(Lake Mills, WI) – Owner and Brewmaster, Rob Larson, confirmed that Tyranena has two new beers coming out early next year. One is part of the Brewers Gone Wild! Series and the other will be a seasonal.

Up first is Benji’s Smoked Imperial Porter Brewed With Chipotle Pepper. The beer “will likely come out near the one year anniversary of his departure,” according to Larson, though he is careful not to deem it an anniversary beer. That would mean a late January release.

“The original beer recipe was a collaboration between brewers on our staff with a style that Benji had wanted to brew. The original recipe remains relatively unchanged and the brewing staff will brew the beer.” The brew is a variation of Tyranena’s Imperial Porter recipe, substituting in some German-smoked malt (and adding Chipotle peppers, of course), this according to notes from when it was first brewed as a draft-only product at the beginning of the year.

It should hit the normal areas where BGW beers are currently sold though that is not set in stone.

“Down ‘N Dirty Chocolate Oatmeal Stout is intended to be a seasonal packaged in February. Will likely be available where our seasonal are currently distributed.”

Label scribbles:

Benji: “Brewer Benji’s farewell beer. An Imperial Porter. Big, black and smokey. Rich full-bodied with a silky chocolate crown. Dark roasted flavors host the smokey character of wood-fired malt while Chipotle peppers add a smoldering tickle of heat.”

Down ‘N Dirty: “When the railroad was completed between Madison and Milwaukee in 1882, mucky soils in the glacial swamp near Lake Mills made the tracks most unsteady. A bridge-tender stood guard, 24 hours-a-day, to warn oncoming trains of the danger ahead and caution them to slow their pace. One engineer chose not to heed this warning and the locomotive lost control and tumbled off the bridge into the mud below. The train is said to be forever entombed deep in the muck along the present day Glacial Drumlin trail. We brew Down ‘n Dirty Chocolate Oatmeal Stout thick and black like the glacial muck.”