Rogue Ales XS Imperial Porter will be the newest beer in the Rogue Ales’ XS series and joins a long list of new imperial porters released in 2008. We have seen Alesmith, Full Sail, Deschutes, and a slew of others jump on the imperial porter bandwagon this year. If the beer reviews for Rogue’s John Locker Series version of an imperial porter is any indication, the brewery knows how to make a good imperial porter. It is possible that this could even be a re-branding and that the beer is actually the same as the JLS #16 porter.

Baron Brewing, based in Seattle, got label approval for its newest beer in the Grimm Brothers Series. Baron Seven Swabians will be an eisbock as the brewery continues to grow its reputation for making quality German-style beers. The beer will be released in bombers and weighs in at 13% ABV making it one of the strongest eisbocks to ever hit the US market.

Finally, Tyranena sent out an update during the week. Tyranena Devil Over a Barrel should be available in bottles starting this week. Also, the brewery left a few notes about what it has in production:

“Brewing: Brewing a double batch of Bitter Woman IPA today… with a guest assistant brewer and hopefully a batch of Three Beaches Honey Blonde tomorrow (assuming we get our malt shipment which is now one day late).

Bottling: Bottled 164 cases of Three Beaches Honey Blonde on Monday and 446 cases of Bitter Woman IPA on Wednesday. We have 2 cases of Three Beaches and 1 case of Bitter Woman mislabels for sale in the Tasting Room.”