Mile Wide Catalina Breeze Beer Review

This is Mile Wide Beer Company and a look at their Catalina Breeze. A West Coast American IPA that comes in with an alcohol content of 7% ABV and an IBU level not listed that I would place around a level of 60 or 70 if I had to guess. Check out my video here to see how this one stacks up for me and thanks to my buddy Todd for getting this one, so that I could check out this offering from this Louisville, Kentucky Brewery.

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Press Release: Rhinegeist Brewery Launches Outer Reach Sour Ales

Cincinnati, OH — Cincinnati-based Rhinegeist Brewery is proud to introduce Outer Reaches Sour Ales, a new, delicious lineup of Brett Culture, Mixed Culture and Fruited/Cuvée Sour suds light-years in the making. The first handful of brews will emerge from the ether over the next few months, starting with Infinite Dawn, a Sour Blonde Ale releasing this Friday, April 6th, at 3pm in the Rhinegeist taproom. Each beer in the Outer Reaches series will be available in 500ml bottles in very limited quantities in Ohio, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Indiana & Pittsburgh, PA.

“When we got rolling here at Rhinegeist, we knew that experimentation would be one of our chief personality traits,” said Rhinegeist co-founder Bryant Goulding. “We wanted to explore all angles of beer — hoppy, malty, Belgian and, ultimately, sour.”

Rhinegeist’s expedition to the Outer Reaches began in late 2013, when brewery Barrel Master Luke Cole started experimenting with extra beer, smack packs of yeast, and a trusty five gallon carboy. His first batch combined Fiction — Rhinegeist’s Belgian Extra Pale Ale — and a Roeselare Ale Yeast.

“With that first batch” said Cole, “we knew we had a little something.”

Cole’s early creations were promising, but lacked the finesse and elegance paramount in the industry’s most respected sours. For Goulding, that meant there was more work to be done.

“Sour beers are complex,” said Goulding. “We knew we wouldn’t just launch them at a certain point in time, but more so when they told us that they were ready. I remember that first batch that Luke brought up. We drank it up against some of our favorite sours and determined that it was probably an intensity level of two out of ten. But a good start — we knew we were onto something.”

Over the next few years, Cole continued to experiment in bursts, sourcing yeast strains, refining recipes, tasting batches, and tackling quality challenges with Rhinegeist’s lab team. Improvements came quickly.

The brewery’s output of sours soon accelerated. Carboys became totes, totes became barrels, and barrels became foeders, filling Rhinegeist’s basement workshop with ferociously-aging sour sirens.

“Time is everything and perfection can’t be rushed,” said Jim Matt, Rhinegeist’s Chief Science Officer. “Aged sours produce a mélange of flavors, kind of like a pot of sauce sitting over a simmer. You taste those individual components then, after awhile, they emerge together into something that’s really wonderful.”

In 2017, a program started to take shape. Thematically, the sour making process took on an element of otherworldliness for the Rhinegeist team — each recipe, each brew, each sip was one part of a long, riveting and mysterious trip to a faraway destination. Enter: Outer Reaches.

Logistically, that delicious destination has three components: Brett Culture, Mixed Culture, and Fruited/Cuvée Sours. Each category and the beers in it will explore the wide range of flavors and aromas present in sour beers.

“These beers push the boundaries of flavor and expectation,” said Goulding. “You’ll find brightness, acidity, fruit, funk and exceeding layers of personality. We’re making an intentional departure from predictable brewing into the deeper realms of creation and exploration. We are very excited to bring these beers up out of the basement and into the light.”

For more info, visit http://www.rhinegeist.com/outerreaches.

Got questions? Hit us up on social media @rhinegeist.

450 North Brewing Dank Candy Lollipop Dream Beer Review

This is 450 North Brewing and a look at their Dank Candy – Lollipop Dream. A Double or Imperial IPA that comes in with an alcohol content of 8% ABV and an IBU level of 100. Check out my video here to see how this one stacks up for me and thanks to my buddy Todd for getting this one out to me so that I could check out this offering from this Indiana Brewery.

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Blake's El Chavo Cider Review

El Chavo is one of the cider offerings from Blake’s Hard Cider located in Michigan, and it is the subject of my latest review. Infused with Mango and Habanero made this cider one that quickly caught my interest, especially after how pleasing the last few ones have been that I have tried from Blake’s. So check out my video to see my thoughts on how it went with this one, and how I thought it tasted overall.

Fathead's Bumble Berry Beer Review

Bumble Berry is a honey blueberry ale from Fathead’s Brewery that carries an alcohol content of 5.3% ABV and a low IBU of 13. Brewed with one hop and 3 malts, this beer incorporates honey to add just that little bit more of sweetness to compliment the infused blueberries. An award winning beer in the past and a local favorite around Ohio makes this beer one that is sought after by its fans. For me, it did deliver nicely as it wasn’t overly sweet nor was it overly thin.

Check out my video to hear and see more of my thoughts on this one, and if you have had it as well then let me know what you thought of it by leaving a comment. Cheers and remember…there’s always time, so Get Your Beer On!

Braxton Brewing Moving To The Country Beer Review

Moving To The Country is a collaboration from Braxton Brewing in Covington, Kentucky and Sweetwater Brewing from out of Atlanta, Georgia. This peach Pale Ale comes in with an alcohol content of 5% ABV and 40 IBU and is the first beer launched in the Neighbor Series from Braxton Brewing. Highlighted by the peach influence over the tropical and sweet tartness, this beer played out for me in an interesting yet refreshing way.

Check out my video to hear and see more of my thoughts on this one, and if you have had it as well then let me know what you thought of it by leaving a comment. Cheers and remember…there’s always time, so Get Your Beer On!