The Full Pint - Craft Beer News

From the editor: Darkstar November is one of Southern California's great barrel-aged stout traditions, and we've been covering it since at least the 2017 batch. This year's version lands at 13.4% with rye and molasses for $27.95 a bottle, and Anaheim locals get first crack at the tasting room Saturday before it goes online next week. That's the right order of operatio...

From the editor: Saint Arnold is clearing out the cellar again, and this list is deep. Pumpkinator vintages going back to 2019, Bourbon Barrel French Press from 2020 through 2023, and a 30th Anniversary Grand Cru on draft is the kind of vertical most breweries never bother to hold onto. If you're anywhere near Houston on Black Friday, this beats the mall.

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From the editor: Devil's Canyon is raiding its own back catalog for Friday the 13th. The Library Collection brings back the 2016 Black Ale brewed with green and black tea, one of the first Kaleidoscope Series beers, plus the Rum Barrel Aged Baltic Porter that first showed up in 2018. We've been writing about the Kaleidoscope Series since the Hefeweizen joined it, and ...

From the editor: Solemn Oath picked the right week to drop a big barrel beer. FoBAB has Chicago's barrel-aged crowd in town Friday and Saturday, and The Narthex lands right in the middle of it as a bourbon barrel-aged dark abbey ale in 16oz four-packs. Every brewery in the Midwest is pouring bourbon barrel stout this weekend, so a Belgian-style dark ale in bourbon is ...

From the editor: This is a bigger deal than any bottle North Coast will release this year. The Fort Bragg brewery behind Old Rasputin and Scrimshaw has a new CEO in Daniel Lee, who comes in with more than 20 years in food, beverage and consumer goods, while Jennifer Owen retires. My read: a consumer goods hire means the next chapter is about getting the classics in fr...