New Belgium Brewing(Fort Collins, Colorado) has officially announced that it will begin the Limited Release of Voodoo Ranger Agent 77 IPA in January 2022.
The latest personality to come out of New Belgium’s colorful Voodoo RangerIPA Series, Agent 77 is a “tactically refined” Hazy/Juicy India Pale Ale featuring Nelson Sauvin and Galaxy hops “to create a fruity and floral IPA that’s as charismatic as it is citrusy.” Coming in at 7.7% ABV and 48 IBUs, Agent 77 is “here to crash your fancypants shindig and probably steal your date, too.”
Agent 77 IPA is rolling out now and will be hanging around only as long as supplies last. You can expect to find this Limited Release available in 6-packs of 12 oz. cans and on draft at select craft beer-friendly establishments located in Alabama, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and throughout the rest of NewBelgium’s nationwide distribution network. Prost!
Vital Information for Voodoo Ranger Agent 77 IPA from New Belgium Brewing
Release – Limited/Voodoo Ranger Rotating IPA Series; launching January 2022 Style – Hazy/Juicy India Pale Ale ABV – 7.7% IBUs – 48 Featured Hops – Nelson Sauvin & Galaxy Malts – Pale, Oats & Pilsner Availability – 6-packs of 12 oz. cans & draft Beer Finder – https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/finder/
New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) has officially announced that it will begin the Limited Release of Glühbier in late December 2021.
Inspired by German Glühwein – a mulled-style holiday beverage, Glühbier is a Dark Sour Ale with apple, cranberry, orange and lemon peel, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and ginger. Coming in at 8% ABV, Glühbier is guaranteed to be the “perfect centerpiece on the table” at your holiday gathering.
Glühbier is rolling out now and will hang around only as long as supplies last. You can expect to find this extremely Limited Release available in 750ml bottles at select craft beer-focused establishments located in Colorado, North Carolina and throughout the rest of New Belgium’s distribution network. Prost!
Vital Information for Glühbier from New Belgium Brewing
Release – Limited; late December 2021 Style – Dark Sour Ale ABV – 8% Added Ingredients – Apple, cranberry, orange & lemon peel, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg & ginger Availability – 750ml bottles Beer Finder – https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/finder/
New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) has officially announced that it will begin the Limited Release of Voodoo Ranger Future Hop IPA in September 2021.
The newest release in New Belgium’s rotating series of Voodoo Ranger IPAs, Voodoo Ranger Future Hop IPA is an American India Pale Ale that features a “bionic blend of Lotus and Strata hops.” Coming in at 8% ABV, Voodoo RangerFuture Hop IPA boasts “tropical notes that will teleport your taste buds to the next dimension.”
Voodoo Ranger Future Hop IPA is rolling out now and will be available for a limited time. You can expect to find this Limited Release available in 6-packs of 12 oz. cans and on draft at select craft beer-friendly establishments located in Alabama, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and throughout the rest of New Belgium’s nationwide distribution network. Prost!
Vital Information for Voodoo Ranger Future Hop IPA from New Belgium Brewing
Release – Limited/Voodoo Ranger Rotating IPA Series; September 2021 Style – American India Pale Ale ABV – 8% IBUs – 40 Malts – Pale, Oats, Pilsner & Wheat Hops – Strata, Lotus & Nelson Sauvin Availability – 6-packs of 12 oz. cans & draft Beer Finder – https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/finder/
New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) has officially announced that it will continue its Voodoo Ranger Rotating IPA Series with the May release of Voodoo Ranger 1985 IPA.
Here to take you “back to the future of hazy IPAs,” Voodoo Ranger 1985 IPA is a Hazy/Juicy India Pale Ale “bursting with juicy mango, pineapple and guava flavors and aromatics.” Aiming to be “high in flavor and low in bitterness,” Voodoo Ranger 1985 IPA is a “bright, fruit-forward IPA [that] showcases a refreshing flavor and slightly lower ABV (6.7%) for bodacious drinkability.”
“For 1985 IPA, we wanted to make a hazy IPA to crush during summertime. 1985 uses loads of Citra and Simcoe hops and then dials up the fruit factor with the addition of mango. The result is an impossibly juicy and drinkable IPA arriving just in time for summer.”
– Ross Koenigs, Research and Development Brewer at New Belgium
Voodoo Ranger 1985 IPA is out now with plans to hang around for a limited time. You can expect to find this Limited Release offering available in 6-packs of 12 oz. cans (suggested retail price of $10.99) and on draft at select craft beer-friendly establishments located in Alabama, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and throughout the rest of New Belgium’s distribution network. Prost!
