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Featured Beers - January 2021
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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Heavy Seas Beer - Peg Leg | |||||||||||||||
Heavy Seas Beer - Powder Monkey | |||||||||||||||
Flying Fish Brewing Company - Abbey Dubbel | |||||||||||||||
Flying Fish Brewing Company - XPA | |||||||||||||||
Heavy Seas Beer - Loose Cannon | |||||||||||||||
Heavy Seas Beer - TropiCannon | |||||||||||||||
Flying Fish Brewing Company - Hopfish | |||||||||||||||
Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Schwarzbier | |||||||||||||||
Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Pale Ale | |||||||||||||||
The Lost Abbey - King of Tyre (RBC Exclusive) | |||||||||||||||
The Spencer Brewery - Trappist Imperial Stout |
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: Imperial Stout
- ABV: 8.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 48
- Serving Temperature: 50-55º F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Snifter
- Hops: Fuggle, East Kent Golding, Target
- Malts: Pale, Munich, Roasted Barley, Chocolate, Crystal
- Country: United States
Much like India pale ale, imperial stout evolved as an English-produced beer style that found favor in a distant export market. In the case of imperial stout, it was a favorite among those in the 18th and 19th century imperial court of Russia, hence the "imperial" designation as well as the more specific moniker, "Russian imperial stout." Like IPA, imperial stouts are big, amped-up beers designed to survive the long sea voyage to their destination. This month's featured brew, Peg Leg...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: English Pale Ale
- ABV: 4.8%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 17
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Target, Fuggle, East Kent Golding
- Malts: Pale, Crystal
- Country: United States
On the pour, this English-style pale ale offers up an attractive copper hue with nice clarity and a sizeable crop of off-white foam. Expect a prominent caramelized malt character on the nose, overlaid by an interesting and decidedly English hop profile: herbal, somewhat woody tones, with a softly floral note accompanied by a citric hint and a bit of spice. Too many pale ales that we sample have barely-there malt profiles; we liked that the malts weren’t shy in this...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Dubbel
- ABV: 7.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 9.1
- Serving Temperature: 48-53º F
- Suggested Glassware: Chalice, Goblet, Tulip, Snifter
- Hops: Styrian Golding
- Malts: Superior Pilsen, Munich, Special B, Chocolate, Honey Malt, Wheat Malt, Demerera Sugar
- Country: United States
Brewed in the style of a Belgian Dubbel, this beer pours the expected deep brownish color, albeit with a noticeable and attractive reddish hue. On the nose look for notes of brown sugar and caramel, light touches of chocolate, and a significant spicy character contributed by both the famously spicy Belgian yeast as well as the dose of hops. These characteristics come through on the palate too, along with plenty of raisin-like fruitiness, a nut-like quality...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Pale Ale
- ABV: 5.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 27
- Serving Temperature: 42-47º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Warrior, Palisade, Citra, El Dorado
- Malts: Superior Pilsen, Munich, Oats, Wheat, Honey Ale, Vienna
- Country: United States
This pale ale from Flying Fish, which started it all as the brewery's initial offering, presents a golden-amber color with a head of off-white foam. We poured half our bottle, then roused the yeast sediment and poured the rest, giving the brew a hazy look. On the nose we picked up lots of floral and citrus zest character, along with an herbal flourish of cut grass, and some stone fruit and melon notes. On the palate, look for the malts to come through clean...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 7.25%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 45
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, Mug
- Hops: Pahto, Simcoe, Palisade, Cascade, Centennial, Citra
- Malts: Pale, Munich, Caramalt
- Country: United States
Heavy Seas’ flagship beer pours a lightly hazy golden-copper color with plenty of sticky foam that drops nice lacing as you empty your glass. The first whiff of Loose Cannon unabashedly declares itself an American IPA. Look for big citrus aromas which lean toward tangerine and grapefruit, accompanied by piney-herbal notes and a big overall resinous quality. The six different hop varieties come through with a big, expressive, juicy fruit character...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Citrus IPA
- ABV: 7.25%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 45
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, Mug
- Hops: Pahto, Simcoe, Palisade, Cascade, Citra
- Malts: Pale, Munich, Caramalt
- Country: United States
Pouring a bright orange-copper color with a robust head of persistent foam, TropiCannon is a variant of Loose Cannon IPA which has been bolstered by the addition of real fruit including dried grapefruit, orange and lemon peel during brewing, and blood orange, mango, and grapefruit after fermentation. The aroma on this IPA is lush and beckoning, with notes of citrus peel, melon, tropical impressions of mango and passion fruit, and stone fruits...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25.3
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, Mug
- Hops: Nugget, Ahtanum, Columbus
- Malts: Superior Pilsen, English Medium Crystal, Black Prinz, Munich
- Country: United States
Pouring a radiant copper-amber hue with a plentiful head of off-white foam, Hopfish offers up a multifaceted aroma as we take a sniff. Look for bright citrus notes conjuring grapefruit and hints of lemon, soft floral tones, prominent earth, herbal spice, and hints of fresh-cut wood. The hoppy aromas come forth boldly on the palate, too, joined by a welcome malt profile delivering mild toast and caramel. There’s a pungent, resinous character that amps up...
- Bottle Size: 500-ml
- Style: Schwarzbier
- ABV: 4.8%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Flute, Pilsner Glass
- Country: Germany
If you think dark beers are all big and heavy, Köstritzer will challenge those notions. Not only is its level of alcohol relatively low at 4.8%, it is not a thick, chewy beer; in fact, a beer’s color actually has nothing to do with its body. Nor does this brew present a particularly bitter, overly-charred character. On the pour it certainly is dark, with some garnet flashes when held to the light, and a rich, creamy looking light brown head. But sample the aroma and notice how delicate...
- Bottle Size: 500-ml
- Style: Pale Ale
- ABV: 7.0%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Country: Germany
On the pour, we get a medium amber color with good clarity and a robust crop of off-white foam that persists well and drops some lace down the glass as it recedes. On the nose, we picked up a nice balance between malt and hop character here, with the hop profile offering fruity notes tending towards citrus, with secondary touches of pear, apple, and peach, along with some grassy and floral overtones, a hint of pine resin, and a subtle woodsy note. A noticeable...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Barrel-Aged Blended Barleywine
- ABV: 11.5%
- Serving Temperature: 52–60° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter or Tulip
- Country: United States
We’ve been loving Tomme’s work since his earliest days at Pizza Port, and this month we’re excited to offer an exclusive release from The Lost Abbey to our Rare Beer Club members. Tomme and Co. have blended together King of Tyre for us (referencing the story of Satan getting booted out of Heaven), and it’s delicious: about 70% of the blend is new barleywine, the remainder being dark strong ale that’s gotten aged in bourbon barrels for 15+ months. It results in a brilliantly structured...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Anglo-Russo Imperial Stout
- ABV: 8.7%
- Serving Temperature: 52–58° F
- Suggested Glassware: Goblet, Snifter, Tulip, or Pinot Glass
- Country: United States
We’ve been enjoying everything we’ve crossed thus far from Spencer Brewery—but Trappist Imperial Stout blew us away. Described as (approximately) an “Anglo-Russo imperial stout,” it offers the drinkability and hugely complex malt range of the finest Belgian strong ales, and adds in the delicious roast and bitter-chocolate qualities of some of the tastiest American and Russian-style imperial stouts. There’s a surprisingly firm hop bitterness here, amplified by the dark roastiness, and yet...
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