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Volume 15, Number 1 Begins Friday, February 22, 2013 New Albanian Co.

APOCALYPSE DONE; NOW THEY’RE BACK RULES OF THE GAME

For those readers who are contemplating Gravity Head attendance for the first time, please be aware that we’re very serious when we command you to ar- range transportation from the venue at the conclusion of your gravity session or have a designated driver. Typi- cally, a cab ride to Louisville costs $50, and less to Southern Indiana hotels. This isn’t very much when split two or three ways … and it’s far less than the cost of the irresponsible consequences.

For us to continue the tradition of Gravity Head, it is absolutely imperative that everyone in attendance plays by the rules. Foremost among these is your personal responsibility as an adult drinker to refrain from driving intoxicated!

BIG , SMALL GLASSES

Listed Gravity Head selections are available in small pours only, approximately 10 oz. pours, depending on the and the type of glassware used. Prices are indicated Gravity Head is NABC’s annual celebration of on the blackboards. Not all Gravity Head beers are avail- the brewing world’s biggest and best. Beginning able at the same time! Always check the blackboards at on February 22, and lasting until all the kegs are the Public House and Pizzeria to see what’s on tap. gone, we’ll be devoting numerous taps to show- casing these rare and sought-after beers, as cho- sen to exhibit maximum diversity of flavors and stylistic inspiration.

Not all listed Gravity Head beers are served at the same time. There is constant flux. See the black- boards for daily selections. Many other NABC beers and guest drafts will be available during the festival, which pours through early April.

1 Friday, February 22 “Gravity Tailgate Breakfast”

Way back in 2008, we convened early (4:00 a.m.) for a gravity breakfast with Terry Meiners of WHAS television in Louisville. In the years since, the concept has been tweaked, and so now breakfast starts at 7:00 a.m., when it’s actually legal to drink beer in Hoosierland. There’ll be locally-baked Honey Cream doughnuts; breakfast snacks prepared by the marvelous Sarah; Ed Needham's home-roasted coffee; and the full opening day roster of Gravity Head selections. Stop by and get into the spirit before you go to work … but seriously, it’s Gravity Head. What’s work got to do with it?

Friday, February 22 Special events and “Opening Ceremonies”

appearances that will Regular hours and menu begin at 9:00 a.m. Members of the FOSSILS and homebrewing/beer appreciation clubs and their chosen guests will again enjoy pre- occur on fixed dates ferred seating in the entire Prost room, beginning at 3:00 p.m. We’re also expecting an during gravity’s annual ambassador Sun King Brewing to drop by for a high-level liquidity conference.

amok time. Saturday, February 23 “The Annual Patty & Larry Buckeye Contingent Visitation”

In a resumption of past tradition, the afternoon arrival of these hardy and perennial WHEN YOU CAN VISIT Buckeyes means tapping a special wooden pin of cask-conditioned, -aged JW Lees Vintage Harvest . In 2013, we’ll add Big Dawg ’s 180-Shilling Clay- more in honor of Lees-drinker-turned-pro-brewer Richard Shroyer. Look for all-day - room duty.

Sunday, February 24 "Optional R & R"

The Pizzeria & Public House is closed on Sunday. We’ve only just begun the journey, so listen to your body. Drink liquids, rest, and avoid both lifting and the operation of heavy machinery. But, if you insist on living like a rock star, NABC’s Bank Street Brewhouse is open from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. for Brewhouse Brunch (until 2:00 p.m.), the locally famous Build-Your-Own Bloody Mary Bar, and the only Sunday carry- out beer within staggering distance of the Indiana riverbank, as dispensed in growlers.

Friday, March 8 “Cavalier & Founders Night” NABC’s Pizzeria & Public House Founders Brewing joins the wholesaling gang from Cavalier Distributing () for an evening of mannered sipping and agitated revolutionary chat. To mark the occa- 3312 Plaza Drive, New Albany sion, Gravity Head kegs from Founders, Flat12 & NABC will swamp the taps. 812-949-2804 Saturday, March 16 Open at 11:00 a.m., Monday “Early St. Patrick’s Day”

through Saturday, and closed Wearing of the green is one thing, but ingesting green-tinted swill is tantamount to on Sunday. wearing a badge that reads, “I’m neither Irish nor particularly bright – scoff at me.” The accepted colors of Irish beer are black (), red (ale) and gold (), and in our The Pizzeria & Public House is traditionally minimalist fashion, we’ll be offering three non-Gravity draft selections that ENTIRELY SMOKE FREE. roughly approximate each of these styles, while endeavoring to shun other, more inau- thentic forms of proto-Hibernian revelry. You have been warned.

Sunday, April 7 Also, March Madness dates: “Session Head”

March 19-20 First at Bank Street Brewhouse, then First Four followed by tappings at the Pizzeria & 2012 NCAA basketball tournament Public House. With our 15th annual strong beer fest, what better than to fol- March 21-24 low it than the polar opposite? Parame- Second and third rounds 2012 NCAA basketball tournament ters as defined by beer writer Lew Bryson include: March 28-31 Regionals of the ► under 4.5% alcohol by volume NCAA basketball tournament ► flavorful enough to be interesting

Saturday, April 6 & Monday, April 8 ► balanced enough for multiple pints Final Four and Championship ► conducive to conversation of NCAA basketball In brief, low-alcohol, but not low-taste. 2 15 YEARS IN, FAR MORE FORGETTING THAN REMEMBERING

