Rockbottom’s cask ale for today at 1pm its Big Water Brown Ale.
Rockbottom is also looking for some volunteers to pick spruce tips after sampling some of today’s cask offering. The harvesting is scheduled to start after leaving the pub around 1:30 and will take place near Dartmouth Crossing. Volunteers will be rewarded with a couple of complementary pints from brewer Greg Nash. Anyone interested is asked to be by the pub today around 1pm.
Rockbottom Brewery will be offering up Desecration Imperial IRA this Thursday. The new IRA is described as:
Big, chewy, complex and satisfying with some serious malt balls, nicely balanced with massive quantities of C-hops in classic West Coast tradition.
Here are the stats on the new brew from the brewer’s blog:
Gravity – 19 P/1.079
IBUs ~ 65
Hop Rate – 7.5 lbs/bbl
ABV – 8.6 %
Hops – Centennial, Cascade, Northern Brewer, Columbus, Magnum
Colour ~ 15.4 SRM
Malts – Pale Ale, Carastan, Light Carastan, Kiln Amber, Melanoidin
Adjuncts – Roasted Barley
Here’s an overview of Atlantic Canadian beer news and reading from this past week:
Excellent article from Craig Pinhey: Libations: Brewtopian dining
Brewnoser BPA is available on tap at Rockbottom Brewpub starting today. So is Blackness, which is a “West Coast-style Robust Porter”, at Hart & Thistle.
Here’s what’s currently available at the Picaroons Brewtique. Don’t forget about their Easter Keg Hunt and to send them a picture of your cat.
Sample some Propeller Bitter, IPA and Porter as part of this week’s Three Course Thursday at the Foggy Goggle.
The PEI Beer Guy has recently sampled Alchemist Heady Topper and Saint Bernardus’ Grottenbier Bruin.
The guys from Darkside Brewing have tasting notes for the winner of Garrison’s 2011 Ultimate Brew Off, Garrison Schwarz.
Here are tasting notes from Old Brown Shoe from Meek Brewing.