2016 New Glarus releases

This is great news - love this stuff.

 

I liked milk stout, not as good as other thumbprints, but I do hope to see it again.

 

Yeah, me too. As a seasonal at $8 / 6pk.

 

Any idea if the new batch of Cran-bic is pasteurized?

 

I would assume yes until someone says otherwise.

 

How well does Enigma age? I have a bottle of it left and am curious as to what to expect.

 

I just drank one April 3 and it was delicious. Hasn't really changed much.

 

Awesome, thanks Ri0

 

Other than the R&D releases, I'd say this pretty much covers aging anything from New Glarus.

 

sans Scream and Moonman.

 

More specifically for the fruited beers and sours they release, they seem to pasteurize most if not all of these, so I doubt they change much over a longer period of time, if at all. Based on my experiences aging these beers, their bottling yeast doesn't seem to add much (other than carbonation, of course).

 

Wild Sour changed quite a bit with time. It was amazing fresh but after a year or more it was a shadow of its former self.

 

True. Also perhaps Coffee Stout, though obviously in a different way.

 

I still have a couple of bottles. I thought it was great last summer, didn't notice any real difference.

 

I just read that Cran Bic is back, is that true? I need to make my way up to Wisconsin.

 

It sure is and it is available everywhere right now.

 

And it's fantastic.

 

I smell trouble - Next Door Brewing just released a new beer called Bubbler.

 

If it is only on tap, no big deal.

 

I haven't seen it anywhere but their website says in bottle and draft.