Vital Information for Voodoo Ranger 1985 IPA from New Belgium Brewing
Release – Limited/Voodoo Ranger Rotating IPA Series; launching May 2020 Style – Hazy/Juicy India Pale Ale ABV – 6.7% IBUs – 30 Hops – Citra, Simcoe & Cascade Malts – Pale Malt, Oats & Wheat Added Ingredients – Mango Availability – 6-packs of 12 oz. cans & draft Beer Finder – https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/finder/
New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) has officially announced that it will introduce The Purist Clean Lager, a USDA Certified Organic beer with only 95 calories, as the brewery’s newest Year-Round offering in mid-March 2020.
Meticulously crafted to be “a whole new idea of what beer can be,” The Purist is a Light Lager featuring “pristine, first-use mountain water, organic Oregon barley from the oldest maltster in the Western United States – Great Western Malting – and organic hops grown on a single farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. By honoring the ingredients at every stage of the rigorous process, The Purist is in a new class of its own.” Incredibly clean, light and refreshing, The Purist weighs in at just 3.8% ABV, 95 calories and 3 grams of carbs.
“This is probably the most technically challenging beer I have ever brewed,” said Cody Reif, Research and Development Brewer at New Belgium. “Sourcing organic ingredients to brew a flavorful beer proved to be just short of impossible, but that was only half the battle. Getting the brewing process right was the other half, and I honestly believe we are the only craft brewery in the country that can deliver a beer like this.”
The Purist Clean Lager is scheduled to roll out in mid-March with availability in 6-packs of 12 oz. cans (suggested retail price of $8.99 – $9.99). You can expect to find this new Year-Round offering at craft beer-friendly establishments located in Alabama, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and throughout the rest of New Belgium’s nationwide distribution network. Prost!
Vital Information for The Purist Clean Lager from New Belgium Brewing
Release – Year-Round; launching mid-March 2020 Style- Light Lager ABV – 3.8% Calories – 95 Carbs – 3 grams Featured Ingredients – “Pristine, first-use mountain water, organic Oregon barley from the oldest maltster in the Western United States – Great Western Malting – & organic hops grown on a single farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley” Fun Fact – On brewing organic: “The Purist is a labor of love that brings together New Belgium’s innovation leadership with its endless drive to prove business can be a force for good. Sustainability has been a core value for the brewery since day one and New Belgium’s experience in brewing organic beers can be traced back to the 1990s. Brewing any organic beer is a challenge – brewing The Purist demands perfection. It’s a style that leaves nowhere to hide any flaws. New Belgium’s brewing team is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what beer can be, and The Purist is the latest example.” Availability – 6-packs of 12 oz. cans Beer Finder – https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/finder/
New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) has officially announced that Sour IPA, the “first nationally released IPA of its kind,” will be joining its Year-Round portfolio in March 2020.
The result of “over a decade of experimenting with hops and sours” at New Belgium Brewing, Sour IPA is a “fruit-forward” Hazy India Pale Ale dry-hopped with Citra and Amarillo hops and then blended with “20% wood-aged golden sour.” Just like the “crucially placed bridle point” balances a kite, Sour IPA (7% ABV) “balances acidity and hops with delicate perfection.”
“Perfecting the balance of hops and acidity is very difficult and we’ve been doing it for over 10 years now. We’re experts in this space,” said Lauren Limbach, Wood Cellar Director and Blender for New Belgium Brewing. “Sour IPA is another example of approaching IPA through an artisanal lens to create a completely unique experience for the craft beer drinker.”
Sour IPA is rolling out now with availability in 6-packs of 12 oz. cans (suggested retail price of $10.99) and on draft. You can expect to find this new Year-Round offering at craft beer-friendly establishments located in Alabama, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and throughout the rest of New Belgium’s nationwide distribution network. Prost!
Vital Information for Sour IPA from New Belgium Brewing
Release – Year-Round; launching March 2020 Style – Hazy IPA blended with Wood Aged Golden Sour ABV – 7% Featured Hops – Citra & Amarillo Availability – 6-packs of 12 oz. cans & draft Beer Finder – https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/finder/
New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) has officially announced that it will begin the Limited Release of Voodoo Ranger Starship IPA in January 2020.
