Every once in a while, I will get jealous of a beer that someone is enjoying. This is one of those beers…
….I am a big fan of Moonlight beers anyway, but a four-grain lager with a combine on the label? Just take my money.
Autumnal
Pineapple
If I had to pick one brewery to do a pineapple beer, well ya kinda gotta choose Maui Brewing…
…add in coconut and the nitro format and it’s pretty much a lock.
Enegren Okto
One of the benefits of seasonal releases is that you have lead time and can do fun stuff like have a label design contest and you can also reference the year in both number and image. It also helps that Enegren Brewing does Germanic beers really well.
Eagle Rock to Norwalk
We can certainly use all the good vibes we can about now and what better way to do that is fighting back with love (and guava, mangoes and citrus. Look for 4-packs of this new Eagle Rock Brewery collaboration with Norwalk Brew House at their taproom.
Burro on Board
Baja Brewing’s burro is straying far from beach and into the waves with a new Baja lager and in a world filled to the brim with IPAs, it is nice to see a new lager enter the market. The new beer is “made with Hallertau and Sterling hops resulting in a herbaceous aroma and a slightly bitter finish.”
Sustain
Instead of a race to higher ABV or higher IBUs, how about a race to sustainability? Dogfish Head has put down a big marker with Re-Gen-Ale by tracing all the ingredients of this beer to make sure it was done with the climate in mind. Plus I like that it is a farmhouse ale, that ties the concept together with a neat bow.
Takeoff Love Handles
The second El Segundo Take Off beer is timed for Oktoberfest! Love handles aka Huftgold is a festbier that you can get for your not jammed in with thousands of people self Oktoberfest.
Featured Review – Trend Vampire from Fieldwork
I was so taken by Canopy Pale Ale from Fieldwork that came in my Summit Experience package from the California Craft Brewers Association that I went to their website and saw that they had better shipping options than some of my locals, so I picked up two divergent styles.
Next up is a hazy, Trend Vampire…
Super low ABV. Love the name and all the DDH, hazy, low-cal descriptors. Has that scrappy tongue feel. More OG hazy, less the current fruity bombs. A bit minty. Certainly doesn’t taste low ABV
Nectar
Bears and Lions on surfboards and New Zealand hops for the next 16oz can from the Propagator branch of Firestone Walker. Gen-4 was really good so I will be heading to their company store to find this one.
Luxe
As if Bottle Logic Brewing wasn’t popular enough, now they are sending out R&D cans that will set the avid beer geeks into overdrive. Below I saw the info:
“Chris, Ben, and Sam, who make up our Special Projects Division over on the 7BBL Pilot System, have been cranking out strange and wonderful new fresh beer experiments. We’ve built out this new label template to get our favorites packaged and into your hands for off-premise exploration!”
The first two releases (probably already gone) give an idea of what to expect down the line…
• #AssonanceAndConsonance: Imperial Sweet Stout • 10% ABV • Cinnamon Coffee Cake-inspired Sweet Stout brewed with lactose and finished with ONYX Coffee Lab beans and cinnamon.
• #ItsNotDelivery: Pale Ale • 5% ABV • It’s a beer! This pizza-inspired pale ale was built on a combination of malt selected to mimic the flavors of pizza crust, then brewed with tomatoes, fennel seed, basil, and oregano!