Mixed-Style Beer

The Veil “Sector 5” Quintuple Dry-Hopped Quadruple IPA

Name: Sector 5 Brewer: The Veil Brewing Co. (United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Specialty IPA: New England IPA) ABV: 12.5% Review Year: 2020 Sector 5 is a “quintuple dry-hopped Quadruple IPA” brewed by Virginia’s The Veil Brewing Co. originally meant for their fourth-anniversary celebration. This behemoth weighs in at 12.5 % ABV and was …

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Tamamura Honten x Hair of the Dog “ECKHARDT” Special Strong Golden Ale

Name: ECKHARDT Brewer: Tamamura Honten Co. (Japan), Hair of the Dog Brewing Company (United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Belgian Golden Strong Ale) ABV: 12% Review Year: 2020 The Nagano-based brewery, Tamamura Honten joined forces with Portland’s Hair of the Dog for the fifth time to create ECKHARDT, a “Special strong golden ale” brewed …

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Nerdbrewing “Extends (2020) (Vietnamese Coffee Ed.)” Oak Aged Imperial Oatmeal Stout

Name: Extends Oak Aged Imperial Oatmeal Stout – Vietnamese Coffee Ed. (2020) Brewer: Nerdbrewing (Sweden) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Oatmeal Stout) ABV: 10.8% Review Year: 2020 The 2020 vintage of Extends is an “Imperial” Oatmeal Stout brewed by the Swedish commercial gypsy brewery, Nerdbrewing. Clocking in at 10.8% ABV, Extends was concocted using cold-brewed Vietnamese …

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Mikkeller San Diego x Great Notion “Shake Your Stack” Imperial Stout

Disclaimer: We will come clean. This article was, unfortunately, written at a time when we were not aware that mats of bubbles are symptoms of a dirty glass. Just because we are Drink Me Dirty, it does not mean it is acceptable to drink from a dirty glass. Clean and rinse your glasswares properly. As …

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Northern Monk x Other Half x Equilibrium “Patrons Project 13.06: Gamma Vortex” DDH Triple IPA

Disclaimer: We will come clean. This article was, unfortunately, written at a time when we were not aware that mats of bubbles are symptoms of a dirty glass. Just because we are Drink Me Dirty, it does not mean it is acceptable to drink from a dirty glass. Clean and rinse your glasswares properly. As …

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Finback Brewery “Six Year” Triple IPA

Name: Six Year Brewer: Finback Brewery (United States) Brewers: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Specialty IPA: New England IPA) ABV: 10.1% Review Year: 2020 The Queens-based Finback Brewery celebrates its anniversary by releasing special one-off brews. Last year, we were able to grab some of these essential goods from their taproom, and ever since we reviewed the Five …

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Vocation “Dark Mystic” Barrel-Aged Russian Imperial Stout

Name: Dark Mystic Brewer: Vocation Brewery (United Kingdom) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Imperial Stout) ABV: 10.8% Review Year: 2019 In 2019, the West Yorkshire brewery, Vocation released Dark Mystic, a tribute to the mystical Rasputin. This “Russian Imperial Stout (RIS)” was laid to rest in oak barrels and was blessed with offerings of cherry …

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Northern Powerhouse 2019

The Northern Powerhouse is an annual collaboration among English craft breweries to celebrate ingenuity, unity, and the Northern pride. Wylam handed over the reins to the Leeds-based Northern Monk to lead the class of 2019. For the 2019 collaboration, Northern Monk teamed up with each of the seven participating breweries to reinterpret seven different classic …

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WeldWerks x Mikerphone x Great Notion “Breakfast for Three” Imperial Stout

WeldWerks x Mikerphone x Great Notion “Breakfast for Three” Imperial Stout

Name: Breakfast for Three Brewers: WeldWerks Brewing Co., Mikerphone Brewing, Great Notion Brewing Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Imperial Stout) ABV: 10.5% Review Year: 2019 WeldWerks, in collaboration with Mikerphone and Great Notion, treated the craft beer fans with Breakfast for Three, a super delectable dessert-inspired Imperial Stout (10.5% ABV) infused with Peruvian coffee beans …

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