July 2021 Featured Beers | Beer of the Month Club

Adelbert’s Brewery - Philosophizer

Clown Shoes Beer - Space Cupcake

Adelbert’s Brewery - Scratchin’ Hippo

Clown Shoes Beer - Mangö

Adelbert’s Brewery - Passion Fruit Party

Adelbert’s Brewery - West Coaster

Clown Shoes Beer - Space Cake

Einstök Ölgerð - Arctic Lager

Einstök Ölgerð - Wee Heavy

Adelbert's Brewery - Tripel B

Yazoo Brewing Company - Citrus Vacation (RBC Exclusive)

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Adelbert’s Brewery - Philosophizer
Clown Shoes Beer - Space Cupcake
Adelbert’s Brewery - Scratchin’ Hippo
Clown Shoes Beer - Mangö
Adelbert’s Brewery - Passion Fruit Party
Adelbert’s Brewery - West Coaster
Clown Shoes Beer - Space Cake
Einstök Ölgerð - Arctic Lager
Einstök Ölgerð - Wee Heavy
Adelbert's Brewery - Tripel B
Yazoo Brewing Company - Citrus Vacation (RBC Exclusive)

Adelbert’s Brewery - Philosophizer

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Saison
ABV: 7.6%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 28
Serving Temperature: 48-55º F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Oversized Wine Glass
Hops: Bravo, Saaz
Malts: Pilsner, Munich, CaraMunich 1, Oats, Wheat
Country: United States

This farmhouse-style saison presents an attractive hazed orange hue topped with a robust head of off-white foam. The spicy and yeasty notes jumped out at us right away, with clove, coriander and an unmistakably Belgian phenolic quality. Look for an engaging honeyed and caramelized malt character lurking beneath, while a dose of spicy Saaz noble hops and a touch of orange peel add further complexity. In the flavor, those spicy, herbal phenolic...

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Clown Shoes Beer - Space Cupcake

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: American IPA
ABV: 6.0%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 31
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass
Hops: Mosaic, Citra, Centennial
Malts: 2-Row, Honey Malt
Country: United States

Clown Shoes’ Space Cake Double IPA is among the brewery’s most popular beers and has led to a line of various versions like Haze Cake, Pineapple Space Cake, Lemon Drop Space Cake, and others, but Space Cupcake is a more diminutive addition – a standard IPA brewed in the same vein as its bigger brothers. Pouring a bright golden-copper with plenty of foam that drops sheets of lace, Space Cupcake looks good as it invites us in with a big aroma. Look...

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Adelbert’s Brewery - Scratchin’ Hippo

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: American Amber Ale
ABV: 5.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
Serving Temperature: 5.5%
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Tulip
Hops: Cascade, Centennial
Malts: Pilsner, Munich, CaraMunich 1
Country: United States

Scratchin’ Hippo was originally brewed as a bière de garde, a French farmhouse ale style, and we featured that brew years ago in our Rare Beer Club. Adelbert’s has revised the recipe to go in the direction of a classic amber ale, and it has now become one of their core beers. Pouring a deep amber color with plenty of beige foam, it offers up a nice balance on the nose between malts and hops. Look for a caramelized and bready base characte...

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Clown Shoes Beer - Mangö

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Dry-hopped Kölsch w/ natural mango flavor
ABV: 5.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: Stange, Pilsner Glass
Hops: Huell Melon
Malts: 2-Row, Vienna
Country: United States

Mangö starts as a traditional Kölsch (an ale style from Cologne, Germany that’s conditioned in cold temperatures, like a lager), which is then dry-hopped and infused with all-natural mango flavor. On the pour, we get a radiant crystal clear golden color topped by a fluffy head of pale foam. Mango aromas jump out right away, offering a tropical facet to go along with the distinctive honeydew, berry, and stone fruit notes offered by the ...

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Adelbert’s Brewery - Passion Fruit Party

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Milkshake IPA
ABV: 7.0%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 60
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass or Pint Glass
Hops: Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic
Malts: Pilsner, Wheat, Oats, Carapils (and lactose)
Country: United States

Passion Fruit Party pours a golden orange hue that’s super hazy, as we expect for a “milkshake IPA,” which is essentially a variant of New England-style hazy IPA that’s been brewed with milk sugar (lactose) and, often, fruit – in our case, passion fruit. Adelbert’s takes a rotating hop approach to this beer, altering the hop profile in each batch to keep things fresh and unique each time. Our batch features Citra, Simcoe, and Mosaic, offering...

