(Lexington, MA) – Clown Shoes Beer updated its blog readers on some brewery news this week.
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Today we brew Chocolate Sombrero, formerly known as Cocoa Powder, Cocoa Monster, Cocoloco, and Cocoa Sombrero. This Mexican Imperial Stout features Ancho Chile powder, cinnamon, and organic vanilla extract. The chocolate comes from dark and chocolate malts, as we feel we can get a more complex chocolate flavor this way.
Chocolate Sombrero will be the last in a series of stouts (all with a creature on the label) that will be made this season. Next year (or later this year) we’ll play with a few more.
High on my list to brew, but we need art and packaging, is Miracle IPA. This will be a 5% IPA, fruit forward and sessionable. A certain percentage of each batch will go to the Clown Shoes Miracle Fund. The plan is to use the money to help worthy causes over the course of time.
I think it’s funny, the idea of people walking up to bars and saying, “I need a Miracle,” then promptly receiving a cold pint of beer.
Next week I head to Philadelphia, where we are launching Clown Shoes.
Georgia will see expanded distribution in the near future.
Other markets will open later in the year, after Mercury completes construction on the new facility.
I love America, we will now be calling Pale Ale’s, IPAs that are sessionable, after we spent the latter have of the last decade renaming strong bold IPAs Imperial IPAs, along with other assorted misnomers such as:
Imperial Hefeweizen a.k.a Weizen Bock
Imperial Oktoberfest a.k.a Bocks or Doppelbocks
Imperial Helles Lager a.k.a Maibocks
Imperial Porter a.k.a Baltic Porter
and assorted others.