Beer Alert: New Fruit Sours, Mexican Lagers And More

(Courtesy 10 Barrel Brewing)

Summer is ON and American craft brewers are addressing things with a smart roster of new releases you’re gonna want to have around.

What An Awesome Experience Tastes Like (Bend, OR) – As part of its popular HopBurst Series, 10 Barrel Brewing makes an epic juice bomb that pairs brilliantly with canyon settings and panoramic sunsets.

Crafted to be enjoyed over a sunset on the summit, 10 Barrel Cloud Mentality is an aromatic 7% ABV Hazy IPA with big flavor and a mild bitterness courtesy of the Simcoe, Strata and El Dorado hops.

This from the 10 Barrel brewing team…

“We took our Hazy IPA and loaded up the hops at the end of the brewing process for massive flavor and enhanced aromatics, This technique traps all the juicy, tropical flavors while maintaining a balanced taste and keeping the bitterness in check. In the end, we got a sweet stone fruit finish with citrus and tropical fruit aromas.”

You can find Cloud Mentality anywhere 10 Barrel beers are sold, as well as in the new HopBurst Variety Pack featuring all four IPAs in this uber-interesting series—Juicy Drama, Apocalypse, All Ways Down, and Cloud Mentality.

(Courtesy True North Ale Company)

Blue Buried & Lemon Made (Ipswich, MA) – True North Ale Company has a new addition to its highly successful Sour Series, that we can’t hype enough. Fermented with blueberry and Meyer lemon purées to produce bright flavors of blueberry lemonade and blueberry pastry, True North Turning Violet! is a 5% ABV Fruit Sour with a pleasantly tart character and a refreshing herbal citrus finish.

True North Ale Company is an award-winning brewery located in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Opened in 2017, its beers have been poured in nearly 1,900 bars and restaurants and sold in more than 1,500 stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. It was voted Best Brewery on Boston’s North Shore four consecutive years.

Lime Time (Lone Tree, CO) – Lone Tree Brewing has a new seasonal variant of their award-winning flagship, that we’ve gotta admit, is one of the best beers of the summer. A three-time Great American Beer Festival® winner, Lone Tree Lime Mexican Lager is a 5.3% ABV fruit-forward take on their classic which uses real lime purée.

, Beer Alert: New Fruit Sours, Mexican Lagers And More “We’ve received overwhelming positive feedback on this beer at our two tasting rooms in Lone Tree and Parker,” says Lone Tree Brewing Director of Tasting Rooms Michael Webster. “There’s genuine enthusiasm for how refreshing the Lime Mexican Lager is on a summer day. Combine that with strong sales data, and we saw this beer was a perfect candidate for our next seasonal can.”