- Noonan Black IPA -

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The beer you’ve been waiting for. Keeps your taste satisfied while keeping your senses sharp. An all-day IPA naturally brewed with a complex array of malts, grains and hops. Balanced for optimal aromatics and a clean finish. The perfect reward for an honest day’s work and the ultimate companion to celebrate life’s simple pleasures.

ABV: 4.7%

IBUs: 42

Availability: Mar – Sept

Item Numbers:

 Log #92158

Keg: #92157

4/6pk: #92159

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brewed to not last…

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2013 Oak-Smoked Old Guardian

2013 marks another odd year, and that means another Odd Year Release for Stone Brewing Co. A few years ago, the brewery decided to release a special take on a couple of tried and true favorites for odd years. That resulted in Belgo Anise Imperial Russian Stout, and Old Guardian Belgo Barleywine. The newest treatment for the coming odd year is Old Guardian Oak Smoked Barleywine, featuring German smoked wheat malt.

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Full Throttle Double IPA

 Big hoppiness and body. Hop heads will really enjoy the Full Throttle. Caramel malts create a sweet and malty flavor while giving the Double IPA a deep amber color. The Simcoe hops give the Full Throttle its resinous hoppy flavor of grapefruit and pine. Your palate will be covered with hop oils balanced with caramely goodness.

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Long before hops were common in most beers, various fruits and vegetables were used to season beers. The acidity of Lambic beers blends perfectly with raspberries.

Magnificent aroma, delicate palate of raspberries with undertones of fruity acidity; elegant, sparkling clean taste. Style-Raspberry Lambic. Color-Rose.

Chocolate desserts (especially chocolate decadence), fresh raspberries, ice cream with a raspberry demi-glaze sauce, créme caramel, baked Alaska, Olympia oysters, caviar. Serve at 45 °F in flute-shaped Lambic glass.

“Top Lambic,” US Open Beer Championship, 2009

Gold Medal – World Beer Championships
  

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PRESS RELEASE – January 29, 2013

Rising Tide Brewing Company Expands Distribution to Vermont

PORTLAND, MAINE – Rising Tide Brewing Company, a small family-owned brewery in Portland, has begun shipping its beer to Vermont through its new distribution partner, g. housen.

“We started with Maine and then Massachusetts, and now we’re thrilled to be able to bring our beer to Vermonters as well,” said co-owner Heather Sanborn. A graduate of Middlebury College, Sanborn is looking forward to spending time in Vermont this spring, introducing Rising Tide’s beers to local consumers. “I’m very familiar with the drive from Maine to Vermont and whenever I cross the bridge on Route 89 from New Hampshire into Vermont, I feel a little bit like I’m coming home again.”

Rising Tide’s co-owner and brewer Nathan Sanborn specializes in brewing unique, balanced ales that are influenced by brewing traditions from around the world. “I like the idea of learning from traditional beer styles rather than being wedded to them,” he said. “We have such an amazing array of high quality ingredients available to us, from locally grown rye to intriguing new hop varieties to micro-roasted coffee beans. My goal is to let unique flavors shine in each beer we create.” Rising Tide’s beers are unfiltered, unpasteurized, and bottle conditioned.

Founded in 2010 with a tiny one-barrel brewing system, Rising Tide completed an expansion in summer 2012 with the installation of a custom-built fifteen-barrel brew house in a 5,000 square foot facility on Fox Street in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood. The expansion increased the brewery’s production capacity from about 15 barrels a month to about 120 barrels a month. Rising Tide’s new facility is located within walking distance of Portland’s Old Port area. The brewery welcomes visitors in its tasting room where they can sample the beers, take a tour, and buy some bottles or a growler to take home.

For more information, visit Rising Tide’s website at www.risingtidebrewing.com, like them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/risingtidebeer, or follow them on Twitter at @risingtidebeer.

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RISING TIDE DAYMARK PALE ALE

Chart a new course with Daymark as your guide. We start with a classic, clean and crisp American pale ale brewed with spicy Columbus and Centennial hops. Then we accent the grain bill with rye grown on small local family farms right here in Maine and malted to our specifications at Valley Malts, an artisanal malt house. Finally we dry hop the finished beer for a bright floral aroma. Availability: Year round.

daymark [dey-mahrk] (n)-a navigational aid distinctively marked for daytime visibility, normally attached to a permanent structure in the water

ITEM NUMBERS:

22oz #69805 

Available in Draft Mid-February

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Bigfoot is a beast of a beer, brimming with bold flavors of bittersweet malt and heaps of aggressive whole-cone Pacific Northwest hops. First introduced in the winter of 1983, Bigfoot is a cult-classic beer brewed in the barleywine style, meaning a strong, robust, bruiser of a beer with the refined intensity of a wine. Bigfoot is prized by beer collectors for its supreme cellarability. Under the proper conditions, it can age like a fine wine, developing new flavors and character as it matures in the bottle. Each new release or “expedition” is vintage dated. Collect your own and see the flavors develop and progress.

OVERVIEW:

• ALCOHOL CONTENT 9.6% by volume
• BEGINNING GRAVITY 23.0° plato
• ENDING GRAVITY 6.0° plato
• BITTERNESS UNITS 90

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Duvel

TRIPEL HOP

Duvel is traditionally brewed with two hop varieties.
Duvel Tripel Hop is brewed with three hop varieties and each year the third hop
is changed to provide its own unique taste and aroma. This keeps the final flavor
profile surprisingly exciting for any true beer lover. For 2012 our brewers selected
the aromatic Citra hop from the Yakima Valley in Washington State.

Duvel Triple Hop 2012, is a limited release of the popular Belgian Triple Duvel.
This beer has a large aroma of spicy saaz and floral golding hops with some citrus
in the background. Saaz hops dominate the palate with a vibrant and zesty taste
of lemon, pepper, orange peel, biscuit, citrus and toast, The finish is a smooth
bitterness with a crisp earthy ending, nicely carbonated beer.

Characteristics:

By using three instead of two hop varieties to brew, we obtain additional hop aromas
and an increased bitterness. The typical Duvel palate is enriched with Citra hops
providing fresh notes of grapefruit and tropical fruit.

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