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The Beers of Past and Present
I love winter beers. They make you feel so cozy and in a good mood. They're typically warming, a little spicy, and for me each one tastes like a new experience when you drink it again for the first time that year. I'm also a sucker for porters and stouts this time of year reaching for roastiness and notes of chocolate. Winter beers bring back memories for me. I think back to times with friends, laughing, sharing stories, and being with family. A time to sit back and think about the year and what you've done. How about all of the beers you drank - new and old? The beers in the cellar that you've been holding for a whole year can now be popped open, or held on to until the next winter. This is especially true for some styles you can drink immediately or sit on for however long your palate can wait. There's a lot of winter seasonal craft brews out there right now in the market (just check out the long list of returning beers below). These beers become an extra boost of holiday spirit in December sitting by the Christmas tree at home or at your local pub. Make your own six-pack to share or grab a pint of your favorite on draught, but in the meantime, I've got a bottle of N'ice Chouffe from 2012 waiting for me.
Cheers,
Brown Specialty Team
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12/06/13, 6:00 PM, ST. PETERSBURG
Tapping Red Brick Vanilla Gorilla, 20th Anniversary Stout, and other Red Brick core brands on draught. ...>
12/6/13, 6:00 PM - 12/7/13, 2:00 AM
Tapping 6 Highland brews including Cold Mountain, Thunderstruck, and limited Blackenstein IPA and barrel-aged Oatmeal Porter. Kirsten from Highland will also be there with some goodies. ...>
12/06/13, 7:00 PM, LAKELAND
He'Brew Hop Manna, Messiah Nut Brown, and Genesis Session Ale will be poured on draught as well as a couple seasonal beers to top it off. Celebrate the holidays with a brewery with real schtick! ...>
12/06/13, 8:00 PM, WESLEY CHAPEL
Tapping 3 delicious B. Nektar meads: Dwarf Invasion, Black Fang, and Necromangocon. ...>
12/0 7/13, 12:00 PM, OVIEDO
Sample a taste of Colorado with brews from Twisted Pine brewing, Fort Collins brewing, and Redstone Mead. ...>
12/07/13, 2:00 PM, ORLANDO
35+ taps will be local Florida brews, including rare beers from some of our favorite local breweries. Reps will be here with swag, while supplies last! This event will kickoff at 6PM! Starting before the event is the VIP Florida Food/Craft Beer Dinner from 2PM-5PM! Food will be provided by B&B Junction- Winter Park. ...>
12/07/13, 4:00 PM, DUNEDIN
5 different Shipyard and Sea Dog beers will be on draft, as well as cans of Pumpkinhead to enjoy while watching the Christmas boats on the water! ...>
12/09/13, 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM, INVERNESS
Dillons is kicking off their newly renewed Mug Club with an Erie Brewing tap takeover. Their will be door prizes, and a popcorn truck, that's right popcorn truck. ...>
Breckenridge Holiday Brews Night @ Redlight Redlight
12/09/13, 7:00 PM, ORLANDO
Featuring a Firkin of Breckenridge Mint Chocolate Oatmeal Stout, a Holiday Themed Vanilla Porter Randall, and 471 Double IPA. Come out, meet the Brewery Rep and enjoy some deliciously festive brews! ...>
12/10/13, 6:00 PM, ORLANDO
Calling all Gnome lovers...Save the date! December 10th at 6PM we will be having a Chouffe Brewery Spotlight! We will be featuring La Chouffe and Nice Chouffe along with swag giveaways, while supplies last! Don't forget to meet the Chouffe Brewery rep! ...>
12/11/13, 6:00 PM, WESLEY CHAPEL
Featuring Swamp Head brewery core draughts as well as a special tapping of Swamp Head Hoe Hoe Hoe, Batch 500 and a cask of Habanero Cottonmouth! ...>
12/12/13, 8:00 PM, ORLANDO
Player 1 is hosting a pretty special Cigar City lineup for the night! Featuring the following on draught: Jai Alai, Hopped on the High Seas, Sgt. Pfeffer, and Big Sound Scotch Ale! ...>
12/21/13, 4:30 PM, CLEARWATER
$75.00 per person. Departs from Sea Dog Brewing Clearwater at 4:30pm, tailgating at the Marriott Tampa Waterside before game. Includes game ticket, food, beverage, dri-fit sea dog shirt, prizes and games.
For Tickets available, call Dan 207-420-0413. ...>
For all events, please see our event calendar.