Gravity Head Version 1.0 … April 29, 1999. Gravity Head 2007, beginning March 9: The Gravity Head concept dates to 1999, when we decided to inaugurate “Gravity Madness: March isn't our newly completed walk-in beer cooler by featuring as many “hoppy” just about basketball anymore..” beers as could be located on short notice. The ensuing festival would be At the conclusion of the Gravity Head 2007 fan’s selection vote, three called “Hop Head.” Subsequently, more “gravity” beers were available beers were tied for the top spot, forcing the NABC’s impromptu “Elector than “hoppy” ones, and the festival accordingly morphed into Gravity Collage” into frenzied action, scouring the previously secret texts of the Head. According to our flier, the inaugural Gravity Head would last “until Freemasons and Illuminati for mystical procedures and ritualistic pri- each keg has passed away into memory’s warm glow of the greatest draft vate dunkings of Krispy Kreme doughnuts in specially prepared vats of beer line-up ever seen in the metropolitan Louisville area.” Many of these black coffee, and culminating in the decision to record the names on beers, including Delirium Tremens and Bell’s Two Hearted Ale, have three sheets of weathered parchment, throwing them into the Senega- since become standards in the Public House draft lineup. lese skull cap once worn by bat patron Lee Cotner, and asking an uni- dentified Sportstime lunch customer to draw one out. The winner was “We’ve just signed legislation outlawing Ettaler Curator Doppelbock, one of 59 listed selections, including 19 forever … the bombing begins on March 31, 2000.” first-timers. In 2000, we upped the ante by offering 6 barley simultaneously … along with 5 Belgian strong specialty , 4 German , 3 English Gravity Head 2008, beginning February 29: strong ales, 3 imperial , and 2other American ales for good meas- “You Cannot Defy Gravity - A ure. It was the first year for t-shirts (featuring a catapult and a reference to Tenth Anniversary Expostion.” Ronald Reagan’s famous radio gaffe), “The Gravity Form,” the enshrine- ment of the starting lineup announcement and running the gauntlet. There’s so much to only barely remember about somehow surviving nine previous extravaganzas. The few, the proud and the insomniacs March 9, 2001: gathered at the Public House on a Leap Year Friday morning to appear “Light beer? I’m sorry, sir, but you’re cut off.” on a WHAS-11 television remote feed hosted by local luminary Terry The local debuts of draft Samichlaus, Eggenberg Urbock 23, Hair of the Meiners. Podge Belgian Imperial Stout was the winner of the Gravity Dog’s Fred and Adam, Scotch de Silly and Gale’s Millennium Brew, but Head 2008 fan vote. There were record totals of 62 beers and 21 first- more importantly, three cask-conditioned gravity ales were dispensed time selections, including three Bell’s HopSlams and a visit from Larry during the first three weekends of the festival. Bell himself.

Gravity Head 2002, beginning March 8, 2002: Gravity Head 2009, beginning February 27: “Liteweights need not apply.” “The Liver Olympics” The emphasis in 2002 was placed on microbrewed gravity beers: Three powerhouse ales from Rogue in Oregon, three from Kalamazoo (Bell’s) The deepest Gravity Head ever began with with 71 gravity beers, of Brewing in , two from Victory Brewing (“Malt Advocate” maga- which 32 were first-time entrants, obliterating the previous Gravity zine’s Brewery of the Year) in Pennsylvania, and one from Brooklyn Head record total. It was the first time for organizing beers by style Brewing in New York. There were three cask-conditioned ales in 2002, rather than country of origin. The institution of Friday morning’s Gravity and altogether, 16 first-time draft beers, some making their Kentuckiana Breakfast was enshrined, and the t-shirts depicting a human liver were debuts. deemed utterly tasteless. Yes!

Gravity Head 2003, beginning March 7, 2003: Gravity Head 2010, beginning February 26: “Guilty as charged, Liteweight.” "Newton Invented It, We Perfected It" 18 first-time drafts led the way, including Bell’s Expedition Stout and our The opening day Gravity Head crowd arrived early, drank often, and own NABC Solidarity. We bid a fond farewell to the 1996 vintage of knew exactly what to look for, choosing from what arguably was the Rogue Old Crustacean Barley - Crusty, we hardly knew ye! most stylistically diverse Gravity Head to date. Two hard-to-find Found- ers beers (Canadian Breakfast and Hand of Doom – the latter the win- Gravity Head 2004, beginning March 12: ner of the fan vote) went first, followed in short order by Dogfish Head “Raise Your Glass to the Gravity Head Diet.” Red & White and Two Brothers Red Eye Coffee . Thanks to the experimental use of a cold plate, it was possible to have 18 gravity beers on tap at once for the very first time. Also, yet again, 18 first- Gravity Head 2011, beginning February 25: time “Gravity Head Friendly” contestants were recorded. The recent trend "A Stacked Deck Is Gravity’s Rainbow" of emphasizing microbrewed gravity beers continued, as they were be- 2011 was an All-American Gravity Head rider atop Slim “Dr. Strange- coming progressively easier to obtain. love” Pickens’ barrel, apocalyptic imagery grafted onto a Tarot card, toasting the existence of the earth’s inexorable law, honoring Pyn- Gravity Head 2005, beginning March 11: chon’s infamously obtuse novel, and following on the heels of our pre- “It’s a Whole New Dementia.” vious claim that while Newton discovered gravity, NABC perfected it. The seventh edition of Gravity Head will be remembered for the Publi- Tony added the mysterious mixed touch of XIII.5, because if there can’s questionable decision to contract pneumonia and be absent for couldn’t be a 13th floor, there couldn’t be a 13th Gravity Head, either. much of the first two weeks. A diverse selection of gravity textures and Our first-ever honorary opening weekend brewery partner was Three flavors included 15 first-time drafts, with NABC’s own NobleSmoker mov- Floyds, and the fan vote winner was 120 Minute IPA from Dogfish ing fastest. Head.

Gravity Head 2006, beginning February 24: Gravity Head 2012, beginning February 24: “Reality ABV.” "It’s the End of the World As We Know It" With 54 beers to choose from, "Best of" sentiments centered on Rogue New Holland set the tone with an elegant, nuanced opening weekend Old Crusty 2002, Bell's Batch 7000, Urthel Hop-It and Samichlaus 2001, tap takeover, its specially blended Blue Sunday joining fan vote winner with NABC's cherried Thunderfoot (Imperial Stout) drawing much praise. De Proef Flemish Primitive Wild Ale (Surly Bird) to give us two early The choice of a first-ever "fans' vote" for the 17th slot, New Holland Drag- sours. Then, two weeks into the world’s end, a nine-Founders knockout on's Milk, was virtually everyone's choice for "way better than we remem- punch was something unlikely to be equaled any time soon. We keep bered it." finding ways. How, I just don’t know. 3 And Sun King kicks things off on Friday, February 22, for Gravity Head’s 15th bacchanal.

00. SUN KING – STYLE UNTO ITSELF

Sun King Brewing Company Indianapolis IN

www.sunkingbrewing.com

Gravity Head Twist: For Gravity Head 2013, our friends from Sun King in Indianapolis are in a category by themselves, as they’ve been in so many ways since the brewery opened in 2009. Sun King has been a Hoosier brewing pio- neer in numerous ways, from Listed selections for achieving critical mass through Gravity Head 2013 are self-distribution to large-scale canning, and from tap room layout organized by style to community partnerships. From category, not national start-up to institution in four origin, as defined by short years, Sun King is helping the Beer Judge cement Indiana’s expanding craft Certification brewing reputation. Cheers to Program: Clay, Dave and all the people at Sun King, and welcome to Gravity Head 2013. www.bjcp.org

