New Craft Beer Variety Packs For Midsummer
New Craft Beer Variety Packs For Midsummer
(Courtesy Founders Brewing)
Summer is peaking and American craft brewers are welcoming the warm weather with fun new variety packs that make buying beer in bulk cool again.
Founders Green Zebra Variety Pack
Most summer craft beer variety pack are IPA heavy, with maybe a small batch lager thrown in, which makes Founders Brewing’s all-Gose Green Zebra Variety Pack even more intriguing.
A Gose is top-fermented ale style is brewed with at least 50% malted wheat which can delivers lemon a tartness, and salt… that’s right, salt. And Founder’s fresh fruit variations which add a welcome sweetness to the mix are terrific.
Founders Green Zebra Variety Pack contains the original Watermelon Gose, along with three new flavors — Peach, Mango and Pineapple. All four flavors come in at 4.6 percent ABV.
“The original Green Zebra featured watermelon, and the slight sourness and saltiness of the base beer really made it refreshing and fun to drink,” Founder Head Brewer Kosmicki said “After experimenting with many other fruit flavors, we settled on pineapple, mango and peach as our favorite new additions to the Green Zebra family.”
And here’s how the Michigan-based brewery describes them…
- Watermelon has a bold hit of refreshing watermelon juiciness.
- Pineapple has a delightfully tropical sweetness.
- Mango exudes the succulent sweetness of mango, which takes centerstage
- And Peach is a bold blast of peach sweetness
Tröegs Canthology Variety Pack – Volume 3
In the past 24 years, Hershey PA-based Tröegs Independent Craft Brewing has grown from two brothers to 250 people, but it remains very much a family business with an adventurous spirit and a small-brewery DNA.
And the latest Tröegs Canthology Summer Variety Pack features a terrific assortment of the brewery’s finest brews including:
- Tröegs Perpetual IPA is a 7.5% ABV Imperial Pale Ale which is perpetually cycled using the brewery’s HopBack vessel and dry-hopping technology to create the kind beer that can withstand the season’s cooling temperatures.
- Tröegs Oktoberfest is a timeless on the European tradition, a 6.1 ABV Märzen Style lager that starts with brewing technique called decoction, creating a bright, dry maltiness. A kettle addition of Hallertau Tradition hops adds subtle floral and herbal undercurrents to this toasty sweet Fest Lager.
- Tröegs Hopora is a 6.2% ABV India Pale Ale with bright grapefruit rind and pine notes that’s built on a solid backbone of pale malt, oats, and wheat. This newest addition to Tröegs’ Canthology Variety Pack line this unique IPA evolved from the brewery’s small-batch, experimental Scratch Series.
- Tröegs LolliHop is an 8.2% ABV Imperial IPA with a slightly hazy character, bright notes of pear, citrus and a hint of melon, that is built on a sturdy foundation of Pennsylvania-grown Rustic pale malt. . Dry-hopping with Citra and Mosaic layers in notes of orange, grapefruit and melon, while Azacca in the kettle adds hints of papaya and pineapple.
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