(San Antonio, TX) – The following is an excerpt from the Freetail Brewing newsletter…

As happens every year, La Muerta will be on tap tomorrow when we open at 11:30am. This year’s version of our Imperial Stout is as good as ever. When John and I sampled yesterday (you know, for… like… Quality Control purposes…) I commented that I thought it felt a little more full bodied that previous years, which I think complements the beer well. Based on the growing popularity of La Muerta, we expect to have it on tap until late November.

Our annual bottle release will take place on Saturday, November 5 this year (it’ll always be on the first Saturday of November). This year 750 bottles will be made available for sale, the largest bottling project ever undertaken at our brewery (we bottle everything by hand!). Our bottle releases have gotten pretty big, and we know La Muerta is the grandaddy of them all and we plan on making this the best bottle release yet. We’ll have a staff member distributing “tickets” on a first-come, first-serve basis starting at 8am. You’ll need to turn in your ticket to buy your beers, which have a 3 bottle/person limit. If there are any left over after everyone makes it through the line, we’ll allow folks to buy more. Quite honestly I’m a little anxious to see if we make it completely through the line.

La Muerta 2011 was another double batch, brewed on October 5th and 6th. We’re spending all of Halloween day filling the 750 bottles that will be made available to the public, plus a couple of extras for “internal purposes”. As mentioned above, this year will have a 3 bottle/person limit.