Vintage dates are giv- Sun King Batch 666: en only for those Sympathy for the Devil beers certified to be (16E) Belgian Black Ale at least a year old Bitterness: 34 IBUs by 2/22/13 Alcohol by volume: 11% Brewery says: “It was fermented Sun King Dominator with a blend of 7 different Bel- (5C) Doppelbock From 14 to 18 listed gian yeasts and (was) cellared in Bitterness: 23 IBUs selections will be on a 30 barrel bright tank … A meld- Alcohol by volume: 8% ing of classic Belgian esters with Brewery says: “Exudes the aromas tap at any given time a rich, roasty malt backbone. ” of brown and molasses to go … we try our best to with hints of gingerbread and sun- inform you, but know Sun King Batch 777: dried raisins. A full flavored that taps can change Touched By An Angel beer that finishes crisp and dry.” (18C) Belgian suddenly Bitterness: 24 IBUs Sun King Timmie Alcohol by volume: 10% (22C) Oak Aged Russian Imperial Brewery says: “Our yet to be re- Stout leased Belgian-style Tripel. Bitterness: 70 IBUs On Feb. 22, get a ride home & Available at 2013 Indiana Winter- Alcohol by volume: 10% fest for the first time ever.” Brewery says: “A flavor packed RIS support the Special Olympics with hints of gingerbread, dark … see page 11 Sun King Big Iron brown sugar and vanilla. Enjoy (19B) English Barleywine with caution!” Alcohol by volume: 10% Clay Robinson (owner): “A handful Sun King Wee Muckle of beers, we come up with a really (9E) Strong Scotch Ale (Wee Heavy) good name and then design a beer Bitterness: 30 IBUs backwards to fit the name. We just Alcohol by volume: 8% brewed a barleywine that’s called Brewery says: “A large, malt- Big Iron that’s going to be a re- balanced ale with huge toffee fla- ally fun beer that we’re going to vors and hints of port-like char- cellar for awhile before we let acter.” Wee Muckle won a Gold Med- out. We’ll brew that this summer al at the 2011 Great American Beer (2012) and probably release it Festival in the Scotch Ale divi- later in the winter.” sion.

4 5E. EISBOCK 13F RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT www.foundersbrewing.com

Eisbocks are not simply stronger Intensely flavored, big, dark ale. Gravity Head Twist: The Publican doppelbocks; the name refers to Roasty, fruity and bittersweet, endorses the use of terms like the process of freezing and con- with a noticeable alcohol pres- “jet black” and “motor oil” to centrating the beer. ence. Dark fruit flavors meld with describe this straight, unadorned, roasty, burnt, or almost tar-like perennially honest Imperial Stout. Kulmbacher Eisbock “Bayerisch sensations … every dimension of G’frorns” (2010) flavor coming into play. Great Divide Yeti Series Kulmbacher Brauerei Yeti (2011) Kulmbach GERMANY BBC (Shelbyville Road) Tsar Bomba Oak Aged Yeti (2011) Original Gravity: 21 degrees Plato Bluegrass Brewing Company Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti Alcohol by volume: 9.2% Louisville KY Espresso Oak Aged Yeti (2011) Alcohol by volume: 12.5% Great Divide Brewing Company www.kulmbacher.de Denver CO www.bbcbrew.com Base style: Imperial Stout Gravity Head Twist: A genuine Ger- Bitterness: 75 IBUs man specialty: Strong first Gravity Head Twist: Царь бомба была Alcohol by volume: 9.5% each frozen, and then the ice removed крупнейшим ядерного взрыва никогда. to concentrate the alcohol. It Кузьмина кины мат - это то, что русские www.greatdivide.com hails from the famous Franconian заявил в мире, который примерно brewing city of Kulmbach. переводится как "мы покажем вам!" Вы Gravity Head Twist: Yes, these are знаете что мы собираемся делать. Мы five distinct beers fashioned from 9E STRONG SCOTCH ALE покажем вам наиболее пиво мы никогда a common base, described here and (WEE HEAVY) раньше не создан. Этот огромный пиво cross-indexed later where applica- будет буквально взрыв в полости рта, что ble. Great Divide starts with Fermented at cooler temperatures будет расплавить ваше лицо! Thanks to Yeti, a delightful Imperial Stout, than most ales, and with lower Jeremy Hunt for saving a keg. and then gets progressively crea- hopping rates, resulting in clean, tive. Oak Aged Yeti adds a layer intense malt flavors. Well suited Brooklyn of subtle vanilla character to the to the of origin, with Black Chocolate Stout (2011) roasted malt in the original. In abundant malt and cool fermenta- Brooklyn Brewery Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti, the usual tion and aging temperature. , Brooklyn NY Yeti hopping is muted to permit which are not native to Scotland Malts: American two-row cocoa nibs to peek through, com- and formerly expensive to import, Hops: Willamette, American Fuggle bining with vanilla from the oak were kept to a minimum. Original Gravity: 26 degrees Plato chips and a sprinkling of cayenne Alcohol by volume: 10% pepper. Add espresso from Pablo’s Big Dawg Claymore 180 Shilling Coffee (Denver) to Oak Aged Yeti, Scotch Ale www.brooklynbrewery.com and get Espresso Oak Aged Yeti. Big Dawg Brewhaus Finally, we meant to save a keg of Richmond IN Gravity Head Twist: Brooklyn Brew- Belgian Style Yeti for Gravity Bitterness: 60 IBUs ery’s always popular Imperial Head, but got greedy and served it Alcohol by volume: 12% Stout illustrates the ideal uses during Saturnalia. Oh, well. of dark specialty malts, which is www.jjwinery.com/brewhaus.com to say, there’s no actual choco- Stone late in it. But they make damned Imperial Russian Stout (2011) Gravity Head Twist: True, you may fine chocolates at Esther Price Stone Brewing Company not have heard of this relatively Candies in Dayton, Ohio. Get some! San Marcos CA new brewery located in Richmond, Alcohol by volume: 10.8% Indiana, but know that Big Dawg’s Flat12 brewer, Richard Shroyer, is a Pinko Russian Imperial Stout www.stonebrew.com longtime Gravity Head attendee Flat12 Bierwerks (with the Ohio contingent). Now he Indianapolis IN Gravity Head Twist: Stone’s tast- has a commercial beer of his own Bitterness: 86.3 IBUs ing notes compare it to Siberian to bring, and we’ll do our level Alcohol by volume: 10.3% crude, with aromatics like anise, best to tap it when he’s here on coffee and black currant. Surely Saturday, February 23. http://flat12.me/ Pavlov’s dog never reacted as strongly as the Publican to such Dark Horse Scotty Karate Gravity Head Twist: Brewery says: erotic suggestiveness. Arf! Dark Horse Brewing Company “Brewed to age. Brewed for bar- Marshall MI rels. Hoppy, roasty and pure evil. Victory Storm King (2011) Alcohol by volume: 9.75% In Soviet Russia, you don't drink Victory Brewing Company Imperial Stouts, Imperial Stouts Downingtown PA www.darkhorsebrewery.com drink you.” Malts: “Imported Two Row” Hops: “American whole flowers” Gravity Head Twist: Scotty Karate Founders Imperial Stout (2011) Alcohol by volume: 9.1% is a Michigan musician performing “punk country” and “psychedelic Grand Rapids MI www.victorybeer.com garage Americana.” (C’mon, how Malts: Ten varieties could anyone make this up?) The Bitterness: 90 IBUs Gravity Head Twist: It has been folks at Dark Horse named their Alcohol by volume: 10.5% close to a decade since Storm King Wee Heavy after him. Now you know. first appeared at Gravity Head. (Continued on page 6)

