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Tin Whiskers Tiny Circuit Coffee Stout

Local brewery Tin Whiskers has just released a Coffee Stout.  This caffeinated version of their Short Circuit sweet stout is a collaboration with local Coffee roaster Tiny Footprint Coffee.
Tiny Circuit Coffee Stout
The beer this is based on, Short Circuit Stout, has been a flagship for this brewery from the beginning.  It’s a nitro poured sweet stout brewed with lactose.  For this collaboration, head brewer Derek Brown and founder Jeff Moriarty cold press an Ethiopian dark roast (Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Negelle Gorbitu) and add it to the bright tank, resulting in a sweet, creamy, roasty stout.

Tin Whiskers Coffee Stout
Cascading nitro action

A note about Tiny Footprint:  They are actually the first carbon-negative coffee.  For each pound of coffee they sell, they donate proceeds to replant a forest in Ecuador.  These carbon offsets result in a carbon-negative product.  The coffee is pretty good, too.

The robot approves

You can find this on tap at Tin Whiskers Downtown St. Paul now, and in other craft beer bars soon.

By the numbers:

  • Style: Sweet Stout
  • Original Gravity: 1.065
  • Final Gravity: 1.022
  • ABV: 5.8%
  • IBUs: 55

Links:

Release announcement from Tin Whiskers

Coffee information from Tiny Footprint

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Summit Brewing Company announces the release of Unchained 11: Old 152

Unchained 11: Old 152 Kentucky Common

Summit Brewing Company just announced the release of Old 152, the eleventh beer produced in its limited-time-only Unchained Series. Old 152 was created by brewer Eric Harper, who also crafted the fourth Unchained beer, Belgian Style Golden Ale. It will be available in draught and bottles the week of Oct. 22.

“This Unchained beer is based on Kentucky Common, a popular beer style in and around Louisville pre-prohibition,” said Harper. “The style disappeared after prohibition in favor of the lagers that we’re familiar with today. Old 152 will feature Cluster hops, one of the only hop varieties available in the U.S. in the late 1800s and early 1900s.”

Unchained 11 is named Old 152 after the official steam engine of the state of Kentucky. The beer pours a chestnut color with a slight haze and exhibits flavors of biscuit, toast and rye. Kentucky Common beers traditionally feature a “sour mash,” also used in the process of making another Kentucky staple: bourbon. Old 152 itself will not be sour but will feature crisp, caramel notes and a clean bitterness.

Old 152 Specs:
AVB: 5.8%
IBU: 55
Color: Chesnut
Hops: Cluster, Northern Brewer (Dry hopped: Cluster)
Malts/Grains: Pale Malt, Victory®, Crystal Medium, Rye Malt, Distillers Malt, White Wheat, Maize