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Beer Rhymes with Cheer
2012 has been quite a year. We have followed closely what beers came to Florida for the first time, and still buy our favorite 6-pack from the cooler every week. We've seen more and more local breweries open up or expand, as well as some great new styles from our favorite American craft brands and importers. One of the perks about being a craft beer drinker and in-the-know (besides the tasty beer) is the craft beer community. Whether you follow a beer facebook page, tweet what you're drinking, go to your local bar with the same group of people, read a beer blog, or attend beer events, you are part of the beer community. Often times you may see and make friends with the same people in places with craft beer who are just as excited as you to get your hands on that Belgian triple or dark stout, or, get new people involved in your love for beer. It's true that craft beer can really bring people together. Your beer friend is the first person you want to share your new bottle with, or tell them about one you just had for the first time.
What I love doing around the holiday time-frame is throwing some type of get-together with my beer friends. Try planning a craft beer tasting with your friends. You already do it at home on your own, so instead have everyone bring a different 6-pack or bomber size bottle so that you all can try something different. If you love to cook, you can also try to pair different styles with different small plates and have your own beer dinner at home. Or, you can throw in some beer in a crockpot of chili and call it a day until your friends come over with more tasty beverages.
Whatever you are doing for the end of December, enjoy your loved ones, whether that's family, friends, or beer!
P.S. Some of you are thinking that it's the end of the world today according to the Mayan calendar, so I suggest use this mock day as an excuse to drink something special in your beer stash or try something someone has suggested to you or one you don't normally drink as a present to yourself!
Cheers,
Brown Specialty Team
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Left Hand Nitro Milk Stout Bottles Dark & delicious, America's great milk stout will change your perception about what a stout can be. Pouring hard out of the bottle, Milk Stout Nitro cascades beautifully, building a tight, thick head like hard whipped cream. The aroma is of brown sugar and vanilla cream, with hints of roasted coffee. The pillowy head coats your upper lip and its creaminess entices your palate. Initial roasty, mocha flavors rise up, with slight hop & roast bitterness in the finish. The rest is pure bliss of milk chocolate fullness. For how to pour hard, watch this video of one poured at the brewery. 6.0% ABV
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The Bruery 5 Golden Rings
5 Golden Rings is the 5th verse in our '12 Days of Christmas' winter seasonal ale series. The only golden ale in the bunch, we spiced up the natural pause in the classic song with cinnamon, allspice and ginger along with the delicious sweet and tangy flavor of pineapple. The resulting ale is a true holiday treat that can be enjoyed fresh or cellared until 2019, when 12 Drummers Drumming will be released. Limited production. 11.5% ABV
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Boulder Killer Penguin Barleywine
Our extremely limited winter barleywine ale. Traditional winter seasonals are warm and comforting--not this bird! Diving in at around 10 percent alcohol by volume, Killer Penguin uses over twice the malt as other winter beers. Aged to perfection, this beer doesn't ferment, it hibernates--and wakes up with an attitude!
10.0% ABV
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Shipyard Applehead
The new apple of your eye. Shipyard Applehead is a crisp, refreshing wheat ale with delightful apple aroma and subtle cinnamon flavor. 4.5% ABV
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Bell's Christmas Ale
The basic inspiration for Bell's Christmas Ale was to create a sessionable holiday beer, using locally grown malt. In contrast to many other seasonals, it doesn't contain any spices: all of the dry, toasted notes & subtle toffee flavors come from the 100% Michigan-grown barley, custom malted by Briess Malting, while a blend of hops lend earthy, herbal aromas. 5.5% ABV
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Bell's Winter White Ale
Taking its cues from Belgian-style white ales, Bell's Winter White Ale offers a lighter yet abundantly flavorful alternative to the traditional heavy winter warmers. Fermented with a Belgian ale yeast, this blend of barley & wheat malts yields a mixture of clove and fruity aromas, all without the use of any spices. Deliberately brewed to retain a cloudy appearance, Bell's Winter White Ale is a beer for embracing winter. 5.0% ABV
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Lazy Magnolia Timber Beast
A spicy, full-bodied Imperial Rye Pale Ale balanced with a generous dose of Zythos hops. Retreat to the back porch and be a little lazy. 8.0% ABV
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 Look out for returning favorites like Samuel Smith Winter Welcome, Highland Cold Mountain Ale, and Florida Cracker now available in cans!
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Ommegang unveils Iron Throne bottle, formally announces Game of Thrones deal
By: Adam Nasom
(Cooperstown, NY) - Brewery Ommegang and HBO are partnering on a series of beers inspired by the critically-acclaimed drama Game of Thrones. Launching in tandem with the season three debut on March 31, Iron Throne, a blonde ale, is the inaugural beer in the series and the result of a creative collaboration between Brewmaster Phil Leinhart and HBO. Unlike previous efforts by brewers which were typically executed as 'brewed under license' arrangements or straightforward product placement pushes, the collaboration between Ommegang and HBO is focused on developing unique beers that are named and crafted to directly tie into themes and nuances of the medieval-like fantasy realm of Westeros and the surrounding kingdoms, where the competition to sit on the Iron Throne is fierce and deadly.
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 Caffeinated Beer, Manure-Preserving Sauerkraut
By: Sarah Everts
It may not be known as a culinary Mecca, but Germany considers its sausage, sauerkraut, and beer as sacrosanct. Which is why recent experiments on the country's holy food and drink sound a tad irreverent.
Our story begins on the Weihenstephan campus of Munich's Technical University in deep Bavaria, not far from a monastic brewery that dates back to A.D. 1040.
There, undergraduate student researchers have slipped biosynthetic genes for caffeine into beer-brewing yeast so that one day we may drink a pint of beer and defy sleep at the same time. The team has also inserted into the yeast the genes required to make the citrus flavoring limonene. And they've tinkered with genes to make xanthohumol, an anticancer agent that additionally blocks hot flashes in menopausal women.
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 Key ingredient in beer may help treat the common cold
By: Eric Pfeiffer
Got a cold? Treat yourself to a cold one.
A new study, reports Agence France-Presse, suggests that a chemical compound in beer can help the human body fight the virus behind the common cold. Of course, there are some important caveats. First, the study was conducted and published by Sapporo Breweries, a Japanese beer manufacturer, through its Sapporo Medical University. And secondly, an adult would have to drink about 30 cans of beer to get enough humulone, the compound said to have anti-viral properties. The humulone found in hops, one of beer's three main ingredients, gives the alcoholic drink its signature bitter taste. For full article
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Featured Beer
Cocktail
Witty Gin Fiz
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz. Gin
- .5 oz. fresh lemon juice
- .5 oz. agave nectar
- .25 oz. pasterized egg whites (optional)
- 4 oz. Belgian Wit
Instructions
Vigorously shake gin, lemon juice, syrup and egg whites with ice. Pour over cracked ice, top with the beer.
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Featured Recipe
Breckenridge Vanilla Porter Chocolate Chip Pancakes
By Jen Miller
Now is the season to be just a bit decadent before those New Year's Resolutions kick in. Remember breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and these pancakes are perfect for the big kid in you.
Ingredients:
-1 egg
-1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
-3/4 cup of Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
-1 Tablespoon of olive oil
-1 Tablespoon of baking powder
-1/2 teaspoon of salt
-1/4 cup of semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
In a bowl, combine all the ingredients.
Stir until the batter is smooth.
Ladle the batter onto a hot griddle.
Flip the pancakes with the batter starts to bubble and the edges are cooked.
Serve with whipped cream and chocolate syrup or maple syrup.
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