5 (Continued from page 5) Malts: Rahr 2-Row, Weyermann 16E. BELGIAN SPECIALTY ALE Bohemian , Castle Biscuit, The previous time, it was foraged Simpsons Medium Crystal This category encompasses a wide with accomplices across multiple Hops: Cascade (mash, dry), Summit range of Belgian ales produced by state lines in a borrowed van. (first wort), Summit (bittering), truly artisanal brewers more con- Times have changed. Maybe. Chinook (bittering, flavor, dry), cerned with creating unique prod- Northern Brewer (flavor), Simcoe ucts than in increasing sales; a 14C IMPERIAL INDIA (dry) catch-all category for any Belgian Special additions: Vanilla beans -style beer not fitting any other Recent American innovation re- and honey were added during the Belgian style category. flecting the trend of American whirlpool. craft brewers “pushing the enve- Yeast: American (Chico) Ale Ellezelloise Hercule lope” to satisfy the need of hop Bitterness: 208 IBUs La Brasserie Ellezelloise aficionados for increasingly in- OG: 21 degrees Plato Ellezelles BELGIUM tense products. The adjective ABV: 9.2% Malts: 100%; no sugar or spicing “Imperial” is arbitrary and simply Alcohol by volume: 9% implies a stronger version of an www.newalbanian.com IPA; “double,” “extra,” or http://struise.noordhoek.com http://www.brasserie- “extreme” would be as valid. www.louisvillebeerstore.com ellezelloise.be

Bell’s Hopslam Gravity Head Twist: If the Ken- Gravity Head Twist: Brasserie Bell’s Brewery tucky Derby is the greatest two Ellezelloise celebrates its 20th Comstock MI minutes in sports, then B’Urban anniversary in 2013. Hercule dates Hops: Six varie- Trotter is the finest few moments back to the brewery’s early years. tals; dry-hopped with Simcoe of sipping, because what better It is named after the fictional Original Gravity: 1.087 place for a brewer/ostrich rancher Belgian detective and Ellezelles Alcohol by volume: 10% from Flanders to seek inspiration native Hercule Poirot, as created than Louisville’s annual Run for by British novelist Agatha Chris- www.bellsbeer.com the Roses? With collaborative as- tie. sistance from NABC and Louisville Gravity Head Twist: Hopslam mania Beer Store, De Struise’s Urbain Urthel Samaranth Quadrium now grips the craft beer world. Coutteau created this “Derbied” The Leyereth Keg releases are cause for mob Double to be dry- Ruiselede Flanders BELGIUM scenes reminiscent of the Beatles hopped and bourbon/oak aged, with Say what?: at Shea Stadium. The acclaim is a phantom suggestion of mint for Alcohol by volume: 11.5% merited; enjoy it while you can, the home stretch. and flaunt your bottle stash. www.urthel.com People’s Space Cowboy Flat12 Highway to Hops People’s Brewing Company Gravity Head Twist: Brewed at Kon- Flat12 Bierwerks Lafayette IN ingshoeven in the . Indianapolis IN Malts: Pale, Crystal Know that Hildegard, Mrs. Company Hops: 100% New Zealand, Australian Hops: Summit, Galaxy Owner, is the brewer in the fami- Bitterness: Yes Bitterness: 96 IBUs ly. Perhaps that’s why she origi- Alcohol by volume: 10% Alcohol by volume: 9% nally brewed this Quadrupel to take the place of (blah) wine at http://flat12.me/ www.peoplesbrew.com her wedding, and rightfully so.

Gravity Head Twist: The hops say Gravity Head Twist: I met Chris 18C. BELGIAN TRIPEL it all. Here’s your Southern Hemi- Johnson 10 years ago at Lafayette sphere. Brewing, where he learned the Strongly resembles Strong Golden trade under Greg Emig. Chris Ale but slightly darker and some- Flat12 Winter Cycle struck out on his own a few years Flat12 Bierwerks ago, and the results are tasty. Indianapolis IN To receive NABC’s weekly e-mail news- Hops: “6 different hops from 3 Upland Double Dragonfly letter as well as periodic updates about ” Upland Brewing Company events and beers, go to our web site and Bloomington IN Bitterness: 107 IBUs sign up: Alcohol by volume: 9.3% Hops: Seven additions Bitterness: 80 IBUs http://web.newalbanian.com/newsletter- http://flat12.me/ Alcohol by volume: 9.1% subscription/

