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So many beers, So little time…With so many craft breweries, releasing so many beers, we thought it might help to provide a weekly update on all the new beers that are hitting the streets …..So welcome to this week’s edition of Newbies – your guide to great new craft beer releases!
Anderson Valley Gets Wild (Boonville, CA) – Anderson Valley Brewing Company and Wild Turkey® Bourbon have just announced that the brewery has begun bottled production of its Anderson Valley Wild Turkey Bourbon Barrel Stout. Previously only available on draft, Bourbon Barrel Stout will roll out in 22oz bottles in late June and is now available in select markets.
Victory Is All About The Love (Downingtown, PA) – You soon won’t have to look far to “find some love” as Victory Brewing Company’s popular summer seasonal, Summer Love Ale, will be rolling out from the “City of Brotherly Love” and onto shelves near you in early May. At 5.2% ABV, Summer Love Ale is brewed using noble European hops backed up by fresh German malts, and has a surprising burst of lemon at its finish.
Barrel-Aged Series Returns to Avery This Weekend (Boulder, CO) – The Avery Brewing Company is releasing something special this weekend, but you’re going to have to visit their brewery to get it! This Saturday, May 4 at 5pm, the brewery celebrates its first Barrel-Aged Series beer release since October with the debut of Volunt Plus Erat. This wild-fermented sour ale was barrel-aged for 14 months with the flavors focused on a Cabernet Franc grape must. With just 55 cases available, we feel confident that it will sell out quickly, so you know what to do.
Manic Space Dust (Seattle, WA) – Elysian Brewing has just released some “Space Dust,” the latest addition to their Manic IPA series. Space Dust IPA is beyond cosmic, clocks in at a spacey 7.2% ABV, and is available May through August on draft and in 22oz bottles.
SAVOR Presents New York Limited (New York, NY) – As many of you know, SAVOR 2013 is taking place June 14th and 15th in New York City. They’ve just announced this year’s special edition collaboration beer – and if you needed yet another reason why SAVOR 2013 should not be missed, this is it! New York Limited is the collective effort of three of New York State’s most interesting and historic craft breweries: Ommegang, Brooklyn Brewery and Saranac. This very special release, which they describe as a strong white ale, will be presented as an exit gift to SAVOR attendees in a 750 ml corked and caged bottle. This very, very, limited release is sure to be a coveted addition to attendees’ beer cellars (if they even make it that far).
Holy Sheet Returns to Uncharted Waters (Baltimore, MD) – Holy Sheet, Heavy Seas’ barrel-aged Abbey style ale, is returning to their Uncharted Waters line of limited releases. Aged in brandy barrels for two months and brewed with Belgian Abbey yeast, Holy Sheet pours rich and deep mahogany and is scheduled to start arriving in stores this month.
New Class of 88′ (Bend, OR / Cleveland, OH) – Deschutes Brewery and Great Lakes Brewing Company, both founded in 1988, have come together to create an Imperial Smoked Porter to celebrate their shared silver anniversary. This beer is the second in Deschutes Brewery’s Class of ’88collaboration series, which celebrates the anniversary of craft breweries around the country that were founded in 1988. This new beer was created to build on a history of great porters from both breweries: Great Lake’s Edmund Fitzgerald Porter out of Cleveland, Ohio and Deschutes’s Black Butte Porter out of Bend, Oregon.
