that which is new and rare...again...

'eyyyyyyyyyyyyy,

OK, so one day I promise I will post with more regularity with things like tastings, product reviews, interviews, and all that jazz.  Unfortunately, ambition far exceeds spare time, especially when I'm moving to a new house this weekend!  But, in the interest of y'all folk, here's a quick list of the MANY new beers we received this week:

Lagunitas - Wilco Tango Foxtrot 22oz bombers and Imperial Red 6packs.  

Founders - nothing new but getting a limited amount of Double Trouble back in stock.  Remember to call ahead and place your pre-order for Kentucky Breakfast Stout which releases on March 15th.  2 bottle limit per person.

MacTarnahan's Spine Tingler 22oz, a belgian-style tripel from Oregon.

Jolly Pumpkin Maracaibo Especial and Weizen Bam, a brown ale made with cocoa and a wheat from our oak aging friends in the midwest.

Mikkeller - I mean...we got a LOT more Mikkeller back.  YAY!  Including, Black Hole, I Beat yoU, Invasion IPA, Hoppy Easter, Hop Burn High, Green Gold IPA, more Draft Bear, and more!

De Ranke Guldenberg, an extremely highly rated tripel.

Sierra Nevada CANS!!!!  12 packs of Pale Ale and 4 packs of Torpedo (which is fantastic).

Blue Point - a brewery from Long Island that's very popular back in NYC.  Bombers of Toasted Lager - their flagship, Pale Ale, and RastafaRYE.

There are also some great sales going on.  Moinette Brune - gets 90+ on RateBeer in both overall and style, De Koninck 4pks - Jason Alstrom says it's one he'd keep in his fridge, and Rogue XS 7 oz I2PA, McRogue, and YSB which are being discontinued.

There's lots more new stuff which I'll post once I'm able to price and put them on the floor.  Until then...

Cheers,
Evan G.

Specialty glassware, Closeouts and Adds

Got a few new goodies, a ton of new glassware and some killer closeouts in this weekend:

Adds:
+ Rogue XS Imperial Stout 7oz
+ Geary's Summer Ale
+ MGD "64" Lemonade

Closeouts:
- Magic Hat Demo Black IPA 1/2 barrels $69
- Rogue XS Imperial Red, Imperial Porter and Imperial IPA 750mL swingtop bottles 1/2 price!!!
- Poperings Hommel Bier 750mL in a gift tin $4.99!
- Izze Sparkling Blueberry (non-alcoholic) 4 pks $2.99!

And I totally stocked the glassware cabinet with new goodies from the likes of Victory, St Feuillien, La Trappe, Trapp Family, Cuvee des Trolls, Achouffe (all three), Schneider, Erdinger, Liefmans and many many more! Stop on by to see what's new. The cabinet is right between the main registers.

Cheers and happy graduation to all the Seniors out there! Be safe!
El Jefe

Running out of room for New Adds and kegs!

So it's happened again: I ran out of room on our shelves and had to reorganize things somewhat. In the center isle on the left the first set of shelves was dedicated to all Belgian ales and American Belgian-style ales. But with today's new adds, I had to start moving some of the American-Belgo beers around the corner to the main American bomber shelves. Things that were moved include Brooklyn Local 1 & 2 and the Saint Somewhere beers.

So here's the newest adds:
+ Alvinne "The Oak Melchior" - ale brewed with mustard seeds aged for 6 months in Calvados barrels! (Yeh, only 6...well, 5 bottles available for sale! Located in the Rare & Vintage Cabinet)
+ De Dolle Export Stout 11.2 oz
+ de Glazen Toren Ondineke Oilsjtersen Tripel 750mL
- de Glazen Toren Cuvee Angelique 750mL
+ Dr. Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse 500mL
+ Thornbridge Saint Petersburg Imperial Stout 16.9oz
+ Wye Valley Dorothy Goodbody's Our Glass ale 16.9oz
+ Alexander Keith's Lager, Pale Ale and Brown Ale 6 packs

For those of you looking for a steal of a keg deal:
+ Narragansett Lager 1/2 barrel kegs - $49 + deposit!!!

