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nwbeerguide · 6 years

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Brouwer's Cafe's Big Wood Festival begins tomorrow and concludes this Sunday.

If you haven't made any plans for the weekend, let alone Thursday, then you should consider a trip to Brouwer's Cafe for their annual Big Wood Festival. What sets this event apart from others is their vast selection of beers aged in wooden barrels. Did we mention that Brouwer's is dedicating over 50 of their draft faucets to the cause?

That's right, starting at 11 am on December 6th, Brouwer's Cafe opens their door and invites you to sample:

*oh and you might want to pay attention to that keg of The Commons, as sadly the brewery is no longer with us.

from California

Alesmith Mexican Speedway. 12% ABV Tequila Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout with Mexican Coffee, Chocolate & Cinnamon

Belching Beaver Barrel-Aged Horchata Imperial Stout ’18. 10.6% ABV Barrel-aged Horchata with coffee

Firestone Walker Dark & Stormy. 11.1% ABV Rum Barrel-aged Blended Ale with Lime and Ginger

High Water West Meets East. 6% ABV. Barrel-aged Golden with Kiwi & Kumquats

Lost Abbey Deliverance. 12.5% ”A blend of bourbon barrel-aged Serpent’s Stout and brandy barrel-aged Angels Share.”

Nitro-edition Modern Times BA Devil’s Teeth 12.9% With NOLA Coffee & Almonds

from Colorado

New Belgium Paonia Peach. 7.3% ABV Foeder-Aged Dark Sour with peaches

Paradox Salty Melons (aka, Skully Barrel No. 45). 8.9% ABV Wine Barrel-aged Sour with watermelon.

from Delaware

Dogfish Head Bourbon Bbl-Aged Palo Santo Marron Brown Ale. 13.3% ABV

from Europe

Belgium - Alvinne Kriek Van Mortagne. 8.5% ABV Sour Ale w/ Cherries

Belgium - Huyghe Bourbon Barrel-aged Delirium Noël. 10% ABV

Belgium - Tilquin Mûre Tilquin. 4.8% ABV Lambic w/ Blackberries

Switzerland - B.F.M. L’Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien. 11% ABV The Abbey of Saint Bon-Chien, winey, tart and complex, matured - slowly - in oak barrels.

from Michigan

2018 Founders Brewing KBS. 12.3% ABV Bourbon Barrel-aged Imp. Stout

from New York

Brooklyn Brewery Cloaking Device. 10.5% Porter Wine-Barrel-aged with Brett

from North Carolina

Burial Slaughtered Fates. 9% Bourbon Barrel-aged Dark Sour Ale

from Oregon

Alesong Brewing & Blending Señor Rhino. 12.5% Barrel-aged Milk Stout with Vanilla and chiles

2017 Block 15 The Demon’s Farm. 8.5% Barrel-aged Dark Farmhouse with cherries

Boneyard Snow Worries. 8.2% ABV Cognac Barrel-aged Winter Warmer

Breakside #Morefriends #Morememories. 6.6% ABV ”… a blending of 18 casks from the cellar over a generous helping of raspberries”

De Garde The Vanille Kriek. 7% Oak-aged Wild Ale with cherries and vanilla

Deschutes The Brett Dissident. 8.7% Barrel-aged Flanders Brown with Cherries & Brett

Double Mountain Eleven 11th Anniversary. 13.2% Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine

Ex Novo CocoGoNuts. 10.8% Rye Whiskey Barrel-aged Stout with coconut, vanilla, and sea salt.

Fort George Reclusa. 13% Barrel-aged Blended Stout for Bottleworks’ 19th Anniversary

Hair of the Dog/De Molen/Shiga Kogen Side by Side. 11.5% Barrel-aged Strong Ale. A collaboration between HOTD, Brouwerij de Molen, and Tamamura Honten Co.

Little Beast Black Cap. 8.4% Foeder-Aged Ale with Black Cap Raspberries

Logsdon Peche ‘n Brett. 10% Peche 'n Brett is brewed and refermented with the peaches added in to our award winning Seizoen Bretta.

pFriem Fraise. 6.4% pFriem Fraise is created by blending our barrel aged, Lambic-inspired ale with extraordinarily fresh, Hood strawberries.

The Commons Bourbon Little Brother. 10% A portion of Little Brother is added to Heaven Hill bourbon barrels after primary fermentation where it picks up a rich, bourbon flavor.

