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Better From The Barrel: Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter
Update: This post is being retroactively fitted to run in our column “Better From The Barrel?” The story of how Flying Dog got its start is as strange as the labels that grace their bottles. In 1983, a...
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Better From The Barrel: Heavy Seas Below Decks Barleywine
First of all I would like to introduce a new column to The Beer Circle: Better From The Barrel! In this series of posts, our writers will taste a beer and barrel aged version of that same beer to...
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Better From The Barrel: Kuhnhenn Fourth Dementia (4D)
Kuhnhenn Brewing Company is not a brewery I can say I was very familiar with until a few months ago when I was offered a few of their beers in a trade. After looking up the kinds of beers they were...
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SAVOR: Better from the Barrel: Sierra Nevada / Dogfish Head Life & Limb 2 at...
Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head are two breweries that we here at The Beer Circle are familiar with, and you should be too. I went to Churchkey for the second straight night to check out Sierra Nevada’s...
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Better from the Barrel: Stillwater Artisanal Ales Folklore
Stillwater Artisanal Ales is an interesting brewer to say the least. They operate under the “gypsy” brewer moniker (of Mikkeller fame) and brew beers at different breweries across the land. They have...
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Catoctin Creek Distillery – Barrel Source for Virginia / DC
Cask Strength and regular Roundstone Rye Barrels, Barrels, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Barrel, Barrels. every where, Nor any drop to drink. - borrowed badly from Samuel Taylor...
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Better From The Barrel: Stone’s Vertical Epics
Churchkey’s night of Vertical Epics not only featured Stone’s yearly special releases all the way back to 2003, it had a few of the offers aged in various barrels as well. Having never had a true...
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Better From The Barrel: Hardywood Gingerbread Stout
A few weeks back I made the trip down to Richmond, Virginia to check out Hardywood Park Craft Brewery and their bourbon barrel aged Gingerbread Stout release. It was a bit out of my way, but the...
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Better From The Barrel: Prairie and Pirate Bomb!
From the same tasting that brought you the video gem of Greg and I taking down Stone’s Crime, I now bring you the latest in the Better From The Barrel? series featuring Prairie Artisan Ales‘ Prairie...
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