Also in our keg room:
- Allagash White 5 gal. keg
- Smuttynose IPA 5 gal. keg

New in the Mead (honey wine) section:
+ Maine Mead Works HoneyMaker Blueberry 750mL

And lastly, in the liquor store:
+ Rogue Spirits Spruce Gin 750mL

Cheers!
Jeff

New Limited Adds!

Fresh off the dock from Belgium:
+ de Dolle Stille Nacht 2010

Fresh from Switzerland:
+ BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien Grand Cru (Sangiovese cask) 2009 **Only 12 bottles came to Vermont and they all reside within our walls!**

Fresh from England:
+ Wychwood King Goblin - brewed only on a Full Moon - and we're the only store to get it!

Fresh from Oregon:
+ Rogue Old Crustacean Barleywine 2010 (7 oz)

Come and get it!
Cheers,
Jeff

Vintage Releases!

Just wanted to put out a post about what we released from our Beer Cave into the Rare & Vintage Cabinet:
- Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary "Fritz & Ken's" Stout
- Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary "Charlie, Fred & Ken's" Helles Bock
- Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary "Jack & Ken's" Black Barleywine Ale
- Rogue Double Dead Guy 2008
- Rogue Old Crustacean Barleywine 2008
- Stone Imperial Russian Stout 2007, 2oo8 & 2009
- Stone Old Guardian Barleywine 2008 & 2009
- Southern Tier Krampus Imperial Helles Bock 2009

Lots of great goodies for the Holidays!
Cheers,
Jeff

New Adds!!!

Brand new babies:
+ Dogfish Head My Antonia 750mL
- more Dogfish Head Theobroma 750mL's
- more Dogfish Head Bitches Brew 750mL's (SOLD OUT!)
- more Dogfish Head Burton Baton 4pk
+ Rodenbach 750mL
+ Rodenbach Grand Cru 750mL (and glassware!)
+ Boon Kriek 750mL
+ Boon Framboise 750mL
+ Boon Gueuze 750mL
+ Palm 6pk (and glassware!)
- Southern Tier Krampus 22oz
+ Rogue McRogue Scotch Ale 7oz
+ Southern Tier Oak-Aged "Cuvee 3"

Sam Adams/Weihenstephaner Infinium SOLD OUT before it even arrived at our store. We had WAY more people on the wait list than bottles to fill the orders with. Sorry...hopefully next year they will brew more!

Cheers,
Jeff

Vintage Release This Friday, Adds, and other things

'Tis the season for gift giving and buying something special (sometimes for yourself, of course!), so it's time to open up the doors on our Beer Cave and release some goodies into the Rare & Vintage Cabinet! Starting Friday morning you'll see vintage goodies from Stone (Imperial Russian Stout and Old Guardian *see below*), Brooklyn Monster, the last of our Rogue Old Crustacean 2008 and bottles from the Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Series! As with all our vintage releases, these are first come, first served.

And for a couple new adds:
+ Olde Burnside (Ten Penny) Father Christmas 1 liter swingtops (in the cooler on the top shelf, same door as the growlers)
+ Stella Artois 750mL cork & caged bottles
+ Heineken 5 Liter Mini-keg gift set with 2 glasses
+ Lake Placid Winter 6 pk
- Southern Tier Krampus 22oz
- Sam Adams Perfect Pint glasses are now back in-stock

And a couple updates:
- Dogfish Head Bitches Brew is scheduled to arrive in our store this Friday
- Still no exact ETA on Sam Adams/Weihenstephaner Infinium, sorry!
- Brooklyn Monster arrives soon!
- more sour beers Friday

** Stone Old Guardian and Imperial Russian Stout Update - As some of you might have already read/heard, Stone will not be brewing these beauties in 2011 as we now know them. They have started a program called "Odd Beers for Odd Years" and will brew Belgo-versions of these classic monsters in 2011. As these are my 2 favorite Stone beers, and I suspect some of you will agree, we have purchased all the remaining inventory from our supplier! If you'd like to read more about this, check out the BeerAdvocate.com thread here. **

And if you're looking to give the gift of beer this year, why not make it even more awesome with a nice specialty glass? Check out our overflowing selection of pint glasses and specialty glassware up front by the registers! We also have gift sets that come with a glass on the gift rack between the registers.

