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Featured Beers - April 2020
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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Atlanta Brewing Company - Soul of the City | |||||||||||||||
Alphabet City Brewing Company - Sugar Plum Fairy | |||||||||||||||
Atlanta Brewing Company - Homestand | |||||||||||||||
Alphabet City Brewing Company - Village IPA | |||||||||||||||
Atlanta Brewing Company - Hoplanta | |||||||||||||||
Atlanta Brewing Company - Hartsfield | |||||||||||||||
Grupo Cervezas Alhambra - Reserva 1925 | |||||||||||||||
Grupo Cervezas Alhambra - Reserva Roja | |||||||||||||||
Mikkeller - Nelson Sauvignon Brut | |||||||||||||||
Perennial Artisan Ales - 17 (Mint Chocolate Stout) |
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- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Pale Ale
- ABV: 5.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 45
- Serving Temperature: 42-47º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Denali, Crystal, El Dorado, Citra
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Flaked Oats
- Country: United States
Pouring a bright golden color with crystal clarity and a fluffy head of almost white foam, Soul of the City looks good in the glass as its aroma summons us in for a closer sniff. Look for plenty of inviting, luscious fruit impressions conjuring tropical and stone fruits, with soft citrus, pear, and light melon touches. On the palate, this pale ale is quite crisp from the start to the finish. The malt profile is super clean, allowing the...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Belgian-style Dark Ale
- ABV: 6.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 30
- Serving Temperature: 48-55º F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Snifter, or Goblet
- Hops: Zeus, Cascade, Liberty
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, CaraMunich 60, CaraPils, Chocolate, Kilned Amber, Crystal 120
- Country: United States
This limited-release beer from Alphabet City is inspired by Belgian dark ales, which are often brewed with Belgian candi sugar, not to sweeten the beer, but to raise the alcohol content as it's consumed and transformed by the yeast. Additionally, the brewers have incorporated real plum puree in order to complement the darker fruit esters associated with these dark Belgian ales. On the pour, this brew presents a brown hue with distinct reddish...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Czech Pilsner
- ABV: 5.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
- Serving Temperature: 42-47º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass or Flute
- Hops: Bravo, Cascade, Mosaic, Crystal
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Riverbend Pilsner
- Country: United States
This bronze medal winner at the 2019 Best of Craft Beer Awards presents a golden-straw color in the glass, topped by a cap of rocky pale foam. On the nose, look for the hops to come to fore with prominent herbal and earthy notes melding with light floral and citric touches. Those herbal and earthy impressions make themselves known upfront on the palate, too; look for them to come through quite spicy with a bit of a resinous citrus edge...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 35
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, or Mug
- Hops: Zeus, Simcoe, Citra, Equinox (Ekuanot)
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Maris Otter, Red X, Caramel 20, Flaked Oats
- Country: United States
Pouring a copper-amber hue and capped with a robust head of off-white foam, Village IPA is attractive in the glass, and that attraction is amplified by the aromas that burst forth as soon as we started our pour. Look for a multifaceted hop profile offering plenty of citrus impressions along with notes of tropical fruits, melon, some herbal and piney tones, and maybe even a hint of berry. On the palate, the malt profile forms a solid and...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA (West Coast-style)
- ABV: 6.8%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 70
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Centennial, Chinook
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Wheat, Caramel 40
- Country: United States
This IPA has been a staple offering at Atlanta Brewing Company pretty much since they opened, but this current version is a new recipe that debuted in 2018, and we're big fans. Hoplanta pours a coppery golden color that's a shade darker than its Hartsfield sibling, but capped by a similarly stout head of foam that sticks to our glass as it settles to a persistent collar. On the nose, look for bright citrus zest, spice, and some dank, resinous...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 55
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Citra, Mosaic, unknown
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Flaked Oats, Wheat
- Country: United States
This Gold medal winner from the New York International Beer Competition is a relatively new IPA from Atlanta Brewing Company featuring Citra and Mosaic hops, as well as an unknown rotating third hop. Pouring a clear bright golden color and topped with a cap of pale foam that laces as it recedes, this brew offers up quite a complex aroma featuring a little bit of everything. Zesty grapefruit-like citrus notes merge with tropical impressions...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Strong Bohemian Pilsner
- ABV: 6.4%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Flute, or Stange
- Country: Spain
The first thing that catches one’s eye with this beer is the unusual embossed bottle devoid of a typical artistic label, which is an homage to the original beer bottles Alhambra sold starting back in 1925. Weighing in at 6.4% ABV, this lager presents quite nicely in the glass, with a golden hue adorned by a very sizeable head of persistent foam that laces the glass well. Quite aromatic on the nose, Reserva 1925, which the brewers crafted as a...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Doppelbock
- ABV: 7.2%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Wide Flute or Mug
- Country: Spain
The brewers at Alhambra have crafted their Reserva Roja in the style of a German bock, really a doppelbock (double bock) to be precise, and it certainly looks the part as it descends into our glasses. This brew presents a reddish-brown, burnt copper hue with nice clarity and a cap of light khaki foam. On the nose, look for a kiss of spicy, herbal hops atop a prominent malty undertone offering notes of caramel and light toffee. These aromas...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Wild Ale aged in Austrian White Wine Casks
- ABV: 9%
- Serving Temperature: 50–57° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Chardonnay Glass
- Country: Denmark
Mikkeller Nelson Sauvignon Brut (sometimes labeled alternatively as Nelson Sauvin Brut, after the New Zealand hop variety) is an impeccably detailed wild ale that gets fermented with Champagne yeast, Brettanomyces, and enzymes, and ages for months inside white wine casks from Austria. This release from Mikkeller has seen very limited stateside release, with about 350 cases sold annually in 2016 and 2017, and none available in distribution since January of 2019. This beer has been long gone from places that saw earlier releases, and...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Imperial Stout with cacao nibs & mint leaves
- ABV: 10%
- Serving Temperature: 52–59° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Snifter, or Pinot Glass
- Country: United States
Perennial Artisan Ales 17, one of our two featured selections this month, is a mint-chocolate imperial stout brewed with cacao and mint leaves. Packed with chocolate malts, this stout is a hefty 10% ABV and just loaded with vibrant chocolate and mint character throughout. For us, it’s one of Perennial’s releases that is just so unique and well rendered, and it’s tough to talk about any other mint-stout attempts without referencing this one. It’s...
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