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This weekend’s collection of winter offerings are dark, hoppy, hazy, and cold weather-ready!
Athletic Beer (Chico, CA) – Now owned by Sierra Nevada Brewing, the Sufferfest Beer Company was early to the healthy beer game. Founded in 2016 by Caitlin Landesberg, an athlete herself, Sufferfest offers a full-spectrum of craft beers, including a unique pale ale brewed with sea salt and black currant. Purposed brewed for athletes who enjoy beer. Sufferfest FKT is a 5.5% ABV Pale Ale with naturally occurring vitamins and micronutrients like potassium-rich barley, sodium, iron, and fiber.
Mr. Sandman Variation Lands (Denver, CO) – River North Brewery is celebrating 2020 with a special barrel-aged variation of its award-winning Imperial Stout. Aged to perfection in Law’s Whiskey House Rye barrels, River North Single Cask Mr. Sandman is a 13% ABV monster that’s available on tap and in bottles but only at the brewery’s North Washington Street taproom.
Strains Daze (Atlanta, GA) – Sweetwater Brewing has harnessed the cannabis instincts of “Dr. Greenthumb” himself for its latest Strain Series release. As dank as a cannabis growing room, but much better drinking, SweetWater Insane OG is a 5.6% ABV Mexican Lager with huge terpene aromatics…
Getting Salty (Atlanta, GA/Virginia Beach, VA) – The collaboration continues between two Atlanta-based tastemakers, as King of Pops and New Realm Brewing debut its second Push Cart Series release. Brewed to replicate Atlanta’s beloved chocolate pop, New Realm/King of Pops Chocolate Sea Salt Imperial Ale is an 8.6% ABV collaboration with a smooth and salty chocolate finish.
Black Hearted (Baltimore, MD) – Heavy Seas Beer is celebrating the new decade with the return of an Uncharted Waters Series classic. Aged in bourbon barrels and brewed with local Chesapeake Bay Roasting Company’s Dark Sumatra coffee, Heavy Seas 2020 edition of Blackbeard’s Breakfast is a robust and complex 10% ABV Imperial Porter with big notes of caramel and a slight nut character,