Hoppy Holidays! (...I know, a beer pun, right?)
Cheers,
Jeff

Stone Arrivals & others

Finally! It's a month and two days after the release of the 2010 Stone Vertical Epic, but it's now on our shelves!!!

Added:
+ Stone Vertical Epic 10.10.10
- Stone Double Bastard 2010 22oz & 3 Liters
+ Victory Yakima Glory 6 packs
- Dogfish Head Chicory Stout 6 packs

Upcoming releases from our Beer Cave in the next month:
- Brooklyn Monster Ale 2009
- Rogue Old Crustacean Barleywine 2008
- All Four Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary bottlings
- Gouden Carolus Cuvee Van de Kaiser Blauw/Blue 2008

Cheers!
Jeff

New adds and Closeouts!

Happy Halloween Weekend everyone! Got a few new goodies and some bad-ass additions to the Steals & Deals Room!

New:
+ Scaldis Noel 250mL bottles (12%, no spices!)
+ Scaldis Prestige 2009 750mL
+ Trout River Knight Slayer Imperial Stout 6 packs

And for super-awesome Deals:
- Rogue Double Dead Guy 2008 & 2009 750mL's...1/2 price!
- Rogue Imperial Younger's Special Bitter 750mL black swing-top's...1/2 price!
- Stoudt's Heifer-in-Wheat 6 packs $4.99 + dep.!!!

And although it's not beer, it's got bubbles:
- Yellow Tail Sparkling Rose $4.99! (Reg. $10.99!)

Have a happy, scary, relaxing, ridiculous, spooky, lazy, confusing, pretentious and satisfying Halloween weekend!

Cheers,
Jeff

PS> Monday marks the Vermont arrival of Stillwater Artisanal Ales - go to The Farmhouse Tap & Grill for the official kick-off party on Monday night!!

Rogue Whiskey and Adds

I am proud to say that Vermont can be added to the list of states that have Rogue's Dead Guy Whiskey! It's sold through our Liquor Outlet side and retails around $35 for a 750mL bottle. It's made with the same 4 grains that are used to brew their Dead Guy Ale and is "Ocean Aged in Oak for 1 Month." We got in 24 bottles and they will most likely go fast, especially with Halloween just around the corner. Who doesn't want to sip on some Dead Guy for All Hallow's Eve?

In other add news:
+ Woodchuck Pumpkin Cider (Super limited run)
+ Stone/Ballast Point/Kelsey McNair "San Diego County Session Ale" Collaboration
+ North Coast "Acme" IPA 6 packs

Come and get some!
Cheers,
Jeff

New Rogue beers and Le Trappe (not The Trapp)

Got some weekend adds for yas,
+ Rogue Brutal IPA 22oz
+ Rogue "John-John" Hazelnut Brown aged in Rogue Hazelnut Spiced Rum barrels

Koningshoeven is back in stock but it's under the Le Trappe label. Don't confuse this with the Vermont brewery Trapp Lager - totally different.

Cheers!
Jeff

New IPA's and more Steals & Deals!

Lots of goodies this weekend:

After long last, the much anticipated new release from Southern Tier, 2XIPA 6 packs are now in stock and ready to rock. This is a new Double IPA from S.T. that stacks up in attitude between their regular IPA and their Un*Earthly Imperial IPA. Love it. Get some! (Also on draft at The Farmhouse Tap & Grill).

Furthermore, another new(-ish) Imperial IPA from Rogue, the XS Imperial IPA 7oz bottles have arrived and are located in the Rare & Vintage Cabinet due to their small stature. Big beer, small bottle, smaller price tag than before. How could things get any better, you ask? Well, Rogue also sent us 750mL's of their newest Double Rogue - Double Chocolate Stout!

Seasonal additions:
- Otter Creek Oktoberfest 6 and 12 pks
- Magic Hat Night of the Living Dead Variety 12pks

And something completely strange:
+ Coors Light 5.7 Liter "Home Draft" mini-keg-type-thingys They actually look like a propane tank or incendiary device! Weird.

