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Weekly Online Newsletter Vol.63
I’m so excited to announce our market wide release of Empyrean Brewing Company Long Route Peanut Butter Porter. I feel it’s the best thing that’s happened to peanut butter since meeting jelly, or in my case meeting chocolate. This beer magically incorporates the flavors of peanut butter with the richness of Porter. Its adult candy in a glass of beer!
With the delightful aroma of a peanut butter cup, this beer maintains a porter backbone with twisting layers of chocolate, peanut butter and toast. Malt forward with very little bite, Long Route is 6% alcohol and 20 IBUs.
“Long Route” Peanut Butter Porter
Empyrean’s Newest Year-Round Beer
Empyrean Brewing Co. is launching Long Route Peanut Butter Porter, an incredibly satisfying and highly demanded porter that will join the brewery’s year-round lineup. Craft drinkers can find Long Route on retail shelves in the fall, 2016.
The Long Route logo features a meandering path, or labyrinth, which is an ancient metaphor for wholeness. As one walks the in and out following circular pattern in a meditative state, the labyrinth serves as a physical representation of the journey to the center of your mind and back out into the world with a broadened understanding of yourself.
“We chose the labyrinth symbol and the name Long Route because it fits with our brewery’s brand story that humanity is curious by nature.” said Rich Chapin, Head Brewer at Empyrean.
“We’re all on a pilgrimage towards enlightenment and eternal happiness. So why not enjoy that journey with a beer in hand?”
With the delightful aroma of a peanut butter cup, this beer maintains a porter backbone with twisting layers of chocolate, peanut butter and toast. Malt forward with very little bite, Long Route is 6% alcohol, 20 IBUs and 14.6o OG.
Long Route Peanut Butter Porter will be available throughout Empyrean Brewing Company’s Midwest distribution footprint in 6-pack bottles and on draught.
http://empyreanbrewingco.com/a-long-route-to-our-newest-year-round-beer/
About Empyrean Brewing Co.
Founded in 1990, Empyrean Brewing Co. is the oldest craft brewery in the state of Nebraska. The adventurous spirit that launched Empyrean Brewing Co. created such beer legends as Chaco Canyon Gold, Third Stone Brown, Dark Side Vanilla Porter, Imperial Mango IPA, and a host of seasonal, specialty and limited release beers.
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What’s Brewing Bergseth Bros.
Weekly Online Newsletter Vol.62
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Weekly Online Newsletter Vol.61
‘Tis the season for winter warmers – beers released around Christmas time for sipping over the cold months ahead.
A few of these beers might satisfy your Christmas cookie cravings; they have hints of oatmeal and nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger, others are toasty and dark with a bit of smokiness. However, most are simply well-made ales with rich malty flavors and enough alcohol to warm you up. There are quite a few winners here – I hate to remind you (and myself), but winter is just beginning, and a few of these beers might help us make it through the long winter ahead.
Blue Moon Cappuccino Oatmeal Stout: Our head brewmaster, Keith Villa, got the idea for this wintery ale while relaxing in a local coffee shop with a frothy cappuccino on a frosty afternoon. The fresh coffee aroma and rich roasted taste of our limited-release Cappuccino Oatmeal Stout is the perfect way to unwind and catch up with friends this winter.
5.9% ABV, 10 IBUs
Samuel Adams Winter Lager: German brewers may have been on to something centuries ago when they created bold, rich bock beers for the winter. For our beer, we brewed a dark wheat bock subtly spiced with fresh ground cinnamon, ginger & orange peel for a deep, smooth flavor and malty finish that will warm you on a cold winter’s night.
5.6% ABV, 22 IBUs, 25 SRM
Samuel Adams White Christmas: As crisp as the first snowfall of the year, this unfiltered white ale is blended with holiday spices including cinnamon, nutmeg, and orange peel. The familiar citrus and wheat characters of the ale are complemented by the warmth of the spices for a festive brew that’s perfect for the season.
