DuClaw Brewing Company

First, thanks to all who visited us at this year’s BAM Octoberfest.  I hope you guys had a good time, because we sure did.  As some of you may have noticed, we launched a new beer called Retribution that day.  You also might have noticed another ‘surprise’ beer called Divine Retribution.  In barrel aging our beers, we use 53 gallon Heaven Hills Bourbon barrels.  For Divine Retribution, we filled one barrel about 60% Retribution and the other 40% was Colossus.

To answer some questions, we will be releasing this soon in 22oz bottles.  But, we will only have about 156 of them.  Stay tuned here at the blog to hear when (and where) they are going.  It will be posted here first.

I will be posting some more info on Divine and some other beers later this week (no promises though as Baltimore Beer Week is putting a strain on my time and liver)…

Cheers,

Dave

Well, we are almost done all of preparations for this years fest.  I have to say, I am pretty excited about this year.  We have some great vintages going, Devil’s Milk ’06, ’07, ’09 and ’10.  We have the last two kegs of the Big Boy, Colossus.

And we will be debuting our newest addition..RETRIBUTION, our Single Barrel Imperial Stout.  We aged this beer 6 months (192 days) in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels, then bottled each barrel separately..no mixing.  We will have approximately 168 bottles per barrel and 20 barrels.  Each bottle will have which barrel it came from on the label (see pic at right).  Some barrels have strong notes of chocolate, some of bourbon, some of the wood sweetness and some of vanilla.  Each barrel is unique.  If you like bourbon barrel stouts, I think you are going to like this.

Here is a video from last year, just to jog your memory…

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Dave

ps – did I forget to mention our surprises? Well, you are just going to have to be there to find out….