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Barrel Select Series
This is a new beer that we produced after waiting patiently for some of our sour brown ale barrels to “ripen” and take of the flavors of the wild yeast and the oak barrels until we thought they were ready to be blended and bottled. This batch is a blend of 6 barrels, 4 of one batch and 2 of another, the mix of which has created a totally new beer. Intensely sour with hints of oak and funk.
Release details – this beer will be released on March 13th at the Birdsal House in Peekskill. Come visit our good friends as they open this new, and sure to be popular, craft beer destination. This is the sister bar to the Blind Tiger in NYC, and we all know what they have been doing over the years.
http://www.birdsallhouse.net/
They will have the first bottles and one keg for the event, so get there early if you want to try it out!
The brewery release date for this beer will be…..
April 17th – 12 pm
Production: 100 cases
Size: 750 ml crown cap finish
Bottle Limit: 4 per person
Price: $20 / 750ml bottle, cash only
Captain Lawrence Birra DeCicco
This is a new one that we created in conjunction with the DeCicco Family Markets. Our good friends as DeCicco’s imported some great Italian Chestnut Honey and Chestnut Jam to create the smokey and nutty undertones in this beer. The beer is fermented with our house Belgian yeast strain to impart fruity and spicy flavors associated with Abbey style ales. It is bottle conditioned for a lively carbonation.
This beer will be released this week at DeCicco’s market and will be available at the brewery this weekend. DeCicco’s will have the beer on tap as well as some of our other specialty beers on tap. We made a lot of it, so there is no chance this beer will sell out anytime soon so don’t worry.
http://www.deciccos.com/
21 Center Street
Ardsley, NY 10502-1805
(914) 813-2009
Production: 350 cases
Size: 750 ml bottles crown cap finish
Price: $10 per bottle
Rosso e Marrone – Vintage 2010
Our gold medal winning American Sour Ale is ready to make its second release. Aged for over 26 months in French and American Oak barrels, re-fermented with red wine grapes and Brettanomyces, this ale is packed full of intense flavors. This years vintage expresses aromas of dark fruit, licorice, and oak and has a lively carbonation to top it all off.
Voted #1 Beer in America, 2009 – Wine Enthusiast Magazine
Gold Medal winner – GABF 2009 – American Style Sour Ale
Production: 900 bottles
Size: 375ml crown cap finished
Bottle Limit: 4 per person
Price: $15 per bottle, cash only
This beer is going to be released on March 27th at 10am sharp. We will use the usual ticketing system that we have used in the past. We are assuming from past releases that this beer will sell out the same day it is released. It will not be sent out into the distribution channels; we will not ship, hold, pre-sell or trade for any bottles, if you want some you must come to the brewery the day of the release.
Smoke from the Oak – wine barrel
This will be the 4th Smoke from the Oak – wine barrel release, and the last release in the series in its current formulation. The Smoke from the Oak series is not going away, but has been reformulated, and will debut later in the year, closer to the original vision we had for this series of beers.
This batch of SFTO – wine has a light Brettanomyces flavor and aroma, hints of wood, and touch of acidity from the wild yeast. The wine flavors are subtle, and the smoke has faded to give way to a new rich flavor.
May 8th – 12 pm
Production: 100 cases
Size: 750 ml bottle crown cap finished
Bottle Limit: 6 bottles
Price: $15 per bottle
We have a number of other beers that will be released later in the year, and as we have the details on their release dates we will let you know.