Gravity Head Twist: Described as www.uplandbeer.com Half Cycle IPA’s “pissed off Vi- king cousin.” Keep it up, guys. Gravity Head Twist: NABC’s friend- ship with Upland, our annual pour- NABC on Facebook: NABC/De Struise/LBS ing partner at RiverRoots in Madi- B’Urban Trotter (2011) son IN, goes back to Russ Levitt http://www.facebook.com/pages/ New Albanian Brewing Company and his successor as brewer, New-Albanian-Brewing- New Albany IN Charles Porter (now an Oregonian). Company/327922561149 Charles created Dragonfly, and Oostvleteren BELGIUM nowadays it’s been doubled. NABC on Twitter: Louisville Beer Store Louisville KY (retailer) http://twitter.com/nabcnews 6 what fuller-bodied. Usually a more www.harpoonbrewery.com Newport OR rounded malt flavor; should not be Malts: Great Western Harrington, sweet … originally popularized by Gravity Head Twist: Brewery says: Klages, Hugh Baird Carastan, the Westmalle Trappist monastery. Homage to English-style Barley- Munich wines. Label says: Barleywine. Hops: Chinook, Centennial Schlafly Tripel World Class Beer, the wholesaler, Bitterness: 120 IBUs The Saint Louis Brewery (Schlafly) says it’s an American Barleywine. Original Gravity: 26 degrees Plato St. Louis MO Roger says: Spin the wheel, any- Alcohol by volume: Circa 11% Malts: 2-row, Carapils one? Let’s just say it’s some va- : Sugar riety of Barleywine, and stop. www.rogueales.com Hops: Marynka, Lublin (PL), Mit- telfrüh (DE) North Coast Old Stock Ale Gravity Head Twist: Still re- Bitterness: 25 IBUs North Coast Brewing Company nowned for the ’96 vintage’s se- Original Gravity: 21 degrees Plato Fort Bragg CA lection to the All-Time Gravity Alcohol by volume: 10% Malts: Maris Otter First Team. A tad young by our Hops: Fuggles, East Kent Goldings usual standards, but let’s be www.schlafly.com Bitterness: 34 IBUs risky for a change. Alcohol by volume: 11.9% Gravity Head Twist: In the Trap- Sierra Nevada pist style, with Belgian Abbey ale www.northcoastbrewing.com Bigfoot (2006) yeast. Note the European hopping. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Gravity Head Twist: See preceding. Chico CA 19A. Old Ale or English Barleywine? No Malts: Two-row Pale, English one seems to agree, so my plan is Caramel Ale of significant alcoholic to enjoy it young, and exactly the Hops: Cascade, Chinook, Centennial strength, bigger than strong bit- way it is now. Just screw it. Bitterness: 90 IBUs ters and brown porters, though Original Gravity: 23 Plato usually not as strong or rich as Upland Winter Warmer Alcohol by volume: 9.6% barleywine. Usually tilted toward Upland Brewing Company a sweeter, maltier balance. Bloomington, IN www.sierranevada.com Hops: Hallertauer Founders Curmudgeon Old Ale Bitterness: 46.7 IBUs Gravity Head Twist: Bigfoot re- Founders Brewing Company Original Gravity: 20.4 Plato turns in ’13 with a seven-year-old Grand Rapids MI Alcohol by volume: 8.5% version (2006) that may have shed Malts: “Insane malt bill” and elements of a rambunctious youth, molasses as an adjunct www.uplandbeer.com but added mellow streaks with age. Bitterness: 50 IBUs Alcohol by volume: 9.8% Gravity Head Twist: The name Stone “Winter Warmer” still speaks to Old Guardian Barley Wine (2012) www.foundersbrewing.com us, not at all archaically. Stone Brewing Company San Marcos CA Gravity Head Twist: Founders sug- 19C. AMERICAN BARLEYWINE Malts: “A whole buncha barley” gests we think about “classic sea Hops: “Tons o’ hops” faring ports, local , and The American version of the Bar- Bitterness: 85 IBUs weathered old fisherman,” but leywine tends to have a greater Alcohol by volume: 12% shouldn’t the imagery be about the emphasis on hop bitterness, flavor Great Lakes? The Publican prefers and aroma than the English Barley- www.stonebrew.com thinking about his own nickname, wine, and often features American prefixed with Potable, and also hop varieties. Differs from an Gravity Head Twist: How many times appropriately weathered. Imperial IPA in that the hops are can “uncompromising” be used in not extreme, the malt is more for- conjunction with one brewery’s 19B. ENGLISH BARLEYWINE ward, and the body richer and more beers? Year in, year out, Stone’s characterful. Barley Wine fits the description. Although often a hoppy beer, the In fact, it’s been years since I English Barleywine places less Bell’s Third Coast Old Ale (2011) edited this definition. emphasis on hop character than the Bell’s Brewery American Barleywine and features Comstock MI 21A. SPICE, HERB, OR English hops. English versions can Original Gravity: 1.098 VEGETABLE BEER be darker, maltier, fruitier, and Alcohol by volume: 10.2% feature richer specialty malt fla- A harmonious marriage of spices, vors than American Barleywines. www.bellsbeer.com herbs and/or vegetables and beer. The key attributes of the underly- Harpoon Barleywine Gravity Head Twist: Bell’s is the ing style will be different with (Leviathan Series) (2011) oldest craft brewer still standing the addition of spices, herbs and/ Harpoon Brewery east of the Mississippi. Third or vegetables. Boston MA Coast Old Ale is a Barley Wine. Malts: “Massive amount of pale” The Third Coast refers to Michi- Flying Dog Hops: Chinook, Tettnang gan’s Great Lakes frontage. Kujo Imperial Coffee Stout (nitro) Bitterness: 65 IBUs Flying Dog Brewery Original Gravity: 23 degrees Plato Rogue XS Frederick MD Alcohol by volume: 10% Old Crustacean Barley Wine (2011) Rogue Ales (Continued on page 8)

7 (Continued from page 7) Drammen NORWAY Gravity Head Twist: About Pinko Alcohol by volume: 10% RIS (page 5), Flat12 says, “Brewed Malts: Chocolate, Debittered to age. Brewed for .” In Black, Roasted, Cara-Munich www.haandbryggeriet.net this case, Pappy Van Winkle 23-yr- Coffee: “Secret roast” from Black old barrels, with a nod to the Dog Coffee (Summit Point WV) Gravity Head Twist: If Nissefar is Publican. Hops: Northern Brewer, Goldings Father Christmas in Norway, then Bitterness: 40 IBUs who is his father? Bestefar, who Flat12 Alcohol by volume: 8.9% in this instance is Grandfather Pinko RIS Nitro (Pappy Van Winkle) Christmas, or in this case, spiced Flat12 Bierwerks www.flyingdogales.com winter ale. Indianapolis IN Alcohol by volume: 10.5% Gravity Head Twist: Resemblances 22C. WOOD-AGED BEER between Flying Dog’s adult liba- http://flat12.me/ tion and Stephen King’s novel A harmonious blend of the base about a psychotic dog are purely Gravity Head Twist: As above; aged caffeine-driven. Enjoy the “bite” with characteris- five months in Pappy Van Winkle 10 of numerous black adjectives. tics from aging in contact -yr-old barrels, and kegged for with wood (including any alco- nitro delivery. Smooth. Founders Breakfast Stout (2011) holic products previously in Founders Brewing Company contact with the wood). The Founders Backwoods Bastard (2012) Grand Rapids MI best examples will be smooth, Founders Brewing Company Malts: Indeterminate, but includes flavorful, well-balanced and Grand Rapids MI flaked oats, and sweetened well-aged. Base style: Strong Scotch Ale imported chocolates, and Sumatra Malts: “Ten varieties of imported and Kona coffees. malt” Against the Grain/De Molen Hops: Why do you ask? Bitterness: 50 IBUs Bo and Luke Bitterness: 25 IBUs Alcohol by volume: 10.2% Against the Grain Brewery & Alcohol by volume: 8.3% Smokehouse www.foundersbrewing.com Louisville KY www.foundersbrewing.com Gravity Head Twist: Founders makes Bodegraven NETHERLANDS Gravity Head Twist: Has any single a Scotch/Wee Heavy called Dirty Base style: Imperial Smoked Stout beer been used as the base for Bastard, and bourbon barrels come Alcohol by volume: 14% more fascinating experiments than from the backwoods of Kentucky. this one? From beerhaikudaily.com, Put the two together, and you have www.atgbrewery.com come words for living: a familiar stereotype, complete www.brouwerijdemolen.nl/ with bearded hillbilly on the la-

bacon, eggs, and beer bel. But where’s the hootch, the Gravity Head Twist: What happens everyday should start with shine, the mountain dew? Coal when AtG’s mad Kansan, Jarry breakfast stout at 10! smoke instead of peat? Gnagy, collaborates with Menno

