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Shelf Sightings – April 21, 2017

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Calling all beer geeks! Here are the beers that hit shelves this week at liquor stores, bottle shops and better grocery stores throughout the St. Louis area. Please contact your favorite retailer for current availability.

Status: Limited
Brewery: Bell's
Name of Beer: Mars
Beer Style: Imperial IPA
Description:   The first release in Bell’s Planet Series, Mars (The Bringer of War) is a double IPA with a complex hop character and a malty backbone. Notes of tropical fruit, citrus, pine, lemon, lime and pineapple are all present in both the aroma and flavor. Hopped at a ratio of about 3.4 pounds of hops per barrel, the recipe for Mars was developed from a trial batch called Larry’s Latest Double IPA brewed in our original brewery located adjacent to the Eccentric Café in downtown Kalamazoo.       6 pack bottles

 

Status: Limited
Brewery: Lagunitas
Name of Beer: Davey Murray's Best
Beer Style: Scotch Ale
Description:   This Scotch Ale is sweet, but not cloying. It's strong, but not brash. It's smooth and smokey, like a good dram among friends. Cheers!    6 pack bottles
Status: Limited
Brewery: Perennial
Name of Beer: Hopfentea
Beer Style: Berliner Weisse
Description:  Collaboration with Hopleaf! We started by brewing a traditional German Berliner weiss—which Napoleon’s men called the Champagne of the North—then tweaked it with a homemade tea blend to impart a slight apricot hue and botanical aromatics.       750 ml bottle
Status: Limited
Brewery: Prairie Artisan Ales
Name of Beer: Paradise
Beer Style: Imperial Stout
Description:  Coconut Vanilla Stout. It’s about to get really hot outside. How about a cold glass of refreshing Imperial Stout. Yep, you heard that right. Brand new to our line up is Prairie Paradise. We took a stout, gave it a hint of vanilla and a good deal of toasted coconut and created one season defying, genre bending brew. Imperial stouts are usually thought of as a cold weather beer, but here the coconut and vanilla blend push the image of the stout into a year round, all season style.    12 ounce bottle

 

Status: Limited
Brewery: Prairie Artisan Ales
Name of Beer: Apricot Funk
Beer Style: Sour/Wild Ale
Description:  Sour ale aged on apricots.    500 ml bottle

 

Status: Returning Seasonal
Brewery: Ska
Name of Beer: Mexican Logger
Beer Style: Mexican Style Lager
Description:  If you are a closet Pacifico drinker during the warmer weather then seek this one out. It is a far better brew, my friends. SAAZ hops are the star in this amazingly delicious lager.    6 pack cans

 

Status: Returning Seasonal
Brewery: Great Divide
Name of Beer: Roadie
Beer Style: Grapefruit Radler
Description:  Roadie Grapefruit Radler was named both for the road biking cyclist (roadie) and the German word for cycling (radler) and inspired by Great Divide’s roots in the cycling community. Brewed with natural grapefruit puree, this easy-drinking ale pours a hazy sunrise gold and is bursting with citrus aroma. Unique in its class, this Radler is refreshing and slightly tart, with just enough bitterness to keep both cyclists and spectators coming back for more.     6 pack cans
Status: Limited
Brewery: 2nd Shift
Name of Beer: El Gato Grande
Beer Style: IPA
Description:  Here's a big hoppy IPA that is done the way they should be done and has about four truck loads of hops in it, although it is not very bitter at 74 IBUs. LOTS of Amarillo with a good bit of Citra and Columbus just for a good time.    4 pack cans
Status: Limited
Brewery: 2nd Shift
Name of Beer: Little Big Hop
Beer Style: Session IPA
Description:  We like drinking, but big beers can be overwhelming. We made Little Big Hop to provide a punch of hop aroma and flavor without killing your taste buds. This beer is stupid good. Hops used: Magnum, Cascade, Zythos, Simcoe, Columbus.    4 pack cans
Status: Limited
Brewery: 2nd Shift
Name of Beer: Cat Spit Stout with Blueprint Coffee
Beer Style: Stout
Description:  Same as our regular Cat Spit Stout, but brewed with Blueprint Coffee. Coffeey, roasty, blah blah blah, it's a stout, just drink it, it's really good.    750 ml bottle

 

Status: Limited
Brewery: Latitude 42
Name of Beer: Bourbon Barrel Aged Lucifer's Cuvee
Beer Style: Imperial Stout
Description:  Dangerously devastating, Lucifer’s Cuvée is our Double Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. Intense hearty rye, along with a decadent gourmet chocolate essence, are balanced by the addition of Cascade hops. Aged in bourbon barrels since October of 2014.      22 ounce bottle

 

Status: New!
Brewery: 4204 Main Street
Name of Beer: 420/4
Beer Style: American Pale Ale
Description:  Our American pale ale is high on flavor, and isn’t a one hit wonder. The result of a joint effort by our brewers, the 420/4 dispenses notes of sticky hops with just the right amount of malt.    6 pack cans

 

Coming soon: It looks like The Cooper Project from Goose Island got pushed back to next week. Keep watching the shelves!

 

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