I may not have captured everything on the site this week so here are some of the other bigger stories from the week in beer:
New Glarus Brewing posts up some info on its new Crack’d Wheat and 28.5% ABV Plato Iced Barleywine.
Boulevard Imperial Stout was released in the Midwest.
Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA and Sierra Nevada Bigfoot 2009 beginning to roll out this week. Should hit some stores over the weekend but next week (or week after) is more likely for the majority.
Finally a little news out of San Marcos as the re-named Port Midnight Sessions Lager is back on shelves. Lost Abbey Serpent’s Stout makes its return within a couple weeks according to South Bay Drugs.
Mainstream Media:
Seacoast Online: the dish on the new Smuttynose Brewery.
News and Observer: Full Steam Founder dubbed Tarheel of the Week (technically from last week)
Abita Brewing explosion rocks local town in the middle of the night on Tuesday.
SAB Miller reported a bad 3rd quarter.
The NG Iced Barleywine is 28.6 degrees Plato, which will tell you the Original Gravity. Subtracting the Final Gravity from the Original Gravity will then give you the ABV, as I understand it.
The beer is not 28% ABV!!
Hey beersage – the New Glarus Iced Barleywine is 28.5 degrees plato, not 28.5% ABV. Degrees plato is a scale similar to Specific Gravity, which most homebrewers and Americans in general are more used to. 28.5 degrees plato is around 1.12 in specific gravity. If the final specific gravity of the barleywine is around 1.02, then the Barleywine will turn out to be around 13% ABV. Not too shabby, but not 28.5% either! Keep up the awesome work — NYC is hooked on your blog.
Unless I am missing something, the NG iced barleywine is 28.5 degrees plato OG, not ABV. If I am missing something, and it is 28.5% alcohol, then that would be crazy.
Unless I am missing something it looks like the New Glarus Iced Barleywine started at 28.5 P (OG ~1.114), it does not say what the ABV is.
Agreed. The New Glarus site mentions it is plato, not abv. If it gets down to around 1.025, it’d be around roughly 13.5% abv.
Yeah i would expect a 28.5 degree plato beer to be around 12.5-13% before the icing process…not sure how far it can go up with that
and that around 13% is most likely before it’s iced.