Weekend Beer: New Barrel-Aged Stouts And Rice Lagers

(Courtesy Guinness)

2023 is ON and American craft brewers are addressing the new year with exciting new beers you’re gonna want to have around.

Guinness Celebrates The Lunar New Year (Baltimore, MD) – January 22, was this year’s Lunar New Year, which celebrates the beginning of the New Year for many Asian communities and the arrival of spring. And Guinness Open Gate Brewery is marking the occasion with Yuzo to the Moon, a special 4.5% ABV small-batch Lager brewed with Jasmine rice and yuzu fruit.

With special can art made by Asian-American artist Cher, the limited release rice lager is available now on tap and in to-go cans at Open Gate Brewery. Proceeds from beer sales will be donated to the creatives at Baltimore’s Asian Pasifika Arts Collective, a nonprofit organization harnessing art to advocate for Asian Americans.

Courtesy Neshaminy Creek Brewing)

Beer Love (Croydon, PA) – Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company is an award-winning craft brewery and taproom located just north of Philadelphia in Bucks County. And they’ve a romantic new release that was named to capture the feeling and swagger that comes with putting on the right pair of jeans for a special occasion with the right person.

Available at the brewery’s taprooms in Croydon, Dublin and New Hope, PA with distribution throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland, Neshaminy Creek Date Jeans is a big, resinous and crisp 8.5% ABV Double Dry-Hopped India Pale Ale with juicy tropical notes and a soft-as-clouds mouthfeel.

Bad To The Bone ( Salt Lake City / Denver) – Epic Brewing Utah’s first brewery since prohibition to brew exclusively high alcohol content beer has returned its Big Bad Baptist Stout Series for 2022. And while all this year’s variations are worth your time, there’s one in particular that you definitely need to try. Aged to perfection in whiskey barrels with coffee and cacao, Big Bad Baptist Barrel Strength 2022 is a MASSIVE 13.3% ABV Imperial Stout that will not disappoint.