Arriving as the first release of 2020 in New Belgium’s Voodoo Ranger Rotating IPA Series, Voodoo Ranger Starship IPA is a Hazy/Juicy India Pale Ale that features Galaxy hops and “unique mid-fermentation dry hopping techniques.” Clocking in at 7.7% ABV, Voodoo Ranger Starship IPA offers a “light to moderate sweetness” complemented by “notes of fresh grapefruit and citrus.”
“We are super excited to launch our first of many brands using a new to New Belgium dry hopping technique called mid-fermentation dry hopping. Years of research went into fine tuning this method and we know it is going to live up to the rest of the Voodoo Ranger series that took 2019 by storm.”
– Ross Koenigs, Research and Development Brewer at New Belgium
Voodoo Ranger Starship IPA released earlier this month (January 2020) and will stick around as long as supplies last. You can expect to find this Limited Release available in 6-packs of 12 oz. cans (suggested retail price of $10.99) and on draft at select craft beer-friendly establishments located in Alabama, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and throughout the rest of New Belgium’s nationwide distribution area. Prost!
Vital Information for Voodoo Ranger Starship IPA from New Belgium Brewing
Release – Limited/Voodoo Ranger Rotating IPA Series; launching January 2020 Style – Hazy/Juicy India Pale Ale ABV – 7.7% IBUs – 50 Hops – Galaxy, Jester, El Dorado & Idaho 7 Malts – Pale, Munich & Oats Fun Fact – “Creating this unique beer is possible due to newly installed brewing equipment that allows Voodoo Ranger brewers to highlight very specific expressions of hop flavors and aromas in beer. The result is fragrances of grapefruit and tropical fruits, with a moderate sweetness and bitterness in balance. Starship IPA marks the first brew with this newly added technology and will be distributed nationally.” Availability – 6-packs of 12 oz. cans & draft Beer Finder – https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/finder/
Hi-Wire Brewing (Asheville, North Carolina) has officially announced that it will release the 2020 installment of its Collaboration 12-pack, a Limited Release mixed pack that includes beers brewed with Ninkasi Brewing Company (Eugene, Oregon), Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, Florida) and New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado), in mid-January.
The annually released Hi-Wire Brewing Collaboration 12-Pack (a.k.a. the Spray Paint Collaboration 12-Pack) never disappoints and is always highly sought-after, but this year’s has gone next level by featuring the following three offerings brewed with true legends in the craft beer industry (descriptions sourced directly from the brewery’s press release):
Almost West IPA | Collaboration with Ninkasi Brewing Company – Let it be known that Ninkasi Brewing Company is one of the best IPA producers in the country, period. Together with the hop wizards themselves, Hi-Wire Brewing sought to blur the line between Northwest and Northeast IPAs by blending a higher bitterness and balanced malt character with the experience of a hazy IPA. Almost West IPA (6.8% ABV), dry-hopped with Citra, BRU-1, Amarillo, and Zappa supported by Imperial’s “Juice” Organic Yeast, was born from this blending of worlds. Spritely tangerine citrus peel, lemon-lime, tart passion fruit, peach flesh, and sweet cherry are just a few characteristics present in this kaleidoscope of hop goodness.
Intercontinental Contemporary Pilsner | Collaboration with Cigar City Brewing – The famed Cigar City Brewing made the trip up to Asheville next, but the beer-centric journey did not stop there. A shared love of lagers and pilsners was the bottom line in their partnership with Hi-Wire and the resulting carbonated passport. Intercontinental Contemporary Pilsner (5% ABV) brings together hops from around the globe – South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. – then melds them with North Carolina-grown heirloom corn and German malt. A subtly toasted cornbread character and creamy mouthfeel from the malt and Jimmy Red Corn tie together the aromas of tropical fruit, guava, and honeydew from whirlpool hop additions.
Belgian Stout | Collaboration with New Belgium Brewing – If the name does not give it away, New Belgium Brewing was founded on traditional Belgian ales, and Hi-Wire Brewing teamed up with their brewers to pay homage to that classic style. Belgian Stout (7% ABV) is not a bold and roasty American-style stout simply brewed with Belgian yeast. The recipe was designed as a proper nod to the Belgian-style, and it all started with the grain bill. Briess’ Midnight Wheat and Epiphany Craft Malt’s Brewer’s Breakfast Malt lend a subtle grain body while Ruby Malt also from the North Carolina-based Epiphany provides notes of plum, fig, and dark fruit. Additions of orange to the base create a classy ale reminiscent of a chocolate orange while star anise adds a whiff of botanical liqueur and soft licorice. Imperial’s Napoleon Belgian Yeast’s high attenuation leaves this beer extremely dry allowing for a pleasant orange twang mixed with smoky cloves on the finish.
