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Featured Beers - June 2016
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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Cambridge Brewing Company - Sgt. Pepper | |||||||||||||||
NOVO Brazil Brewing Company - Corvo Negro | |||||||||||||||
Pivovar Zlatý Bažant - Golden Pheasant | |||||||||||||||
Brauerei Max Leibinger - Zeppelin | |||||||||||||||
Alphabet City Brewing Company - Alpha Male | |||||||||||||||
Alphabet City Brewing Company - Easy Blonde | |||||||||||||||
Smuttynose Brewing Company - Vunderbar! | |||||||||||||||
Smuttynose Brewing Company - Baltic Porter |
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- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 70
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Warrior, Columbus, Summit, Chinook
- Malts: Premium 2-Row, Vienna
- Country: United States
Golden copper with a robust and persistent head of tight-bubbled foam, this IPA made a good first impression in our glasses. On the nose, look for some nice citrus notes, conjuring grapefruit and orange, along with an herbal character, a touch of pine, and dried flowers. These hoppy notes hit hard on the palate too, delivering pungent herbal notes, citrus zest, pine, and more than a little spiciness. When building an IPA, you can’t forget the...
- Style: Kellerbier
- ABV: 5.2%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Mug (traditionally earthen), or Stange
- Country: Germany
Zeppelin is modeled after a fairly rare German style of beer known as "kellerbier". Literally meaning "cellar beer", kellerbiers are traditionally matured in casks for several weeks and served unfiltered. They also feature a very low level of carbonation due to the tradition of the bungs in the casks being left loose, allowing the carbonation to escape as the beer conditions in underground cellars. Zeppelin pours a hazy, rich, amber-brown...
- Style: Baltic Porter
- ABV: 9.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 66
- Serving Temperature: 50-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter or Tulip
- Hops: Sterling
- Malts: North American 2-Row, Munich 10L, Carastan, C-120, Chocolate, Black, CaraHell
- Country: United States
Smuttynose’s Baltic Porter currently ranks #5 among the world’s Baltic porters on RateBeer, as of this writing. We don’t normally care much about scores, for a variety of reasons, but in this case it’s a testament to how well Smuttynose has this recipe dialed in. Jet black with a rich brown head, the beer offers up complex aromas of milk and roasty dark chocolate, dried dark fruits, brown sugar, dark rum, and baking spices. On the palate, we...
- Style: German Pilsner
- ABV: 4.9%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 33
- Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass or Flute
- Hops: Sterling
- Malts: German Pilsner, North American 2-Row, Acidulated
- Country: United States
Brewed in the style of a German pilsner, Vunderbar! pours a bright pale straw color topped with plenty of crisp white foam. Hopped solely with Sterling, the beer makes a good showcase for this varietal. Look for a touch of lemon in the aroma, backed by a somewhat tropical character invoking pineapple and some herbally spice. As it warms a bit and opens in the glass, a malty note of biscuit dough and honey begins to come through. On the palate...
- Style: Kölsch
- ABV: 4.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
- Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
- Suggested Glassware: Stange, Pilsner Glass
- Hops: Warrior, Crystal
- Malts: Premium 2-Row, Unmalted Wheat
- Country: United States
Easy Blonde is inspired by kölsch, a German beer style hailing from Köln (Colonge) that, despite classification as an ale, is cold-conditioned like a lager for an overall cleanness and a crisp finish. Like many blonde/golden ales, the recipe and brewing procedure is a challenge to perfect as any flaws are readily apparent, unable to hide behind a ton of bold, complex flavors. On the pour, Easy Blonde offers a golden straw color capped with a...
- Style: Imperial Stout
- ABV: 11%
- Serving Temperature: 52–59° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Tulip or Cabernet Glass
- Country: United States
NOVO Brazil’s Corvo Negro imperial stout pours a deep, heavily blackened color, lightening to more like a chestnut brown at its edges. It’s predominantly the color of opaque pitch, with no light passing through aside from a thin perimeter of bright gold. Any foam is modest here given the heightened ABV, with a narrow border of medium-brown bubbles floating above. Nutshell: Dark, massive and densely packed from the outset, with subtle gold and froth...
- Style: Czech Pilsner
- ABV: 5.0%
- Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass
- Country: Slovakia
Zlatý Bažant means Golden Pheasant, and is a nod to the large numbers of the bird found in the region around Hurbanovo. Unlike the big U.S. beer makers, who stretch out their barley with large additions of cheaper corn and rice, Slovak producers use 100 percent barley, most of it grown and processed in Slovakia. This makes nearly any Slovak-made beer richer, with more body and depth of flavor, than any of the watery U.S. brand-name beers...
- Style: Farmhouse Ale Brewed with Peppercorns
- ABV: 6%
- Serving Temperature: 50–56° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Tumbler, or Pinot Glass
- Country: United States
This was brewed with four different varieties of whole peppercorns added to the kettle: pink, white, black and green. In addition to a charismatic Belgian yeast strain, Sgt. Pepper includes Pilsner, CaraVienne and Rye malts, as well as healthy hop additions of Magnum and Spalter. As the label advises, pour carefully to avoid rousing an excess of the bottling yeast. This pours beautifully in the glass: a nice, bright orange haze approximating...
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