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Geary Brewing Company - Off Trail Brown Ale

Old Bust Head Brewing Company - Vixen

Geary Brewing Company - Original Pale Ale

Old Bust Head Brewing Company - Caramel Macchiato Stout

Geary Brewing Company - Haze Trip

Geary Brewing Company - Day Trip

Old Bust Head Brewing Company - Graffiti House

Brouwerij De Brabandere - Bavik Super Wit

Hofbrauhaus Freising - Festbier

Brouwerij De Leite - Cuvée Oncle Pol

Brouwerij t’Gaverhopke - Zingende Blondine

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Geary Brewing Company - Off Trail Brown Ale
Old Bust Head Brewing Company - Vixen
Geary Brewing Company - Original Pale Ale
Old Bust Head Brewing Company - Caramel Macchiato Stout
Geary Brewing Company - Haze Trip
Geary Brewing Company - Day Trip
Old Bust Head Brewing Company - Graffiti House
Brouwerij De Brabandere - Bavik Super Wit
Hofbrauhaus Freising - Festbier
Brouwerij De Leite - Cuvée Oncle Pol
Brouwerij t’Gaverhopke - Zingende Blondine

Geary Brewing Company - Off Trail Brown Ale

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Brown Ale
ABV: 5.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 38
Serving Temperature: 50-55º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Cascade, Mosaic
Malts: Imported Malts
Country: United States

Pouring a deep reddish brown hue and topped by a cap of fluffy beige foam that drops to a lasting collar, Geary’s Off Trail Brown Ale impresses immediately, and backs it up with its aroma. Look for a nice balance on the nose, offering a touch more hop character than many other brown ales, and giving this English-style beer some “American flair”, in the words of the brewery. We get deep caramel, hints of toast and nuts, a dusting of cocoa powder, plus a dash of fruitiness reminiscent of citrus, berries, and dried fruits coming from aromatic...

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Old Bust Head Brewing Company - Vixen

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Irish Red Ale
ABV: 5.4%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 23
Serving Temperature: 48-53º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Willamette, Fuggle
Malts: 2-Row Brewer’s, 2-Row Caramel 80L, Roasted Barley
Country: United States

This gold and silver medal winner at the 2018 Best of Craft Beer Awards and 2018 Virginia Craft Beer Cup, respectively, pours a super inviting richly red hue with a robust cap of tan foam. It’s a good looking brew as it sits in the glass, and its invitation continues with the aroma. Look for a deep caramel character, decorated with toasted edges, and a wisp of butter. Hops offer an overlay of prominent woody, tea-like, and spicy notes that draw...

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Geary Brewing Company - Original Pale Ale

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: English Pale Ale
ABV: 5.2%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 38
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Cascade, Mt. Hood, UK Golding
Malts: Imported Malts
Country: United States

This is Geary’s flagship pale ale, brewed since 1986 – a time when the U.S.’s craft brewing renaissance was still embryonic and beers of this type were still a novelty. In fact, Food & Wine named this beer to their list of 25 Most Important American Craft Beers Ever Brewed. This English-style pale ale pours an attractive amber color with a robust cap of fine-bubbled khaki foam. In the aroma, look for delicate, lightly toasted biscuit malt...

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Old Bust Head Brewing Company - Caramel Macchiato Stout

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Coffee Oatmeal Stout
ABV: 5.7%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 30
Serving Temperature: 50-55º F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Snifter
Hops: Liberty, Fuggle, Select
Malts: 2-Row Brewer’s, Carapils, 2-Row Caramel 40, 2-Row Caramel 80, Chocolate Malt, Special B, Roasted Barley, Flaked Oats
Country: United States

Old Bust Head’s Irish Oatmeal Stout is one of the brewery’s core year-round brews, and this Caramel Macchiato variant has proved super popular as well, earning it a spot among the year-round offerings, too. Pouring a deep brown, almost black, this stout shows nicely in the glass as a plentiful cap of medium brown foam slowly recedes. Brewed with vanilla beans and sustainably sourced coffee roasted locally by Cafe Kreyol, this brew offers up...

