Beer Alert: Exotic Tea Beers And Fruit Ales

(Courtesy Stone Brewing)

March is ON and American craft brewers are addressing things with a full slate of new beer offerings you’re gonna want to chase down.

A Fan Favorite Returns (Escondido, CA) – Responding to fan votes for their favorite throwback beer, Stone Brewing is returning a unique collaboration that was originally brewed in 2011 with Guam’s Ishii Brewing Co. and Japan-based Baird Brewing Company. Baird / Ishii / Stone Japanese Green Tea IPA is brewed with Japanese sencha green tea and five different hops, including Sorachi Ace, a varietal originally developed in Japan. This beloved 10.1 ABV IPA is available now available nationwide in 12oz six-pack cans, 22oz bottles and draft, so you know what to do.

“Brewing with tea is a great challenge,” said Stone’s Senior Manager of Brewing, Jeremy Moynier. “It’s important to get the right tea and have it integrated and balanced with the other ingredients. This is a special beer and we are stoked our fans agreed and voted for us to brew it again.”

(Courtesy Founders Brewing)

New KBS Variation (Grand Rapids, MI) – Founders Brewing has a new addition to its popular KBS Coffee Stout line. Taking this bourbon barrel-aged concept to a new level, Founders KBS Hazelnut is a silky smooth 12% ABV Imperial Coffee Stout with rich hazelnut, vanilla, cocoa, roasted coffee and charred oak tones, that inform but never overpower.

“Hazelnut makes for a great infusion into coffee so we decided to bring those flavors to our most epic coffee beer, KBS,” said Founders Brewmaster, Jeremy Kosmicki. “It really adds another amazing layer of depth to an already perfectly balanced and complex beer.”

Blonde Ambition (Durango, CA) – Ska Brewing has a new fruited rendition of its oldest and most decorated recipe, True Blonde Ale. Crafted with subtle Cascade hop additions that balance the zest of the fruit in the recipe, Ska Raspberry Blonde is a 5% ABV Blonde Ale w/raspberry, which is heading to retail this week.

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