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Featured Beers - Sept 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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Elevation Beer Company - Elevated PSA | |||||||||||||||
Brouwerij Van Steenberge - De Garre | |||||||||||||||
Mikkeller - Keeper | |||||||||||||||
Parallel 49 Brewing Company - Salty Scot | |||||||||||||||
Payette Brewing Company - Pistolero Porter | |||||||||||||||
Payette Brewing Company - Mutton Buster Brown Ale | |||||||||||||||
Nebraska Brewing Company - India Pale Ale | |||||||||||||||
Nebraska Brewing Company - Cardinal Pale Ale |
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Choose from Five different Beer Clubs offering unmatched variety by brewery,
country of origin, and beer style to suit your specific tastes.
- Style: American Brown Ale
- ABV: 5.5%
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Magnum, Mt. Hood
- Malts: Pale, Brown, Chocolate, Crystal, Victory
- Country: United States
Pouring a rich brown with reddish flashes, good clarity, and topped with plenty of beige foam, Mutton Buster is an inviting brown ale. Look for aromas of light toast and caramel, complemented by some chocolaty nuttiness, hints of brown sugar and a touch of herbal, earthy hops. Thankfully, all these notes translate to the palate too. Residual sweetness is quite low, allowing the mild to moderate hop bitterness to easily counter with a spicy...
- Style: American Pilsner
- ABV: 5.0%
- Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass
- Country: Denmark
Pouring a bright golden hue with good clarity and a dense head which laces as it drops to a persistent collar, Keeper is an inviting looking brew. The invitation got stronger as we lowered our nose to the glass. Described by Mikkeller as an American Pilsner, you’d be forgiven for imagining one of the flaccid brews our country’s big brewers like to style as “pilsners.” Instead, Keeper is bursting with American hop aromas of citrus and impressions...
- Style: Belgian Tripel
- ABV: 11%
- Serving Temperature: 50–57° F
- Suggested Glassware: Chalice, Tulip, Goblet, or Pinot Glass
- Country: Belgium
De Garre (along with appearing in a strikingly designed package...) pours without complaints as far as we’re concerned: massive head that’s a light shade of tan, long-lasting, and leaves no lack of thick lacing behind. We were trying out the newly released Riedel Veritas beer glasses when De Garre crossed our tasting panel, and this showed beautifully: honey-golden near its bottom, deepening to darker orange and amber elsewhere. Initial...
- Style: American Porter
- ABV: 6.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 13
- Serving Temperature: 50-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Magnum, Summit
- Malts: Pale, Chocolate, Dark Crystal, Dextrapils, Midnight Wheat, Vienna
- Country: United States
Payette’s Pistolero Porter presents a super dark brown, almost black, color topped with a rich, fluffy head of medium brown foam. On the nose, it’s very much what we expect for a beer on the robust end of the porter spectrum, including roasty notes, toasted bread crust, hints of smoke, dark chocolate, and earth. In the flavor department, the beer opens with a rich scorched caramel note, opening into toast and big chocolate with a distinct...
- Style: American Pale Ale
- ABV: 6.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 42
- Serving Temperature: 42-47° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Galena, Cascade
- Malts: 2-Row, Munich, Caramel 10, Caramel 20
- Country: United States
This is the beer that started it all for Paul Kavulak and Nebraska Brewing Company, and, after pulling in a vast array of medals at various beer competitions (including National Grand Champion Pale Ale at the 2014 United States Beer Tasting Championship), it remains a best-selling flagship beer for them to this day. Pouring a copper-golden hue with a big, fluffy, off-white head, this pale ale offers up quite the inviting aroma. Being heavily...
- Style: Wheat Wine Ale Aged in Sauvignon Blanc Oak Barrels
- ABV: 10.5%
- Serving Temperature: 53–60° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Mini Nonic, Tulip, or Bordeaux Glass
- Country: United States
This pours a deep golden-orange color (heading in the direction of amber-brown) with off-white foam. The wheat-wine character expands into directions of ripe tree fruits and notes of vanilla and vinous alcohol—actually (and admittedly unintentionally) serving as a perfect foil for our other featured selection this month: the Van Steenberge De Garre. The latter’s also hugely influenced by apricot, pepper, and vanilla, with Elevation Elevated PSA...
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.9%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 72
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Warrior, Chinook, Citra, Centennial
- Malts: 2-Row, Munich, Midnight Wheat
- Country: United States
Nebraska’s IPA presents a rich medium amber color in the glass, topped by a robust head which drops sticky lace as it recedes. Built as a “West Coast” style IPA, there are plenty of complex hop aromas suggesting grapefruit zest, pine, herbal spice, and a touch of earth. Take a sip and – pow! There’s a lot of hops going on here! Look for big, zesty citrus notes to join with an equally big herbal, spicy, piney kick. When a beer offers so much...
- Style: Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV: 7.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 17
- Serving Temperature: 50-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Tulip, Thistle
- Country: Canada
This Scotch Ale pours a brilliant ruddy amber-brown and offers up huge malty aromas as soon as you pop the can. Look for rich caramel notes, toffee, bread and cake, and a touch of dried fruit. When brewing Scotch Ale, also called Wee Heavy, brewers will boil the wort (the sugary raw liquid extract produced after steeping the grain – basically beer before fermentation) for an extended time, leading to very deep caramelization. To complement...
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