DuClaw Brewing Company

For the 2010 Real Ale Fest, we will have 15+ breweries attending, with more than 27 cask ales to taste.  DuClaw Brewing will have six of our own casks ales there!  All six have been confirmed, casked and are chilling patiently in our cooler for the fest.  And today, I am proud to announce 3 out of our 6 beers!  The first three are as follows:

1) Double Dry Hopped 2010 Serum

2) Peppermint & Chocolate Infused Bad Moon Porter

3) Chocolate Raspberry Imperial Rye Porter (X-1 with a kick of raspberry!)

I will be announcing the next three Wednesday of next week, so stay tuned.  If you haven’t got your tickets yet, here is the link. If you live near our Bowie or Arundel Mills store, have no fear. We have a bus running from the stores to the fest (you can find details at the site).  The food has been a hit the last two years, and I promise we have outdone ourselves this year.  This is an event you will not want to miss, so gather your friends and get firk’ed up!!

Oh, and one more thing. Here is a hint to our fourth cask ale – The Devil wears Black.

So, the second batch of our eXile series has been in the tank for a little over a week and a half.  I tasted it Tuesday of last week and was quite pleased with it.  What style is it you ask?  Well, you are going to have to wait till I post the launch date (which you will see here first!).  Here is another clue though “grote boze wolf”.  Language matters :)

One other thing.  We have still not officially committed to a style for our 3rd eXile series.  Post your comments for what you like to see.

Hope you had a good weekend!

Cheers,

Dave

We are almost done applying labels to our Pax Nemesis and Black Jack Stout bottles.  They should ship to the distributor this week and will be hitting retailers shelves next week.  I am sure most of you are familiar with Black Jack, but only a few got to taste Pax at the last year’s BAM Octoberfest. So with that in mind, I am going to give you my thoughts on the beer.  First lets start with some facts:  1) it is an Imperial Alt Ale, 2) it is 11% alcohol 3) it is named after the Greek goddess of divine balance.  I have attached our information sheets so you can get the low-down on what an Imperial Alt is.

Now, my opinions.  I have never tasted a beer that is so drinkable with an alcohol content 8% or higher.  The malt flavor is mellow, not sweet or overpowering, with a slight caramel hint.  The hop presence is there, but just enough and certainly not overly pronounced.  It has a clean, slightly crisp overall flavor with subtle ale esters.  And all in all, you will be hard pressed to find that 11% alcohol. All this provides and amazing balance to this high alcohol beer (hence the reference to the goddess).  This is why we chose to use the Altbier as a base to make an imperial.  We were attempting, and I think succeeded, to make a sublimely drinkable imperial ale.  So, even though Nemesis is 11%, don’t expect it to be massive and in your face.  But be careful, because even though this is easy to enjoy, karma will catch up (most likely the next day around 8am).

The email touting the release is not scheduled to go out until mid next week, so you blog readers have the jump.  Not sure how quick it will get from the distributor to the retailers, so you might want to call them to see if they have it, or better yet tell them to get it.

Pax Nemesis Info Sheet
Black Jack Stout Info Sheet