Fresh Report

Oh yea....

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:33:55 -0600

I totally forgot to mention last week about the arrival of perhaps one of my favorite beers of the late fall: Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale Wonderful fresh hoppy flavors. Get some before the volatile hop nuances fade away.

Looks like Christmas beers are starting to trickle in finally. In this week:

Anchor Christmas (Our Special Ale) 2008 (808?)
Great Lakes Christmas Ale best by 1/19/08
Three Floyds Alpha Klaus
Dogfish 60 bottled 11/11/08

Back-Full Force

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:30 -0600

Whew. I almost went a whole month without a proper post. Sorry ‘bout that. Busy busy busy. New York, Arizona, Florida, in that order, taking care of business and vacations. On to the show:

Founder’s Breakfast Stout
Alpha King
Dreadnaught
Three Floyds BrooDoo Harvest Ale
Breckenridge Winter
Bear Republic Racer 5
Left Hand Warrior IPA
New Belgium 2 Below
NEW TO ILLINOIS: PORT BREWING & LOST ABBEY
Wipeout IPA
Hop 15
Shark Attack
Santas Little Helper
Old Viscosity
Lost Abbey Avant Garde
Lost Abbey Devotion
Lost Abbey Inferno
Lost Abbey Gift of the Magi
Lost Abbey Judgement Day
Southern Tier Krumpus $6.99 22oz
Southern Tier Old Man Winter 6pk $8.79 6pk

Great American Beer Fest Winners

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:56:56 -0500

Held over the course of three days, the GABF featured over 2000 beers from all over this great country. Here’s some of the winners:

Pyramid-Apricot Gold Medal Fruit/Vegetable Beer
Blue Moon Honeymoon Bronze Medal Honey Beer
Redbridge Gold Medal Gluten Free Beer
Prima Pils Bronze Medal German-style Pilsner
Leinie’s Creamy Dark Silver Medal American-style dark lager
Capital_Autumnal_Fire Gold Medal German-style strong bock
312 Urban Wheat Bronze Medal English-style summer beer
Jolly Pumpkin Luciernaga Bronze Medal Belgian-style saison
Ommegang Rare Vos Bronze Medal Belgian-style ale
Left Hand Milk Stout Silver Medal Sweet Stout
Great Divide Yeti Bronze Medal Imperial Stout
Hoppin Frog BORIS Gold Medal Imperial Stout

the full list can be found here

Heads Up

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:25:24 -0500

I’m leaving town for a few days, so shipping is suspended until the first week of November. My apologies to all those whose beer supplies are running precariously low. If you’re within range, make an effort to visit the store.... there’s always great beers rolling in.

On sale in store:

B.B. Burgerbrau 6pk 12oz bottles....... $2.99 6pk or $9.99 case!

Moylans IPA ..... $3.99 22oz bottle

Rockies Mojo Risin Imperial IPA $4.99 22oz

Flossmoor Station Wheat ..... $4.99 22oz

Founders

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:18:21 -0500

While we didn’t get more Breakfast in (sorry folks, the door’s closed on that beer for the time being), we did get a case of perhaps my favorite wet hop beer. In today:

Founders Harvest Ale bottled 09/25/08
Founder’s Red’s Rye bottled 07/03/08
Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold best by 09/08/08

And, unfortunately, the same rule applies for the Founder’s Harvest as it did to the Breakfast: we’ll suspend shipping orders on this until after the weekend so the locals can have first crack at all six four packs we were allotted (baloney!).