In the Mood for Something Different?

 

This week's craft beer deliveries feature some interesting new brews!  Check a few of them out below.  As always, please call the store if you're coming in for something specific - our Craft Beer department moves fast and things do sell out quickly!

 

Did you know that February is Pet Rescue month at Joe Canal's Woodbridge and Lawrenceville stores?  Our friends at Tito's Vodka are matching your donations, up to $5000!  Check out your store's webpage for more information: Woodbridge or Lawrenceville.

 

Now, on to the beer!

 

Allagash St. Clipperstein
At the brewery, we celebrate St. Klippenstein day to commemorate our love of free ham, pot lucks, and strong stouts. In honor, we brewed this Belgian-style strong stout aged in bourbon barrels. Rich cocoa brown in color, the first sip of this beer opens with a complex chocolate and roasted aroma. Notes of vanilla, coconut and o

ak infuse the palate and lead to a smooth, warm finish. This full bodied beer is brewed with an array of dark roasted malts: dark chocolate malt, roasted barley, chocolate malt, and brown malt. After being hopped with Chinook and Northern Brewer, and fermented with a trappist-style yeast for a month in stainless, the beer spends three months aging in bourbon barrels.  11% ABV



Ballast Point Red Velvet Nitro
Our Red Velvet oatmeal stout is a mind-bending beer. Like the cake that inspired it, the deep red color comes from beets, which add a rich, earthy character that complements the chocolate flavor and aroma. The foamy head of the nitro pour is our “icing”, adding a creamy smoothness to the mouthfeel. But this liquid dessert still finishes like a beer – not sweet, but just as satisfying. 5.5% ABV

 

Flying Dog Lucky SOB Irish Red Ale
Lucky SOB is an Irish Red for those whose lives always fall into place…and also for the rest of us who curse those blessed bastards. Brewed with real four-leaf clovers, it is perfectly poised to bring the “Luck of the Irish” to those who drink it. With a rich amber color, its toasted and honey malt flavors are balanced with a subtle hop bite. Not to mention that its clean and refreshing finish is the perfect accompaniment to chants of “Erin Go Braugh.”  5.5%

 

Demented Brewing Donar's Oak
Our Oud Bruin, a flanders brown ale was fermented with brett and bourbon barrel aged. Expect a sweet and sour profile with notes of dark fruit and caramel.  7.2% ABV

Smuttynose East Coast Common Lager (LAWRENCEVILLE ONLY)
East Coast Common is a nod to those uniquely American lager beers – fermented warm, in the San Franciscan-style. One sniff of the heady aroma tells you this isn’t a utilitarian, washing machine-variety beer. Our brewers infuse significant quantities of late-in-the-boil and post-fermentation dry hops to make sure you know East Coast Common is a New England original. 7.4% ABV

 

The Bruery Orxata
Horchata is a traditional, sweet, milky drink originating in Spain and Latin America that has become quite popular in Southern California, particularly with Mexican cuisine. Our take on the traditionally non-alcoholic drink is a blonde ale brewed with a heavy dosing of rice, cinnamon and fresh vanilla beans along with lactose for a little extra creamy character. If you didn’t know better, you’d think it was carbonated horchata. The flavor is hard to describe, but for those who know it, you know you love it. 7.1% ABV

 

And available Friday exclusively in our WOODBRIDGE location is Carton Unjunct Stout cans!
The thing about stouts made with additions of things like coffee is, while they taste “just like coffee,” they taste just “like coffee.” A well constructed stout is a study of potential flavors. Both bitter and sweet at once, with just four ingredients aromas can ping-pong between: coffee, chocolate, vanilla, smoke, dark fruits, molasses and myriad others without running over each other. Drink Unjunct and don’t ask us to treat this one.  8.5% ABV