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Jolly Pumpkin Agrees to another Rare Beer Club® Exclusive!

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JPartisanAlesHalfCircleI’m fired up.  I just heard back from Jolly Pumpkin’s Head Brewer/Founder, Ron Jeffries, that he wants to do another RBC exclusive for us this year.  The brewery is well known and loved for their funky and sour beers so I suggested that we do some kind of a wild ale this year.  Looks like we’re targeting June, just in time for Father’s Day!  I’ll keep you posted as we firm up on the details of the beer.  We might even do a naming contest with this one be sure to check back with us from time to time.  We’re making a real push to increase the number of exclusives that we run in The Rare Beer Club®.  I’m hopeful that we can nail down more than half of our featured selections this year.

Prost!
Kris

The Rare Beer Club™ November 2014 Special Offer

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We’re excited to announce another special offer from The Rare Beer Club™. You can read a summary below or visit the special offer page for full tasting notes and access to the order form.

One of the best things about being a member is that, in addition to our normal monthly selections, you can take advantage of our periodic special offers on additional exciting and hard-to-find beers.

We geared this special offer decidedly towards keeping warm through the cooler winter weather that approaches. Please note that the two Seven Sins/Zeven Zonden beers come in 500ml bottles instead of the usual 750ml that we feature in the club. Both Luxuria (“Lust”) and Gula (“Gluttony”) are Herbed Belgian Strong Dark Ales perfect for the holiday season, but they have considerably different characters. Additionally, we’re excited to bring you the very hard-to-find Green Jack Baltic Trader, which truly knocked our socks off, plus the next iteration of The Bruery’s Twelve Days of Christmas series – a delightful, true-to-style quad that’ll hold up for at least the next five years. Cheers!

Flexible ordering allows you to order 2, 4, 6, 8, or 12 total bottles, combining any of the 4 featured beers in any way to get there so that you can easily try all four. Orders ship after our November 18th cut off date.

Order online or at 800-625-8238 Mon-Fri 7 am – 5 pm Pacific. If your Rare Beer Club membership was a gift, you will be contacted by one of our team members for payment information if you submit your order online.

If you wish to get any of these limited selections, please respond to this special offer by 12:00 PM Pacific on Tuesday, November 18th.

Cheers!

Kris Sig

 

 

 

Dia de Los Muertos with Los Vivos y Los Muertos

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20141101_174604Hello friends! It’s Dia de Los Muertos – Day of the Dead – a holiday in which my family and I celebrate to remember those who have departed. It may sound a bit odd to some but while sorrow definitely accompanies this sad reality of life, today we celebrate the lives of our deceased with activities they enjoyed, such as, parties, food, and of course, drink.

I can’t think of a better brew to pop open than the appropriately named, Los Vivos y Los Muertos from our friends at Jolly Pumpkin. This beauty was especially brewed for us last year and I’ve been saving this bottle just for this occasion. What are you brew are drinking today?

Salud!
David

Seven Swans a Swimming Special Offer

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The Bruery Glass on BarrelThe good news is that The Bruery is going to give us enough of this year’s 12 Days of Christmas offering to share with our members as a special offer in November.  The bad news is that due to a brewery expansion that’s caused some challenges in yield and the fact that the beer is fermenting slower than anticipated, we won’t get enough of it to run it as one of our Rare Beer Club November featured beers.  What a bummer.

Last year the government (and TTB) shutdown nixed this project and this year, other unforeseen complications have thwarted our best intentions.

Those collecting the series, keep a close eye out for the special offer mid November.

Prost!
Kris

We’re working with Grand Teton to create still yet another Rare Beer Club™ Exclusive!

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Grand Teton Brewing Company LabelI love what I do…How cool is this?

Grand Teton calls me up and says that they want to put some of their XX Bitch Creek Double ESB in some barrels and create an RBC exclusive for us.  Initially I like the idea and ask how they feel about doing aging it in something a little more off the beaten path… I’m thinking like Rum maybe or Brandy… They dig it and started looking for sources for barrels.  Later, I toss out the idea of cranking up the ABV closer to 8 or 9% (it’s normally weighs in about 7.5%).  They like it and the brewmaster’s suggestion is to blend it with another one of their bigger special releases to get there.  So now it’s really getting cool.

We’re still working out the details, but it’s slotted for December as we wanted to give our Rare Beer Club™ members a little sumpin’ special in their stockings this year!

Prost!
Kris

Six Amazing Logsdon Beers Coming your way next week!

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LogsdonWe’re really excited to have been able to put together a special offer with David Logsdon of Logsdon Farmhouse Ales.  A master yeast wrangler, David’s beers are all unlike anything you’ve ever tried before, each one truly special.  The first time I tried his Seizoen Bretta, I was blown away. It was, and still is, quite simply my personal favorite saison. And I’ve tried a bunch of them.

Next week, we’re bringing our members the opportunity to try six of David’s beers in a Logsdon Special Offer, two of which, Far West Vlaming and Oak Aged Bretta, are uber rare.  We’ll also be offering Logsdon’s Straffe Drieling Triple, Seizoen, Seizoen Bretta and Kili Wit.  All six are nothing short of amazing and worth trying.

Prost!
Kris

Craft Beer in Cans?

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Heady TopperSome of the best beers in the world are only available in cans, such as Heady Topper.  So the perception that cans are only for crappy macro-lager is as outdated as the perception that American beer is only crappy macro-lager. Many experts say that canning can help the beer in many ways by protecting it from light, provide an air tight seal, and make it easier for transport just to name a few. But does it affect taste? Many experts say that the can itself won’t affect the taste unless you drink from the can itself but as most brewers and experts agree, you should always pour your tasty brew into a glass regardless of the packaging.

For us, the most compelling reason to go with cans is that it will open up more breweries for us to feature, because some breweries do not bottle their beer at all – they only use cans.

What is your take on cans?

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