Tuesday, February 10, 2009

In with the Old, In With the New

We've got a new player in the craft beer game here in Albuquerque, coming to us from Novato California: Moylan's Brewing. You may remember me writing about their beers in older posts; actually, more like gloating because I had great beers like their Double IPA and Hopsickle while you were stuck drinking JW Dundee's Honey Brown. But my gloating days have ended, and that's not a bad thing- especially now that the double IPA, Kiltlifter Scottish Ale, Tipperary Pale Ale, and Imperial Stout are here. I picked up a Double IPA, which at $7.99 is pricey but this is the beer that won the Alpha King Challenge two years in a row! Hopefully we will see Hopsickle here eventually, as this is probably their best. Thanks to Jubilation for getting this company into our territory.

Barleywine season brings the 2009 Old Guardian from Stone, and the weather outside right now makes me wish I was draining the bottom of this 11.3% killer rather than having to go out and retrieve my trash can that blew down the street. Buy one for drinking now and a few more for aging. This beer, like their other seasonals, is selling for $6.49.

2 comments:

p said...

Moylans! Nice. Little by little I guess. Now we need to work on some others- Alesmith, Pizza Port, Allagash.....

ABQbeergeek said...

Yeah, I don't think we will see Allagash anytime soon, but it would be nice to get Port Brewing and Alesmith here. Port just started distributing in Colorado, and they were already in Arizona, so why not us?