Craft Brewing And Distilling News for August 5, 2013
August 5, 2013•San Diego’s Fat Cat Beer Co. has released the newest addition to its lineup, Confession IPA. Confession will be available in 16-ounce cans across Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Virginia and California. The 6%-abv brew uses a combination of 2-row base malt, caramel malt and Carapils malt in addition to Cascade, Centennial and Columbus hops. Fat Cat also offers four other session beers in a can—Fat Cat Lager, Sultans of Wheat, Shawshank’s Injunction Pale Ale and Beale St. Brown Ale, which was just added this spring.
•Independence, Oregon-based Rogue Ales will launch Rogue Farms Pumpkin Patch Ale this fall. Pumpkin Patch will be available on draft and in 750-ml. bottles stores in October. The new brew is made using pumpkins grown and harvested at Rogue Farms, located 77 miles away from Rogue Ales brewery in Independence. The pumpkins are hand chopped and seeded, roasted in a pizza oven and then put fresh into the brew kettle to create the beer. The release of Pumpkin Patch Ale follows closely on the heels of the launch of another beer, Honey Kölsch, which was also created using ingredients from Rogue Farms. Rogue’s extensive line of craft beers is available across all 50 states.
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