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Current Featured Beers - January 2021

Our panel of Brewmasters and Beer Judges has rated over 7,500 beers, ensuring that you or your gift recipient will get exciting and innovative, world-class selections. We rate each beer’s appearance, aromatic profile, body and balance, mouthfeel, finish, and of course, its overall character, flavor and appeal.

Discover this month's highly-rated craft beer selections for each of our 5 Distinct Beer Clubs using the chart below. Or, view all of our Past Selections.

Current Featured Beers - January 2021
Previous month
Heavy Seas Beer - Peg Leg
Heavy Seas Beer - Peg Leg
Heavy Seas Beer - Powder Monkey
Flying Fish Brewing Company - Abbey Dubbel
Flying Fish Brewing Company - Abbey Dubbel
Flying Fish Brewing Company - XPA
Heavy Seas Beer - Loose Cannon
Heavy Seas Beer - TropiCannon
Flying Fish Brewing Company - Hopfish
Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Schwarzbier
Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Schwarzbier
Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Pale Ale
Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Pale Ale
The Lost Abbey - King of Tyre (RBC Exclusive)
The Spencer Brewery - Trappist Imperial Stout

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The U.S. Microbrewed Beer Club
 
The U.S. and International Variety Beer Club
 
The Hop-Heads Beer Club
 
The International Beer Club
 
The Rare Beer Club®
   

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4 styles:

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3 styles:

12 bottles

 

2 styles:

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2 styles:

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Heavy Seas Beer - Peg Leg                    
Heavy Seas Beer - Powder Monkey                    
Flying Fish Brewing Company - Abbey Dubbel                    
Flying Fish Brewing Company - XPA                    
Heavy Seas Beer - Loose Cannon                    
Heavy Seas Beer - TropiCannon                    
Flying Fish Brewing Company - Hopfish                    
Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Schwarzbier                    
Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Pale Ale                    
The Lost Abbey - King of Tyre (RBC Exclusive)                    
The Spencer Brewery - Trappist Imperial Stout                    

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Heavy Seas Beer - Peg Leg

Heavy Seas Beer - Peg Leg

  • Bottle Size: 12-oz
  • Style: Imperial Stout
  • Alcohol by Volume: 8.0%
  • Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 48
  • Serving Temperature: 50-55º F
  • Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Snifter
  • Hops: Fuggle, East Kent Golding, Target
  • Malts: Pale, Munich, Roasted Barley, Chocolate, Crystal
  • Country: United States

Much like India pale ale, imperial stout evolved as an English-produced beer style that found favor in a distant export market. In the case of imperial stout, it was a favorite among those in the 18th and 19th century imperial court of Russia, hence the "imperial" designation as well as the more specific moniker, "Russian imperial stout." Like IPA, imperial stouts are big, amped-up beers designed to survive the long sea voyage to their destination. This month's featured brew, Peg Leg...

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Heavy Seas Beer - Powder Monkey

Heavy Seas Beer - Powder Monkey

  • Bottle Size: 12-oz
  • Style: English Pale Ale
  • Alcohol by Volume: 4.8%
  • Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 17
  • Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
  • Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
  • Hops: Target, Fuggle, East Kent Golding
  • Malts: Pale, Crystal
  • Country: United States

On the pour, this English-style pale ale offers up an attractive copper hue with nice clarity and a sizeable crop of off-white foam. Expect a prominent caramelized malt character on the nose, overlaid by an interesting and decidedly English hop profile: herbal, somewhat woody tones, with a softly floral note accompanied by a citric hint and a bit of spice. Too many pale ales that we sample have barely-there malt profiles; we liked that the malts weren’t shy in this...

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Flying Fish Brewing Company - Abbey Dubbel

Flying Fish Brewing Company - Abbey Dubbel

  • Bottle Size: 12-oz
  • Style: Dubbel
  • Alcohol by Volume: 7.2%
  • Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 9.1
  • Serving Temperature: 48-53º F
  • Suggested Glassware: Chalice, Goblet, Tulip, Snifter
  • Hops: Styrian Golding
  • Malts: Superior Pilsen, Munich, Special B, Chocolate, Honey Malt, Wheat Malt, Demerera Sugar
  • Country: United States

Brewed in the style of a Belgian Dubbel, this beer pours the expected deep brownish color, albeit with a noticeable and attractive reddish hue. On the nose look for notes of brown sugar and caramel, light touches of chocolate, and a significant spicy character contributed by both the famously spicy Belgian yeast as well as the dose of hops. These characteristics come through on the palate too, along with plenty of raisin-like fruitiness, a nut-like quality...

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Flying Fish Brewing Company - XPA

Flying Fish Brewing Company - XPA

  • Bottle Size: 12-oz
  • Style: American Pale Ale
  • Alcohol by Volume: 5.2%
  • Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 27
  • Serving Temperature: 42-47º F
  • Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
  • Hops: Warrior, Palisade, Citra, El Dorado
  • Malts: Superior Pilsen, Munich, Oats, Wheat, Honey Ale, Vienna
  • Country: United States

This pale ale from Flying Fish, which started it all as the brewery's initial offering, presents a golden-amber color with a head of off-white foam. We poured half our bottle, then roused the yeast sediment and poured the rest, giving the brew a hazy look. On the nose we picked up lots of floral and citrus zest character, along with an herbal flourish of cut grass, and some stone fruit and melon notes. On the palate, look for the malts to come through clean...

