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December 31, 2008

Is it too early to think of spring? Preview of The Bruery’s new saison

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2/15 Update: The beer is now available at the brewery and being sent out to stores around California. See Patrick Rue’s comments on the brewery’s barrel-aging program and exploration into sour beers below.]

(Placentia, CA) – For anyone wondering, I am pushing off Part II of the Twitter story until Monday or Tuesday. Too many new beers to write about at the moment and that takes first priority!

Instead of rehashing history, I will refer you to my article about

Saison de Lente

from earlier this month (beer description halfway down). The Continue on! »

Posted by: beersage @ 1:36 pm
Filed under: Belgian-style Beer, California, New Beer Releases and Bottlings
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New Smuttynose Big Beer arrives in January

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(Portsmouth, NH) – Smuttynose Brewing is set to release a new beer in its Big Beer Series in 2009: a Belgian-style Quadrupel called

Smuttynose Gravitation

in early January according to the Smuttynose blog. It Continue on! »

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December 30, 2008

New Glarus reveals 2009 beer details

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[2/15 Update: Coffee Stout, Stone Soup, Iced Barleywine, and Crack'd Wheat all available as of early-mid February. Oh, and last year's popular Alt release appears to be doneski.]

[1/1 Update: Unplugged schedule is now up on the site (though descriptions are not. Iced Barleywine = Feb, Imperial Saison = May, Olde English Porter = August, Eisbock = November]

(New Glarus, WI) – Following up on last month’s article containing a list of new New Glarus beers in ‘09, more information about those craft beers surfaced on the New Glarus site this week.

Year-round Beers

Out is Uff-da Bock. In is

Stone Soup

and Crack’d Wheat. The brewery Continue on! »

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Alaskan brings back another from the Rough Draft Series

(Juneau, AK) – You didn’t think I was done reporting on new beers for the week did you?  The following comes from Alaskan Brewing Co. Communications Manager, Ashley Johnston:

Alaskan White Ale is a Belgian-style wheat beer slated for release in Continue on! »

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