Troegs Brewing will showcase its next release in the Scratch Beer Series on June 21. Troegs Scratch #12 is a 6.5% IPA that features a hop profile of Amarillo, Warrior, and Mt. Hood. The beer is also The Drafting Room’s 14th Anniversary Ale and a firkin of it will be tapped a little early at both bar locations on Tuesday, June 19, prior to the bottle release.

Courtesy of a tip from reader, BeerTruth, the Brewing News reported that Ithaca Beer Co.’s fourth beer in the Excelsior! Series will be called Brute, a sour ale aged in French oak barrels. The new beer will join Ithaca TEN, White Gold, and IPAbbey as the fourth installment in the set of special release beers, each of which are among the brewery’s highest rated beers to date. Ithaca Brute will be available for two summer events, American Craft Beer Fest and Belgium Comes to Coopertown, before being released in bottles in August.

Finally, Russian River Brewing appears to have brewed up a new beer though it appears as though it will only be available at the brewpub. Russian River Happy Hops Ale has an ABV of 5.46%. We’re presuming it is an IPA based on the name. If we find out it is going to be bottled, we’ll post an update.