Harpoon Brewery is well known for their UFO Hefezeizen and IPA, but during events like this one at Barcade the rarities are brought out.
Harpoon has been doing a limited release series called 100 Barrels for quite some time now. In this series the brewery brews “one-of-a-kind limited batch creations fashioned by a Harpoon brewer. Every couple of months a different Harpoon brewer will choose a style, develop a recipe, and brew the beer—from selecting the ingredients to the final filtration.” In the past they have done Bohemian Pilsners, Oyster Stouts, Ginger Ales, Rye beers, and many others. The most recent beer in the 100 Barrel series is a Single Hop ESB made exclusively with Delta hops. The ESB itself is a session beer that originated in England, and has a slightly more malty character than the American Pale. It’s a style that American brewers tend to skip over in, but a great ESB can’t be matched. The Delta hop is a new American varietal that is the hybrid of Fuggle (a traditionally English hop) and the Cascade hop (the hop that gives Sierra Nevada Pale Ale that signature flavor). Harpoon’s 100 Barrel ESB pours a dark amber, almost red in color, and with a huge malt backbone and less of a hop bitterness than a Pale Ale, but the unique part about the Delta hop is that it gives it a unique slightly savory flavor, almost of mint. It’s a unique beer and the first commercially brewed beer to use Delta hops…it’s worth having a pint or two. It’s the newest in Harpoon’s arsenal, and it will be on tap…and so will the Oyster Stout!
Harpoon in the past year or so launched their Leviathan series to showcase what American brewers have become known for…extreme beers with high alcohol. Harpoon’s Leviathan series has produced wonderful beers like an Imperial IPA, a Baltic Porter, the Big Bohemian Pilsner ( a high alcohol version of the lager we love), and they are about to release an Imperial Red Ale. These beers are delicious and strong, and there are bound to be one or two all of the ones I mentioned will be on tap at Barcade’s event. Keep an eye out, and if you are drinking them please be careful…these catch up with you fast.
Harpoon is a well known brewery, and one that you can find almost everywhere…but come out to Barcade tomorrow and try some of their obscure hard to find treats. You won’t be disappointed.
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The tap list will include:
- Baltic Porter – 9.5% ABV – Big, dark Imperial Porter
- Belgian Pale Ale – 5.8% – Easy drinking Belgian Pale
- Big Bohemian Pils – 9.0% – Hoppy, Imperial Pilsner
- Imperial IPA – 10.0% – Even hoppier still
- Imperial Red – 9.2% – Big, malty Red Ale
- Munich Dark – 5.6% – Classic dark lager
- Oyster Stout – 5.5% – Oysters!
- Quad 2009 – 11.8% – Last year’s Belgian release
- Saison Royale – 9.0% – Belgian Farmhouse Ale
- Single Hop ESB – 5.8% – Bitter, brewed with one type of hop
- UFO – 5.1% – German style Hefeweizen
thanks to drinker for commenting, and linking to the Facebook event. Cheers,
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Barcade is located
388 Union Ave.
between Powers and Ainslie
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The Harpoon Brewery Night at Barcade is
Tomorrow, Thursday May 13th, 2010
starts at 6pm
If by chance you can’t make it tomorrow try to hit up Barcade this Friday or Saturday there are occasionally beers that linger on the taps for the next couple days…the dregs aren’t bad when you are talking about great beer.
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Additional Notes:
I’ve emailed Barcade for a tap list, and will update the remote when I get a response.
Dudes at Harpoon are super nice and looking into this too. They said there will at least be two beers from the Leviathan Series on tap at the event, and are trying to get more details (follow them @Harpoon_Brewery)!
Not sure if the same artist did it, but this poster for the event looks suspiciously (when I say suspiciously I mean exactly) like Mastodon’s album art for Leviathan.
Brouwerij Lane currently has the 100 Barrel Single Hop DELTA ESB on tap.
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