This weekend, American Solera’s Society club members will be getting a brand new beer conditioned on vanilla beans from the second largest island in the world. Papua New Guinea Distraction is a 13 percent ABV imperial stout aged for 12 months in barrels that previously held Balcones bourbon before being conditioned on vanilla beans sourced from … Read more
A new ale from Goose Island Beer Co. is inspired by the flavors in a traditional Mexican drink. According to a label filed with Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), the Chicago-based brewery is working on releasing Tepache Sunset, a 5.3 percent ABV ale aged in tequila barrels with pineapple juice, orange juice … Read more
According to a label filed with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), Bell’s Brewery, Inc. is working on releasing Key Lime Wheat a 5.8 percent ABV ale brewed with lime that will be packaged in 12-ounce bottles. The new beer would join the Comstock, Mich.-based brewery’s General Store Exclusive Series which focuses on limited, … Read more
According to labels filed with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), Boulevard Brewing Co. is working on releasing Stuff of Legend, an 10 percent ABV barrel-aged stout brewed with “vanilla and cocoa flavors” that will be packaged in 12-ounce bottles. The profile of the new stout was inspired by the flavors found … Read more
This weekend, Oskar Blues Brewery will be releasing the newest addition in its series of “over-the-top Death By beers.” That creation is Death By Flapjacks, a 6.5 percent ABV English porter brewed with lactose, lemon peel, nutmeg, maple syrup, vanilla, and “natural flavors.” The Longmont, Colo.-based brewery has used the Death By moniker in the … Read more
This Friday, Lakewood Brewing Co. will be releasing a brand new collaboration with AleSmith Brewing Co. just in time for Father’s Day. That beer is Mechanical Unicorn, an 8.6 percent ABV hazy IPA brewed with Loral, Meridian and Sabro hops. “It’s a tropical vacation in a glass with notes of pineapple, coconut, bananas, banana leaf, palm, cane … Read more
AleSmith Brewing Co. of San Diego, and Brewery Ommegang, located in Cooperstown, N.Y., are more than 2,700 miles apart. However, collaborating on two very similar beers brought them close together. AleSmith was founded in 1996 by Skip Virgilio and Ted Newcomb. Virgilio was the original brewmaster until Peter Zien, the only BJCP Grand Master Level … Read more
Although it began as a hobby between brothers Brent and Chad Daniel, B52 Brewing Co. has become one of the best-known breweries in the Houston area since it opened its doors in May 2014. The two brothers began homebrewing at their house in San Marcos, Texas years before that, but a trip to Costa Rica … Read more
As a beer nerd, it is no surprise to anyone that the Pacific Northwest is one of my favorite places to visit. Oregon specifically has over 300 hundred breweries that offer more delicious beers than I could drink in a lifetime. Whether it is a crispy pilsner from Heater Allen or Occidental, a deliciously intricate … Read more
Just shy of seven years after it debuted, it is time to close down Rueda Media, LLC’s “beer site,” otherwise known as Tenemu. Our craft beer news and review site has grown quite a bit from its earliest days, ending up with a (part-time) staff of six different people writing news stories, reviewing beers and … Read more
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