(Pacific City, OR) – Pelican Brewery has received label approval for a late fall release.
Pelican Mother of All Storms should make its return later this year. The beer was placed into barrels earlier this month. Brewmaster, Darron Welch, says, “I estimate that we will have about 200-220 cases this year. This batch will have 6 first fill bourbon barrels that will age some 3-4 months, 4-5 second fill bourbon barrels that will have aged about 8-10 months, and 1-2 third fill bourbon barrels that will have been aging for a year or more. All will be blended together for this year’s Mother of All Storms.”
The beer will available through the usual channels: on-site, self-distributed in Oregon and by FedEx (direct mail order) to states that allow it.
The 2010 edition is the first to be bottled with the new name. The beer’s former name, The Perfect Storm, had to be changed due to trademark issues as some have speculated. A trademark search revealed no beers with the name so it’s likely that the name concerned a non-beermaking entity.
More info about the ingredients can be found on the brewery’s seasonals page.
The trademark issue was with another Oregon Brewery. Oakshire in Eugene has a beer named Perfect Storm, and they were apparently the first to use the name.
Interesting. Unless my trademark searching skills suck, I didn’t see that they have actually registered it but I guess that they can get away with the whole “intending to use it” thing.
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