Category: Canned Beer

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San Diego to Santa Rosa

Look for the highlights in this press release. I will explain at the end why I have highlighted them…

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“California brewery icons Russian River Brewing Company and Karl Strauss Brewing Company proudly introduce their collaboration beer, New California IPA. This modern India Pale Ale is the first collaboration between these storied institutions of California craft beer.

This beer focuses on each critical stage of hop addition: bittering, flavor, aroma, and dry-hopping. The star of this India Pale Ale is a rather new cultivar: the Pahto hop. It is a high-alpha hop that lends a palatable bitterness throughout the beer, while an all-star lineup of Strata, Ekuanot, Amarillo, and Idaho 7 hops deliver wildly diverse layers of flavors, from bright citrus to tropical fruit to resinous pine. 

New California IPA will be available on draft and in 16oz can 4-packs beginning on August 1st (which is not-so-coincidentally IPA Day!)”

It is crazy to think that these two long-standing breweries hadn’t collaborated before. By this point it seems all breweries have collaborated with each other. Point two. Pahto hop? Where did that come from? Gonna have to look that up. Lastly, Russian River in cans, even if not done in Santa Rosa is a sign of change.

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Dogged Cans

El Segundo keeps adding 16oz cans every once in a while, here is the latest as described by the brewery, ” White Dog is the second IPA we ever released and we’ve decided to resurrect it and give it a proper place in this world! It’s the OG Hazy, that isn’t really a hazy, but the clarity is hazy, so technically…this is a hazy? The malt bill is 50% wheat to soften its bite, so aside from that and clarity, in all other senses this is a traditional West Coast IPA. And for all you DDH and/or Nelson Sauvin lovers out there, White Dog is Double Dry Hopped with Nelson Sauvin.”

NS is one of my favorite hops and glad to see it in a big, burly ESBC IPA.

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Inside the Tent

Sometimes when you look at a Modern Times label design or even just the name, you don’t really know what might be inside. Pretty, yes but not greatly informative.

All you really need to know about Tentbier is the name of Heater-Allen from McMinnville, Oregon. You know this is going to be a traditional beer. A 16oz can of Festbier that collaborates the Portland Arm of the Modern Times empire with a well-loved Oregon brewery.

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Pineapple in Belgium

There are certain fruits that, to me, can get too sugary and too fake-y real quick. One is strawberry, another is pineapple. But Angel City did well by the former with a Gose and now is tackling the latter with a Saison. Review to follow because this might be a tricky one to combine.

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Sour + Marionberry + Lavender

This sounds like an intriguing combo of flavors from Deschutes. Lavender can be an overpowering aroma but I am not sure it is as powerful as a flavor component. Marionberries are great for sour, because they do not have the pucker that blackberries can have. Throw in that this is in cans and I am sold.

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Party Magic

Following on the heels of their Special Effects (low alcohol) amber comes the IPA version from Brooklyn Brewery, Party Trick. It will be interesting to see if this one becomes part of the SoCal distribution because I want to do a taste test between these two.

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Belgian Hazy

Probably not the 16oz hazy that you were expecting but Unibroue has done nothing but solid beers. This is a great summer choice as well. Cool to see this classic in a new format.

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Vimana

I am eager to try this upcoming anniversary beer from Ogopogo. The first anniversary beer is usually one that has that early years energy to it. Not quite sure what this artwork is though. Seems like bad landscape with your UFO (Vimanas) superimposed on it.

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Fridge Magnets

I have been wondering when Brouwerij West was going to take their inventive can label art and push it one step further to interactive….

…get your Scrabble skills ready and a 4-pack of a perfect for summer, super light Rice Lager.

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Kid Dangerous

Boomtown Brewery continues their Hazy series and this time it is dangerous as in LA Fashion company Kid Dangerous. If you like their fashion then the four-pack ($18), or tap versions should be just your type of risk.

Per the press release, the Hazy “will be full of delectable summer flavors like pineapples, ripe mango, and nectarines. Clocking in at a weighty 8.2%”.