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Featured Beers - Sept 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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Sly Fox Brewing Company - Pikeland Pils | |||||||||||||||
High Hops Brewery - The Honeyed One | |||||||||||||||
Sly Fox Brewing Company - Helles Golden Lager | |||||||||||||||
High Hops Brewery - The Golden One | |||||||||||||||
Sly Fox Brewing Company - Haze Fix IPA | |||||||||||||||
Sly Fox Brewing Company - Vulpulin IPA | |||||||||||||||
High Hops Brewery - Dr. Pat’s Double IPA | |||||||||||||||
Birrificio Angelo Poretti - 6 Luppoli Bock Rossa | |||||||||||||||
Birrificio Angelo Poretti - 4 Luppoli Premium Lager | |||||||||||||||
Brasserie Fantôme - Rare Barley Dark Project (Rare Beer Club Exclusive) | |||||||||||||||
Libertine Brewing Company - Central Coast Saison (2016) |
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- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Northern German-style Pilsner
- ABV: 4.9%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 44
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Tall Flute
- Hops: Tettnang, Hallertau, Saaz
- Malts: Pilsner
- Country: United States
This northern German-style pilsner has taken home Gold and Bronze medals from the GABF (in fact, it was the first canned craft beer to win Gold), and was awarded Best of the Mid-Atlantic at the 2020 US Beer Tasting Championship. Pikeland Pils presents a bright pale golden color with good clarity, topped by a large head of off-white foam. On the nose, look for herbal, earthy, grassy, and slightly floral noble hop notes with just a hint of lemon...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Amber/Red Ale
- ABV: 7.1%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 10
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Nugget
- Malts: Pilsen, Honey, Caramel, Flaked Maize, Munich
- Country: United States
The Honeyed One presents a richly colored reddish amber color in the glass, topped by a head of light beige foam. It’s quite a malty experience in the aroma which delivers loads of caramel and toffee along with a bready and lightly honeyed character. Amber ale can be a bit of a catch-all category, with some tending towards hop expression while the majority embrace a malt-forward approach. This one is certainly on the malty side as the hops...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Munich-style Helles Lager
- ABV: 4.9%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 18
- Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Tall Flute
- Hops: Hallertau, Saaz
- Malts: Pilsner
- Country: United States
Helles means “pale”, and this Bavarian-style of golden lager is extremely popular in Germany as well as among the patrons of Sly Fox – their Helles Golden Lager has been brewed for over two decades and is their flagship and most popular product; it’s also won Bronze at GABF. Presenting a brighly golden and clear hue capped by a head of pale foam, this helles offers up an attractive look and an engaging aroma. We picked up noble hops tending...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Spiced Golden Ale
- ABV: 6.3%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 12
- Serving Temperature: 42-47º F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Cascade
- Malts: Pilsen, Wheat, Flaked Maize
- Country: United States
This intriguing ale from High Hops is brewed with the addition of lemon verbena and coriander. On the pour, it presents a pale golden straw color that’s slightly hazed, topped with a head of white foam. On the nose, it’s pretty clear right away that there’s a spice element to this brew. Look for a very fragrant and quite brightly citric profile thanks to the special additions working alongside Cascade hops, complemented by a secondary herbal...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: New England-style Hazy IPA
- ABV: 5.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 34
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass or Pint Glass
- Hops: Azacca, El Dorado, Trident, Bravo
- Malts: Pilsner, Munich, Wheat, Oats
- Country: United States
Haze Fix presents a very hazy straw color in the glass, topped by a vigorous, rocky cap of foam. Look for a ton of luscious and inviting fruit notes in the aroma, offering a complex fruit cocktail impression. We picked up tropical notes of pineapple and passion fruit, an amalgam of candied orange, tangerine, and grapefruit citrus, significant peach-like stone fruit notes, and some hints of pear, along with secondary floral tones. All these...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 60
- Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
- Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Mosaic, Citra, Cascade, Centennial
- Malts: Pale, Crystal
- Country: United States
In naming this brew, Sly Fox cleverly combined the Latin “vulpes”, which means “fox”, with lupulin, the yellow powdery substance produced by hop flowers which contains the various oils and other compounds that give hops their powerful aroma characteristics. Vulpulin pours a slightly hazed bright orange color topped by a head of sticky foam that laces the glass before dropping to a lasting collar. On the nose, we get lots of orangey citrus as...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Double IPA
- ABV: 8.36%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 96
- Serving Temperature: 47-52º F
- Suggested Glassware: Glass, Tulip, Snifter
- Hops: Centennial, Cascade, Citra
- Malts: Maris Otter, 2-Row, Pilsen, Caramel, Carapils
- Country: United States
In addition to founding a garden center, a hop farm, a brewery, and a distillery, Pat Weakland spent thirty years as a dentist, commemorated by this big double IPA. Fun fact: Dr. Pat’s just made USA Today’s reader’s choice list of 10 Best Best Beer Labels for 2023. Let’s pop this can open and see what it’s got going on. On the pour, we’re presented with a rich copper-gold color with good clarity and a lasting head of khaki foam. In the aroma...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Bock
- ABV: 7.0%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Willi Becher, Mug
- Country: Italy
Angelo Poretti brews this bock with a total of six different hop varieties, with Saaz as the most dominant. Pouring a deep reddish brown color topped by a cap of beige foam, the beer looks striking in the glass. On the nose, this one is quite complex, as we expect for a good bock. Deep notes of rich toast, caramel, and brown bread are shot through by some dried dark fruit character, all overlaid by a spicy hop note. This brew is as richly malty...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Pale Lager
- ABV: 5.0%
- Serving Temperature: 42-47° F
- Suggested Glassware: Willi Becher, Pint Glass, Tulip
- Country: Italy
The label proudly announces “4 Hops”, and while the brewery doesn’t divulge the entire list, from what we’ve been able to gather it appears Columbus or possibly Cascade is the dominant one. Either way, it’s an interesting choice for a European lager. On the pour, we get a bright golden color with a touch of copper, topped by plenty of pale foam. Look for some very nice malt undertones in the aroma, offering prominent bready character with hints...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Belgian Dark Farmhouse Ale w/ Spices
- ABV: 7.5%
- Serving Temperature: Serving Temperature 45–52° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Teku, or Goblet
- Country: Belgium
The Rare Barley Dark Project pours a slightly hazy deep, dark, amber to brown with a tremendously pillowy and tightly bubbled head made of tan foam. Held up to light it exhibits dark red highlights towards the rim. The aromas seem to waft out of the glass and release a rich tapestry of complex scents. A prominent blend of dark fruit notes comes to the foreground with plums, raisins, and figs, creating a hint of jammyness. This is followed by...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Wild Saison
- ABV: 6%
- Serving Temperature: 46–53° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Goblet, Chardonnay Glass
- Country: United States
The Central Coast Saison pours a bold golden-orange color, with flecks of amber and copper, which gets capped by a replenishing, fine-bubbled white foam. This beer essentially glows in the glass, with Champagne-like bubbles and a look that had us thinking of some of our favorite barrel-aged saisons and lambics. While this gets billed as both a wild ale and saison, the aromatics had us thinking of Belgian lambics, for sure—as this is a...
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