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Featured Beers - May 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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Millstream Brewing Company - Back Road Stout | |||||||||||||||
Millstream Brewing Company - Iowa Pale Ale | |||||||||||||||
Millstream Brewing Company - Schild Brau Amber | |||||||||||||||
Harpoon Brewing Company - Camp Wannamango | |||||||||||||||
Harpoon Brewing Company - Rec. League | |||||||||||||||
Harpoon Brewing Company - American IPA | |||||||||||||||
Arcobräu Gräfliches Brauhaus - Mooser Liesl Helles | |||||||||||||||
Mahou San Miguel - Session IPA | |||||||||||||||
Mark Twain Brewing Company - A Wee Bit Foggy | |||||||||||||||
Sudwerk Brewing - Microfauna |
Unmatched Variety by style, brewery & country
Choose from Five different Beer Clubs offering unmatched variety by brewery,
country of origin, and beer style to suit your specific tastes.
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Oatmeal Stout
- ABV: 7.1%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 26.9
- Serving Temperature: 50-55º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Millennium, Cascade, Triple Pearl
- Malts: Brewer's, Carapils, Munich 20, Oats, Chocolate Malt, Roasted Barley, Black Patent
- Country: United States
Pouring a very, very, dark coffee-like brown color, this 2011 Great American Beer Festival Gold medal winning oatmeal stout offers up quite the inviting aroma. Deep roasty notes of scorched bread and coffee are underpinned by hints of caramel, toffee, and a hint of grassy, herbal hops. With a grain bill as complex as Back Road's, it's not surprising the flavor profile is both robust and interesting. Expect big roasty notes along with flashes of...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.3%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 50
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, Mug
- Hops: Millennium, Cascade, Chinook, Falconer's Flight, Centennial
- Malts: Brewer's, Pale, Munich 20, Caramel 40, Victory, Carapils
- Country: United States
Millstream’s year-round IPA pours a rich amber color topped with a head of light khaki foam that laces well as it recedes. Hop aromas are quite fruity, with big citrus notes reminiscent of candied orange and lemon bolstered by piney and floral qualities. It's quite complex, but that's no surprise given the five different hop varieties Millstream uses (more when one considers that Falconer's Flight is itself a blend of several different Pacific...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Vienna Lager
- ABV: 5.3%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 17.2
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass or Flute
- Hops: Millennium, Mt. Hood
- Malts: Brewer's, Munich 20, Caramel 60, Ashburne
- Country: United States
Schild Brau is Millsteam's flagship beer, having been around since the brewery's opening in 1985, and over the years this Vienna-style lager has brought home a lot of hardware from numerous brewing competitions, including multiple Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals from the G.A.B.F. as well as Gold from the 2010 World Beer Cup. Presenting a clear copperish-amber hue with some off-white foam, this brew offers up an inviting and classic aroma. Look...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Pale Ale w/ Mango
- ABV: 5.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 22
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Northern Brewer, Sultana, Simcoe
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, CaraVienne
- Country: United States
Presenting an attractive copper-amber color with good clarity and a cap of beige foam, this seasonal pale ale, brewed with fresh mango puree, offers up a compelling aroma. Look for bright mango and pineapple-like tropical notes backed up by ripe citrus, a touch of pine, and some earthy-herbal hints, all underpinned by a mild dose of caramel maltiness. The mango addition makes a satisfying impression on the palate right away, contributing a...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Hazy American Pale Ale
- ABV: 3.8%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 35
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Cascade, Simcoe, Ekuanot, Mosaic, Falconer's Flight, Citra
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Oat Malt, Copper Carapils, Wheat Malt, Buckwheat Kasha
- Country: United States
Pouring a hazy golden straw color capped with a bright head of foam, Rec. League certainly looks the part of what Harpoon calls a "hazy pale ale." Harpoon designed this beer to be a super-sessionable, low-ABV brew that would invigorate and refresh the imbiber with welcoming hop character, and they have certainly made something compelling and unique, and which is not quite like anything we've seen before. On the nose, look for the half-dozen hop...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 7.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 50
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Centennial, Simcoe, Falconer's Flight, Citra, Galaxy, Lotus, Zythos, Cascade
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Goldpils, Carapils, Crystal 40
- Country: United States
Pouring a bright, luminous copper color with great clarity and a lasting head of khaki foam that laces nicely as it drops, this IPA from Harpoon looks great right off the bat. On the nose, look for super luscious and fruity notes: citrus zest conjuring grapefruit, tangerine, and candied orange peel, ripe passion fruit and pineapple, and hints of melon. A dash of pine is shot through it all. Harpoon uses a stunning total of eight hop varieties...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Helles Lager
- ABV: 5.3%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass or Flute
- Country: Germany
Pouring a bright golden straw color with crystal clarity and a vibrant cap of foam, this helles lager offers up an inviting aroma. We picked up plenty of pale malt character offering fresh baked bread and crackery notes, topped by floral and lightly fruity hops with touches of spice and earth. For us, the hops and malts come together to conjure a sort of mild tree fruit impression. On the palate, look for the malt profile to come through fairly...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Session IPA
- ABV: 4.5%
- Serving Temperature: 42-47° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Flute
- Country: Spain
Session-style IPAs have grown a ton in popularity over the last few years, emerging as a distinct style within the increasingly wide stylistic family that is India Pale Ale. This version from Mahou in Spain presents a lightly hazy golden hue capped by a head of sprightly foam. On the nose, look for notes of fruity citrus leaning towards grapefruit, mild pine-like herbal character, touches of stone fruit, earthy character, and a soft, underlying...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Scottish-Style Ale
- ABV: 9.8%
- Serving Temperature: 52–59° F
- Suggested Glassware: Small Nonic, Tulip, or Snifter
- Country: United States
As one of our two featured beers this month, we’ve been looking forward to introducing the work of Mark Twain Brewing Co. to our Rare Beer Club members. We have been following this brewery for a while, trying to figure out the best way to express what they’re up to—but we’ve been impressed time and again by the brewery’s A Wee Bit Foggy: a Scottish-style ale / wee heavy with a nicely tucked-away 9.8% ABV. It’s bold, highly expressive for the...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Golden Sour Beer aged in American Oak Barrels & dry-hopped with Mosaic hops
- ABV: 6.5%
- Serving Temperature: 50–57° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Chardonnay Glass
- Country: United States
We’re excited to have another Sudwerk release as one of our two featured beers this month, and some of our longstanding club members might recall Fünke Hop Farm—an absolutely delicious dry-hopped sour saison that we featured from these folks around five years ago. It was one of the most surprising and memorable beers that we’ve had in recent memory, all the moreso given that the brewery had just recently pivoted away from focusing on German...
We’re so proud of our featured beers, that we list them going all the way back to 1995
No other Beer Club can claim the same. Check out what we’ve been up for the last 20+ years. We know you’ll be impressed enough to see what’s coming next month.
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