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Owen Ogletree's Brewtopia Brewsletter
November 10, 2019
Owen is founder/editor of Brewtopia.info, columnist for Southern Brew News and Beer Connoisseur Magazine, lecturer at Knoxville's Brewing & Distilling Center, founder/director of the Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting and Classic City Brew Fest, a BJCP National Beer Judge and Great American Beer Festival judge.
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Follow our craft beer adventures...
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- Tickets to our Two Georgia Beer Fests Make Great Holiday Gifts!
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 Brussels Beer Project Jungle Joy is a 6.6% ABV ale with tart, fruity passion fruit and mango additions. This delicious fruit bomb comes across as smooth and complex - a perfect pairing with grilled shrimp or lemon butter sautéed fish.
 Creature Comforts brings back Tritonia with a tropical fruit and citrus twist. The gose begins with a kick of sourness, followed by refreshing notes of fruit, coriander and mild sea salt. This new edition offers pleasant complexity from additions of pineapple and lemon.
 Gate City Brewing Freedom Fighter IPA offers a robust malt backbone highlighted by a spicy hop aroma and flavor. This spicy, earthy IPA was done as a benefit for the Well Spring Living and Out of the Darkness organizations in an attempt to bring awareness and fight human trafficking.
 Good Word Hollow Moon Imperial Stout. Everyone knows that the moon is a hollow alien space station designed to observe the Earth, right? Good Word created a masterpiece with this boozy, rich, chocolatey stout highlighted with hints of toasted coconut, vanilla and cocoa nibs.
 Sceptre Brewing Arts Silver Door. This tart pale ale contains blackberries and Eureka hops for a refreshing, sour punch of jam, sweet-tarts, citrus and kiwi.
 Scofflaw Juicy Joe. This hazy IPA showcases the spicy, pungent notes of Zythos and Mosaic hops, along with a sweet malt profile and tropical fruit nose. It's quite crushable at 6% ABV, and a great pairing for almost any taco.
 Steady Hand Cloudland Hazy IPA contains all the best components that will thrill any "HazeBro." Soft, starchy malts provide the prefect canvas for a lovely hop nose and flavor profile. Satisfying and quaffable.
 Torched Hop Citrageddon is an amazing fresh hop pale ale from the guys at Torched Hop brewpub in Atlanta. This 5.2% ABV, deep golden ale contains a touch of haze, 35 IBUs and an impressive dose of Citra hops. The light bitterness and Citra hop flavors make the beer quite memorable.
 Trooper Sun and Steel. This 4.8% ABV lager from the UK started life with a lager yeast, followed by a second fermentation with an authentic Japanese saké yeast that provides a soft, slightly sweet, fruity hint of complexity in an otherwise light, delicious, well-constructed lager. Sun and Steel takes its name from the Iron Maiden song that appeared on the band's 1983 Piece of Mind album.
 UrbanTree FC Fan Cider is the official cider of the Atlanta United football club. At 6.5% ABV, this medium-dry, straight-forward cider comes across as immensely drinkable and refreshing, with appealing apple notes and a medium body. It'll be perfect for tailgating with a chicken salad sandwich and chips.
 Viking Alchemist's Celestial is full-bodied, still mead with gorgeous honey notes backed by a rich peach profile from added fruit. This honey wine was aged for several months in a bourbon barrel, providing a complementary vanilla/oak framework on the palate.
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Line Creek Brewing in Peachtree City recently released a series of creative, small-batch IPAs that includes Blood Orange, Grapefruit Pomegranate, Coffee-Vanilla, Imperial Session, Mango Habanero and Cotton Candy. November showcased the release of "episode two" of Line Creek's "Pastry Stout Series" that's called Stouts for Staying Alive. This brew comes in as an 8% ABV coffee white stout. This winter, also keep an eye out for Line Creek's Meller Feller pistachio vanilla porter and Blind Wolf barrel-aged imperial stout.
Phil Farrell, a longtime homebrewer and BJCP Grand Master beer judge, recently opened StillFire Brewing in Suwanee. Phil and his partners are quite proud of the opening lineup of StillFire beers that are available in their inviting taproom that sports a great vibe. Stop in for a tour, nibble from the food trucks, and choose from exceptional house beers that include Orange Diva Blood Orange Wheat, Double Dropout Double IIPA, Why GA Rye, Boom Boom Belgian Single-ish, Breaking Blonde, Bingo Mango Bongo Mango Sour, Midnight Voyage Cuban Coffee Stout and Hoochie Mama Milk Stout.
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 Southern Brewing Company
Fog Machine Hazy NEIPA
The guys at SBC in Athens, Georgia have added a super-popular, hazy IPA to their lineup of tasty brews. Fog Machine holds 6% ABV, glows with a bright golden hue, and offers mouth-watering notes of pineapple, mango, grapefruit, kiwi, lemon and orange. It's a drinkable New England-style IPA that is well-crafted and loaded with complexity and drinkability.
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- 12/06/2020 - EVENTIDE BREWING's taproom near Grant Park in Atlanta hosts a special release celebration for its Kattegat Baltic Porter.
- 01/11/2020 - ATLANTA CASK ALE TASTING at the exciting new Bold Monk brewpub! Experience 55+ exclusive, creative beers and ciders at one of Atlanta's favorite craft beer festivals. Click here for TICKETS.
- 04/05/2020 - CLASSIC CITY BREW FEST, Athens, GA. 25th ANNIVERSARY! 50+ exciting cask ales, local Athens draft beer booths, live music, BBQ food truck and special beers uncapped each hour! Tickets on sale now for only $39.99!
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UP NEXT...
- Owen Ogletree, The Beer Wench and Ashton Smith trek to the Russian border country of Estonia to check out the best breweries and pubs in the capital city of Tallinn. Watch social media for our photos and reviews!
Photo: The Helsinki Scoop
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