More info has surfaced on two beers from Great Divide Brewing that I wrote about last month. Courtesy of Myjellomisfit on Beer Advocate:

“Great Divide would like to announce the release of two new seasonal beers, Claymore Scotch Ale, in six-packs and 15.5 gallon kegs on February 11th and Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout, in 22 oz. bombers and 30 liter kegs on Feb. 18th.

Claymore Scotch Ale is brewed in the Scottish ‘Wee Heavy style with characteristic rich malt sweetness, reserved hop profile, deep ruby color and subtle warming character. Great Divide is known for making full flavored yet balanced big beers and at 7.7% ABV Claymore will continue the tradition.

Espresso Oak-Aged Yeti Imperial Stout takes a phenomenal beer, Oak-Aged Yeti, and makes it unbelievable. Anyone lucky enough to try this while it was available at last year’s GABF can attest to the depth of flavor that the espresso adds. We chose to partner with Pablo’s, a local Denver coffee roaster, to add a new level of complexity to the vanilla oak, intense roastiness, and bold hop character of Oak Yeti.”

Dogfish Head announced that its spring special release will be called Sahtea. The beer was mentioned in the New Yorker piece. In addition, the brewery is working on plans for a ‘regional’ release sometime in 2009.

Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing is now brewing beer. Its first one in the tanks is Maduro, an Oatmeal Brown Ale. The brewery also took first place for its Mayan Imperial Stout over the weekend at the Atlanta Cask Ale Fest.

Rogue has a beer coming out on February 14 called Sesquicentennial Ale that will celebrate Oregon’s 150th Anniversary. More info in Press Releases.

Rumor has it that New Glarus Unplugged Iced Barley Wine and Stone Soup should be arriving in some stores within the next week.

Lastly, another rumor . . . this year’s Philly Craft Beer Fest may have some opponents. Greed at the helm of the fest?