Under The Brick Store Pub

Sweetwater Motor Boat Ale

Motor Boat is the latest 'Catch & Release' offering from Sweetwater. This will be an "Imperial ESB- style ale," weighing in around 8% ABV. The Sweetwater Marketing Team has their hands deep in the motorboat tool box, but I got this bit of info:
Release Date- Mid August
6-packs and draft only

What a Gold Mine!

Brick Store Pub's 11th Anniversary

Starting June 14th, Brick Store Pub will be celebrating it's 11 years in business with 11 days filled with rare and one-off kegs. "Our little neighborhood pub" is still little & cozy, despite many accolades of late including landing on Forbes list of "Best American Beer Bars.

According to Brick Store Dave, some of the beers below were made just for this anniversary. And hell...I've never even heard of most of these! I am hoping the Allagash Rosa has something to do with Russian River Brewing in Santa ROSA, CA. Looks like I picked a bad month to just drink cranberry juice...

Chef Eric will be whipping up some daily food specials, with taps being tapped daily @ 3pm

Saturday 6/14- J.W. Lees Lagavulin wooden pin cask (2001)
Regenboog 't Smisje Guido
Sunday 6/15- Harviestoun Ginger lime
Regenboog 't Smisje Catherine the Great
Monday 6/16- Highland Brewing (Summit Dry Hopped) Kashmir IPA
Tuesday 6/17- Terrapin Southern Fried Brown Ale (Oak aged brown ale w/muscadine grapes)
Wednesday 6/18- Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
Thursday 6/19- Oskar Blues Chubbourbon (Old Chub aged in bourbon barrels)
Allagash Rosa (tripel aged 1.5 yrs in oak barrels then blended with brettanomyces )
Friday 6/20- Victory Wild Devil (Victory HopDevil IPA w/ brettanomyces )
Strubbe Double Tripel
Saturday 6/21- Harviestoun Ola Dubh 30 yr
Alvinne Balthazar
Sunday 6/22- Avery Brewing Co. Uber Svine (dbl dry hopped hog heaven)
Regenboog 't Smisje Kerst (aged in J.W. Lees Calvados barrels)
Monday 6/23- Sweetwater Brewing Road Trip Dry-Hopped Firkin
Tuesday 6/24- Heavy Seas (Clipper City) Hang Ten Dopplebock
Allagash Rosa

Terrapin India Brown Ale- All Bottled Up

Here is a sneak peak of the Terrapin IBA label, which should hit the shelves sometime in June. This beer has been around for over a year now, on draft only. This hoppy brown ale has been graded A- on beeradvocate.com and it is mighty tasty, I might add. The IBA will be Terrapin's third year round offering, joining the Rye Pale Ale & Golden Ale.

And lookout for a Wheat Bier & Wheat Wine sometime this Summer from Spike & Co.

Epic BeerAdvocate Tasting

An insane amount of bottles were shared amongst BeerAdvocates this past Saturday at the Brick Store Pub. Many thanks to Steve & Greg for locking down the Belgian Bar from Noon until 4:20. Thirty thirsty beer fans came in from Alabama and South Carolina, including Dan & Joseph who rolled in @ 11:30am from Columbia. And as a treat for the early birds, I popped the newly released Lost Abbey Angel's Share, aged in bourbon barrels.


Here's the breakdown:

Lost Abbey Angel's Share (bourbon barrel 2008), Devotion, Avant Garde, Carnivale, Red Barn
Port Shark Attack double red
Surly Darkness, Surlyfest
FFF Dark Lord, Alpha Klaus

Foothills Sexual Chocolate
Deschutes The Abyss
Rogue Imperial Stout 2004, Old Crustacean 2001, Shakespeare Stout
New Holland Dragon's Milk, Night tripper
Bluegrass Brewing Jefferson's Reserve
Fuchen Alt
Harpoon Barleywine
Growler of Twain's Tripel
Highland Imperial Kashmir Pale, Tasgall Ale
Westvleteren 8
Flying Dog Gonzo
DFH World Wide Stout 2004 & 2007, 120 Minute IPA, Burton Baton
Troegs Troegenator Dopplebock, Nugget Nectar
Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye
Lazy Magnolia Souther Pecan
Southern Tier Gemini, JahVA Imperial Stout, Unearthly, Oat
Sam Adam's Utopias 2007
Avery Samael's, Mephistopheles
Smuttynose Wheat Wine
Pilgrim's Dole Wheat Wine
Bell's Batch 8000, Two Hearted Ale, Expedition Stout, Amber Ale
Pisgah Cosmos
Hair of the Dog Doggie Claws
Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree IPA
Green Flash Imperial IPA
Saint Arnold Christmas ale
Stone 8th Anniversary, Double Bastard, Oaked Bastard, Imperial Russian Stout, IPA
Alesmith Wee Heavy, Speedway Stout, YuleSmith (blue)
Alaskan Barleywine
Boulder hazed and Infused
Hoegaarden Verboden Vrucht
Duck-Rabbit Barleywine
Harveistoun Ola Dubh 16
Ommegang Three Philosophers
Coast Blackbeerd, Hop Art
Unibroue Terrible
Sisyphus 2007
Founders Backwoods Bastard
New Glarus Raspberry Tart
French Broad Wee Heaviest
Weyerbacher Heresy
Mikkeller Black
Four + Brewing Monkshine

Chocolate Cheese Filled Pub of Dogfish Duck Rabbit

Valentine's Day comes 2 days early to Brick Store Pub, with 2 tasty events.

First, the Belgian Bar will host a special Dogfish Head Brewing event
featuring 5 rare beers, 3 courses of cheese and 2 of chocolate.
The delightful Red & White will be one of the 5 beers. Here's are some notes from dogfish.com:

A big, belgian-style Wit brewed with coriander and orange peel and fermented with Pinot Noir juice. After fermentation a fraction of the batch is aged in Oregon Pinot Noir barrels, and another fraction is aged on oak staves.

Pass the chocolate for this one, please.

And expect 1 special surprise brew from Dogfish Head...
Tuesday February 12, 6pm.



Lastly, I am super pleased to welcome the entrance of yet another quality craft brewery into the Atlanta market: Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery from North Carolina. I have been enjoying bootlegged bottles for a few years now from places like Asheville & Wilmington, NC. BSP will be rolling out the red carpet for Duck-Rabbit Tuesday afternoon 2/12. This is what BS Dave had to say:



Tuesday Feb. 12, the Duck Rabbit Brewing Co. will introduce their beers to the Atlanta market with a special tapping of all 4 seasonal offerings at once. This is a 1st for Duck Rabbit and should be a fantastic way to introduce this respected Farmville N.C. brewery to the state of Georgia. On hand will be owner & brewmaster Paul Philippon to answer any questions about his seasonal beers as well as year-round beers. On tap will include the Barley wine, Rabid Duck Russian Imperial Stout, Wee Heavy Scotch Ale & the almighty Baltic Porter!

These 4 will be tapped around lunchtime.

Cheers