Misc News – Oct 23

pelican-the-creeper Three Floyds small batches. Chocolate CIty, Aotearoa, Hell's Black Intelligencer, The Creeper. details (sorta)

Crown Brewing has Milk Chocolate Stout on tap – a sweet stout with lactose and 20 pounds of chocolate. Grand Poobah Russian Imperial Stout and Alkoholika Doppelbock will emerge in November.

Figure 8 Brewing has Black Corridor Imperial Chocolate Stout on nitro.

Shoreline's 2008 Barrel-Aged Series will go on sale at the pub on Nov 6.  Bourbon Aged beers: Lost Sailor Imperial Stout, Discombobulation Celebration Ale, Sum Cens IIPA, Big Bella Heavy Scotch Ale. Aged in French Oak Shiraz:  Seven Red on Red Rye Ale.

Back Road will start to be open Sundays, 2-4pm. Growlers and bottles available. Christmas Ale and No. 9 Barleywine will be available by Thanksgiving. Pecker Head Red in late Nov.

Thanks to Scott Bort's column for most of that.

Notes from HBG's Beer and Chocolate Benefit

Indiana Breweries by John Holl and Nate Schweber is scheduled for an April, 2011 release. Preorders are already up on Amazon.

The Apple Buzz is sold out again at Oaken Barrel, as Mike finds out. Monday they sold 133 cases. Tuesday another batch sold out.

Great Fermentations, Indy is hiring. Send your resume to bill@greatfermentations.com.

Widmer Barrel Aged Brrrbon will be out in bombers real soon now. 9.4%. About $13.

Shmaltz He'brew Jewbelation 14 has just been released. Each year it gets stronger, etc. This year with 14 malts, 14 hops and 14%. Looks like a vertical 8-pack is in the works with the last eight years of this barrel-aged brew, a glass, and Chanukah candles. article Oh, and Freaktoberfest is back again this year also. 6.66% Blood Red Lager.

Goose Island, having maxed out its Fulton Street brewery at 130,000bbls will contract some such as Honker's Ale and IPA at Redhook in Portsmouth, NH, starting in January. article

Dick Yuengling Jr. sounds like my kinda guy. article

After a British Guild of Beer Writers' seminar about beer styles, there's another blogger-flap going on. I've tried to put these links in some order. Good luck with your new time sink.

UK Style Revolution

Beer styles: the first of only two posts I will ever write on the subject

My final post on beer styles

More thoughts on beer styles

Michael Jackson and the invention of beer style

Headache ahead: Considering beer styles

Beer Style: Does is Matter?

And just for grins: Bottled beers types and categories (1977)

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