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NEW AND RETURNING PRODUCTS
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7venth Sun Root Down Stout
Limited ale brewed with sweet potatoes and spices aged on vanilla bean. 8.3% ABV
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Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence
The aroma immediately speaks of dark chocolate and dark malts. The taste continues with the intense Belgian dark chocolate gliding across the tongue; starting sweet up front but giving way to rich cocoa flavors at the back. Through it all, a subtle fruitiness from our special Belgian yeast gives the beer brightness otherwise foreign to a beer style normally associated with gray foggy skies. Lingering chocolate entices the drinker to taste more. Go ahead. Dessert is good for the soul. 7.0% ABV
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Founders Sweet Repute
Limited release of the Backstage Series. Our brewing team painstakingly choreographed each layer of this beer's characteristics, starting with a healthy wheat and roasted malt base and adding clean, fragrant hops. It's one-hundred percent barrel aged in maple syrup bourbon barrels and bourbon barrels over the course of sixteen months, then blended using carefully calculated ratios for the ultimate final product. Take your time allowing the layers of flavors to unfold...Because it'll only get better. 12.6% ABV
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Founders Boyl'Rmayk'R
It began with a simple question: what if boilermakers actually tasted good? As always, we were unafraid and stepped up to the challenge with the grit of a champion prize fighter. The solution: age our TOTALLY-high-in-Vitamin-Yum Solid Gold in the finest barrels we had. The result: a delicious corn-based beer that, thanks to its low original ABV and unassuming flavor profile, acted as a 'yum-sponge' grabbing everything available from barrel aging. Oak-y, bourbon-y and corn-y, this lil' sucker retains its original crushability while adding the complex flavors of barrel aging. Awesome. Get ready for the future of barrel aged beers... 7.9% ABV
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Humboldt Brewing 500 BC Double IPA
This double IPA does everything twice. Double the hops, double the ABV. Named for the California coastal redwoods, the oldest and tallest living species in America, we're proud to say this giant brew does these imperial giants justice. 8.3% ABV
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Left Hand Widdershins Oak Aged Barley Wine
This English-style barleywine pours burnished copper with a bone colored head. The aromas will wind you up with upfront scents of oak, earthy hops, and caramel with an afterthought of peat. Brewed since 2002, Widdershins' Germanic name means to move counter clockwise - or better yet, left-wise. Floral and fruity notes of orange and apricot rest upon a foundation of oak, garlanded with earthy hop aromas and the sinister presence of peated malt. This backwards beer will pull you in with its saccharinity, and finish with a hop boom and deceptively high alcohol. 8.8% ABV
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Shipyard Black IPA
This dark black IPA is for the pirate in you. It combines a rich malty character with the crisp flavor and aroma of American Northwest hops. It's a beer the legendary Blackbeard would have hoisted as he sailed the seven seas. 6.2% ABV
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Three Palms Bunnee Belgian Blonde Ale
This Belgian Blonde Ale is defined by the Belgian yeast that offers some spicy notes. The body is semi full with some sweetness that is finished with a clean semi dry finish. 6.6% ABV
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Boulder Shake Chocolate Porter
A twist on the traditional robust American Porter, Shake Chocolate Porter is black in color with rich, dark chocolate aromatics and flavors and subtle coffee-like notes. This unique brew blends five different grains, including Chocolate Wheat, that along with cacao nibs create a devilishly delicious chocolate finish with a velvety mouthfeel.
5.9% ABV
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Breckenridge Nitro Vanilla Porter
Silky, Smooth, & Sessionable. Our remarkably complex, wildly popular ale combines hints of chocolate, caramel, and coffee with an inventively delicious twist, for good measure. A vortex of flavors made even more alluring by a blast of nitrogen. 4.7% ABV
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Left Hand Fade to Black Volume 5
This Rye Ale boasts a deep dark brown body with an off white head. This dark brew envelopes your nose with aromas of dark coffee, maple wood and hints of dark agave nectar. The flavor is an intense evolution that starts off with nut bread flowing into molasses followed by a taste of licorice. This lands on spicy rye notes all before being washed away by earthy hop, leaving behind a slight black pepper sensation. 7.8% ABV
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Rekorderlig Strawberry-Lime Cider
Rekorderlig Strawberry-Lime Cider was the first to explore this unique flavour combination. Serve over ice with fresh mint leaves or strawberries and a wedge of lime for a fresh, zesty experience. 4.5% ABV
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Rekorderlig Wild Berries Cider
Bursting with the freshest fruit flavors Rekorderlig Wild Berries Cider is best served over ice for a juicy experience. For the ultimate experience add fresh blueberries and raspberries.
4.5% ABV
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Rekorderlig Pear Cider
Made from the purest Swedish spring water, Rekorderlig Pear Cider is best served over ice with a wedge of zesty lemon and orange for a distinctively crisp experience. 4.5% ABV
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Look out for new and returning favorites like Avery Old Jubilation, Bell's Christmas Ale, Bell's Winter White Ale, Boulder Never Summer, Breckenridge Christmas Ale, Erie Ol' Red, Coronado Blue Bridge Coffee, Coronado Stupid Stout, He'brew Jewbelation 17, Highland Cold Mountain. Hoppin' Frog Frosted Frog, Innis and Gunn Scottish Porter, Left Hand Fade to Black Vol. 5, Magic Hat Heart of Darkness, N'ice Chouffe, Peak Organic Winter Ale, Rogue Yellow Snow IPA, Rogue Santa's Private Reserve, Southern Tier Krampus, Southern Tier 2Xmas Ale, Southern Tier Old Man Winter, Samuel Smith Yorkshire Stingo, Shipyard Prelude, Shipyard Longfellow Ale, Summit Winter Ale, and Cigar City Invasion Pale Ale in cans!
