Beer Run – New Export Lagers, Imperial Stouts And Dinosaur IPA’s!

American Craft Beer|October 6th, 2018|

This weekend’s new releases are flush with timely seasonals and fall styles…So welcome to our first October Beer Run…And there’s plenty to like here.

pFriem’s New Fall Release (Hood River, OR) – Fall is a time to turn inward, and pFriem has three new Autumn releases that you may want to have in hand when you do…

pFriem Extra Pale – Bigger than a Pale Ale, but not quit approaching India Pale Ale territory. (ABV 6.5%, IBU 45)

pFriem Dank IPA – This light copper ale shines with flavors of tropical fruit, hints of blueberry and a fresh hoppy finish. (ABV 7.8%, IBU 70)

pFriem Export Lager – A testament to restraint and balance that stylistically walks a thin line between the Munich Helles and the Bavarian Pilsner. (ABV 5.7%, IBU 20)

Big Head Tiny Arms (Atlanta, GA) – Two great Atlanta institutions, Monday Night Brewing and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, are partnering up for a brewed homage to the museum’s Giganotosaurus, the world’s largest meat-eating dinosaur with a big head and (you guessed it) tiny arms. Debuting at the taproom this weekend, Monday Night Big Head, Tiny Arms is a flavorful, easy drinking, (read: low ABV) India Pale Ale that’s ginormously dry-hopped with Ekuanot and Huell Melon.

Why Chai? (Denver, CO) – Great Divide Brewing has returned an Yeti Stout variation that first introduced last fall. Blending exotic chai spices ( cinnamon, green cardamom, black pepper, ginger, nutmeg, and vanilla) with Yeti’s solid, dark roasted backbone, Great Divide Chai Yeti is a 9.5% ABV Imperial Stout Yeti variant that answers the question, “why chai?”.

The Beer Lebowski (Cape May, NJ) – Cape May and Colorado’s Left Hand Brewing have collaborated on a beer that was is inspired by the Coen Brothers’ cult classic, The Big Lebowski. In it, The Dude, quaffs multiple white Russians while lamenting the loss of his rug which “really tied the room together.” Cape May/Left Hand Ties the Room Together is described as an “Imperial Cream Stout brewed with coffee beans, cocoa nibs, lactose, and vanilla…but whatever that is, it sounds fun.