May 2014 Featured Beers | Beer of the Month Club

Lucid Brewing - Silo

Uinta Brewing Company - Bristlecone Brown Ale

Lucid Brewing - Dyno

Brouwerij Alken-Maes - Grimbergen Blonde Ale

Brouwerij Alken-Maes - Grimbergen Double Ale

Cisco Brewers - Rantum Scoot Ale (Island Reserve Series)

Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey - Saint’s Devotion

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Lucid Brewing - Silo
Uinta Brewing Company - Bristlecone Brown Ale
Lucid Brewing - Dyno
Uinta Brewing Company - Hoodoo Kölsch
Brouwerij Alken-Maes - Grimbergen Blonde Ale
Brouwerij Alken-Maes - Grimbergen Double Ale
Cisco Brewers - Rantum Scoot Ale (Island Reserve Series)
Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey - Saint’s Devotion

Lucid Brewing - Silo

Style: Belgian Saison
ABV: 5.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 19
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Large Wine Glass
Hops: Styrian Golding
Malts: Pauls Pale Ale, Cargill White Wheat, Dingemans Cara 8, Ireks Acidified, Oat Flakes
Country: United States

Lucid's Silo is brewed in the style of a Belgian saison, a traditional farmhouse style that we love year-round, but especially during the warmer months of the year. Saison is a very yeast-driven style, and Silo is no exception – you'll definitely want to pour this one into a glass as this bottle-conditioned beer sports a fairly heavy yeast sediment at the bottom of the bottle. Our samples generated a huge, voluminous head of rocky, white foam, so...

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Uinta Brewing Company - Bristlecone Brown Ale

Style: English Nut Brown Ale
ABV: 4.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 28
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: East Kent Goldings, Willamette
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Biscuit, C-60, Chocolate
Country: United States

Bristlecone straddles the line between a brown ale and a dark mild ale, having won medals in both categories, in fact (Gold in 2012 at the Great American Beer Festival as a mild, and Silver at the 2011 World Beer Championships as a brown). On the pour, there's a distinctly reddish tinge to its brown depths, with plenty of long-lasting foam. We definitely picked up a moderately sweet impression on the nose, with notes of rich caramel, some...

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Lucid Brewing - Dyno

Style: American Pale Ale
ABV: 5.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 40
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Bravo, Cascade, Super Galena
Malts: Cargill 2-Row, Dingemans Cara 20 & 45
Country: United States

On the pour, this pale ale offers a brilliant golden color with good clarity and a tight crop of foam that will drop some lace as it recedes. Brewed with all US hops, expect a very American aroma profile with plenty of citric, floral, and piney hop notes overlaying light caramel and bready malts. Look for the flavor to follow suit pretty closely. The malts offer up a lightly toasty and mildly caramelized core along with a touch of sweetness...

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Uinta Brewing Company - Hoodoo Kölsch

Style: Kolsch
ABV: 4.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 26
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: Kölsch Glass (Stange), Pilsner Glass
Hops: East Kent Goldings, Willamette
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Biscuit, C-60, Chocolate
Country: United States

When we think of German beer, we tend to think of bottom-fermented lagers, but kölsch represents one of the exceptions. Originally hailing from the German city of Cologne (Köln), kölsch is top-fermented with ale yeast (which likes warmer temperatures, as opposed to bottom-fermenting lager yeast), then it's cold conditioned like a lager. In this way it represents a bit of a hybrid style, not unlike an altbier. Uinta's kölsch pours a...

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Brouwerij Alken-Maes - Grimbergen Blonde Ale

Style: Belgian Pale Ale
ABV: 6.7%
Serving Temperature: 45-52° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Chalice, Goblet
Country: Belgium

This Belgian blonde ale sure is a looker, presenting a beautiful copper-golden color with brilliant clarity and a robust crop of tight-bubbled foam that coats the glass nicely as it recedes. Off to a good start. On the nose, it certainly smells Belgian with that yeasty pepperiness and grassy-herbal noble hops. There's a hint of fruit here too. Flavor-wise, the fruit comes through bolder, with notes of apple and apricot, some lemony acidity...

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Brouwerij Alken-Maes - Grimbergen Double Ale

Style: Belgian Dubbel
ABV: 6.5%
Serving Temperature: 45-52° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Chalice, Goblet
Country: Belgium

As we expect for a Belgian dubbel, Grimbergen's Double Ale pours fairly dark, in this case a very attractive deep brownish red topped with a moderate level of foam. Immediately apparent are the fruity aromas we love in this style. In this case, we got notes of grape, fig, cherry, and candied berries. Look for some undercurrents of brown sugar and hints chocolate. The fruitiness comes though loud and clear on the palate with a mildly tart...

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Cisco Brewers - Island Reserve Series Rantum Scoot Ale 2014

Cisco Brewers - Rantum Scoot Ale (Island Reserve Series)

Style: American Brown Ale
ABV: 9%
Serving Temperature: 50–57° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Goblet, or Burgundy Glass
Country: United States

Cisco’s Rantum Scoot Ale, the latest release in the brewery’s Island Reserve series, made us want to spend more time with it. The early herbaceous quality of the aroma, approximating zesty spearmint alongside floral notes, seemed to hint at Northern Brewer hops, while there was also an appealing, phenolic-y quality and light acidity (especially when cold) that implied perhaps a brush with Brettanomyces. The latter fell away as this warmed.

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Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey - Saint’s Devotion

Style: Belgian Blonde Ale with Brettanomyces
ABV: 6.6%
Serving Temperature: 45–54° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Tumbler
Country: United States

We’re excited to be offering Saint’s Devotion as a Rare Beer Club Exclusive this year. This is also going to be the first time that the beer will be packaged in 750mL bottles, making it (for our cellaring preferences, at least) even more attractive to lay down a few bottles. Compared to previous releases of this beer, this one was found to be particularly dry—and unique in its Brett character. (This batch had us enticed from the first moment...

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