Up Next: Breakfast Stout, Fat Tire, Abita Strawberry, Pivo Pils

FOUNDER’S, BREAKFAST STOUT

Style: Imperial Stout

ABV: 8.3%

Size, Price: 16oz, $8.50

The coffee lover’s consummate beer. Brewed with an abundance of flaked oats, bitter and imported chocolates, and two types of coffee, this stout has an intense fresh-roasted java nose topped with a frothy, cinnamon-colored head that goes forever.

NEW BELGIUM, FAT TIRE

Style: Amber Ale

ABV: 5.2%

Size, Price: 16oz, $7.25

From the Brewer: “Named in honor of our co-founder's bike trip through Europe, Fat Tire marks a turning point in the young electrical engineer's home brewing. Belgian beers use a far broader palette of ingredients (fruits, spices, esoteric yeast strains) than German or English styles. Together with co-founder Kim Jordan, they traveled around sampling their homebrews to the public. Fat Tire won fans with its sense of balance: toasty, biscuit-like malt flavors coasting in equilibrium with hoppy freshness. Fat Tire: Pairs well with people.” Also, according to their website, pairs well with bikes and jousting.

Nose:  Sweet biscuity and caramel malts, subtle notes of fresh fennel and green apple.

Flavor: Toasty malt, gentle sweetness, flash of fresh hop bitterness. Medium bodied, the malt and hops are perfectly balanced.

ABITA, STRAWBERRY LAGER

Style: Fruit beer

ABV: 4.2%

Size, Price: 16oz

Abita Strawberry Harvest is a lager brewed with pilsner and wheat malts and Vanguard hops. Real Louisiana strawberry juice is added after filtration resulting in a crisp lager with a sweet strawberry flavor, aroma and haze. It is wonderful with desserts or lighter fare such as salads and pastas. Fresh cheeses such as Burrata, chèvre, Crescenza, mozzarella or Teleme pair well with Strawberry Harvest.

FIRESTONE WALKER, PIVO PILS

Style: Hoppy Pilsner

Abv: 5.3%

Size, Price: 16oz, $7.50

From the Brewers: “Pivo Hoppy Pils is a classically rendered pilsner with a West Coast dry-­‐hopping twist, showcasing stylistic influences from Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic. Lighter beer styles like pilsner have been hijacked by industrial lager beer in the United States, and it’s time for craft brewers to take it back. Pivo Hoppy Pils offers impeccable balance with floral aromatics, spicy herbal nuances, and bergamot zest and lemongrass notes from dry hopping with German Saphir hops.”