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Geary Brewing Company - Haze Trip

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: New England-style Hazy IPA
ABV: 5.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 40
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass
Hops: Simcoe, Mosaic, Citra
Malts: Domestic and Imported Malts
Country: United States

This hazy IPA from Geary presents a golden copper color with a medium level of haze, capped by a rocky head of off-white foam. Luscious hop aromas make themselves known as soon as we pop this open. Look for prominent citrus fruits to evoke orange and grapefruit, plus herbal tones with a pine element, and soft tropical fruits. Light touches of underlying caramelization lurk below. In the flavor, some mild toast, cracker, and light caramel form a sturdy malt base for the hops to express themselves in full effect. We get lots of zesty...

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Geary Brewing Company - Day Trip

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Hazy Session IPA
ABV: 4.0%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 48
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass
Hops: Mosaic, Mandarina Bavaria, Citra
Malts: Domestic and Imported Malts
Country: United States

Normally a summertime seasonal release, we had Geary brew us a batch of Day Trip to pair with their Haze Trip, as this is a great example of a low-ABV beer still delivering in the flavor department in a big way. It’s impressive how much flavor the team at Geary has packed into a beer of 4.0% ABV, which is low even for a session IPA. Presenting a hazy golden color with a prominent head of off-white foam, Day Trip proceeds to offer up an aroma that is quite juicy with soft tropical fruits like passion fruit, more resinous citrus notes of tangerine...

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Old Bust Head Brewing Company - Graffiti House

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: American IPA (West Coast style)
ABV: 7.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 75
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Cascade, Mosaic, Mosaic (Incognito)
Malts: 2-Row Brewer’s, 2-Row Carapils, 2-Row Caramel 10L, Special Roast
Country: United States

This bold IPA from Old Bust Head presents a radiant orange hue topped by light beige foam that drops some sheets of lace as we drink it down. In the aroma, expect a big juicy fruit cocktail impression with mango, pineapple, and passion fruit tropical notes melded with some candied citrus tones which tend toward orange, along with hints of berries, stone fruits, melon... it’s very much a bold display of Mosaic’s multi-faceted hop profile. Those incredibly juicy hop aromas come forth in full effect on the palate too, with bold citrus zest...

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Brouwerij De Brabandere - Bavik Super Wit

Bottle Size: 330-ml
Style: Witbier
ABV: 5.0%
Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip or Pint Glass
Country: Belgium

Super Wit presents a bright golden-straw color in the glass, topped with plenty of white foam. There’s some haziness, as we expect for the style. Belgian witbiers are traditionally brewed with orange peel and coriander, as Bavik has done here, and these additions are readily apparent in the aroma as they offer up a bright citrusy spice note that melds nicely with the beer’s yeasty spice overtones. In the flavor, this World Beer Challenge 2021...

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Hofbrauhaus Freising - Festbier

Bottle Size: 330-ml
Style: Festbier
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 modern Oktoberfest-style brew 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), Märzen, the original Oktoberfest beer style, was brewed with more malt (which yields more fermentable...

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Brouwerij De Leite - Cuvée Oncle Pol

Bottle Size: 750-ml
Style: Flemish Red Brown (a blend of oak-aged brown beer & young blond beer)
ABV: 6%
Serving Temperature: 50–59° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Chalice, Goblet, or Pinot glass
Country: Belgium

Brouwerij De Leite’s Cuvée Oncle Pol is described by the brewery as a “soft-sour Flemish red-brown,” and we think it does just a beautiful job of combining the elements of an oak-aged dark beer with those of a fresh pale beer. Cuvée Oncle Pol has never before been sold in the U.S. and is being packaged in 750-ml bottles and imported exclusively for Rare Beer Club members.

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Brouwerij t’Gaverhopke - Zingende Blondine

Bottle Size: 750-ml
Style: Belgian Strong Golden Ale
ABV: 9.8%
Serving Temperature: 50–57° F
Suggested Glassware: Chalice, Goblet, or Tulip
Country: Belgium

Brouwerij t’Gaverhopke’s Zingende Blondine is one of the most satisfying Belgian golden ales we’ve encountered in a while. This is 9.8% ABV, firmly hopped, and just delivering a beautiful expression of its Belgian yeast character: rounded fruit, peppery phenols, vinous warmth and berries. Zingende Blondine has never been sold in the U.S. before, so we’re very excited to have had the opportunity to work with the brewery and importer to package...

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