TX Label Approvals

Today's label approvals:

5 Stones Craft Brewery - Aloha Pine Blonde Ale (6.54% 25.4 oz. bottles / kegs)
5 Stones Craft Brewery - Norma Jean Blonde Ale (6.83% 25.4 oz. bottles / kegs)
Brouwerij L. Huygne - Beaujardin Framboise (3.57% 25.4 oz.)
Brouwerij L. Huygne - Beaujardin Rougheberries (Use-Up Expires 9-30-2013) (4.58% 25.4 oz.)
Harviestoun - Harviestoun Ola Dubh - Ale Aged in Whiskey Special Reserve 12 (8% 11.2 oz.)
Harviestoun - Harviestoun Ola Dubh - Ale Aged in Whiskey Special Reserve 16 (8.1% 11.2 oz.)
Harviestoun - Old Engine Oil Ale (5.8% 12 oz.)
Harviestoun - Old Engine Oil Black Ale (5.8% 11.2 oz)
Harviestoun - Old Engine Oil Engineer's Reserve Blacke (9.5% 11.2oz)
Left Hand Brewing - Week Sauce Porter (6.51% kegs)
Peticolas - Duke Barley Wine Ale (11.93% kegs)
Peticolas - Moneypenny ESB - (6.07% kegs)
Peticolas - Sit Down or I'll Sit You Down IIPA (10.31% kegs)
Peticolas - White Room Beer (4.63% kegs)
Saint Arnold - Free Press White Noise (4.91% kegs)
Stone RuinTen IPA (10.8% 22oz.)

 

Mmm, ola dubh. yum.

 

2nded. I'm extremely excited for Harviestoun. I hope JW Lees is soon to follow. Dat barleywine.

 

CHECK

 

Another beer that was listed in the TABC label approvals was St. Arnold's Bishop Barrel 1 (Approved May 23, 2013). Confused me a bit...

 

A bunch of Peticolas coming out. Curious how these showings will be.

 

3rded on both counts.

A friend and his wife just had a baby a few weeks ago and he's looking for a beer that can age for 21 years. I wonder if Harvest Ale might be in the frame for that gig.

 

I tasted a 1993 Harvest Ale this past Sunday. It was not good, unless you like eating paper.

 

I think pretty much the only beer that could potentially go for 21 years is Sam Adams Utopias, or a Gueuze/Lambic. I hear the occasional barleywine making it that far and maintaining decency, but not many.

 

I'm ready for Prairie Ales to finally be available in Houston. I know they have already gotten label approval, but I'm just impatient sometimes.

 

I stashed away some Life & Limb after my kid was born in 2011. Not sure if it will hold up but it seemed fitting.

 

10.2%? I'm sure it'll hold for a few years and then turn into sweet barleywine. /sarcasm.

 

1986 westmalle tripelle was good!

 

Thomas Hardy's Ale would be an ideal candidate but I don't think it's been brewed since 2008, although I've heard rumours of a comeback. If Courage Russian Imperial Stout is being made to the original recipe it might work, although 21 years seems a bit optimistic for that one.

Alternatively he could commission Jester King to brew a stock ale in the style of those beers the lord of the manor would brew and keep for 21 years when a son and heir was born. Got your ears on Jeff?

 

Today's label approvals:

903 Brewers - Chosen One, Cocunut American Ale (6.27% kegs)
903 Brewers - Roo's Red Ale (6.81% kegs)
Abita - Select Mayhawk (7% kegs)
Armadillo - Greenbelt Farmhouse Ale (5.17% kegs)
Armadillo - Quakertown Stout (9.2% 12.oz + kegs)
Branchline Brewing - Mielito Collaboration Ale w/ Honey (7.45% kegs)
Branchline Brewing - River Bend Pale Ale (7.43% kegs)
Great Divide - 19th Anniversary Ale (10.2% 22 oz. + kegs) - Ale brewed with birch syrup and aged on birch chips
Karbach - Hop Delusion IIPA (10.45% 22 oz.)
Karbach - No. 004 Roll in the Hay Ale Brewed with Spices, Aged in Wine Barrels (7.89% 22 oz. + kegs)
Prairie Artisan Ales - Prairie Ale (8.2% 25.4oz + kegs)
Rahr and Sons - Black Saison (7.13% kegs)
Rahr and Sons - Bucking Bock Ale (7.94% kegs)
Rahr and Sons - Gravel Road (7.92% kegs)
Rahr and Sons - Midnight Cab Ale (7.13% kegs)
Rahr and Sons - Summertime Wheat Ale (5.44% kegs)
Rahr and Sons - Tenderfoot American Barleywine (10.98% 22oz bottles)
Rahr and Sons - To Thee Ale -The Regulator (8.36% kegs)
Ranger Creek - La Bestia Aimable (9.4% 12 oz.)
Ranger Creek - Oatmeal Pale Ale (5.8% 12 oz.)
Upslope - India Pale Ale (7.2% kegs)
Upslope - Pale Ale (5.8% kegs)
Wicked Beaver - Hoperation IPA (7.25% 22 oz. + kegs)

Cheers!

 

Glad to see Roll in the Hay has approval, hopefully it will be hitting shelves soon.

 

woohoo, hop delusion!

 

GD 19th anniversary is pretty damn tasty this year.