech Republic, to deliver an on-point aroma profile: a mélange of earth, grass, and herbal spice, along with a light citric and floral edge. In the flavor department, look for a tasty backbone of toasty malts with mild crackery notes and...
- Style: American Pale Wheat Ale
- ABV: 5.6%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 16
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass, Weizen Glass
- Hops: German Tradition, Mt. Hood
- Malts: 2 Row Pale, Wheat, Munich, Caramel 40
- Country: United States
This American-style wheat beer is brewed with a healthy dose of real locally-grown peaches for an infusion of peach character that, we were very happy to discover, comes through in an authentic fashion that artificial flavors just can’t produce. Like most wheat ales, it’s bottled unfiltered and pours a very hazy golden straw color. The aroma of fresh peaches is unmistakable on this most popular of RJ Rockers beers, and is immediately inviting.
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 5.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 51
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Summit, Chinook, Simcoe, Falconer’s Flight, Citra, Wakatu, Cascade, Centennial
- Malts: Pilsen, Carapils, Melanoidin, Honey Malt
- Country: United States
Pouring a rich and hazy amber color topped with ample foam, this IPA offers a very expressive aroma that really drew us in. Brewed with eight different varieties of hops (more when we consider Falconer’s Flight, which is itself a blend of several varieties), it’s no surprise to find quite a complex array of very fruity aromas including pineapple, orange, mango, passion fruit, tangerine, grapefruit, and even a hint of berry, not to mention...
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 7.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 76
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass, Snifter, Tulip
- Hops: Summit, Chinook, Falconer’s Flight, Mosaic
- Malts: Pilsen, Vienna, Carapils
- Country: United States
Lightly hazy and richly orange, this brew looked dynamite in our glasses capped by a voluminous head of foam from an aggressive pour, which laced the glass in a big way as it receded. River Horse describes Hippotizing IPA as a cross between the West Coast and New England styles of IPA, and they dry-hop this brew with a sizable 2 lbs. per barrel of Mosaic – a rather complex hop. On the nose, look for herbal and earthy notes accompanied by pine, on...
- Style: Double IPA
- ABV: 8.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 75
- Serving Temperature: 45-52° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Warrior, Simcoe, Amarillo, Falconer’s Flight
- Malts: 2 Row Pale, Caramunich, Victory, Honey Malt
- Country: United States
Rich amber-orange and capped by a head of fluffy foam that laces nicely as you drain your glass, this double IPA offers up a bold, hoppy aroma profile as we expect for a beer dry-hopped with Simcoe, Amarillo, and Falconer’s Flight. Look for varied citrus notes akin to grapefruit, orange, and tangerine, along with some tropical fruit tones and hints of stone fruit. These hop notes come through boldly in the flavor too, perhaps with a bit...
- Style: Juleøl
- ABV: 6.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 31.5
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Flute, Tulip
- Country: Norway
“Juleøl” is a style of Christmas beer popular in Norway and other northern European countries. It’s usually a bit like a bock, a bit like a dunkel lager, and a bit like a Vienna lager, and it can be spiced or unspiced. It might seem odd to feature a Christmas beer a few months after Christmas, but when we sampled this brew in late 2016 we liked it and decided to work to get a batch of this rare style made and imported for our members this...
- Style: Dunkel Lager
- ABV: 4.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 20
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Flute, Pint Glass, Pilsner Glass
- Country: Norway
Pouring a pretty mahogany-like reddish brown and capped by, in the words of the brewery, a “café au lait” colored head, Aass Bayer certainly looks inviting. “Bayer” is a term akin to the descriptor “Bavarian”, a nod to the dark “dunkel” lagers which emanate from Munich and the surrounding region. Look for this dark lager to offer up notes of caramel, bread crust, hints of coffee, chocolate, and hay, plus a distinct fruity character underneath...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Oude Geuze
- ABV: 7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 36
- Serving Temperature: 45–52° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Lambic Tumbler, or Chardonnay Glass
- Hops: Apollo, Cascade,....
- Malts: Pale ale Malt, C40, C75, Brown, Black, Chocolate, Munich
- Country: Belgium
Let’s start here: This is probably the tastiest geuze that Boon has ever released. First offered in late 2015 to celebrate the brewery’s 40th anniversary, this drier take on geuze was inspired by the brewery’s collaboration with Mikkeller—which resulted in Oude Geuze Boon “Bone Dry Selection” back in 2015. This month’s featured Oude Geuze Boon Black Label is similar in overall profile—it’s also a blend of beers aged 1, 2 and 3 years inside oak...
- Style: Oak-Barrel-Fermented Saison w/ Brettanomyces
- ABV: 7%
- Serving Temperature: 43–50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Tapered Pilsner or Chardonnay Glass
- Country: Canada
One of our featured beers this month is a very special release from Les Trois Mousquetaires’ Hors Séries of outside-the-box offerings—and one that really extends itself well beyond the frequent German focus of this Québec brewery. It’s also our very favorite of the beers that we’ve ever tasted from these folks. This complex saison has been fermented entirely within oak barrels, for a period of approximately three months, first with a saison...
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