Terrapin Hopzilla is an American Double/Imperial IPA. This is one of my favorite beers from their Monster Beer Tour. The taste profile for me is like incredibly sweet candy malts (like a sugary kids breakfast cereal) and a lot of fresh and sticky pine hops. This is one tasty DIPA but be careful, although only a [...]
Terrapin Mosaic is an American Amber/Red Ale and is Volume 19 in their Side Project Series. This is a single hopped rye red ale that uses… Mosaic Hops! The base sweet caramel malts are but a backdrop for the spicy rye and featured hops. I’m smelling classic dense pine on the nose, with a lot of [...]
We’ve talked about our gateway beers at Brew / Drink / Run, the beers that made us first think about beer in a different, more serious way. But if there was a single beer that got me truly excited about the geekier elements of craft beer (like hunting down bottles or cellaring) it would be [...]
Jérôme & Spike’s Collaboration Ale – 2011 Barley Ryne is an English Barleywine brewed with rye. This collaboration between Terrapin (Athens, GA) and BFM (Saignelégier, Switzerland) was brewed twice, once at each brewery. This is the version brewed in Athens. The final beer is 2/3 ale and 1/3 ale aged in bourbon barrels, it was brewed in September [...]
Wake-N-Bake is part of Terrapin’s Monster Beer Tour series of beers. Wake-N-Bake (as you might expect) is a coffee flavored beer. In this case, it is a big oatmeal imperial stout that clocks in at a decent 8.1% ABV. The coffee is very heavy in this iteration (2012). Even before tasting this beer you get [...]
It’s Gateway Beer Week here at BDR. All week each of us will reminisce about the beers that set us out on our personal craft beer journeys. I was excited when we decided to talk about our gateway to craft brew beers. This is one of those topics you can discuss over a few beers [...]
Terrapin Oaked Big Hoppy Monster is an American Amber/Red Ale that is a part of the Monster Beer Tour. The oak aged version has replaced the original un-aged Big Hoppy Monster this year on the tour. I am noticing the barrel right away on this one with a good bit of vanilla and oak wood notes [...]
Athens Georgia’s Terrapin has released their 17th “Side Project” beer, the playfully named Samurai Krunkles. A new twist in their ongoing Krunkles series, this IPA iteration is filled with goodness from Japan, specifically green tea, jasmine rice and ginger. I’m not a fan of super hoppy beers; but this one is well-balanced with sweet malts [...]
Like an oasis after months in the desert, at the end of each summer I start to look for the sure sign Fall is nearly here: Pumpkin Ales! I’m actually surprised I like Pumpkin Ales as much as I do, and I have found there are a lot of people out there who truly [...]
Terrapin Reunion 2010 refers to itself as a Belgian Style Scotch Ale on the label. Aged about 2 years and I’m a little worried how this one has held up over that time. Rather sweet with dominate flavors of caramel and mild dark fruits. The hops and any affects of the Belgian yeast have all but [...]
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