More Extreme

I walk the line of being tired of extreme beers and loving them. As soon as I try to expand my beer education, develop my taste buds for the mild and head toward the beauty of session brews something comes along to draw me back into the wonderful world of the extreme.

Sam Adams the craft brewery that for many provides the first step into the craft beer landscape is coming out with a new imperial series. No stranger to extreme beers with Utopias (25.6% abv) and Hallertau Imperial Pilsner (8.8% abv) Sam Adams looks to expand it's heavy hitting line up with the introduction of Imperial White (8.3% abv) and Double Bock (8.8% abv) under the new Imperial Series label. The packaging for the 12oz bottles is still undetermined.

Extreme Collaboration

As reported on Beer Advocate.com the Alstrom brothers, Jason and Todd, are collaborating with Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione and head brewer Bryan Selders to brew an extreme beer for the 6th Annual Extreme Beer Fest held in Boston on February 20th & 21st. The beer will be brewed at the Dogfish Head brew pub in Rehoboth Beach, DE on December 9th. Beer Advocate is holding a contest for it's members to name the specialty beer. Details on the beer, the contest and the festival here.