Oliver of De Molen? For starters, Great Divide Founders Bolt Cutter an imperial smoked stout aged in Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti & (15th Anniversary) Pappy Van Winkle bourbon barrels, Espresso Oak Aged Yeti (2011) Founders Brewing Company somehow linking to a wacky pun (see Great Divide Yeti, at 13F Grand Rapids MI involving the Dukes of Hazard. Russian Imperial Stout) Base style: American Barleywine Drink: Don’t think. Hops: A “mountain” of Cascades for

Southern Tier Jah-va dry-hopping Flat12 Southern Tier Brewing Company Bitterness: IBUs Bourbon Barrel Winter Cycle Lakewood NY Original Gravity: Double IPA (2012) Bitterness: IBUs Alcohol by volume: 15% Flat12 Bierwerks Original Gravity: Indianapolis IN Alcohol by volume: 10.6% www.foundersbrewing.com Alcohol by volume: 9.4%

www.stbcbeer.com Gravity Head Twist: The Founders http://flat12.me/ Backstage Series presents this 15th

Gravity Head Twist: Arabica coffee anniversary Barleywine, with por- Gravity Head Twist: It’s what hap- beans from Jamaica combine with tions barrel aged (bourbon barrels pens when your “pissed off Viking North American spring barley and and maple -bourbon barrels), cousin” visits Kentucky. Aged 13 aromatic hops. and blended with portions non- months. See pg 6 for the full Win- barrel aged. Named for the bolt ter Cycle listing. cutter acquired by a Founders 21B. CHRISTMAS/WINTER founder more than ten years ago SPECIALTY SPICED BEER Flat12 Pinko RIS when foreclosure seemed likely. KGBaylor (Pappy Van Winkle)

A stronger, darker, spiced beer Flat12 Bierwerks Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti (2011) that often has a rich body and Indianapolis IN (see Great Divide Yeti, at 13F warming finish suggesting a good Alcohol by volume: 11% Russian Imperial Stout) accompaniment for the cold winter season. http://flat12.me/ J. W. Lees Vintage …

Haandbryggeriet Bestefar Lagavulin Scotch (Islay) barrel- Haandbryggeriet conditioned (2011; cask- 8 conditioned) Gravity Head Twist: “Go forth and (); Simcoe, J. W. Lees & Company proceed” … The first batches of Citra, Mosaic (Pacific Northwest) Middleton Junction UNITED KINGDOM Bourbondaddy appeared in 2003 and Bitterness: 84.5 IBUs Base style: English Barleywine 2004. The 10th anniversary revival Original Gravity: 23.5 Plato Malts: Maris Otter version began life as an Imperial Alcohol by volume: 11.4% Hops: East Kent Goldings Chocolate Mik Stout, and then was Alcohol by volume: Circa 11.5% racked into Angel's Envy barrels www.bellsbeer.com for four months’ aging. Part of www.jwlees.co.uk NABC’s (the brewery) 10th Anniver- Gravity Head Twist: Special thanks sary Bygoner Series, brewed to to Veronica Sanders for making Gravity Head Twist: Harvest Ale is celebrate NABC’s (the company) 25th this one available. cask-conditioned and matured in a anniversary in 2012. Lagavulin Scotch barrel, then Brooklyn Brewmaster’s Reserve: racked over to a 20-liter wooden Schlafly The Companion Ale (2011) “pin” for serving. Then folks from Oak Aged Barleywine (2010) Brooklyn Brewery Dayton drink all of it. The Saint Louis Brewery (Schlafly) Brooklyn NY St. Louis MO Say what? Wheat Wine NABC IX — Ninth Anniversary Ale Base style: American Barleywine Malts: 45% barley malt, 55% custom (2010) Malts: 2-row, Munich, Caramel, floor-malted wheat New Albanian Brewing Company roasted barley Alcohol by volume: 10% New Albany IN Hops: Marynka (PL), Northdown Base style: Smoked Oatmeal Stout (UK), Tettnang (DE) www.brooklynbrewery.com Malts: Rahr 2-row, Weyermann Bitterness: 40 IBUs Smoked (Beechwood), Briess Choco- Original Gravity: 23 degrees Plato Gravity Head Twist: Brewmaster late, Briess Roasted Barley, Simp- Alcohol by volume: 10.2% Garrett Oliver’s collaborative sons Chocolate, Briess Aromatic, book, written and edited with Briess Smoked Malt (Cherry), Cas- www.schlafly.com Horst Dornbusch and Thomas Kraus- tle Special B, Flaked Oats Weyermann, is “The Oxford Compan- Hops: Northern Brewer (Mash), Gravity Head Twist: Schlafly ages ion to Beer.” To make the compan- Northern Brewer (First Wort), its Barleywine “new, medium toast ion ale to their companion volume, Northern Brewer (@60min) Missouri Oak.” the three created a special Wheat Yeast: House ale Wine using rare floor-malted wheat Bitterness: 50 IBUs Southern Tier from Weyermann. Alcohol by volume: Circa 9% “Oak-Aged Imperial” Back Burner Southern Tier Brewing Company Harpoon Triticus Ale www.newalbanian.com Lakewood NY (Leviathan Series) (2011) Base style: American Barleywine Harpoon Brewery Gravity Head Twist: A chocolate Malts: 2-row Pale, Light and Dark Boston MA malt-heavy oatmeal stout with two Caramel Say what? Wheat Wine types of smoked malt, brewed in Hops: Chinook, Willamette, Amaril- Malts: 50% wheat (including Cara- 2010 by former NABC brewmaster lo, Centennial mel and Chocolate malts) Jared Williamson, and then set Bitterness: “Medium-high” Hops: Dry-hopped aside to rest in Port barrels for- Original Gravity: 25 degrees Plato Bitterness: 57 IBUs merly used to age C2 (Smoked Bel- Alcohol by volume: 9.6% Original Gravity: 27.5 degrees gian Dark Strong), the latter to Plato be found elsewhere in this compen- www.stbcbeer.com Alcohol by volume: 11.5% dium. For the record, the actual NABC brewery anniversary date is Gravity Head Twist: Fittingly, www.harpoonbrewery.com October 25 (2002). given last year’s Gravity Head theme (Mayan calendars) and this Gravity Head Twist: Triticus NABC Bourbondaddy (2012) year’s (zombies), here is a Bar- (Latin for “wheat”) originated in New Albanian Brewing Company leywine designed to inspire the 2005 as a collaboration with the New Albany IN sipper to enjoy another trip Alstrom Brothers of Beer Advocate Base style: Imperial Chocolate around the sun. It’s a worthy fame. Now it is part of Harpoon’s Milk Stout (Bourbon Barrel Aged) goal, indeed. Leviathan Series. Malts: Rahr Pale, Simpson Choco- late and Roast Barley, 23. SPECIALTY BEER NABC/O'Fallon/Schlafly Especial, (+ flaked oats) C2 Collaboration Ale (2010) Sugar: Milk (lactose) This is explicitly a catch-all New Albanian Brewing Company Hops: Challenger category for any beer that does New Albany IN Special: Raisins and cocoa added not fit into an existing style O’Fallon Brewery to mash, cacao nibs in the kettle, category. No beer is ever “out of O’Fallon MO and "Dry Nibbed" in the bright for style” in this category, unless it The Saint Louis Brewery (Schlafly) two months prior to filling bar- fits elsewhere. St. Louis MO rels Say what? Smoked Belgian Dark Yeast: House Ale Bell’s This One Goes to 11 Bitterness: 18 IBUs Bell’s Brewery Malts: Castle Pale, Weyermann OG: 20 degrees Plato Comstock MI Rauch, Castle Biscuit, Briess ABV: 9.5% Say what? Imperial Red Ale Smoke, Castle Aromatic, Castle Malts: “Wide range of specialty Special B www.newalbanian.com malts” Adjuncts: Belgian dark candi sug- Hops: Galaxy, Motueka, Summer ar, Brewer’s Crystal, Molasses (Continued on page 10)

