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In this special New Year’s Eve episode Dusty and Erik help you drink in 2009 with reviews on two extremely high ABV beers.  These “big boy britches” brews will definitely let you get your swurve on!  Did you know that beer is the new champagne?  It is!  So says Beer Tap TV!

Dogfish Head in Delaware is known for making some off centered beers.  Fort is no different. Billed as “The World’s Strongest Fruit Beer.”  At 18% ABV, it’s stronger then most wines.  This brew has over a ton of Oregon and Delaware raspberries mixed in over a two-month primary fermentation period. Includes Warrior hops (45 IBUs), 915 pils malt and 9% malted wheat.

Mephistopheles’ Stout from Avery Brewing Co. in Boulder, Colorado, ain’t no slouch either.  This devilish brew weighs in at a mega-hefty 16% ABV! Coal black, this bad boy smells of vine-ripened grapes, anise and chocolate covered cherries with flavors of rum-soaked caramelized dark fruits and a double espresso finish. IBU’s 107.

Needless to say, the gang was having a merry ole time after tasting these too most massive brews.  Everyone here at Beer Tap TV wishes all of you a very Hoppy Brew Year!

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It taint quite New Years and it taint quite Christmas… what to do?  Erik & Dusty finish off their holiday selection with a wintery mix: Left Hand Brewing Company’s Snowbound Ale and Jewbelation 12 from Shmaltz Brewing Company in New York.

Snowbound is brewed once a year up in Longmont, Colorado, to fight off cabin fever induced by all the damn snow.  Jewbelation 12 is made with 12 different hops and 12 different malts.  It’ll fight off a yamaka wearing grizzly bear!

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In this special “Between Holidays Ales” episode of Taste Buds Erik and Dusty try on two tasty Christmas brews from Belgium: St. Bernardus Christmas Ale and Delirium Noel.  Both beers are classified as Strong Dark Ales and come in at a hefty 10.00% ABV.

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In this special Christmas eve episode of Taste Buds Erik and Dusty overdose on chocolate beers:  Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence and Sam Adam’s Chocolate Bock.

Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence (Ommegang Brewery, Cooperstown, NY)

The aroma of dark chocolate and dark malts combines with the Perle hops compliments, making the beer savory to the senses.  Ommegang uses a special strand of Belgian yeast which introduces the distinct fruity note.

ABV – 7%

Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock (Boston Beery Company, Boston, MA)

Sam Adams partnered with Felchlin, a renowned Swiss chocolatier, to develop this brew.  They started with a careful selection of roasted malts combined with hand-selected Noble hops from Bavaria. After using an ancient brewing process called Krausening, they slowly aged the beer on a bed of rare dark cocoa nibs. The resulting beer has a big, malty character with complex aromas and flavors of chocolate, honey and vanilla in the beer.

ABV -   5.5%
Malts – TWo row pale, Carmel, Munich, Choclate
Hops -  Tettnang, Tettnanger and Spalt-Spalter Noble
Calories per 12 oz -  230

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In this episode Erik and Dusty swig a couple of wintery, Christmasy brews:  Jubelale from Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, and a Christmas Ale from Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California.

Jubelale (the first beer ever bottled by Deschutes Brewery) is rewed with dark crystal malt creating a “luscious holiday note with bountiful hops to excite your taste buds.”

• ABV – 6.7%
• IBUs – 60
• 216 calories per 12 oz serving

Christmas Ale has been brewed every year since 1975. This Ale’s recipe (which remains top secret) is different every year (just like the tree on the label), but the message is always the same: “joy and celebration of the newness of life.”

• ABV – Varies
• Available in 12-ounce bottles, magnums, and on draught

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In this episode Erik and Dusty go head-to-head with one brew… Pike Brewing Company’s Pike Entire Wood Aged Stout.

This ain’t your daddy’s wood aged stout. Think of this not as one beer, but a mixture of three of Pike’s beers:

• XXXXX Extra Stout, original gravity 10.73, 7.00% ABV
• XXXXX Extra Stout aged 6+ months in oak Bourbon barrels
• Imperial Stout, original gravity of 10.98, massive 12% ABV

The blend contains 42.7% barrel aged beer and weighs in at a heft 9.5% alcohol. According to the PR sheet, “the taste is complex with velvety malt tones, a coffee aroma, and a palate and finish of bitter chocolate.” The pale and crystal malts, along with roasted barley, is balanced by a heaping dose of Yakima Valley Willamette, Goldings and Columbus hops in the boil, then finished off with even more Willamette and Goldings. Topping it off “are the underlying wood tones perfumed by the caramel sweetness of wood-aged Kentucky Bourbon.”

Wooo-eeee!

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The Taste Bud boys venture into Barleywine territory!  On this episode Erik and Dusty sample Rogue Brewery’s Old Crustacean and Hog Heaven from Avery Brewing.

What are barleywine’s exactly?  Here’s a tidbit from Rogue’s website:

In Britain, seasonal brews for winter are high in alcohol, robust, malty, and dark. The two main styles of these brews are Old Ales and Barleywines. As the name suggests, barleywines are similar to wines in alcohol and need aging but are derived from grain, not the grape.

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Time to dive into the Belgian funk again!  In this episode Dusty and Erik suck down Pranqster, a Belgian Golden Ale from North Coast Brewing Company in Fort Bragg, California.  Fort Bragg is a beautiful little coastal town on Highway 1 way up in Northern California most famous for Red Seal Ale.  However, Pranqster is a fantastic foray into the Belgian beerscape.

Are you in need of some salvation this holiday season?  If so, the second beer on this episode is called Salvation, a Belgian Strong Golden Ale, from Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado.  Avery consistently creates amazing beers. This one is no different.

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The cold and dreary winter months mean it’s time to crack out the heavier beers like stouts and porters.  This week Erik and Dusty jump back on the Colorado Beer Trail and warm up with some local brews. Chocolate and milk are the themes this week as the Taste Bud boys sucks down some Double Chocolate Stout from Fort Collins Brewery, and then they get kicked in the milk duds with Ska Brewing’s Steel Toe Milk Stout!

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Vinnie and Natalie Cilurzo own and operate one of the most legendary, cult breweries in the entire country — Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California. If you haven’t heard of Russian River… what keg have you been living in?!

Dusty (whose lips have never touched a RRBC beer) and Erik (whose lips have touched everything) take on the hoptacular Pliny the Elder (Roman author and naturalist who came up with the term for hops) and Blind Pig (another term for a speakeasy) from this fabled brewery.

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