5.8% ABV, 8 IBUs, 6 SRM
Samuel Adams Merry Maker: This rich dark gingerbread stout entices with the aromas of the holidays. The flavor of gingerbread comes alive, beginning with the smooth sweetness and heartiness of dark roasted malts and a touch of wheat. But it’s the intensity and spices of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, & ginger that add a wicked kick for a jolly playful brew full of merry mischief
9.0% ABV, 25 IBUs, 75 SRM
Jolly Traveler Winter Shandy: Jolly Traveler is a cheerful winter beer inspired by the senses of the season. A wheat beer made with real orange, pomegranate and holiday spices, this Traveler is a refreshing libation for the season of festivity.
4.4% ABV, 7 IBUs
Summit Winter Ale: One taste and it’s easy to see why the Brits call this style Winter Warmer. Nutty, roasted malt flavor with hints of coffee, caramel, cocoa and a dash of hop spice.
6.5% ABV, 40 IBUs, 54 SRM
Fargo Brewing Company Roustabout Oatmeal Milk Stout (winter seasonal): This Oatmeal Milk Stout pours a beautiful, creamy black with a thick tan head that lasts in the glass. The aroma is filled with and milk chocolate character. The body is smooth and rich, with very low bitterness and a subtle sweetness from milk sugar. The flavor is dominated by chocolate and coffee notes, the beer finishes smooth, sweet, and satisfying.
6.3% ABV, 22 IBUs
Lagunitas Brown Shugga’: Our winter seasonal that falls into the realm of “Dangerously Slammable”, this brew is especially irresponsible. Brown Shugga…How come you taste so good?
9.9% ABV 51 IBUs
Odell Isolation Ale: A funny thing happens here around summer’s end—our eyes start searching the skies for those first fall flakes. As we welcome autumn’s first snow, we celebrate the return of Isolation Ale—a sweet-caramel malty ale balanced by a subtle crisp hop finish. Whether you ski, shred, or shoe, it’ll inspire you to make first tracks.
6.1% ABV, 29 IBUs
Schell Snowstorm 2016 British-Style Ale: As ever y Midwesterner knows, no two Snowstorms are ever alike. As an homage to the uniqueness of our Northern climate, we celebrate the start of ever y winter with a unique Snowstorm of our own, a one-of-a-kind limited edition brew. Brewed in the style of a British Strong Ale, the Snowstorm of 2016 is warm, rich and earthy with a complex malt character ideally suited for brisk Northern nights
6.5% ABV
Fulton The Libertine Imperial Red Ale: A libertine is someone living free of society’s restraints. Similarly, The Libertine doesn’t constrain itself with preconceived notions of what a beer style should be. Loaded with malts that include the UK’s premium Maris Otter and Caramel 60, and topped off with Rye to impart a distinct reddish hue, the Libertine is a malt-dominated red ale like none you’ve ever had before. It boasts a rich, indulgent body without being overly sweet. Conventional classifications fail The Libertine, but who really wants to play by the rules anyway
8.5% ABV, 50 IBUs
LakeFront Warm Front Extra Pale Ale: Warm Front™ arrives in the glass clear copper-gold with a fine, white head. Aromas of pineapple, tangerine, lemon and tropical fruit blow in from late-boil Citra® and Mosaic® hop additions. A medium body delivers sweet citrus with light biscuit and caramel malt flavors, finishing malty-sweet with lingering orange zest bitterness. It’s a vacation from the typical winter ale.
5.4% ABV, 34 IBUs
Rhombus Guys Brewing Company Freak Show English Strong Ale: Deep red… full of roasted barley flavor, Freak Show is an English style strong ale brewed with North Dakota grown 2-row malted barley, roasted barley, crystal malt and some English grown hops to balance this Freak Show out. Step right up and see the show, it will surely please you…
7.5% ABV, 38 IBUs
Empyrean Winter Axis FestivÀle: Winter Axis FestivÁle brings a different spin on a traditional Belgian Abby Ale each year. 2016’s version is deep gold in color with the aroma of snickerdoodle cookies, this beer has mild sweetness up front with a hint of cinnamon in the finish and is brewed strong enough to stand up to winter’s chill. Pair with roasted chicken, chili and spice cake.