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Adelbert’s Brewery - West Coaster

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Double IPA
ABV: 7.6%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 76
Serving Temperature: 47-52º F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, IPA Glass, Snifter
Hops: Falconer’s Flight
Malts: Pilsner, Munich, Wheat, Carapils, Caramunich 1
Country: United States

Adelbert’s big West Coaster Double IPA presents a hazed deep amber color in the glass, topped with a strong head of beige foam that drops nice lacing as we drink this brew down. This thing is bold in the aroma, on both the hop and malt fronts. Look for plenty of caramelization to appear in the malty undercurrent, while the expressive Falconer’s Flight hops (a blend of seven different varieties from the Pacific Northwest) offers big citrus...

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Clown Shoes Beer - Space Cake

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Double IPA
ABV: 9.0%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 51
Serving Temperature: 47-52º F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, IPA Glass, Snifter
Hops: Mosaic, Citra
Malts: 2-Row, Honey Malt
Country: United States

Space Cake Double IPA is one of Clown Shoes’ most popular beers, and its success has spawned a variety of versions like Haze Cake, Pineapple Space Cake, Lemon Drop Space Cake, and others, but this month we bring you their OG version. Pouring an orange-copper color topped by lots of very persistent off-white foam, this is an inviting brew to behold. On the nose, look for zesty and juicy citrus notes akin to oranges and mandarins, softer tropical...

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Einstök Ölgerð - Arctic Lager

Bottle Size: 330-ml
Style: Pale Lager
ABV: 4.7%
Serving Temperature: 42-47° F
Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Pint Glass
Hops: Hallertau Tradition, Citra & Citra cryo-hops
Malts: Pilsner, Munich
Country: Iceland

Einstök’s Arctic Lager presents a bright golden and lightly hazy hues, topped by a robust head of white foam that persists nicely before dropping to a lasting collar. On the nose, look for hoppy citrus aromas akin to grapefruit, orange, and lime, with some secondary tropical impressions and a touch of earth and spice. A bready, lightly toasty, and mildly caramelized malt profile forms a sturdy backbone on the palate, with the expressive hops...

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Einstök Ölgerð - Wee Heavy

Bottle Size: 330-ml
Style: Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
ABV: 8.0%
Serving Temperature: 48-55° F
Suggested Glassware: Thistle Glass, Tulip, Snifter
Hops: Bavarian hops (w/ Icelandic angelica root)
Malts: Smoked Icelandic barley, pale ale, crystal, chocolate
Country: Iceland

Einstök’s brewmaster, Baldur Karason, studied brewing in Scotland, so it’s no surprise to see an excellent example of Scotland’s signature style emanate from this Icelandic brewery, although brewed with root of angelica, an herb that grows throughout the Nordic countries, to provide a notably Icelandic twist. This brew pours a deep reddish-brown color with a lasting cap of tan foam. On the nose, expect richly malty aromas offering impressions...

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Adelbert's Brewery - Tripel B

Bottle Size: 750-ml
Style: Belgian-Style Tripel
ABV: 9.3%
Serving Temperature: 45–55° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Teku, Goblet, or Chalice
Country: United States

We found ourselves continuously going back to this beer, partly because it fascinated us as a tripel, and partly because we found ourselves even more enamored with it when approached without thinking of it as a tripel. That characteristic peppery and phenolic yeast contribution, a large structural element of most traditional tripels, is certainly there. But there’s also quite a bit more happening here in the mid-palate, with textured toastiness and caramel present. We also soon found ourselves noticing that this was balanced rather differently than most tripels.

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Yazoo Brewing Company - Citrus Vacation (RBC Exclusive)

Bottle Size: 750-ml
Style: Blended Barrel-Aged Ale w/ Passion Fruit, Guava & Key Lime
ABV: 6.5%
Serving Temperature: 43–50° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Teku, or Chardonnay Glass
Country: United States

Yazoo’s Citrus Vacation was brewed exclusively for our Rare Beer Club members, such that this will only be available through the club and (should any be left over) through the brewery tasting room in Tennessee. This is a blend of oak-aged saison and spontaneously fermented blonde ale, which gets refermented with the addition of passion fruit, guava, and Key limes. It’s packed with tropical notes and bright citrus, and comes in at 6.5% ABV, with about 200 total cases produced.

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