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Heavy Seas Beer - Loose Cannon

Heavy Seas Beer - Loose Cannon

  • Bottle Size: 12-oz
  • Style: American IPA
  • Alcohol by Volume: 7.25%
  • Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 45
  • Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
  • Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, Mug
  • Hops: Pahto, Simcoe, Palisade, Cascade, Centennial, Citra
  • Malts: Pale, Munich, Caramalt
  • Country: United States

Heavy Seas’ flagship beer pours a lightly hazy golden-copper color with plenty of sticky foam that drops nice lacing as you empty your glass. The first whiff of Loose Cannon unabashedly declares itself an American IPA. Look for big citrus aromas which lean toward tangerine and grapefruit, accompanied by piney-herbal notes and a big overall resinous quality. The six different hop varieties come through with a big, expressive, juicy fruit character...

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Heavy Seas Beer - TropiCannon

Heavy Seas Beer - TropiCannon

  • Bottle Size: 12-oz
  • Style: Citrus IPA
  • Alcohol by Volume: 7.25%
  • Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 45
  • Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
  • Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, Mug
  • Hops: Pahto, Simcoe, Palisade, Cascade, Citra
  • Malts: Pale, Munich, Caramalt
  • Country: United States

Pouring a bright orange-copper color with a robust head of persistent foam, TropiCannon is a variant of Loose Cannon IPA which has been bolstered by the addition of real fruit including dried grapefruit, orange and lemon peel during brewing, and blood orange, mango, and grapefruit after fermentation. The aroma on this IPA is lush and beckoning, with notes of citrus peel, melon, tropical impressions of mango and passion fruit, and stone fruits...

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Flying Fish Brewing Company - Hopfish

Flying Fish Brewing Company - Hopfish

  • Bottle Size: 12-oz
  • Style: American IPA
  • Alcohol by Volume: 6.2%
  • Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25.3
  • Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
  • Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, Mug
  • Hops: Nugget, Ahtanum, Columbus
  • Malts: Superior Pilsen, English Medium Crystal, Black Prinz, Munich
  • Country: United States

Pouring a radiant copper-amber hue with a plentiful head of off-white foam, Hopfish offers up a multifaceted aroma as we take a sniff. Look for bright citrus notes conjuring grapefruit and hints of lemon, soft floral tones, prominent earth, herbal spice, and hints of fresh-cut wood. The hoppy aromas come forth boldly on the palate, too, joined by a welcome malt profile delivering mild toast and caramel. There’s a pungent, resinous character that amps up...

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Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Schwarzbier

Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Schwarzbier

  • Bottle Size: 500-ml
  • Style: Schwarzbier
  • Alcohol by Volume: 4.8%
  • Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
  • Suggested Glassware: Flute, Pilsner Glass
  • Country: Germany

If you think dark beers are all big and heavy, Köstritzer will challenge those notions. Not only is its level of alcohol relatively low at 4.8%, it is not a thick, chewy beer; in fact, a beer’s color actually has nothing to do with its body. Nor does this brew present a particularly bitter, overly-charred character. On the pour it certainly is dark, with some garnet flashes when held to the light, and a rich, creamy looking light brown head. But sample the aroma and notice how delicate...

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Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Pale Ale

Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei - Köstritzer Pale Ale

  • Bottle Size: 500-ml
  • Style: Pale Ale
  • Alcohol by Volume: 7.0%
  • Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
  • Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
  • Country: Germany

On the pour, we get a medium amber color with good clarity and a robust crop of off-white foam that persists well and drops some lace down the glass as it recedes. On the nose, we picked up a nice balance between malt and hop character here, with the hop profile offering fruity notes tending towards citrus, with secondary touches of pear, apple, and peach, along with some grassy and floral overtones, a hint of pine resin, and a subtle woodsy note. A noticeable...

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The Lost Abbey - King of Tyre (RBC Exclusive)

The Lost Abbey - King of Tyre (RBC Exclusive)

  • Bottle Size: 750-ml
  • Style: Barrel-Aged Blended Barleywine
  • Alcohol by Volume: 11.5%
  • Serving Temperature: 52–60° F
  • Suggested Glassware: Snifter or Tulip
  • Country: United States

We’ve been loving Tomme’s work since his earliest days at Pizza Port, and this month we’re excited to offer an exclusive release from The Lost Abbey to our Rare Beer Club members. Tomme and Co. have blended together King of Tyre for us (referencing the story of Satan getting booted out of Heaven), and it’s delicious: about 70% of the blend is new barleywine, the remainder being dark strong ale that’s gotten aged in bourbon barrels for 15+ months. It results in a brilliantly structured...

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The Spencer Brewery - Trappist Imperial Stout

The Spencer Brewery - Trappist Imperial Stout

  • Bottle Size: 750-ml
  • Style: Anglo-Russo Imperial Stout
  • Alcohol by Volume: 8.7%
  • Serving Temperature: 52–58° F
  • Suggested Glassware: Goblet, Snifter, Tulip, or Pinot Glass
  • Country: United States

We’ve been enjoying everything we’ve crossed thus far from Spencer Brewery—but Trappist Imperial Stout blew us away. Described as (approximately) an “Anglo-Russo imperial stout,” it offers the drinkability and hugely complex malt range of the finest Belgian strong ales, and adds in the delicious roast and bitter-chocolate qualities of some of the tastiest American and Russian-style imperial stouts. There’s a surprisingly firm hop bitterness here, amplified by the dark roastiness, and yet...

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No other Beer Club can claim the same. Check out what we’ve been up for the last 20+ years. We know you’ll be impressed enough to see what’s coming next month.

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