And if those weren't enough reasons to love us, we restocked our Steals & Deals Room today:
- Grimbergen Blonde and Double 6 packs $3.99 + dep. (Reg. 11.29!)
- Otter Creek Russian Imperial Stout 22oz and Quercus Vitus Humulus 22oz $2.99 (Reg. $5.99!)
- Sam Adams Cream Stout 6 packs $3.99 + dep.
- Smirnoff Ice 22oz $0.99! That's Ninety-nine cents!

And oh, yeh - one last thing:
CLOSEOUT KEGS!!!!
- Sam Adams Noble Pils 1/2 barrels
- Otter Creek Kolsch 1/2 barrels
- Wolaver's Coffee Porter 5 gallons
- Beck's 1/2 barrels

Call or stop by for keg pricing! These won't last long!

Whew. That was a lot of work. Hope to see you soon!
Cheers,
Jeff

Adds and Previews for Brew Fest

Yo.

We got in some killer "Adds" yesterday and here's what they are:
+ Stone 14th Anniversary "Emperial IPA" (sic) - a badass IPA brewed with English ingredients and Stone's stones, so to speak...
+ Cisco Whale's Tale Pale Ale 12 pack CANS!!!
+ Reissdorf Kolsch .5L bottles

And some previews of the CrAzY vintage releases to coincide with the Vermont Brewers Festival:
- Vintage Duvel 3 liters
- Some Allagash goodies
- Something that rhymes with "Mami-chlaus"
- Lots of aged Stone brews from our Beer Cave
- Ghost Beers (aka from defunct breweries)
- Maybe a Rogue beer
- And something from Quebec

You'll have to stop by the store starting Friday afternoon to check out all the releases, though. It's all being timed with the Fest - and will be replenished until we're sold out. No reservations, no holds, sorry. First come, first get.

Want to drink some bonzer beers on draft while you're in town for Brew Fest? Stop at The Farmhouse Tap & Grill - killer line-up this weekend including vintage brews and hard-to-find rarities like Scaldis Peche Mel and North Coast Old Stock 2010.

Cheers and have a safe Brewers Fest!
Jeff

New OREgasmic brews and news!

Well, if that didn't get your attention, I don't know what will! New adds this weekend:
+ Chatoe Rogue "OREgasmic Ale" 22oz (Limited Release)
+ Victory Sunrise Weissbier 6 pack (Seasonal)
+ Peak Organic Summer Session Ale 6 pack
+ Molson "X" 8.2oz cans 8 pack
- Anchor Summer 6 packs
- Cisco Brewers Summer of Lager 22oz

Back from MIA status:
- Gritty McDuff's Brown and Pub Style 22oz bombers

A few updates about some other brews:
- Manchester Brewing, the people who brought you the Peppermint Stout and others, has closed up shop and will no longer be available. And I'm sorry to say that we do not have access to any remaining inventory. **UPDATE** I reached out to the brewers at Manchester and he says they did close for a few months, but have re-opened on a "slow schedule" but did not elaborate further. My guess is that we won't be seeing the beers in VT any more either way.
- Koningshoeven (Trappist) is changing their labels to be inline with their European offerings. These beers will soon (2 weeks) be available under the brewery's true name "La Trappe" - not to be confused with Trapp Lager of Vermont. We do still have some of the remaining Koningshoeven bottles on our shelves, but these won't last long and have become instant collector's items. Don't hesitate to stash some in your cellar as these beers will all improve with a few (maybe 10) years!
- Heavy Seas and Oxford Organics, both sub-labels of Clipper City Brewing, will no longer be available for sale in Vermont. We still have a little of each left in-house but will not be able to re-order any more.
- And finally - some GOOD NEWS: We got the official word today that Abita Brewing Co. will soon be available in Vermont! These are the fine folk from New Orleans that brew such tasty numbers as Turbodog, Purple Haze Raspberry Wheat and Jockamo IPA! We can't wait!

Cheers!
Jeff

New Beer and New (Again) beer guy

So this weeks "adds" involve the return of my main-hombre Carl to our beer department as well as some nice beverages. Carl is "wise beyond his beers," impressively knowledgeable about rare, exotic and ridiculously hard-to-come by brews and I'm glad to welcome him back to the team for the Summer months! You can't miss him - dude's super tall!

