I could be wrong but at a quick glance, I don’t think I saw any reviews for these recently approved beers. Not a whole lot of info on them but here goes…

2/2 Update: Thanks for emailing me, Adam. He shares an email he received this morning: “Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won’t accept or pursue. The series version was set in Chicago and is credited as an inspiration for the X Files.

Goose Island Night Stalker

Goose Island Beer Company will release it’s third beer in the Fulton Wood Series, Night Stalker, as an homage to the Chicago-based television show. Night Stalker is a jet black, dry hopped Imperial Stout, extremely rich and full flavored with malt and chocolate followed by a bright dry hopped aroma. It is the same base as our Bourbon County Stout, but instead of aging in Bourbon barrels, we dry hop it like madmen.

ABV – 11.7%
IBU’s – 60
Color – 100
Aroma Hops –Mt. Hood & Simcoe
Malts – 2-Row, Munich, Chocolate, C-60, Roast Barley, Debittered Black

Wish I had more on Sierra Nevada Cask-Conditioned Chico IPA. Looks like the ABV gets a bump from 6.7% in the regular version to 8.5% in this one. Sierra Nevada occasionally distributes a special release to some of its preferred accounts and this appears to be a part of that bunch. Some of the beers are a product of a brewery program called Sierra Nevada Beer Camp, others, like Sierra Nevada Imperial Oatmeal Stout, come from a brewery pilot program.

Two newbs from Hoppin Frog. The first is a Bourbon Barrel version of BORIS Imperial Stout and the other is Outta Kilter, a Wee Heavy (I’d personally like to see more of this style in ’09).

Finally two for the Pennsylvania folks… Stoudts Scrawny Dog: “This dry stout is black in color with a light to medium body. It had pronounced roasted flavors, with a hint of chocolate from the use of roasted malts and black barley varieties. It has a mild hop bitterness and aroma from a traditional English hop. 4.4% ABV. The last one is from Otto’s Pub: Zeno Black Lager.