Upright Apricot Pathways. 8% … is a unique blend that combines select casks of our stock barrel aged saison with a few casks of a fresh apricot wheat based saison brewed in the summer of 2017.

from Utah

Epic Brewing Triple Barrel Big Bad Baptist. 11.4% We aged coconut and Blue Copper’s Colombian coffee beans in fresh whiskey barrels, while our imperial stout aged in both rum and whiskey barrels. The trio was then hand blended, creating our most over-the-top version of Big Bad Baptist yet. Best enjoyed slowly, three sips at a time.

from the United Kingdom

Harviestoun Ola Dubh 10th Anniversary. 8% ABV Old Ale aged for 2-years in Highland Park 12-year old Single Malt Whisky barrels.

from Washington

Aslan Raspberry Dojo. 6.2% ABV Oak-aged Saison with raspberries

Cloudburst Cease To Amaze. 9.9% ABV Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Porter

Elysian Bourbon Bbl-Aged Dragonstooth Stout 11.26% ABV

Engine House #9 Wild Tacoma. 5.9% ABV Table Sour with bing cherries

Finnriver Understory. 6.5% ABV Apple Cider with salal berries & aged with red cedar staves

2017 Fremont Bourbon Barrel-Aged Darkstar: Coffee Edition. 14.5% ABV

Garden Path The Subtle Blend. 7% ABV A blend of foudre-fermented beer refermented in upright puncheons with fresh, organic raspberries from Viva Farms and mature, barrel-aged beer, naturally conditioned with blackberry honey from The Valley’s Buzz.

Georgetown Barrel Aged 18LB Porter. 9.2% ABV This imperial version of our 9lb Porter is a blend of beer aged six and twelve months in Maker's Mark and Heaven Hills barrles. Bourbon and vanilla notes from barrel aging intensify the plush roasted and chocolate notes and aromas, making this a winter sipper sure to please.

Holy Mountain Midnight Still with Turkish coffee & cardamom. 13% ABV This is our “Turkish Coffee” blend that incorporates stock of imperial stout aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels for 17 months and 12 months. The blend was then transferred into a stainless tank and aged with coffee and cardamom.

Matchless Fruitcake Bbl-Aged Old Ale. 9.8% ABV

2018 North Fork Electric Strawberryland Bbl-Aged Sour ’18. 6.9% ABV

Propolis Blue Huckleberry. 7% ABV Saison aged in Sangiovese & Cabernet barrels with wild blue huckleberries.

2018 Reuben’s Brews Bourbon Barre-aged Imperial Stout. 11.9% ABV

Seapine Sky Dad. 8.5% ABV Imperial Stout aged in Westland whiskey barrels

Skookum Scary Joy. 9.8% ABV. Barrel-aged Imperial Oatmeal Brown Ale with Coconut

Standard Jethro. 9.3% ABV Porter aged with Brett

Stoup “Why”. 11% ABV Cognac puncheon-aged Stock Ale with brett. Brewed in collaboration with Horus Aged Ales in Oceanside, California

Structures Devoid. 3.4% ABV Oak-fermented berliner weisse

Varietal When Gravity Fails. 10% ABV American-style Double Stout, aged in Dry Fly Triticale whiskey & Woodinville bourbon barrels.

In addition to the draft-list, there will be special menu items to pair with whatever’s in your glass. Doors open 11 am tomorrow with each evening concluding at 12 am, with the exception of Friday and Saturday (at 2 am). Brouwer’s Cafe is located at 400 North 35th Street in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood.

from News - The Northwest Beer Guide http://bit.ly/2QeVZuK

#Beer #News #Brewery

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toriaezubeer · 7 years

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beertengoku · 6 years

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Imperial stouts – my personal favourite kind of beer. One that I know I can’t drink a lot of but I end up trying as many as I can when they’re on sale, and also end up drinking too much of. The colour, the aroma, the flavours, and the texture – such a happy marriage of them all together makes me want to savour, yet consume, the beer so much. Imperial stouts / Russian imperial stouts / imperial Russian stout / American double stouts or whatever you want to call them, are some of the boldest beers out there. The history of how the first imperial stout came about is a contentious issue, with various breweries trying to lay claim to the style. But one thing is for certain – it originated in the UK.

The first true ones though are attributed to the Anchor Brewery of Southwark, London, established all the way back in 1616, with many changes of ownership since then. In 1729, the brewery was purchased by Ralph Thrale, and was known as Thrale’s Anchor Brewery, and this likely seems to be the cradle of the first “Russian imperial stout.” The product became significantly more famous, however, after the Anchor Brewery was purchased from Thrale’s widow by Barclay Perkins & Co. in 1781.

It was only when Catherine The Great personally took a liking to the style that its popularity picked up somewhat. It’s documented in the History and Antiquities of the Parish of St. Saviour, Southwark:

“The Empress of All Russia is indeed so partial to Porter that she has ordered repeatedly very large quantities for her own drinking and that of her court. It refreshes the brave soldiers who are fighting the battles of their country in Germany and animates with new ardour and activity the colonists of Sierra Leone and Botany Bay.”

Imperial stouts have also inspired other dark beers, namely the Baltic porter, which takes its name from the Baltic sea region. Like its older sibling, Baltic porters are strong – ranging from 9% to 14% – however, the main difference between the two is that the latter are strong dark lagers and NOT ales. The colder environment is well-suited to yeast that ferments at lower temperatures – enter the lager yeast.

