According to Yankee Brew News‘ Amy Blair, Captain Lawrence Brewing is getting a new bottling line and will christen it with 500 mL bottles of Captain’s Reserve Imperial IPA. At this year’s Tap NY fest, the brewery was snubbed for the brewer of the year award though the Imperial IPA took home a gold medal. Blair suggests that the line should be set up in June and that the release of these bottles should quickly follow. “The new bottling line should also allow the brewery to package more of the seasonal 750-mL bottles and keep Xtra Gold available year-round in bottles.”

Dogfish Head posted up the list of states where the new Squall IPA will be available. Per the website, the beer is “an unfiltered, 100% bottle-conditioned, super-pungent imperial I.P.A. clocking in at 9% ABV and dry-hopped with Palisade, Amarillo, Simcoe, Cascade, CTZ, and Willamette hops.” Look for it now, only in 750’s (no draft), in NY, MA, CT, ME, RI, NH, and VT. It is even more limited in DE and MD.

The brewery also updated the timing of some its beers on its website last month. Burton Baton, Chateau Jiahu, and the brand new Sah’tea come out in late June. Theobroma hits early this year, this time coming in July.

Following in the footsteps of Founders Brewing, both Brewdog and Avery Brewing have put up new websites.

In perusing the RateBeer forums, spotted a few interesting threads, two that have been lingering and one that is fresh. Bullfrog Brewery botched a special beer release (Frambozen) recently when it failed to put a limit on bottles per person despite having dozens waiting in line and a very small amount to sell. Reports are that the first group of folks took home several bottles each, maybe even full cases. Some drove hours and came away empty handed. You live, you learn …. O’Hanlon’s is done with its Thomas Hardy’s Ale line, a beer made famous for aging incredibly well, even as long as decades …. finally, C&H bought out the Rare Beer Club (the Michael Jackson one).