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This year's batch uses a thiolized yeast strain to add strong tropical flavors of guava balanced by notes of biscuit and toasted cracker.
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This is a tasty Winter Ale to snuggle up to, released for the winter months when snow blankets the terrain of the mind and the body craves warmth and, let’s be honest, it’s dark and wet most of the time so your beer better be damn good. Winter Ale is dark like the weather with roast chocolate and warm malt flavors balanced by noble hop aroma and subtle hoppy spice.
Ingredients: 2-Row Pale, Munich, C-120, Chocolate, Carafa 2, and Roast Barley with Columbus, Willamette, and US Goldings hops
8% ABV | 45 IBU
Named for the ski lodge atop our local White Pass Ski Resort,this apres-ski sipper warms from the inside out with aromas of caramel, coffee, citrus, pine, and spice. Taking Bale Breaker’s signature hop-forward style to the dark side with the addition of chocolate and rye malts, this balanced IPA is dry-hopped with Mosaic, Simcoe, and experimental hop HBC 630 hops.
7.3% ABV | 70 IBU
A robust Imperial Porter aged for one year in bourbon barrels, then rested on flaked coconut. Hints of roasted coffee are rounded out with a subtle sweetness of coconut and oak. Stoke the fire and relax with this decadent sipper.
10.4% ABV | 64 IBU
Ingredients: Flaked coconut
Uncle Stepdad started his life as Everybody's Imperial Stout. He was already pretty cool, but after 10 months of aging in bourbon barrels, he's a new man. Wiser, more complex, and sophisticated, Uncle Stepdad is ready to step out into the world.
10.3% ABV | 70 IBU
Ingredients: Magnum, Cascade
