New Summer Brews

Point has a new summer brew coming out soon called Drop Dead Blonde Ale. It will apparently get a soft release at the Great Taste this year and other such events. I presume this means that their current summer seasonal, Nude Beach, will be going away.

The label for Capital's Eternal Flame has been approved.





Seems a little early to seek approval considering the stuff isn't going to be out until next summer. They don't procrastinate over there in Middleton, I guess.

Eternal Flame is a "vertical" beer. Here's a story with an explanation:

On April 17, Brewmaster Kirby Nelson will brew the seed beer for what will become "Eternal Flame," a vertical beer that will begin with a hybrid recipe of the brewery's Autumnal Fire and Eisphyre beers.

The 50 barrels brewed April 17 will sit for a year. Then next April, Nelson will brew another 50 barrels and blend it with the 50 barrels brewed this year. After a two-month aging, 50 barrels of the mixture will be bottled in June 2012. The remainder will age for another year and then another 50 barrels will be brewed in 2013 and be mixed with the aged beer. Another 50 barrels will be bottled and sold in four-packs, with the remainder stored for the following year's batch. The process is intended to go on for years.

Good lord! You'd think a doppelbock weighing in at 9.1% would be something you'd release in the autumn or winter.