However, the popularity of imperial stouts declined from the late 19th century onwards, mainly due to the costs of making such strong beers, and more of a demand for session beers instead. Even with the initial craft beer boom in the USA in the mid 80s, and the boom of craft beer in Japan in the late 90s, imperial stouts struggled to find a market outside of the winter months.

Yet, as breweries pushed for bigger and bolder beers, imperials stouts began to see marked improvement in their popularity as drinkers wanted bolder, more extreme beers. No other country has done for imperial stouts as either Russia did initially or as The USA did in the mid late 90’s / early 2000’s. The craft beer boom push for bigger, bolder, stronger beers meant that imperial stouts were seen to be the gap filler in the market.

Imperial stouts have also lent themselves to being canvases for brewers to try out new adjuncts or new flavours. Barrel aging programs, where a beer is stored in a cask that was previously used by a different alcohol, such as whisky or bourbon, are popular with brewers of imperial stouts. Pastry beers, those with adjuncts that you would normally find in cakes or pastries, have also begun to show up, with vanilla, dark fruits, or other spices too. Not all breweries can afford the space needed to store a beer for upwards of six months, so these pastry imperial stouts can help show off a breweries range as well.

Finally, if you are looking to age a beer, then imperial stouts are one of the best choices, mainly due to the high abvs. Imperial stouts are high in alcohol and very dark, two factors that should improve the odds of it aging better than most beers. Make sure your bottle uses corks with protective labels on. If not, then caps are fine; however, caps can leak over time, and it’s at least possible that you could leach compounds out of the liners of caps if you store the bottles on their sides. If a bottle is sitting upright, the only surface the beer is touching is glass.

Personally, I like to buy 6 bottles at a time then age them over a few years, while picking up some “new” bottles every year. This allows me to see how the flavours change – usually for the better, but sometimes for the weirder or worse – over time and compare them. I keep my stouts in my beer cellar at about 10c, with some in my beer fridge at about 2c, to see how the flavours change.

What was once seen as a winter beer has slowly moved itself into an all-year round product. That personally makes me very happy as a lover of imperial stouts; however, not everyone wants to drink them in the middle of the summer, especially in Japan where temperatures routinely hit 30c+.

Japanese Imperial Stouts Worth Trying

Regular

1) Baird Dark Sky Imperial Stout

The Bottom Line: Baird Dark Sky Imperial Stout is bold, brash, and born to blow you away with its balanced aroma and flavours.

The Full Review: http://beertengoku.com/2014/11/07/dark-sky-imperial-stout/

2) Daisen G Beer Imperial Stout

The Bottom Line: Daisen G Beer Imperial Stout is one of the best Japanese imperial stouts I’ve had. Pick a few up and age some of them.

The Full Review: http://beertengoku.com/2017/01/17/daisen-g-beer-imperial-stout-by-kumezakura-daisen-brewery/

3) Songbird Imperial Stout

The Bottom Line: Brewery Songbird have really come on since we’ve been reviewing them – Songbird Imperial Stout might just be their best yet.

The Full Review: http://beertengoku.com/2018/03/27/songbird-imperial-stout-by-brewery-songbird/

4) Minoh Imperial Stout

The Bottom Line: Just go out and buy Minoh Imperial Stout. Drink it, savour it, enjoy it, want it more.

The Full Review: http://beertengoku.com/2015/02/07/minoh-imperial-stout-minoh-beer/

Barrel Aged & Infused Stouts

1) Swan Lake Barrel Aged Imperial Stout

The Bottom Line: Swan Lake Barrel Aged Imperial Stout is the best Swan Lake beer out there and perhaps, hands down, one of the best beers I’ve had in my life.

The Full Review: http://beertengoku.com/2015/04/28/swan-lake-barrel-aged-imperial-stout/

2) Shiga Kogen Takashi Ichiro

The Bottom Line: If you’ve read this far and not worked out what I’m getting at then buy Shiga Kogen Takashi Ichiro. If you can find it.

The Full Review: http://beertengoku.com/2018/03/13/shiga-kogen-takashi-ichiro-by-tamamura-honten/

Let’s be honest – if you’re going to try a style of beer, then it’s also worth trying out some of the overseas beers. Here’s some foreign imperial stouts we also recommend. Check out the label on the bottle to see when the beer was bottled, and also ask how the beer was imported. Was it in a cold chain from start to finish? Was the beer stored in a chilled environment in store? If the shop assistant can’t, or doesn’t know the answer, then give it a miss.

AleSmith Speedway Stout (USA)

Founders KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout) (USA)

Epic Big Bad Baptista (USA)

Stone Imperial Russian Stout (USA)

Cloudwater Bourbon Chocolate Imperial Stout (UK)

Clown Shoes The Good, The Bad, & The Unidragon (USA)

Source of Styles #6 - Imperial Stouts #craftbeer #beer #japan Imperial stouts - my personal favourite kind of beer. One that I know I can’t drink a lot of but I end up trying as many as I can when they’re on sale, and also end up drinking too much of.

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wineninja · 4 years

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