July 2017 Featured Beers | Beer of the Month Club

Furthermore Beer - Floating Fire

DuClaw Brewing Company - Sweet Baby Java

Furthermore Beer - Fatty Boombalatty

DuClaw Brewing Company - Hop Hammer

DuClaw Brewing Company - Blood Orange Neon Gypsy

Sand Creek Brewing Company - Wild Ride IPA

Hofbrauhaus Wolters - Wolters Pilsener

The Porterhouse Brewing Company - Oyster Stout

To Øl - Black Malts & Body Salts

Birrificio Torrechiara (Panil) - Ambrata Barriquée

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Furthermore Beer - Floating Fire
DuClaw Brewing Company - Sweet Baby Java
Furthermore Beer - Fatty Boombalatty
DuClaw Brewing Company - Hop Hammer
DuClaw Brewing Company - Blood Orange Neon Gypsy
Sand Creek Brewing Company - Wild Ride IPA
Hofbrauhaus Wolters - Wolters Pilsener
The Porterhouse Brewing Company - Oyster Stout
To Øl - Black Malts & Body Salts
Birrificio Torrechiara (Panil) - Ambrata Barriquée

Furthermore Beer - Floating Fire

Style: Smoked Rye IPA with Hibiscus
ABV: 6.0%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 65
Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass, Tulip
Hops: Millennium, Mt. Hood. Dry-hopped: Mt. Hood, Cascade, Hibiscus flowers
Malts: Briess Cherrywood Smoked, Rye, Caramel
Country: United States

Floating Fire is one of the more unique offerings we've seen recently, and is a great representation of Furthermore's adventurous brewing philosophy. The name is a nod to a Viking funeral, which is appropriate considering this is a smoked IPA. Oh, and there's hibiscus, too! We've been reviewing beers since 1994, but we've never crossed paths with a brew quite like this one. Floating Fire presents a rich, deep red-amber color in the glass, due...

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DuClaw Brewing Company - Sweet Baby Java

Style: Coffee-infused Porter with Peanut flavor
ABV: 6.2%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 33
Serving Temperature: 50-55° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Fuggle, Golding
Malts: Pale, Chocolate, Crystal, Black, Brown, Roasted Barley
Country: United States

DuClaw's Sweet Baby Jesus is their most popular beer, accounting for over a third of their sales and snagging a GABF Bronze Medal. Sweet Baby Java is a new limited release version that's been cold-steeped with whole bean espresso to infuse a complementary addition of coffee flavor to an already very flavorful brew. Pouring almost black in color with a rich-looking cap of brown foam, it offers up quite an interesting amalgam of aromas including...

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Furthermore Beer - Fatty Boombalatty

Style: Belgian-style Pale Ale
ABV: 7.0%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 45
Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Oversized Wine Glass
Hops: Millennium, Perle. Dry-hopped: Perle & Coriander
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Wheat, Light Caramel
Country: United States

With Fatty Boombalatty, Furthermore set out to brew a big, fat, bombastic riff on the Belgian witbier style. To that end, they dropped the wheat content by 75% while upping the barley malt, and increased the overall grain bill by 50%, leading to a pretty big starting gravity. The end result drinks much like a Belgian pale ale but with some witbier overtones. Pouring a lightly hazy orange-amber, this brew offers up a big, bold, and very Belgian...

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DuClaw Brewing Company - Hop Hammer

Style: American IPA
ABV: 6.3%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 45
Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Apollo, Columbus, Centennial, Simcoe, Citra, Mosaic
Malts: Pale, Wheat
Country: United States

With Hop Hammer, DuClaw's brewers set out to build an extremely flavorful IPA while keeping the bitterness level less aggressive than many other modern takes on the style. A total of 6 different hop varieties are incorporated, and the majority of the hop additions come late in the boil, at flameout, and during dry-hopping – leading to an abundance of complex flavors without the bitterness that comes from hop additions early in the boil. Pouring...

