All About Beer Magazine March 2009 Issue

How Homebrewers Changed the Whole Brewing Industry—Forever

The Importance of Drinking Local

Distinctive Doppelbock

The heavyweight beers currently in vogue tend to have an assertive signature quality that is the object of desire. Puckering IBU levels, searing alcohol and coarse roastiness are sought by extreme beer hunters and brewers alike. As these stylistic features slug it out for popular supremacy, the succulent, uncompromised maltiness offered up by the burly... View Article

with Andy Brown

Wynkoop Brewpub turned 20 years old last year, and you began your job as head brewer around the same time. A little earlier. We just had our 20th anniversary in October and I started in July of last year. Shortly after that, we had the Democratic National Convention here in Denver, and that was a... View Article

Under the Gateway Arch

In the 1830s, immigrants from Germany and Bohemia began settling in St. Louis, MO. Not only were these Central Europeans a natural customer base for beer, but their ranks also included many skilled craftsmen who brewed good beer with abundant local water, kept cool in limestone caves indigenous to the area.

Cusqueña Premium

Lima, Peru Imported by: Latam Imports Fort Worth, TX Available: RI Cusqueña is one of the few all-malt beers made in South America. ABV: 4.8 ABW: 3.8 Color: bright golden Bitterness: 14 Original gravity: n/a

Fireside Nut Brown

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. Chippewa Falls, WI Available: nationwide Jacob Leinenkugel founded this Wisconsin brewery in 1867. Five generations have been involved in running the brewery. ABV: 4.9 ABW: 3.9 Color: 23 Bitterness: 13 Original gravity: n/a

Entire Stout

Pike Brewing Co. Seattle, WA Available: CA, CT, AK, MT, ID, OR, UT, TX, CA, CT Pike Entire is a blend of three beers: Pike’s XXXXX Extra Stout, the same beer aged for more than half a year in oak Bourbon barrels, and an Imperial stout. ABV: 9.5 ABW: 7.6 Color: black Bitterness: n/a Original... View Article

Sebago IPA

Sebago Brewing Co. Portland, ME Available: ME, MA This IPA is named for a 300-foot mountain cliff on Sebago Lake in ME. ABV: 5.7 ABW: 4.5 Color: n/a Bitterness: n/a Original gravity: n/a

Old Blarney Barleywine Style Ale

Moylan’s Brewery Novato, CA Available: CA, NV, CO, AZ, WA, OH, MN, IL, MD, PA, VA, NJ, WI, MA, GU (Guam), BC, OR, AK, NM, SC The first barleywine to bear the name was Bass No. 1, released at the turn of the last century. The name suggested this was a beer of wine-like strength.... View Article

Ten Fidy Imperial Stout

Oskar Blues Brewery Lyons, CO Available: CO, CA, TX, AZ, WA, NY, MA, PA, ID, NJ, RI, CT, VA, GA, FL, WI Colorado brewery Oskar Blues has for years pioneered the use of cans for craft beer, and in Ten Fidy has what is probably the world’s only imperial Russian stout in a can. ABV:... View Article

Old Style Porter

St. Peters Brewery Suffolk, England Imported by: Eurobrew Ashland, MA Available: nationwide St. Peter’s Brewery opened in an ancient country hall in the east of England just over a decade ago. The beers are packaged in distinctive oval bottles copied from one from Gibbstown, near Philadelphia, which dates from around 1770. ABV: 5.1 ABW: 4.0... View Article

Cascade Pale Ale

Stevens Point Brewery Stevens Point, WI Available: WI, IL, MN, MI, IA, OK, IN, KY, MA, RI, MD, VA Stevens Point Brewery, in Stevens Point, WI, is the fifth oldest continuously operating brewery remaining in the United States. ABV: 5.4 ABW: 4.3 Color: 8 Bitterness: 33 Original gravity: 1054

Happy Ending

Sweetwater Brewing Co. Atlanta, GA Available: GA, SC, NC, TN, AL, FL Sweetwater Brewery has specialized in bringing West Coast-style brewing to the South East, winning Small Brewery of the Year at the GABF. ABV: 9 ABW: 7.2 Color: black Bitterness: 50 Original gravity: 1088

Punk IPA

BrewDog Fraserburgh, Scotland Imported by: Preiss Imports San Diego, CA Available: n/a BrewDog microbrewery opened in 2007 in the east of Scotland near Aberdeen. ABV: 6 ABW: 4.9 Color: n/a Bitterness: n/a Original gravity: n/a

Apple White

Corsendonk Brewery Turnhout, Belgium Imported by: Phoenix Imports Baltimore, MD Available: DC, FL, IN, LA, MD, MA, NJ, OH, PA, VA, WA, WI The Corsendonk brewery, best known for its rich abbey-style beers, brews this lighter, fruited beer spiced with coriander, orange zest and licorice. ABV: 3.1 ABW: 2.5 Color: 2 Bitterness: not significant Original... View Article

Sünner Kölsch

Sünner Brauerei Köln, Germany Imported by: Artisanal Imports Austin, TX Available: TX, CO, CA, RI, IN, OH, NY, MI, ME, NC, GA, SC The Sünner brewery, the oldest in Cologne, brews the traditional Kölsch style, unusual in German brewing tradition in that it is an ale, not a lager, which is then cold-conditioned in the... View Article

Alt

New Glarus Brewing Co. New Glarus, WI Available: WI The alt beers of Düsseldorf are, together with Cologne’s Kölsch style, rare examples of German ales, in a country renowned for lagerbiers. ABV: 9 ABW: 7.2 Color: n/a Bitterness: n/a Original gravity: n/a

Autumnal Fire

Capital Brewing Co. Middleton, WI Available: WI This American doppelbock is true to the tradition of Bavarian “liquid bread,” as the style was known to monks who relied on it for sustenance during Lenten fasts. ABV: 7.5 ABW: 6 Color: 32 Bitterness: 28 Original gravity: 1078

The Reverend

Avery Brewing Co. Boulder, CO Available: AK, AZ, AK, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, KS, KY, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NJ, NM, NY, NC, NE OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, WS The Reverend, a Belgian-style quadrupel, was created to honor an Episcopal reverend, the grandfather of an... View Article

Imperial Stout

Samuel Smith, Tadcaster, England Imported by: Merchant du Vin Tukwila, WA Available: nationwide except where ABV is capped. Russian Imperial stout was originally brewed in Great Britain to satisfy the Czarist courts, great connoisseurs of Champagne, caviar and the art of the table. Because it was transported across the freezing Baltic, Russian imperial stout was... View Article