9 (Continued from page 9) Cascade and Golding corn, boosted in strength, and Yeast: House American Ale refashioned as a malt , it Mash Hops: Mt Hood, Crystal Bitterness: 126 IBUs was a briefly invigorating experi- Kettle Hops: Magnum, Slovenian OG: 25 degrees Plato ment. Boss Hog was planned, but Celeia ABV: 11.2% never brewed. Part of NABC’s (the Bitterness: 20 IBUs brewery) 10th Anniversary Bygoner Original Gravity: 1097 www.newalbanian.com Series, brewed to celebrate NABC’s Alcohol by volume: 10.7% 25th company anniversary in 2012. Gravity Head Twist: Fall Off the www.NewAlbanian.com Bus … Along with Bourbondaddy, Samichlaus Bier (2010) www.ofallonbrewery.com Stumble Bus is the most fondly Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg www.schlafly.com remembered seasonal ale brewed by Vorchdorf AUSTRIA NABC’s founding brewer, Michael Say what? Quadrupel Bock? Gravity Head Twist: “C2 was split Borchers. Was it Imperial IPA, or Malts: Pilsner & Munich into various wine casks for aging. was it Barleywine? What is it now? Hops: Magnum, Perle, Saaz Two of the wine casks are Missouri It’s not the destination; it’s the Original Gravity: 27-30 deg. Plato -built, and spent five years in journey. Part of NABC’s (the brew- Alcohol by volume: 14% Napa Valley aging Silver Oak Cab- ery) 10th Anniversary Bygoner Se- ernet. The other two wine casks ries, brewed to celebrate NABC’s www.eggenberger.at are Kentucky-built and have been 25th company anniversary in 2012. at the Huber Winery in Southern Gravity Head Twist: Brewed each Indiana aging various Ports for NABC Turbo Hog (2012) year only on December 6 (in this the last 12 years. Once fresh fig New Albanian Brewing Company case, 2009), then matured for ten season arrived in September 2010, New Albany IN full months before release. After a portion of figs were smoked and Say what? being rescued from multi-national, then the figs were split up and Malts: Rahr Pale, flaked maize bean-counter oblivion by Austria’s added to one of each of the two Sugar: White table sugar Eggenberg brewery, the formerly varietals of wine casks. The bar- Hops: Hallertau Magnum and Tett- Swiss-made Samichlaus has resumed rels were aged eight months total, nanger, Czech Saaz (4 late kettle its rightful place in the pantheon and the batch was blended back additions and dry hops) of classic big beers. together in early January 2011.” - Yeast: House Ale Jared Williamson, formerly of Bitterness: 86 IBUs Stone Double Bastard Ale (2011) NABC, now brewing at Schlafly. OG: 20 degrees Plato Stone Brewing Company ABV: 9.5% San Marcos CA NABC Stumble Bus (2012) Say what: “Double Bastard” I guess New Albanian Brewing Company www.newalbanian.com Bitterness: 100 IBUs New Albany IN Alcohol by volume: 10% Say what? American Strong Ale Gravity Head Twist: The finest Malts: Rahr Pale, Weyermann Vien- malt liquor yet devised by man … www.stonebrew.com na, Simpson Medium Crystal, light First came Bush Hog, and then its malt extract logical culmination, Turbo Hog Gravity Head Twist: The term Hops: A delicate mix of Galena, (sans paper bags). Augmented with “extreme” is entirely appropriate to the portfolio of California’s Stone Brewing Company. Double Bastard is “extremely” indefinable

- could be DIPA, or Barley Wine, or Old Ale, and certainly strong with a powerful punch of heavenly flavors. Two years in … what now?

Three Floyds/ Boogoop II Three Floyds Brewing Company Munster IN Mikkeller Copenhagen DENMARK Say what?: Buckwheat Barley Wine Alcohol by volume: 10.4%

www.threefloyds.com www.mikkeller.dk

Gravity Head Twist: Did you know that goop was “a magnesium dust paste in a kerosene and asphalt  Special Brunch menu (10 am - 2 pm); open until 6 pm base used as an alternative to- napalmWorld War 2 incendiary  Takeaway growlers of handcrafted NABC beer bombs”? Neither did I. Given that  Takeaway 22 oz. NABC Bomber bottles “boghvede” is the Danish word for buckwheat, Boo sounds better.  Our Famous “Build Your Own” Bloody Mary Bar  Mimosas, Regional Bourbons, Spirits and Wines Three Floyds/Mikkeller Risgoop Three Floyds Brewing Company  10:00 a.m. drinks kickoff (3 hours before Louisville) Munster IN Mikkeller 10 Copenhagen DENMARK Say what?: Rice/Wheat Wine  Adjuncts: Rice Alcohol by volume: 10.4%  www.threefloyds.com www.mikkeller.dk

Gravity Head Twist: Aha! The Dan- ish word for rice is “ris,” so now we’re getting somewhere, except now I’m not sure about goop. Maybe it’s Sportsman's Goop, “a brand of waterproof seam-sealer.” Thanks to Wikipedia for amusing me with “goop” definitions.

