May 2022 Featured Beers | Beer of the Month Club

Peak Organic Brewing Company - Fresh Cut

August Schell Brewing Company - Lake Escape

Peak Organic Brewing Company - Happy Hour

August Schell Brewing Company - LoCal Twist

Peak Organic Brewing Company - IPA

Peak Organic Brewing Company - Summer Session

Two Brothers Brewing Company - Pinch of Grace

Tucher Bräu - Festbier

Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg - Helle Weizen

Jopen B.V. - Gritty Young Thing

Fulton Beer - Thunder God

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Peak Organic Brewing Company - Fresh Cut
August Schell Brewing Company - Lake Escape
Peak Organic Brewing Company - Happy Hour
August Schell Brewing Company - LoCal Twist
Peak Organic Brewing Company - IPA
Peak Organic Brewing Company - Summer Session
Two Brothers Brewing Company - Pinch of Grace
Tucher Bräu - Festbier
Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg - Helle Weizen
Jopen B.V. - Gritty Young Thing
Fulton Beer - Thunder God

Peak Organic Brewing Company - Fresh Cut

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Dry-hopped American Pilsner
ABV: 4.6%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 38
Serving Temperature: 42-47º F
Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass
Hops: Chinook, Summit, Citra
Malts: Pilsner, Wheat
Country: United States

Pouring a golden straw color with a light haze and a cap of crisp white foam, Fresh Cut represents Peak Organic’s foray into the American trend of taking lager styles and amping up the bitterness a bit while using American hops for a distinctly different character. There’s also another trend currently towards more “sessionable”, lower-ABV IPAs, and Fresh Cut shares some similarities with such beers, albeit as a lager and with...

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August Schell Brewing Company - Lake Escape

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 22
Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
Suggested Glassware: Stange, Pilsner Glass, Flute
Hops: Sterling, Hallertau Blanc, Smaragd
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Barke Pilsner, Red Wheat, Munich
Country: United States

Though a German style, Kölsch is not a lager like so many other styles from that nation, but rather a top-fermenting ale style which then undergoes cold conditioning like a lager. It’s a classic style hailing from Köln (Cologne), and it’s one of our go-to brews during spring and summer due to its refreshing character. Schell’s Lake Escape certainly looks the part, pouring a true-to-style light golden hue with superb clarity, topped by a fluffy...

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Peak Organic Brewing Company - Happy Hour

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: American Pilsner
ABV: 4.7%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 15
Serving Temperature: 42-47º F
Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass
Hops: Citra
Malts: Pale, Wheat
Country: United States

Peak’s Happy Hour presents a bright straw color in the glass, with good clarity and a bright head of white foam. Brewed with Citra hops, this pilsner embraces an American character, leading to aromas of citrus zest along with some floral overtones and some spicy elements. In the flavor, we get a tasty malt core offering a good dose of crackery and bready character. Look for those hops to come through much as they did in the aroma, with an...

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August Schell Brewing Company - LoCal Twist

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: American Wheat Ale with Citrus
ABV: 3.9%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 10
Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
Suggested Glassware: Flute, Pint Glass
Hops: Calypso, Cascade
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Wheat, Munich, Dextrose
Country: United States

This citrus wheat ale pours a lightly hazed bright golden straw color with an energetic head of foam. Schell’s uses natural grapefruit and orange in this brew, and those additions are super bright and bold in the aroma. The use of citrus fruits is common with wheat beers, such as the use of orange peel in Belgian witbiers or the preference many have for a lemon wedge in their hefeweizen, and it’s working nicely here too. On the palate, the malt...

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Peak Organic Brewing Company - IPA

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: American IPA
ABV: 7.1%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 60
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, or Mug
Hops: Amarillo, Simcoe, Nugget
Malts: Pale, Crystal 60
Country: United States

Pouring a bright golden hue with some haze and a cap of just-off-white foam, Peak Organic IPA looks good in the glass while also presenting quite an inviting aroma profile; look for piney, floral, and citric notes reminiscent of grapefruit and orange, with stone fruit and tropical overtones and a touch of mild caramel underneath it all. Dry-hopped with both Simcoe and Amarillo, this IPA is not shy on the palate either. A good backbone of pale...