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 Report: Irish whiskey, craft beer lead adult beverage growth
By: Ronnie Crocker
Twenty-somethings (and perhaps the rest of us) are "drinking less but drinking better," new research about the bar and restaurant industry suggests:
"Millennials seem to be making drink choices in restaurants and bars more on the basis of desiring a particular flavor experience or as the result of influencers such as the occasion, food being ordered or promotions than due to loyalty to a particular type of drink," observes Donna Hood Crecca, Senior Director at Technomic. "Their adult beverage portfolio is broad and varied - Millennials are driving many of the trends occurring in spirits, wine and beer, including the growth of premium and above-premium products." The new Technomic report shows that Irish whiskey and craft beer are the Nos. 1 and 2 fastest-growing adult beverages, respectively, as show in this chart I got from PR Newswire: Fastest-growing Adult Beverages in Restaurants and Bars |
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Shipyard Brewing expanding in Clearwater
By : Josh Boatwright
CLEARWATER - Maine's Shipyard Brewing Company had faith in the Florida craft beer market before there was a good reason.
Owner Fred Forsley first brought his brew to the state the 1990s, well before a new microbrewery was opening up nearly every month. Back then, Florida was known as a "craft beer wasteland."
The brewery now is preparing for a big expansion of its Sea Dog Brewing Co. pub and restaurant in Clearwater, which opened in February on U.S. 19, just south of Countryside Mall.
The company plans to add a full 20-barrel brewing system here, its only major production site in Florida, as it looks to broaden statewide distribution.
The decision by a national craft beer brand that sells in 33 states to grow its operations here is another testament to the Tampa Bay area's emergence as one of Florida's brew capitols.
It may also be a sign that the state is overcoming its bad rap as a land of bland mass-market beverages. For years, Florida beer distributors refused to carry microbrews.
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Look Out! There's a Craft-Beer Revolution Taking Over France! 
By: Jeff Campagna
Something's afoot in Paris, but it has nothing to do with kings or the bourgeoisie. The culprit: specialty beer. From microbrewers to bar owners, meet the people leading the uprising.
It's almost 8 p.m. I am waiting at the Chateau Rouge metro station deep in Paris's 18th arrondissement for Phillip, an American expat and craft-beer aficionado. The neighborhood is called Goutte d'Or, which translates to "drop of gold," and it isn't exactly the Paris you see in postcards. Its residents are mainly North and sub-Saharan African. People scurry past me while eating freshly roasted corn on the cob. It's noisy, crowded, and alive. While I wait, three armed gendarmerie officers bound up the stairs from the metro and converge on a hooded man selling things on the corner of the street. Shortly after, Phillip arrives.
It is here, in this dynamic community, that renegade brewmaster Thierry Roche is fermenting his own drops of gold at the partly crowd-funded Brasserie de la Goutte d'Or-the only brewery that is actually in Paris. When Phillip and I arrive, Thierry is squeegeeing puddles of soapy water from underneath the oak beer tanks and out the front door. He is wearing jeans, a T-shirt, and bright white knee-high rubber boots. He admits to us that most of the time he is more of a janitor than a brewmaster. I like him already.
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Featured Cocktail:
Orange Brewlius
Ingredients:
- 7 fl oz orange juice
- ½ cup Witbier or other Belgian ale of your choice such as Ommegang, Avery, or Cigar City. The key is belgian inspired due to the belgian candy sugars, but a wit makes it extra creamy.
- 2 tbs heavy cream
- 2 tablespoon powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
Pour the orange juice into ice cube trays. Place in the freezer until frozen, about 2 hours.
Put the orange juice ice cubes and the remaining ingredients in a blender.
Blend until frothy.
Enjoy.
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Featured Recipe
Spinach Artichoke Beer Cheese Crostini
By: The Beeroness
Ingredients
- 1 French baguette, sliced into 1 inch slices - ¼ cup olive oil - salt and pepper - 8 oz cream cheese - ¼ cup sour cream - 3 oz parmesan (about 1 cup) - 3 oz mozzarella cheese, (about 1 cup) divide in half - 5 oz frozen chopped spinach (about 1 cup), thawed & wrung dry - 1 tbs cornstarch - ½ cup IPA beer
(Try Founders Centennial IPA, CCB Jai Alai, Stone IPA, Bell's Two Hearted, etc.) - 1 tsp red chili sauce (such as siracha) - ½ tsp garlic powder - 14 oz quartered artichoke hearts Directions Preheat oven to 375. Arrange the baguette slices on a baking sheet. Brush both sides with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake for ten minutes. Turn slices over, bake for ten more minutes or until golden brown. While the bread cooks, make the cheese dip. Add the cream cheese, sour cream, parmesan, half the mozzarella, spinach, cornstarch, beer, chili sauce and garlic powder, process until well combined. Add to a saucepan over medium heat along with the artichoke hearts. Cook, stirring frequently, until hot and bubbly. Spoon cheese dip onto the toasted bread, sprinkle with remaining cheese. Return to the oven and bake until the cheese has melted, about 5 minutes. Serve warm.
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