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Guinness and their Open Gate brewery in Maryland have done quite a bit of experimenting, most of which stays on their taps. This holiday season though, an Old Fashioned cocktail beer will have a bigger distribution footprint.
I am a sucker for a cocktail beer and this is the perfect time for this particular cocktail.
Smog City Brewing has been a big proponent of 1% for the Planet and their next beer in community impact series benefits The Bay Foundation. It is Forgotten Forest Hazy IPA. Buy a 4-pack to help the environment.
As much as charity beers are my favorites, Smog has another beer coming soon that intrigues me even more, ” The creative masterminds (mad scientists?) behind our Wood Cellar collection of beers have done it again! With Dubbel Old Fashioned, our latest Wood Cellar beer, they’ve pushed the boundaries on what a beer can be.”
Bell’s Brewery has conjured up a holiday cocktail that mashes up the not often seen Scotch Ale with Bourbon barrel-aging for an Old Fashioned, Mad Men take for the season.
Count me as a fan of the OG New Belgium Oakspire and now I can compare that one with the brand extension Old Fashioned version that is coming to finer beer shoppes. Maybe also compare it to an actual Old Fashioned while I am at it.
Old Fashioned and Manhattan’s seem to be popular cocktails to emulate with beer and Allagash has a new beer for the first one, World on a String. Not sold on the abstract label art but Allagash knows barrel-aged so this would be on to put on the buy list.