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Peak Organic Brewing Company - Summer Session

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: Hoppy American Wheat Ale
ABV: 5.0%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 61
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Amarillo
Malts: Pale, Carapils, Wheat
Country: United States

Peak describes their Summer Session Ale as a marriage between a summer wheat ale and a West Coast pale ale, and we think it’s a pretty appropriate way of looking at things. Bright golden and lightly hazy on the pour, this brew offers up prominent fruity, citric hop aromas overtop a fairly robust core of pale malt, mild caramel, and warm biscuits. On the palate, expect the hoppy citrus notes to evoke lemon and, to a lesser degree, orange...

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Two Brothers Brewing Company - Pinch of Grace

Bottle Size: 12-oz
Style: American IPA with Citrus Peel & Vanilla
ABV: 7.0%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 69
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: IPA Glass, Pint Glass, or Mug
Hops: Lotus, Centennial, Citra, Saaz, Simcoe
Malts: 2 Row, Light Crystal
Country: United States

Pouring a bright golden orange color, Pinch of Grace rests nicely in the glass, topped by a fluffy cap of foam. Two Brothers has built an unusual IPA here, using citrus peel to augment the citric hop notes – which is not particularly uncommon – but they’ve also added a “pinch” of vanilla to create a very unique experience. Look for plenty of citrus notes in the aroma, courtesy of the hops and citrus peel, with a light hint of vanilla, all...

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Tucher Bräu - Festbier

Bottle Size: 500-ml
Style: Festbier
ABV: 5.8%
Serving Temperature: 42-47° F
Suggested Glassware: Willi Becher, Mug, Stein, Pint Glass
Country: Germany

Traditionally brewed in March (März), Märzen, the original Oktoberfest beer style, was brewed with more malt than usual (which yields more fermentable sugars, which in turn yields more alcohol) in order to beef the beer up to survive storage through the summer months when it was generally too hot to brew. Since the 1990s, the beer commonly served at Oktoberfest has been the somewhat lighter style known as Festbier. Tucher’s version presents a bright golden hue with excellent clarity, topped by a robust head of tight-bubbled...

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Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg - Helle Weizen

Bottle Size: 500-ml
Style: Hefeweizen
ABV: 5.0%
Serving Temperature: 42-47° F
Suggested Glassware: Weizen Glass, Pilsner Glass
Country: Austria

Brewed in the style of a traditional Bavarian weissbier, or hefeweizen, Eggenberg’s Helle Weizen looks exactly as we expect as it enters our tall weizen glass: an unfiltered, super cloudy, golden straw color topped by a voluminous head of pale foam. In the aroma, this wheat beer is totally on point: look for bold yeast-driven esters evoking banana and bubblegum to jump right out. The phenolic, somewhat clove-like herbal notes we look for in weissbier are here as well, offering a spicy balance to the fruitier notes. All these aromas translate...

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Jopen B.V. - Gritty Young Thing

Bottle Size: 750-ml
Style: Scottish-Style Gruit Ale
ABV: 7.5%
Serving Temperature: 48–55° F
Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Nonic, or Thistle Glass
Country: Netherlands

Although Gritty Young Thing’s a touch lighter in ABV than Jopen Koyt (7.5% vs. 8.5%), the brewery still expects this to be a very interesting beer for aging. We’d keep an eye on things by popping a bottle every six months or so. This herbaceous gruit should pair nicely with smoked salmon, rich stews, potent cheeses, or steamed mussels and frites.

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Fulton Beer - Thunder God

Bottle Size: 750-ml
Style: Stout with Maple Syrup, Vanilla & Cacao Nibs
ABV: 7.5%
Serving Temperature: 52–58° F
Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Small Nonic, or Tulip
Country: United States

We expect the expressive impacts from the vanilla and maple syrup to be most potent early on, such that we’re inclined to pop this stout on the fresher side. This one isn’t quite fully into imperial-stout territory, but that 7.5% ABV should at least provide some sturdiness if you decide to hold onto bottles for a bit. For pairings: the core combination of maple syrup, vanilla, chocolate, and roast have us inclined to angle this toward desserts. Vanilla ice cream, affogato, cookies… or brownies, should you feel like emphasizing that rich core chocolate.

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