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Featured Beers - December 2018
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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3 Sheeps Brewing Company - Cashmere Hammer | |||||||||||||||
Dick's Brewing Company - Straight Coastin' | |||||||||||||||
3 Sheeps Brewing Company - Waterslides | |||||||||||||||
Dick's Brewing Company - Working Man's Brown Ale | |||||||||||||||
3 Sheeps Brewing Company - First Kiss | |||||||||||||||
The Lion Brewery - Lionshead IPA | |||||||||||||||
Browar Witnica - Black Boss Porter | |||||||||||||||
Staatliches Hofbräuhaus (Hofbräu München) - Hofbräu Maibock | |||||||||||||||
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales - The Regifted | |||||||||||||||
River Horse Brewing Company - Night Grazer |
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Choose from Five different Beer Clubs offering unmatched variety by brewery,
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- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Stout
- ABV: 6.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 29
- Serving Temperature: 48-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Columbus, Saaz
- Malts: 2-Row, Munich, Rye, Caramel 120, Chocolate, Midnight Wheat, Torrified Wheat
- Country: United States
Instead of carbonation, this delicious stout from 3 Sheeps uses nitrogenation, which most of us have encountered with Guinness and occasionally some other beers which are also usually (but not always) stouts. We wish more brewers would offer nitrogenated beers, as the effect is similar to carbonation, yet different. Whereas carbonation can add significant bite (think of the nasal burn one gets when inhaling a soda that's freshly poured and...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA (Hazy style)
- ABV: 6.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 55
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Wide Flute
- Hops: Citra, Simcoe, Cascade
- Malts: 2-Row, Munich, Dextrin
- Country: United States
The New England style of "hazy" IPA has really caught on recently, and this new offering from Dick's is their take on the popular style. Unsurprisingly, this unfiltered brew pours a very hazy golden-orange color, capped by a voluminous head of fluffy foam that laces nicely. On the nose: beautiful, luscious, fruity hops! Look for prominent citrus notes of grapefruit, orange, and tangerine, backed up by some tropical impressions, touches of pine...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 60
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Tulip
- Hops: Columbus, Cascade, Zythos
- Malts: 2-Row, Caramel 40, Carapils
- Country: United States
Presenting a medium-amber color with good clarity and a robust head of light beige foam that drops lots of lace as we drink it down, Waterslides makes a good impression in the glass. Swirl up the yeast sediment in the bottle if you prefer a more hazy, yeasty IPA. On the nose, we picked up citrus notes and tropical fruit, including a hint of pineapple, and a wispy hint of berry or pomegranate. Look for those citrus notes to come forth on the...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: English-style Brown Ale
- ABV: 5.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 22
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Magnum, Mt. Hood
- Malts: 2-Row, Chocolate, Crystal 120, Special Roast, Victory
- Country: United States
Pouring a medium-brown hue with flashes of orange and red with good clarity and a head of beige foam, this English-style brown ale offers up quite a malt-driven aroma. Look for notes of caramel, toffee, toasted bread, molasses and a bit of brown sugar. The aroma notes come forth on the palate, too; we picked up plenty of toasted, caramel, and toffee tones along with a touch of dried fruit esters which seem to well up from the malty core...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Double IPA
- ABV: 8.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 110
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Snifter
- Hops: Columbus, Centennial, Simcoe, Cascade
- Malts: 2-Row, Caramel 40, Carapils
- Country: United States
This hefty double IPA presents a clear medium-dark amber color, capped by a beige head that laces well as it drops to a persistent collar. On the nose, we picked up a bold citric-floral character augmented by touches of pine and a significant caramel malt undertone. On the palate: Pow! The 110 IBUs open with unquestionably firm bitterness from the start, but there's a robust, malty core here to provide plenty of strong support for the giant...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 60
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Wide Flute
- Hops: Cascade, Nugget, Centennial
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Caramel, and other Specialty Malts
- Country: United States
Lionshead IPA is a relatively new beer, having been released just a few months ago. The brewery has joined the huge and growing trend in the craft beer world of canning their beer, which better protects the product from light damage and oxidation – and there's no bottle opener necessary! For the last couple years, we’ve seen more new craft beers hitting the market in cans than in bottles, so expect to see a predominance of cans soon, if...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Baltic Porter
- ABV: 9.4%
- Serving Temperature: 48-53° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Country: Poland
The Baltic Porter style is most commonly brewed in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, and is a hearty brew with much more of an alcoholic kick than your everyday American or British porter. Black Boss is no different, although we found it a remarkably smooth and well-mannered version; some Baltic Porters can be downright aggressive (which we like too!). On the pour, Black Boss offers a very dark reddish brown color with a sizable head. The aromatics...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Maibock
- ABV: 7.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 31
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Goblet, Mug, or Stein
- Hops: Magnum, Herkules, Perle, Select
- Malts: Munich malt, light barley malt
- Country: Germany
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Oak-Aged Sour Ale w/ Passion Fruit, Cherry, Blackberry, Raisins, Dates & Ginger
- ABV: 7%
- Serving Temperature: 50–57° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Teku or Chardonnay Glass
- Country: United States
We’re really pumped to be able to get to offer this one as a Rare Beer Club exclusive. Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ale’s The Regifted is specially built for the holidays: it’s inspired by rum-soaked fruitcake, and (though it includes no rum or rum-barrel aging!) this Jolly Pumpkin-esque riff on fruitcake is a beautifully constructed oak-aged sour ale with a slew of special additions. It incorporates dates, raisins, cherries, blackberries, passion...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Imperial Stout w/ Ugandan coffee beans, cinnamon, chocolate, vanilla beans & red chile peppers
- ABV: 11.2%
- Serving Temperature: 52–59° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Tulip, Teku or Pinot Glass
- Country: United States
We’ve been looking forward to having this exclusive release from River Horse for our Rare Beer Club members around the holidays, and Night Grazer in particular is a beer that we’ve specifically chosen to build upon River Horse’s strengths, including using the beer’s various special ingredients. Night Grazer’s a full-bodied imperial stout brewed with Ugandan coffee beans, red chile peppers, cinnamon, chocolate and vanilla—tuned to be a perfect...
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