Upland Ard Ri Imperial Red Upland Brewing Company Bloomington, IN Say what: Imperial Red Ale Bitterness: 77 IBUs Alcohol by volume: 9.3%

www.uplandbeer.com

Gravity Head Twist: Upland’s annu- al St. Patrick’s Day release pays tribute to the Irish pagan kings of antiquity with the style of ale most commonly thought of as “Irish” (after dry stout), and upping the viscosity. Kingly red. Welcome to New Albania! www.newalbanian.com 26B. BRAGGOT Since 1987, NABC hasn’t ever stopped A harmonious blend of and growing and evolving as a business and as beer, with the distinctive charac- a leading advocate for craft beer in New teristics of both. A wide range of results are possible, depending on Albany and metropolitan Louisville. NABC is the base style of beer, variety of all about the beer ... and the food and the honey and overall sweetness and Pssst … hops are being grown atmosphere ... but most importantly, we’re strength. Beer flavors tend to just outside New Albany, in the all about an extended family of friends, somewhat mask typical honey fla- neighbors and employees. NABC’s official vors found in other . hills called the Knobs. Among others, Abstonia Farms has web site takes you inside our two New Alba- People’s Ardelle Christmas Ale supplied NABC with fresh hops ny locations (Pizzeria & Public House on People’s Brewing Company for Wet Knob, our special har- the north side, and Bank Street Brewhouse Lafayette IN vest ale in fall. We think the downtown). You can see NABC’s two brew- Malts: eries, meet our staff, and learn about the Hops: future for local hops is bright. Bitterness: IBUs beers we brew for distribution in Indiana Alcohol by volume: 8.5% Congratulations to our and Kentucky. Floyds Knobs www.peoplesbrew.com As they say in Old Albania: hops growers! "Baltë këtu në sy të juaj!" Gravity Head Twist: Ardelle is a winter seasonal that assumes dif- ferent identities each year. The 2012 release yields a Gravity Head first: Welsh-style Braggot, a YES, NABC GROWLERS mead/ale hybrid. TO GO … ON SUNDAY.

Since July 4, 2010, Sunday carry-out sales from The 2013 Gravity Form was Indiana’s craft breweries have been legit. Every written damned quickly by Rog- Sunday from open to close, reusable growlers of er A. Baylor, so please excuse NABC beer can be purchased at Bank Street the inevitable mistakes. Brewhouse (415 Bank Street in New Albany).

11 00. SUN KING – STYLE UNTO ITSELF (pg 4) 21A. SPICE, HERB, OR VEGETABLE BEER Sun King Batch 666: Sympathy for the Devil 11% Flying Dog Kujo Sun King Batch 777: Touched By An Angel 10% Imperial Coffee Stout (nitro) 8.9% Sun King Big Iron 10% Founders Breakfast Stout (2011) 8.3% Sun King Dominator 8% Great Divide Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti 9.5% Sun King Timmie 10% Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti (2011) 9.5% Sun King Wee Muckle 8% Southern Tier Jah-va 10.6%

5E. EISBOCK 21B. CHRISTMAS/WINTER SPECIALTY SPICED BEER Kulmbacher Eisbock Haandbryggeriet Bestefar 10% “Bayerisch G’frorns” (2010) 9.2% 22C. WOOD-AGED BEER 9E STRONG SCOTCH ALE (WEE HEAVY) Against the Grain/De Molen Bo and Luke 14% Big Dawg Claymore 180 Shilling Scotch Ale 12% Flat12 Bourbon Barrel Winter Cycle Dark Horse Scotty Karate 9.75% Double IPA (2012) 9.4% Flat12 Pinko RIS KGBaylor (Pappy Van Winkle) 11% 13F RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT Flat12 Pinko RIS Nitro (Pappy Van Winkle) 10.5% BBC (Shelbyville Road) Tsar Bomba 12.5% Founders Backwoods Bastard (2012) 10.2% Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout (2011) 10% Founders Bolt Cutter (15th Anniversary) 15% Flat12 Pinko Russian Imperial Stout 10.3% Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti (2011) 9.5% Founders Imperial Stout (2011) 10.5% J. W. Lees Vintage Harvest Ale Great Divide Yeti (2011) 9.5% Lagavulin Scotch (Islay) barrel-conditioned Stone Imperial Russian Stout (2011) 10.8% (2011; cask-conditioned) Circa 11.5% Victory Storm King (2011) 9.1% NABC IX — Ninth Anniversary Ale (2010) Circa 9% NABC Bourbondaddy (2012) 9.5% 14C IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE Schlafly Oak Aged Barleywine (2010) 10.2% Bell’s Hopslam 10% Southern Tier Flat12 Highway to Hops 10% “Oak-Aged Imperial” Back Burner 9.6% Flat12 Winter Cycle 9.3% NABC/De Struise/LBS B’Urban Trotter (2011) 9.2% 23. SPECIALTY BEER People’s Space Cowboy 9% Bell’s This One Goes to 11 11.4% Upland Double Dragonfly 9.1% Brooklyn Brewmaster’s Reserve: The Companion Ale (2011) 10% 16E. BELGIAN SPECIALTY ALE Harpoon Triticus Ale Ellezelloise Hercule 9% (Leviathan Series) (2011) 11.5% Urthel Samaranth Quadrium 11.5% NABC/O'Fallon/Schlafly C2 Collaboration Ale (2010) 10.7% 18C. BELGIAN TRIPEL NABC Stumble Bus (2012) 11.2% Schlafly Tripel 10% NABC Turbo Hog (2012) 9.5% Samichlaus Bier (2010) 14% 19A. OLD ALE Stone Double Bastard Ale (2011) 10% Founders Curmudgeon Old Ale 9.8% Three Floyds/Mikkeller Boogoop II 10.4% Three Floyds/Mikkeller Risgoop 10.4% 19B. ENGLISH BARLEYWINE Upland Ard Ri Imperial Red 9.3% Harpoon Barleywine (Leviathan Series) (2011) 10% 26B. BRAGGOT North Coast Old Stock Ale 11.9% People’s Ardelle Christmas Ale 8.5% Upland Winter Warmer 8.5%

19C. AMERICAN BARLEYWINE Bell’s Third Coast Old Ale (2011) 10.2% Rogue XS Old Crustacean Special thanks to the many people Barley Wine (2011) Circa 11% who conspire each year to stage our Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barley Wine (2006) 9.6%. Gravity Head extravaganza, including Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine (2012) 12% wholesalers and brewery reps, but especially each and every employee of NABC, both past and present. A special shout-out goes to Cellarman/ Beer Manager Eric Gray and R & D Brewer Ben Minton. There are others. You know who you are. Thanks.

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