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DuClaw Brewing Company - Blood Orange Neon Gypsy

Style: American IPA with Blood Orange
ABV: 6.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 55
Serving Temperature: 47-52° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Flute
Hops: Columbus, Simcoe, Chinook, Amarillo, Citra, Nelson Sauvin, Sorachi Ace
Malts: Pale, Dextrin, Torrified Wheat, Flaked Rye
Country: United States

Originally brewed as the first in DuClaw's Hop Continuum Series, the blood orange version of their Neon Gypsy IPA sold so well that it's now been promoted to a year-round offering. The original Neon Gypsy is a very citrus-forward IPA, and the infusion of blood orange juice in this version just amplifies that character in all the right ways. Pouring a rich orange-amber color, this brew offers up quite the inviting aroma; look for big citrus...

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Sand Creek Brewing Company - Wild Ride IPA

Style: American IPA
ABV: 5.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 75
Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Herkules, Cluster, Cascade. Dry-hopped: Centennial
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Caramel 120
Country: United States

Medium amber in color with a large cap of fluffy foam which laces nicely as it recedes, Wild Ride is a real looker as it rests in the glass. On the nose we picked up a prominent and pungent herbal and earthy hop note, bolstered by floral tones and a touch of citrus zest. In the flavor department, there's a good backbone of malt delivering a light caramel character, offering a fairly neutral but tasty central core structure. But of course the...

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Hofbrauhaus Wolters - Wolters Pilsener

Style: German Pilsner
ABV: 4.9%
Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass
Country: Germany

It’s worth noting before we begin that it is acceptable to spell the name of this style of beer as “pilsner” or “pilsener.” The style originated in Pilsen, Czech Republic, but of course the Czechs spell Pilsen as “Plzeň,” so perhaps we should consider another spelling: “plzener.” Oh well, enough of that – on to the beer! On the pour, Wolters Pilsener presents a crystal clear, bright straw color with a fluffy bright white head. On the nose...

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The Porterhouse Brewing Company - Oyster Stout

Style: Oyster Stout
ABV: 4.6%
Serving Temperature: 50-55° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Galena, Nugget, East Kent Goldings
Malts: Pale Malt, Roast Barley, Black Malt, Flaked Barley
Country: Ireland

Originally just a term for the stouts served alongside oysters in British pubs, “oyster stout” has evolved as a style over time. 19th century brewers began using crushed oyster shells as a clarifier, but eventually they began adding the shells to the beer as it boiled – imparting a slight salinity and minerality to the beer. At some point early in the 20th century, some brewers started using the oysters themselves – which is exactly what...

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To Øl - Black Malts & Body Salts

Style: Imperial Black IPA w/ Coffee
ABV: 9.9%
Serving Temperature: 45–52° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Snifter, Small Nonic or IPA Glass
Country: Denmark

To Øl’s Black Malts & Body Salts currently sees only very light distribution in the U.S., with only around 150 cases to be allocated nationwide this year outside of the Rare Beer Club. While the brewery’s managed to increase its distribution internationally, allocation remains patchy, and we’re thrilled to be able to get our members access to this standout offering from To Øl. Regarding Body Salts, the brewery notes: “When a brewer is stirring...

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Birrificio Torrechiara (Panil) - Ambrata Barriquée

Style: Oak-Barrel-Aged Sour Amber Ale
ABV: 6.5%
Serving Temperature: 47–55° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Lambic Tumbler, or Pinot Glass
Country: Italy

We’re obviously big fans of Panil Barriquée, the core offering from Birrificio Torrechiara in Parma. And we immediately fell in love with this limited-edition release from that brewery, which takes the core sour-red, balsamic-tinged profile of Panil Barriquée, while moving the whole arrangement in a much more lambic-like direction. This is a refreshing, immaculately composed sour beer that, for us, combines the very best of lambics and...

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