Category: I would love to taste,,,

These are the beers that I wish I could taste for the first time.

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Brooklyn Cuvee Noire

Call me predictable. Every month it seems I stammer on about beers from Mikkeller or Pretty Things Ale Project or today’s entry, Brooklyn Brewing and their new Cuvee Noire.

Which the Williamsburg brewery describes thusly, “They said the Belgian yeast was too spicy. Too…unpredictable. But he didn’t care. Didn’t care that black ales with German, British and American malts didn’t normally go out with Belgians. The Brewmaster threw caution to the wind and went ahead and joined them anyway. The result is Brooklyn Cuvée Noire.”
I love their experiments so I am psyched to try it.

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Rare Beer selection

Have you had a Czech IPA?

Well check out this description from the Rare Beer Club: “This month, The Rare Beer Club™ is featuring a craft beer from the Czech Republic that was made just once and is available exclusively to its members. Even more exciting is that it might represent the creation of a new beer style. Although “one-offs” don’t generally qualify as creating a style, we sincerely hope it to be the case here since “Czech IPA”, if anything like this beer, would be a welcomed addition to the various styles currently defined. So, who’s behind this very unusual brew? None other than Michael Jackson himself.

It was with a heavy heart and a feeling of gratitude that we first sampled Kocour IPA Samuraj as it was a beer Michael encouraged the brewer to create. Sadly, he never got the chance to taste what may be the Czech Republic’s first IPA, but we still feel a strong sense of respect and celebration with the feeling that Michael was reaching out from the afterlife to turn us all on to yet another great beer.”

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Pepe Nero

The dark malted sensation is moving from IPA’s and lagers to saison? As part of the Goose Island Belgian inspired series, then yes. Bottles will start arriving sometime next year.

Can you wait that long?

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a mysterious IPA

A brewery that I had not heard of before is making quite the interwebs buzz. Buzzards Bay from Massachussetts has created a serialized beer with a mystery on the label.

““The Case of the IPA” is a hard-boiled detective farce printed chapter by chapter on 12 bottles of a newly released India Pale Ale. Each 22 ounce bottle not only has 22 ounces of brilliantly deduced IPA, but also 1 of the 12 chapters of the story. Each case has 12 bottles, which makes for the entire tale told in a case. And so, the Case of the IPA is indeed a case of the IPA.

Brewer Harry Smith proposed the idea to author Paul Goodchild and they quickly agreed on a format: a noir-ish detective serial. Smith brewed up a batch of hoppy craft brew whilst Goodchild penned the story. It’s a mystery of zany brewers and their intrigues; sure to tickle the ribs and please the belly of any fan of craft beer.”

And here is the first installment (not the beer, the mystery):

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Mikkeller + Nelson Sauvin + wine barrels =

Ardent followers of these posts will know that Mikkeller graces these pages at least once a month and that one of my favorite beers of the past couple years was the Mikkeller Single Hop Ale made from Nelson Sauvin hops.

To celebrate the last new year, Mikkeller brewed Nelson Sauvignon. Again using Nelson hops and aging the new creation in white wine barrels. It never made it stateside.

But here is the good news. The newest iteration Nelson Sauvin Brut will arrive in the US next year. It is the champagne inspired version.

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Longshot 2011

So they can be easily spotted in your favorite beer store, here are the public winners of this years Longshot competition sponsored by Sam Adams…


– a Cascadian Dark Ale apparently


– a Belgian IPA

The last beer in the mixed pack will be the Honey Bee Lavender. I always look forward to the Longshot packs. Always at least one really good beer and one really weird beer in each pack.

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that’s right, even Tennessee has beer

And here is one of the most acclaimed of the Volunteer state breweries latest creation….

This is what the Yazoo Brewing blog says about this autumnal offering,“Fall Ale is made with all German malts – Munich, Vienna, Cara malt, and a little bit of Rye. It’s generously hopped with Hallertauer and Tettnang hops from Germany. It’s an ale, not a lager, but it’s loosely based on a typical Octoberfest beer, with our own twist with the Rye malt. It will be available as the next beer in our Brewmaster’s Reserve 4-pack, beginning around the third week of October – you know, about the time that all the “Octoberfest” beers that came out in July are starting to show their age!”

Now if I could just get my hands on of their beers then I just might reach my goal for the 50 Beers from 50 States quest.

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3 French (via Belgium) Hens

If you have any spare bottles of A Partridge in a Pear Tree or Two Turtle Doves, then you can have a nice Holiday ale tasting by getting the third in the series from the Bruery.

“The third verse of our ‘Twelve Beers of Christmas’ saga incorporates vinous and oaky notes into a bold and spicy dark ale. 10% ABV.” This years Holiday ale is 75% Belgian-style Dark Ale and 25% ale aged in French Oak barrels.

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poppaskull

What do you get when you combine the crazy of Dogfish Head and the crazy of Three Floyds?

You get Poppaskull which the label describes as “a collaborative brew between Dogfish Head and Three Floyds. It’s a kinda-sorta Belgian-esque style golden ale fermented with a touch of green cardamom and 35% aged in oak brand barrels.”