Among the breweries that earned Charlottesville a spot on the list are Starr Hill Brewery, South Street Brewery and Blue Mountain Brewery.  Starr Hill Brewery features a half a dozen seasonal and reserve beers and offer tastings on site. South Street Brewery is located in a former hay and grain warehouse and offers half a dozen seasonal and reserve beers  made on site  along with food and live music.  Blue Mountain Brewery, about 20 miles west of Charlottesville, in Afton, was opened by a former South Street brewer in 2007. Here, they craft about 20 draft beers annually and a few brews that are bottled.

Topping off the list of cities is Albuquerque, NM. That is followed by:

2) Burlington, VT
3) Akron, OH
4) Kalamazoo, MI
5) Missoula, MT
6) Lincoln, NE
7) Boise, ID
9) Louisville, KY
10) Chattanooga, TN

This special version of Wild Wolf’s Smoked Scottish Ale is a session beer and will be dry hopped with calypso and several other hops. Brewer Danny Wolf collaborated with the owners of Capital Ale House on the special brew. The new ale is named Three Legged Scotsman and will only be available at the five Capital Ale House locations and on premise at Wild Wolf – both in February. 

Danny Wolf draws a sample of the new ale prior to starting the dry hopping process. Photo by Tommy Stafford (Nelson County Life)

It’s been busy around here.  The Outpost production brewery is being installed and will be on-line shortly.  The Eight Point IPA and Vienna Lager are being scaled up for the new facility, and the original DB brew pub (Base Camp) is brewing a wide variety like always, and about to brew even a wider variety once the Outpost brewery goes on-line.  This winter will see the return of some old favorites as well as some new beers.  Double award winning “Danzig” Baltic Porter will return late November with it’s award winning coffee counterpart “Baltic Coffee” hitting the tap around Christmas.  “Kilt Flasher” Wee Heavy will return early December to help keep the chill off.  Several batches of “Kilt Flasher” will be brewed this year to satisfy demand.  The award winning Kollaborator Dopplebock will return in January and the ever popular & dangerous “Dead Bear” Imperial Stout will be unleashed in February.  Expect to see wood aged versions of the “Kilt Flasher” and “Dead Bear” late this winter.

Some of the new beers will be “Cru Noir”, a black Belgian inspired wit beer (oxymoron I know) that brewer Aaron Reilly designed.  It’s a light black colored wheat beer that’s lightly spiced with coriander, orange peel, and pink peppercorns.  ‘”Cru Noir” will be on tap early December.  Another new beer that will grace the taps is “Baracus”, a Bad Attitude Big Brown Ale!  This Imperial Brown Ale will be big, complex, and supper hoppy.  Expect to see “Baracus” in mid to late December, I pity the fool who doesn’t check it out.  We are experimenting with our first bacteria and the rare sour beer style of Berliner Weiss. Expect to see the first batch of this very light bodied tart beer in late November / early December.  As Berliner Weiss is ofter served with shot of raspberry or woodruff syrup, our kitchen staff are designing unique syrups to add to it if requested.  Expect to see some imaginative syrups like blood orange, lemon grass, and rosemary among others. DBBC will also be brewing it’s very first smoked lager this winter in the Bamburg Rauchbier style. 

Anyway, this is just a quick update, expect to see other new beers throughout the winter as well.  Great things are happening with DB. It’s going to be a busy winter season with the DB Outpost production brewery being fired up, but at least we have refreshments ready at hand.

From a Devils Backbone BLOG by dbmanager Tuesday, November 8, 2011 @ 21:58 PM