6.8% ABV, 62 IBUs
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Weekly Online Newsletter Vol.60
We are excited to announce the Sweet Release of Lagunitas Brown Shugga’. We even included a Thanksgiving recipe – BROWN SHUGGA-IFIED BAKED CANDIED YAMS, along with some great videos from our Friends at Lagunitas.
Brown Shugga’, a seasonal brew from Lagunitas, was created in 1997 as the result of an attempt to rescue a failed batch of Olde GnarlyWine Ale by adding “boatloads of brown sugar”—or so the story goes, anyway. It was a hit and they’ve made it every year since with only one exception (the moving year). Lagunitas, then in the process of building a new brew house, realized that they didn’t have the facilities to brew both their regular beers and Brown Shugga’ (which requires more time to make than the others). In its place they released an excellent IPA that they named Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale, with an apology for not brewing Brown Shugga’ printed on every bottle: Lagunitas Sucks was so popular it’s now a *year-round beer. *Coming Back to Bergseth Bros Soon!
Brown Shugga’ – it’s less sweet than you’d expect, smooth and biscuity-tasting with a subtle brown sugar flavor and piney hops that kick in with a bitterness that intensifies for two or three seconds before starting to fade. When the beer is cold the hop bitterness is the dominant flavor, but it mellows out as it warms up, letting the malts come through more.
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BROWN SHUGGA-IFIED BAKED CANDIED YAMS
It’s that time of year again… The time to gather with friends and family to enjoy copious amounts of great food, fun stories and of course some ice cold brews. So we thought we would share one of our favorite holiday shareables that can easily be whipped up, and perfectly washed down with Brown Shugga’ Ale. How come you taste so good?!
Ingredients
- 5 medium-ish sized yams
- 8 tbsp salty butter
- 1 12 oz bottle o’ Lagunitas Brown Shugga’
- 1 tsp Crushed cinnamon
- ½ tsp Milled nutmeg
- ¼ tsp pulverized clove
- ¼ tsp powdered ginger
- 1 cup granulated shugga’
- ¼ cup brown shugga’ (the kind in the box, not the kind in the bottle…)
- 1 tbsp of the purest vanilla extract you can find.
Instructions
- Turn the oven down from 420 F to 350 F…
- Wash your hands… Then the yams.
- Peel those yams, then slice em into ½ inch thick slices
- Gently throw the yams into a 9”x13”ish baking dish thing.
- Get a medium sized POT and put the butter in it. Get it all melty over medium heat.
- Once the butter is melty, sprinkle in the white & brown sugar (Not the beer), ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground ginger, and ground clove.
- Turn the stove off, then forget that you turned the stove off and check it again. Mix the ingredients, then add the ultra pure vanilla extract & all 12 ounces of the irresponsibly-sweet Brown Shugga’ (the beer this time).
- Pour that candied mixture over the yams (try to coat all the yams with the candied goodness).
- Next, turn the oven back on again… Cover the baking dish with a protective layer of foil, then bake the yams in the oven for 30 minutes. Make a foil hat to prevent alien brain control.
- Remove the yams from the oven, and baste them with MORE of the candied goodness.
- Cover the yams again, and get them BAKED for another 15-20 minutes.
- Carefully remove the yams from the oven, with both hands and let them sit for about 10 minutes before dividing them off to friends or family. Don’t forget to save some for yourself!
- Enjoy it best with a cold Brown Shugga’ Ale. Cheers!
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Bergseth Bros!
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Weekly Online Newsletter Vol.59
I need to come to grips that winter is knocking on our door. I am slowly accepting the fact that in North Dakota/Minnesota winter is a reality. I should be thankful for record highs the last few weeks – I have been enjoying the warm weather (prolonging outdoor chores).
This week I decided to share one of my favorite winter beers and the most popular winter beer in the United States, Samuel Adams Winter Lager. Samuel Adams was the first brewery to ever release seasonal offerings. These beers quickly soared to the top based on the quality and consistency of the beer year after year.
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