Category: breweries

Schell’s Noble Star Collection

By on February 26, 2013in breweries

Here’s the news that Jace at Schell’s has been threatening to share for the past couple of days. TL:DR – Schell’s is launching a line of specialty beers called the Noble Star Collection based on the Berliner Weiss style. What’s more, they’ll be using their remaining 30s era cypress wood aging tanks. I visited the brewery in 2006 or 2007 with the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild and remember checking out these huge wood tanks and always thought they’d be a nice home for beer again someday.  Read on for the complete press release from Schell’s.

Here’s our 2008 article on the tank restoration.

More photos and complete details after the jump.

Schell’s Stag Series #7 Barleywine

By on February 21, 2013in breweries
Schell's Stag Series #7

Schell's Stag Series #7August Schell Brewing Co.releases the 7th beer in their Stag Series, an American Barleywine, next week. They brewed about 200bbl of the beer and each of the 100 bbl brews  required two separate mashes of over 6,000 pounds of malt.  They added 150 pounds of hop, fermented it with American Ale yeast and aged it for three+ months. Now it’s your turn. Schell’s says to expect “an amped up malt flavor, high alcohol (9.5% ABV) and heaping amounts of citrusy American hops.” Look for this beer starting February 28th.

 

Lift Bridge Farm Girl Cans?

By on February 20, 2013in breweries, brewpubs
Lift Bridge Farm Girl

Lift Bridge Farm GirlIt would look that way, anyway. We stumbled upon this post on BA and figured that if MyBeerBuzz.com and Beer Advocate fans are sharing, we’ll share too.

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/lift-bridge-farm-girl-16-oz-cans-coming-soon.70396/

Click to expand the artwork. The right side of the label refers to a 16 oz. silo. Very nice. I’m a fan of the artwork, too.

Obviously no release date just yet.

Fulton War and Peace Release (Bottles, too!)

By on February 20, 2013in beer events, breweries, MN
Fulton Brewing Co.

Fulton Brewing Co.Fulton’s Imperial Coffee Stout, War & Peace, makes its return Saturday at their taproom. War & Peace is infused with whole bean Guatemalan Organic dark roast coffee from Peace Coffee. You’ll be able to have it on draft or take home a 750ml bottle for $15 if you visit the brewery Saturday. Can’t make it Saturday, on Monday (2/25), War & Peace will roll out on draft and in bottles across the Twin Cities.

War & Peace is part of what Fulton is calling the Garage Series – a home for some of their beers that just don’t fit anywhere else. This series may include some experiments, infusions, barrel-aged beers and whatever else. We look forward to seeing more as the series develops!