**The Collaboration 12-pack will include four 12 oz. cans of each of the beers listed above.**
The Collaboration 12-pack is hitting shelves now and will hang around only as long as supplies last. You can expect to find this Limited Release mixed 12-pack of 12 oz. cans available at select craft beer-focused establishments located within Hi-Wire Brewing’s distribution footprint in Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio and Kentucky. Prost!
New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) has officially announced that Where I Live, a Limited Release Mixed Culture Sour Ale brewed in collaboration with TRVE Brewing Company (Denver, Colorado), is hitting select markets now.
Inspired by the “ancient Belgian tradition” of blending wood-aged Sour Ales, Lauren Limbach, New Belgium Wood Cellar Director and Blender, and Nick Nunns, Founder of TRVE Brewing, have “long dreamt of blending their sour beers” but such a project was not legally possible until December 2017 when the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform “legalized brewery-to-brewery tax-free transfers of beer.”
“When we first started talking about this collaboration at GABF 2016, it wasn’t even legal,” says Limbach. “U.S. brewers couldn’t send beer to each other for this kind of project. That changed in late 2017, paving the way for what we think is the first beer of its kind in the U.S. — legally, at least.”
To bring this “dream collaboration” to life, New Belgium started Where I Live with a base beer brewed with malts from Troubadour Maltings in Fort Collins and fermented with Norwegian Kveik yeast. That base beer was then “blended with a foeder-aged dark sour, then further matured with TRVE’s mixed-culture in one of New Belgium’s French oak foeders.” To finish the beer off, the final blend was “circulated over whole-flower lavender grown on the Western Slope of Colorado by Two Bears Farms.” Clocking in at 6% ABV, Where I Live comes together to be “a floral-infused, malt-driven, crushable sour full of friendship and intent.”
Where I Live officially debuted on Black Friday, November 29 and will be available as long as supplies last. You can expect to find this Limited Release offering available in 4-packs of 16 oz. cans and on draft at select craft beer-friendly establishments located in Florida, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arizona, Virginia, California, Nevada, Missouri, Connecticut, Kentucky and New York. Prost!
Vital Information for Where I Live from New Belgium Brewing & TRVE Brewing Company
Release – Limited; November 29, 2019 Style – American Sour Ale ABV – 6% Malts – Pevec, Ballad & Encore from Troubadour Maltings in Fort Collins, Colorado Added Ingredients – Whole flower lavender Yeast – Kveik Availability – 4-packs of 16 oz. cans & draft Distribution – Limited; Florida, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arizona, Virginia, California, Nevada, Missouri, Connecticut, Kentucky & New York Beer Finder – https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/finder/
Lauren Limbach, New Belgium Wood Cellar Director and Blender, illustrates the process for creating Where I Live. Photo Credit: New Belgium Brewing
New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) has officially announced that it has teamed up with High Brew Coffee (Austin, Texas) to release Nitro Cold Brew Cream Ale in late October 2019.
Arriving as the latest boundary pushing offering to come out of New Belgium’s Up Next Series, Nitro Cold Brew Cream Ale is a nitro-infused American Cream Ale featuring “oats and High Brew’s cold brew [coffee] for a velvety mouthfeel and refreshing finish.” Coming in at just 5% ABV and 13 IBUs, Nitro Cold Brew Cream Ale is the “smooth, creamy, and refreshing coffee beer” that you have been searching for.
Nitro Cold Brew Cream Ale is rolling out now and is scheduled to last through the final quarter of 2019. You can expect to find this new Limited Release offering at select craft beer-focused retailers, bars and restaurants located in Alabama, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and throughout the rest of New Belgium’s vast distribution territory. Prost!
Vital information for Nitro Cold Brew Cream Ale from New Belgium Brewing
Release – Limited/Up Next Series; launching late October 2019 Style – American Cream Ale ABV – 5% IBUs – 13 Malts – Pale, Munich, Oats & Black Hops – Nugget Added Ingredients – High Brew Cold Brew Coffee Fun Fact – Nitro Cold Brew Cream Ale is “canned with nitro… pour hard!” Availability – 6-packs of 12 oz. cans & draft Beer Finder – https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/finder/
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