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Featured Beers - October 2018
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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Blackstone Brewing Company - Session Player IPA | |||||||||||||||
RJ Rockers Brewing Company - Bell Ringer Double Pale Ale | |||||||||||||||
Blackstone Brewing Company - St. Charles Porter | |||||||||||||||
RJ Rockers Brewing Company - Good Boy Stout | |||||||||||||||
Blackstone Brewing Company - HopJack IPA | |||||||||||||||
Blackstone Brewing Company - Adam Bomb | |||||||||||||||
RJ Rockers Brewing Company - Pool Boy | |||||||||||||||
Hofbrauhaus Freising - Festbier | |||||||||||||||
Familienbrauerei Dinkelacker - CD-Pils | |||||||||||||||
The Bruery - 11 Pipers Piping | |||||||||||||||
Fulton Beer - War & Peace |
Unmatched Variety by style, brewery & country
Choose from Five different Beer Clubs offering unmatched variety by brewery,
country of origin, and beer style to suit your specific tastes.
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: Session IPA
- ABV: 4.9%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 42
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Citra, Amarillo, Centennial
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Caramel
- Country: United States
This session IPA from Blackstone pours a bright golden-copper color with good clarity and a robust head of fine-bubbled foam. On the nose, we picked up wonderfully bright citrus aromas with a little bit of everything: orange, tangerine, grapefruit, and even a touch of lemon & lime. Floral notes appear, too, along with a touch of pineapple and a hint of pine. Those hoppy notes also come through nicely on the palate with citrus juice...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Strong Ale
- ABV: 8.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 48
- Serving Temperature: 48-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Tradition, Cascade
- Malts: Bonlander, 60L, 2-Row
- Country: United States
Will RJ Rockers ring your bell with this big 8% ABV brew? Well, that depends on how fast you drink it and how many you have. Be warned! On the pour, Bell Ringer offers a delicious-looking hazy amber color with an off-white head with good retention for the high ABV. On the nose, look for a floral and lightly grassy hop profile with subtle undercurrents of pineapple and grapefruit. Beneath the hop aromas is a rich and somewhat bready...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: English-style Porter
- ABV: 5.8%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 34
- Serving Temperature: 48-53° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Willamette, Centennial
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Chocolate, Caramel
- Country: United States
This English-style brown porter is Blackstone's most-awarded brew, having taken home 8 Great American Beer Festival medals and 2 World Beer Cup medals. In fact, it’s also the most awarded brown porter in GABF history. After sampling this delicious porter, it's easy to see why. Presenting a rich, dark brown hue with garnet flashes and a medium brown head, St. Charles delivers plenty of engaging aromatics including woody...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American Stout
- ABV: 6.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 23
- Serving Temperature: 50-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Palisade, Mt. Hood
- Malts: 2-Row, Bonlander, 60L, Chocolate, Black
- Country: United States
This attractive stout pours a deep, dark brown with a nice crop of tan foam that retains well and leaves plenty of lacing as we drain our glasses. On the nose, look for deep caramel notes, touches of fruit leather, rich chocolate, and wisps of smoke. Bold roasted notes lead the way in the flavor department, with augmenting notes of chocolate and prominent coffee. There's a touch of residual sweetness that's in perfect balance with the...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 6.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 60
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Cascade, Centennial, Citra, Simcoe
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Caramel
- Country: United States
This IPA from Blackstone pours a beautiful bright amber with good clarity and plenty of long-lasting foam which laces nicely as it slowly recedes. On the nose, look for perfumed floral notes, bright citrus zest, secondary notes of tropical fruits, and touches of grass and pine-like herbal tones. We love when the promise of juicy hops from the aroma pays off in the flavor, too, and HopJack delivers. Citrusy hops come through boldly as an...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 7.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 83
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Tulip, Pint Glass
- Hops: Simcoe, Centennial, Cascade, Columbus
- Malts: 2-Row Pale, Caramel
- Country: United States
Pouring a copper-amber color with plenty of beige foam, Adam Bomb offers up a complex array of hop aromas: orange, lemon, and grapefruit citrus, plus herbal, floral, and earthy notes, and a hint of pine. Look for bold hop bitterness to appear on the palate front and center. Bold citrus zest and acidity are augmented by pine, earth, and herbal spice notes. There's also a robust malt core here, delivering caramel tones along with...
- Bottle Size: 12-oz
- Style: American IPA
- ABV: 7.0%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 40
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Citra, Mosaic
- Malts: 2-Row, 40L, 60L, Bonlander
- Country: United States
Presenting a medium amber hue with some haze, and capped by fluffy, sticky foam that laces well, Pool Boy looks good in the glass while beckoning us with an inviting aroma. Look for big, juicy hops boasting notes of bold grapefruit, tangerine, stone fruits, and some tropical pineapple and mango, all with an undertone of caramel malt. On the palate, we picked up that juicy citrus prominently, with Mosaic hops delivering a complex array...
- Bottle Size: 330-ml
- Style: Märzen / Oktoberfest
- ABV: 6.1%
- Serving Temperature: 42-47° F
- Suggested Glassware: Mug or Stein
- Country: Germany
Presenting a bright golden hue with crystal clarity and an exuberant cap of off-white foam, this märzen drew us in with both its inviting appearance and its inviting noble hop aroma with spicy, grassy tones and a touch of lemony citrus. The first thing you may notice as you take a sip is this brew is a bit heftier than a pilsner, though they may look similar in the glass. Traditionally brewed in March (März), this style was brewed with more malt...
- Bottle Size: 500-ml
- Style: German Pilsner
- ABV: 4.9%
- Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Flute
- Country: Germany
The interestingly named CD-Pils is one of Dinkelacker's first. Still bearing the initials of its creator, Carl Dinkelacker, this beer is light and delicately tart. It is brewed using hand selected Bavarian Hallertau hops—from the most renowned hop cultivating region in the world—and is still made in the heart of Stuttgart as it has been for more than 100 years. Note the pale straw color and crisp, clean taste bursting with floral, spicy hops and...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Scotch-style Ale w/ Candi Sugar & Coriander
- ABV: 11%
- Serving Temperature: 45–52° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Teku, Tulip, or Pinot Glass
- Country: United States
We’re loving the latest release from The Bruery’s 12 Days of Christmas series: a rounded and layered Scotch-style ale with candi sugar and coriander, coming together in a perfect, heftier-ABV packaging for these cooler temps. We’re starting to look forward to increasingly burlier beers into the later months, ultimately seeking out examples that provide a potent impact of flavors, but in seamless, carefully executed fashion...
- Bottle Size: 750-ml
- Style: Russian-style Imperial Stout w/ dark-roast Peace Coffee
- ABV: 9.5%
- Serving Temperature: 48–55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Tulip, Teku or Coffee Mug
- Country: United States
Despite the recent expansions mentioned above, even Fulton Beer’s flagships don’t make it particularly far beyond the brewery. Their specialty releases, even less so—and this one only sees the light of day each winter. Distribution is very small this year (as always), but we managed to get enough War & Peace for our Rare Beer Club members—specially packaged for us in 750mL bottles rather than their new-normal smaller formats...
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