As for new beer adds:
+ Rogue Imperial Younger's Special Bitter 7 ounce bottles (OR)
- Harpoon Big Bohemian Pilsner (MA & VT)
- Kriek de Ranke (Very Limited, Belgium)
- Duvel 4 packs with a Duvel tulip glass! (Belgium)
- Stoudt's Heifer-in-Wheat (PA)

And back from MIA:
- Negra Modelo 6 packs (Mexico)
- Heather Ales Historic Ales Variety 4 pack (Scotland)

Stop by and say "Hi!" to Carl this weekend! He doesn't know I'm writing this about him, so maybe it'll confuse him if everyone just suddenly knows his name!....

Cheers,
Jeff

New and More Steals & Deals

We got in a couple new brews and we re-stocked our "Steals & Deals" room with lots more goodies (and there's more to come)!

New Adds:
+ Victory Whirlwind Wit 6 packs
+ Rogue John John Juniper (aged in Gin barrels)

New Steals & Deals:
- Rogue Santa's Private Reserve 6 packs and 22oz
- Stoudt's Winter 6 packs
- Heavy Seas The Great Pumpkin 22oz
- Magic Hat Howl 6 packs

Cheers,
Jeff

Ghost Beers

Some beers just have unfinished business on this earth and can't pass on to that big redemption center in the sky just yet. We have a few ghost beers haunting our shelves. The "deadest" beer on our shelves right now hails from the now defunct Pennichuck brewery: Saint Florian Dopplebock Lager 2008. For whatever reason, I was able to order some more of this beer even after the brewery closed their doors.

Another ghost, and this one is "pun-y" for sure, is from Rogue: Double Dead Guy 2008. It's twice as dead and just as collectible. I've got some in my personal collection and am stoked for it to mature.

One last one - Stone is just releasing their 2010 Imperial Russian Stout tomorrow, but I still have those creepy 12oz bottles of the 2008 release, the ones that were originally done for the Japanese market. Come in tomorrow afternoon and grab two brews, two years apart and taste the ghastly goodness!

These beers have all been stored properly and are ready to drink or cellar further. Don't miss out on the chance to fulfill these beers and let them "pass on" to the other side.

(Ok, I know it got a little weird, but thanks for sticking with me.)
Cheers,
Jeff

Plain and simple

New adds:
+ Rogue Chatoe Rouge Single Malt Ale
+ Rogue Imperial Red 7 ounce bottles
+ Urthel Saisonniere 11.2
+ Urthel Hop-It 750mL
+ Moosbacher Lager, Kellerbier, and Schwarze Weisse swing-top .5L's
+ 3 Monts Golden Ale 750mL

And it's back - the SUPER rare release from Unibroue: Quelque Chose! Don't miss out!

The real deal...

Since I counted the beers a week and a half ago in the beer room (850), we've already added another 25 or so, and today I added another 10! Running out of shelving again...

+ Rogue Double Mocha Porter 750mL
+ Old Suffolk Ale (Greene King Brewing, England)
+ Victory Baltic Thunder 22oz
+ Affligem Tripel & Dubbel 750mL (Belgium)
+ Czech Rebel (Czech)
+ B.B. Burgerbrau Dark (Czech)
+ Murphy's Irish Red 6pk (Ireland)
+ Curim Celtic Wheat 4pk (Carlow Brewing, Ireland)
+ Fischer Blonde (France)

Back in stock:
- North Coast beers including Old Rasputin, Red Seal, Scrimshaw, and Pranqster
- North Coast Old Stock 2010 release

Happy (Burlington) Mardis Gras!
Cheers,
Jeff

Cross your fingers!

If all goes well with the world of shipping and receiving tomorrow, the following tasty items will be in stock on our already awesomely full shelves:
+ Rogue John John Ale (Dead Guy Ale aged in Dead Guy Whiskey barrels)
+ Urthel Hop-It (Belgian IPA)
+ Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet
+ Koningshoeven Quad 11.2oz bottles
+ Manchester Brewing - Emperor Norton's Peppermint Stout, Emperor Norton's Cinnamon Stout and John Thomas Red Ale 22oz

And a restock on:
- Southern Tier Krampus

And, if all continues to go well, we'll have lots of new (new to VT) goodies in about 2 weeks!
Cheers and happy drinking!
Jeff