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Featured Beers - July 2023
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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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Fulton Beer - Lonely Blonde | |||||||||||||||
Long Trail Brewing Company - Long Trail Ale | |||||||||||||||
Fulton Beer - Chill City | |||||||||||||||
Long Trail Brewing Company - Double Bag | |||||||||||||||
Fulton Beer - 300 IPA | |||||||||||||||
Fulton Beer - Sweet Child of Vine | |||||||||||||||
Long Trail Brewing Company - VT IPA | |||||||||||||||
Tucher Bräu - Rotbier | |||||||||||||||
Tucher Bräu - Helles Lager | |||||||||||||||
Brasserie Thiriez - La Maline (Rare Beer Club Exclusive) | |||||||||||||||
Brasserie De Silly - Chardonnay Barrel Aged Scotch Silly (Rare Beer Club Exclusive) |
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: Blonde Ale
- ABV: 4.8%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 28
- Serving Temperature: 43-48º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Pilsner Glass
- Hops: Herkules, Tettnanger, Hallertau Mittelfrüh
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Caramel 10, White Wheat
- Country: United States
This blonde ale pours a bright golden color with good clarity and a cap of pale foam that offers up a pleasant, inviting aroma. Look for a crackery malt undertone overlaid by bright noble hop character including herbal, grassy notes with a dash of spice, a touch of hay, floral tones, and a hint of citrus. On the palate, the malt core delivers a satisfying crackery impression with some tangy wheat and a light hint of caramel. Those noble hops...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Altbier
- ABV: 5.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: Stange, Pilsner Glass, Pint Glass
- Hops: Northern Brewer, Willamette
- Malts: Pale, Wheat, Caramel, Chocolate
- Country: United States
This is the beer that started it all for Long Trail Brewing Co. back in 1989, and it sure was a good foundation from which to build. This brew is crafted as an altbier, a German style with a deep history around Düsseldorf. Translating to “old beer”, the name is a reference to the old style of brewing with ale yeast prior to the proliferation of lager brewing in Germany. Long Trail Ale pours an attractive reddish amber color with nice clarity...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Lager
- ABV: 4.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 12
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass or Flute
- Hops: Cascade
- Malts: 2-Row Pale
- Country: United States
This golden lager from Fulton presents a bright golden straw color with good clarity, topped with a bright white cap of foam. On the nose this brew is simple and inviting, with the hop character taking center stage as it offers some floral, herbal, and citrus zest notes, joined by a true-to-style wisp of sulfur to remind us this is a lager. Look for the malt undertone to deliver a straightforward crackery, mildly bready character, as the aroma...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Sticke Alt
- ABV: 7.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 39
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: Stange, Tulip
- Hops: Northern Brewer, Willamette
- Malts: Pale, Dark Caramel, Wheat, Chocolate
- Country: United States
Double Bag is essentially an amped up version of Long Trail Ale. It’s a style known as Sticke Alt – “sticke” meaning “secret” – which could be considered as a double or imperial altbier. It’s a fairly rare style, but one we’re always interested to try, as it pumps up all the qualities that we love so much in altbiers. On the pour, Double Bag looks very much like its little brother, with a ruddy amber complexion with orange flashes around the...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA (West Coast style)
- ABV: 7.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 74
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Mosaic, Columbus, Bravo, Simcoe, Ekuanot
- Malts: 2-Row, Crystal 15, Carawheat
- Country: United States
Brewed originally to celebrate the 300th batch brewed at Fulton's original brewery location, this West Coast-style IPA – which is now being incorporated into Fulton’s brand new “Hop Kingdom” sub-brand – pours a bright golden copper color capped by a nicely formed head of foam that laces the glass as it recedes. On the nose, look for a complex hop profile from this Mosaic-heavy IPA, delivering lots of luscious tropical fruit notes conjuring...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.4%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 69
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Columbus, Simcoe, Glacier
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Caramel 60, White Wheat
- Country: United States
This “northern” IPA, as Fulton has dubbed this creation, presents a gorgeous amber hue in the glass, capped by a crop of off-white foam that sticks around nicely before eventually dropping to a persistent collar. The nose on this one intrigued us; look for notes of pine and fresh-cut wood to evoke a certain northern forest-like quality, backed up by fragrant floral tones and soft citrus with just a touch of underlying toasty malt. That toasty...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: New England Hazy IPA
- ABV: 6.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 30
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Citra, Amarillo, Ekuanot, Simcoe, Cascade
- Malts: Pale, Aromatic Munich, Carapils, Oats
- Country: United States
This New England style hazy IPA naturally presents a nicely hazed golden hue in the glass, topped by a persistent head of pale foam. As we lean in, we’re greeted by an especially inviting and complex aroma from five hop varieties, offering notes of luscious tropical fruits and flora, sweet citrus tones, subtle soft and somewhat peach-like stone fruits, light hints of melon, and touches of herbaceous spice. Our experience continues much the same...
- Bottle Size: 16-oz
- Style: Franconian Rotbier
- ABV: 5.2%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Willi Becher, Stange
- Country: Germany
Franconia has a multi-century history of brewing unfiltered cask-conditioned red lagers known as rotbier (“red beer”). For Tucher’s Rotbier, the brewery actually brews two beers: one is a starkbier (“strong beer”), the other they classify as a vollbier (“full beer”) which is basically a catch-all term for a “normal” beer that’s neither light nor strong. The starkbier is conditioned in oak barrels, and after sufficient aging it’s blended with the...
- Bottle Size: 16-oz
- Style: Helles Lager
- ABV: 5.2%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Willi Becher, Flute
- Country: Germany
Helles (meaning “bright” or “pale”) lagers are among the most important and popular in the pantheon of German lager styles. A bit fuller and rounder on the palate than most German pilsners, with a bit more of a restrained hop presence, they deliver artful and flavorful balance in a clean and crisp package. Tucher’s Helles presents a bright golden color with a robust head of pale foam. In the aroma, look for subtle noble hop notes offering...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Porter – Bière Noire des Flandres
- ABV: 6.5%
- Serving Temperature: 45–52° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Snifter, Goblet
- Country: France
Thiriez La Maline drinks well now and can mature for a few more years. We recommend 3-5 years for this beer to reach peak maturity but will drink increasingly well along the way. This beer pairs well with stilton and similar mellow blue cheeses, but is best paired with Beef Carbonnade Flamande, especially when used in the marinade.
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Strong Scotch Ale aged in Chardonnay Barrels
- ABV: 10%
- Serving Temperature: 45–52° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Goblet, Thistle, or Chardonnay Glass
- Country: Belgium
With barrel aged beers such as the Chardonnay barrel Scotch Silly we tend allow for a wide range of time for maturing and aging. This beer is drinking very well now and seems to be reaching peak maturity. A couple more years of aging can be had but is not mandatory. For pairing we are leaning towards grilled pork chops with apple-raisin chutney and grilled veggies alongside Dutch apple pie for dessert. Enjoy!
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