Both locations will be tapping a great selection of our vintage barrel-aged beers as a delicious backdrop to the release of our newest creations – Barrel-aged Reserve Cuvee Blend #1 and Sour Series: Peach Blonde Sour! Both of these new releases will be available to-go in bottles for the first time at retail. The Reserve Cuvee was pre-sold on-line and sold out within the first day, but we have a few cases remaining that will go on sale when we open the doors, so don’t wait or you will miss out on these great beers.
Reserve Cuvee Blend #1 features a complex palate of flavors imparted by the four barrel-aged components included in the blend. Every one of the component beers spent at least 18 months in fresh bourbon barrels! First, we used the bourbon barrel-aged version of our GABF medal-winning Black Lagoon Scottish Strong. This scotch ale provides the silky smooth foundation and contributes flavors of dark caramel, figs, oak tannins, and bourbon character.
Next, we added 3 unreleased barrel aged beers to build out the flavor framework. Barrel-aged End of the World Double Imperial Stout was added to contribute coffee, dates, toffee, and molasses character along with a deeper bourbon richness. Barrel-aged Buckwheat Old Ale adds a complex dark honey and buckwheat flavor and sublime oak tannins. Finally, Barrel-aged Wakeboarding Wheatwine imparts a rich toasty malt flavor and a full body with some bourbon spiciness. The resulting cuvee blend has a very broad array of flavors challenging your senses with every sip while finishing with a mellow warming from its 14% ABV as it goes down.
Our Peach Sour is the first in our wine barrel-aged, multi-culture (wild yeast and bacteria) fermented sour beers to come out of our Sour Series. In early 2017, we brewed a blonde ale that went into a large number of wine barrels with a varying mix of inoculants (fermenting organisms). Our first release roughly 18 months later incorporates peach puree. The resulting 7.4% ABV sour has a fresh peach aroma and flavor with complex lactic/acidic sourness and hints of funk from the brett yeast. This sour is well balanced in part by using a restrained amount of fruits, so the fruit would not cover up the hard work done by the bacteria and wild yeast over the last 18 months.
San Marcos tap list includes:
• Bourbon barrel-aged Reserve Cuvee Blend #1
• Bourbon barrel-aged Black Lagoon Scottish Strong 18′
• Bourbon barrel-aged Fruit Party No Hope for Rescue (NHFR) Double Imperial Stout 18′
• Bourbon barrel-aged Mocha Mayday 18′ (NHFR with chocolate, coffee and ancho chiles)
• Bourbon barrel-aged Rescue Buoy Imperial Stout 17′
• Bourbon barrel-aged Dangerous Undertow Belgian Dark Strong 16’
• Wine barrel-aged Peach Blonde Sour
North Park tap list includes:
• Bourbon barrel-aged Reserve Cuvee Blend #1
• Bourbon barrel-aged Black Lagoon Scottish Strong 18′
• Bourbon barrel-aged Fruit Party No Hope for Rescue (NHFR) Double Imperial Stout 18′
• Bourbon barrel-aged Mocha Mayday 18′ (NHFR with chocolate, coffee and ancho chiles)
• Bourbon barrel-aged Chocolate/Vanilla Rescue Buoy Imperial Stout
• Single (best) barrel-aged Storm Imperial Porter
• Bourbon barrel-aged Vanilla Storm Vanilla Coffee Imperial Porter 16’
• Bourbon barrel-aged Dangerous Undertow Belgian Dark Strong 16’
The North Park location is able to also pour guest beers, so you can expect to see some amazing barrel-aged beers from our colleagues at other breweries around town.
