Port Brewing Old Viscosity Ale, 10.0% ABV. Bottle text: Everyone always asks us, "what kind of beer is old viscosity?" We have to pause for a minute here as there are restrictions about how you can and can't describe beer on our beer label. Since you've already asked, we've decided to tell you that it's thick, as in my chest just grew a wool coat sort of way. It's dark and sludgy like the old 50w oozing from the crank of that old truck. Beers like old viscosity are revered like old school pieces of equipment we know and love. The ones that cause people to say, "they don't build them like this anymore." We know you'll come to love and appreciated everything about old viscosity even if we never tell you exactly what kind of beer it is. www.portbrewing.com
Avery Brewing Co., Hog Heaven Barleywine-style Ale, 9.2% ABV. Bottle text: Yep, you're in Hog Heaven! An unbelievably huge explosion of sweet malt tempered by 9.2% ABV and 2-1/2 pounds per barrel of Columbus dry hops. OINK!
Port Brewing Wipeout IPA, 7.0% ABV. Bottle text: Our version of a West Coast IPA - brewed in the San Diego style. This massively hoppy beer gets its flavor and attitude from no less than five hop varieties including Amarillo, Centennial, Cascade, Simco and Summitt. www.portbrewing.com
Lagunitas Maximus IPA, 7.5% ABV. Bottle text: I leaned back with my feet up on the desk. I read my name backwards on the door and wondered. Like a bad joke told to a brown-shoed square in the dead of night, it all came rushing back to me. I thought carefully about getting up from my desk, putting on my new Velarimosa prawn hat, opening the door to the hallway, checking the spelling on my name one more time, closing the door behind me, heading down to the first floor, making my way down the evening street full of worn out proles and pinheads, finding the corrupt pirate pastrami burrito vendor who trades fist fulls of change for volcanic gastritis, continuing to a dark doorway the length of which would lead me to a knuckle worn bar top of mildew and pine, mounting a bow-legged stool and ordering a pint of the nectaral Maximus Ale. And then I did.
Rogue Chocolate Stout. Bottle text: Ebony in color with a rich creamy head. An earthy flavor of oats and hops that gives way to a rich chocolate truffle finish. www.rogueales.com
Green Flash Brewing, Trippel, 8.5% ABV. Bottle text: Rich pale malt flavors provide a solid base for zesty Styrian Golding and Czech Saaz hopping. Trappist ale yeast contributes the fruity, spicy profile of classic, monk-brewed, Belgian ales. Our Trippel is luscious, fiery, golden brew and a contemporary rendition of traditional Belgian Trippel.
Brother David's Triple, 10.0% ABV. Bottle text: The brewers of Anderson Valley had to conjure the High Priestess of Fermentation to help them formulate and create this rare hand-crafted elixer. It is luxuriant, smooth, more than a little wild, and at 10.0% alcohol, it's bound to raise your spirits. Open the bottle and greet the High Priestess. You are worthy. www.avbc.com
Bear Republic Red Rocket Ale, 6.8% ABV. Bottle text: Red Rocket Ale is a bastardized Scotting style red ale packed with distinctive flavors and an aggressive hop character rivaled by none. This unfiltered, bottle-conditioned, amber colored ale breaks all style molds. www.bearrepublic.com
