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Barrel Aged Beer Month
As we do every February, we release a different barrel aged beer the beginning of each week. Here is this year’s fantastic line up:
• Wednesday February 1st: 2011 Batch 600- Bear’s DeadicAle Barley Wine aged in a bourbon barrel
• Wednesday February 8th: 2011 Chazz Cat Rye aged in a Chardonnay oak barrel
• Wednesday February 15th: 2010 Cherry Stout aged in a bourbon barrel (the very LAST of this beer forever)
• Wednesday February 22nd: 2010 Malice barleywine aged in a Heaven Hill Bourbon Barrel
Here is the current regular beer line up:
• Kent Lake Kolsch
• Chazz Cat Rye
• Alsatian Pale Ale
• LSD – Late Seasonal Draught*
• Epiphany Amber Ale
• JC Flyer IPA
• Casey Jones Imperial IPA
• Anne Marie’s Amber
• Platypus Spiced Ale*
• Edwin’s Winterscotch Ale*
• Bonnie Prince Charlie’s 90 -/*
• Fairfax Coffee Porter
• Sless Oatmeal Stout
* = New releases
LSD-Late Seasonal Draft
A Northern Californian take on a classic English Extra Special Bitter. Brewed using Maris Otter, light crystal, Vienna malts, and single hopped with Brewers Goldings. It’s a premium brewed fresh quality beer! 5.7% A.B.V.
Platypus Spiced Ale
A strange animal and Belgian inspired spiced amber ale brewed with Pilsner malts, Dark Candi Sugar, and spiced with Fresh Thyme and Bitter Orange Peel. 7.3% ABV.
Edwin’s Winterscotch Ale
This Scottish-Style “Wee Heavy” is brewed annually just in time for the holidays. The Scotch is dark amber in color and has a light smoky caramel taste that dominates the overall flavor. The long finish carries an intense toasted caramel followed by a clean malt balance. Created by Iron Springs’ own Phil Meeker. 8.5% ABV.
Bonnie Prince Charlie’s 90 -/.
Named after the “Young Pretender” who led the heroic yet unsuccessful Jacobite uprising in 1745 against the British in Scotland. This recipe is a collaboration brew done with Sonoma Beerocrat homebrewer Mike Kelly. This classic styled beer is dark amber in color, lightly hopped in a single addition, and has mild flavors of toasted chestnuts and figs. Very drinkable without tasting very strong in alcohol. 7.1% ABV.
New Beer Creation
Christian has done a collaboration brew with our friends at Beer Revolution, a Chocolate Biere de Garde made with TCHO chocolate and fermented with our kolsch yeast called Revolutionary Garde. This beer will be on tap February 3rd.
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We’ll kick off our annual Chocolate Beer Month on October 29th with a special cask of the Coco Brown Ale and our Chocolate Porter during our 7th anniversary party, and then just keep going from there! Here’s the schedule, with a new beer released each Monday:
Saturday 10/29 through Sunday 11/6
Coco Brown on cask and Chocolate Porter
Monday 11/07 through Sunday 11/13
Chocolate Oatmeal Stout
Monday 11/14 through Sunday 11/20
Chocolate Chazz Rye
Monday 11/21 through Sunday 11/27
Mocha Porter
Monday 11/28 through Sunday 12/04
Coco Brown
*DISCLAIMER* All these beers may run out before the next one gets tapped on the following Monday.
There will be chocolate food specials all month long, so get your Willie Wonka on and get on down!
The release of our 500th Batch – our Quincentennial Batch Trippel – was a huge success. So much so that all the logo glasses as well as the beer are almost all gone! August was a great beer drinking month at Iron Springs.
New Beer Releases:
Helles Angels Lager
This is a classic German Helles (pronounced hell-us) Lager. Light, crisp and refreshing, and one of the only few true lagers we ever get to do at Iron Springs. Brewed entirely with imported malts and Czech Saaz Hops. ABV: 4.7% Food Pairings: Salads, Pastas, Seafood Tacos, & Spicy Sausages
Oktoberfest
Another classic German lager we get to produce once a year to coincide with the start of Oktoberfest in Germany in late September. The Iron Springs Oktoberfest will be released on Thursday September 23rd – the first day of Autumn. Chef Luis and his team will be preparing numerous German dinner specials to go along with the festivities.
A Wet Hopped Version of the Epiphany
What are “wet hops” you are asking yourself? Wet hops are hops that have been freshly picked from the vine, fresh & uncured. This particular ORGANIC Cascade hops came to us from our friends up in Clearlake-Hops-Meister. They harvested these hops on a Weekend and we were brewing the Epiphany with them by Tuesday. We used 30 pounds of fresh ORGANIC wet Cascade Hops and we are looking forward to doing a side-by-side comparison with the wet hopped Epiphany and the regular Epiphany. Stay posted to our Facebook & Twitter pages to see the exact release date of this beer.
Altman’s Alt
Back in the line up for our Fall Seasonals. ANOTHER classic German beer we are featuring this Fall. Altman’s Alt is a smooth, easy drinking amber ale, who’s recipe has been handed down the ages from dear great, great, uncle Jebidiah Altman back on the Rhine in Düsseldorf Germany.
Upcoming Cask Thursdays:
Septmeber 2nd:
Cask of Wet Hopped Epiphany which has been dry hopped with Californian grown ORGANIC Ivanhoe hops
Septmeber 16th:
TBA: Stay posted to our Facebook & Twitter pages!
Septmeber 30th:
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