(Frederick, MD) – Flying Dog Imperial Hefeweizen made its debut last week. The beer is the first in a new series of (mostly) draft-only offerings called the Brewhouse Rarities.
Here is how Flying Dog describes the project:
In an otherwise pitch black brewery, a single stream of light spills out from beneath the brewhouse doors. Carrying with are impulses that can only be hatched during the sunless solitude of a graveyard brewing shift.
The brainchildren of our individual beers, our Brewhouse Rarities shatter the confines of traditional beer styles and, in the words of the Good Doctor Hunter S. Thompson, are “too weird to live, too rare to die”.
The first in our Brewhouse Rarities series is an Imperial Hefeweizen. Full-bodied and highly-effervescent, this brew has sweet malt notes with banana and clove undertones balanced by a crisp snap of malt and spice in the finish.
The Washington Post offered up more info on Monday:
The Brewhouse Rarities will be available only in what Brophy calls “our backyard,” encompassing Maryland, Washington and Virginia. Most will be draft-only, but Brophy’s pet project, an abbey dubbel due out in April, will also be sold in 750-mililiter bottles.
Imperial Hefeweizen beer stats:
Package: Draft only
ABV: 7.3%
Availability: January in DC, MD, VA
Specialty malts: Malted White Wheat, Flaked Wheat
Hops:German Perle