Beer Alert – New Mexican Lagers, Imperial Stouts And Wheat Ales!

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Light and dark ales and lagers dominate our latest collection of new beers for 2018…And we’ve five exciting craft beer directions that you might want to chase down as we look to May.

Reserve This! (Salt Lake City, UT) – Epic Brewing has a massive new Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout variation coming in April that co-founder Dave Cole describes as the as “the best of the best of the best!” Cole and his team took the brewery’s legendary stout and carefully hand selected a limited number of the most perfect barrels, some rum and some whiskey, from the different batches and projects of the 2017/2018 ‘Baptist Season.’  Big Bad Baptist Reserve is the final result of those efforts, 11.7% ABV barrel-aged explosion of wood and whiskey tones with copious amounts of artisan coffee and cocoa nibs added.

beer, Beer Alert – New Mexican Lagers, Imperial Stouts And Wheat Ales!The pFriem Family Brewers Go To Helles! (Hood River, OR) – pFriem Family Brewers have  as many as 15 artisan releases planned for this spring including a beer including a German classic. PFriem Family Helles Lager is an award-winning 4.8% ABV take on the classic alternative to the Czech Pilsner.

Good Gruit ((St. Louis, MO) — Schlafly Beer has announced 2018’s Artist Series release and this year it’s the rarest of styles, and features label artwork designed by Sleepy Kitty Arts. Schlafly Gruit, is exactly that, a 5% ABV hop-less botanical ale with medieval roots and instincts. And if you want to know more about unusual beer style check out: WHAT THE HELL IS A GRUIT ALE?

Breakfast Beer of Champions (Baltimore, MD) – Heavy Seas Beer has returned an Uncharted Waters Series classic for 2018 and it’s more dangerous than ever! Clocking in at an unforgiving 10% ABV, Blackbeard’s Breakfast is a robust Porter with a New World twist. Aged in bourbon barrels and enriched with Dark Sumatra coffee, this earthy American take on a proud English tradition is at once flavorful and complex.beer, Beer Alert – New Mexican Lagers, Imperial Stouts And Wheat Ales!

Ola’ Caballeros (Hood River, OR) – 12 years ago Full Sail Brewing launched their easy-drinking Session brand and it quickly produced some of the most successful craft beers in the region. Now more than 100 medals later, 58 of them Gold, Full Sail is introducing the latest addition to their legendary family. Rich, garnet-colored with hints of maize and caramel, Sesión Negra is a 5% ABV Mexican Lager that promises to be fun drinking.

No Gimmicks (St. Paul, MN) – Summit Brewing has a new addition to their year-round portfolio that’s refreshing, and refreshingly gimmick-free. Brewed with oats and malted flaked wheat for a soft, full body, Summit Skip Rock is a 4.5% ABV Wheat Ale w/citrus peel & spices that pours pale straw, with a pillowy white head.

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