Focusing strongly on Seasonal Stouts in 2021, Gigantic Brewing shares their 2021 release calendar.
Located just minutes from Reed College, Gigantic Brewing Taproom & Brewery has announced their upcoming releases for 2021. Like many breweries, there are some surprises both good and bad and returning favorites. Here’s the breakdown.
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Seasonal Collabo
Starting with Bend (Oregon) brewery Ale Apothecary, Gigantic is releasing ‘Via for Real’ IPA. Following Ale Apothecary, the duo from Gigantic join forces with E9 from Tacoma (Washington) with the release of Stretchin Out IPA. Following this release the brewery is hitting old friends Tony Lawrence Boneyard from Bend (Oregon) brewery Boneyard Beer, Tyler Brown from Barley Brown Brewing, and Kevin Watson at Seattle’s Future Primitive Brewing. Finally, the brewery will conclude their collaboration lineup with cooperation from Sunriver Brewing Company.
Here are the important dates for those who need to be in the know.
Ale Apothecary - January & February
E9 - March & April
Boneyard - May & June
Barley Browns - July & August
Future Primitive - September & October
Sunriver Brewing - November & December
Seasonal IPA
With a focus on their best-selling beers from the past couple of years, the brewery is happy to re-release Time Warp IPA, Catch 23 but with experimental hop X13459, “... known for its tropical, floral, citrus, each, and strawberry notes”. After Catch 23, Hold Tight and Smackdab return from 2020 (and Ben Love’s favorite). Finally Fluffy Tufts continues the holiday tradition in 2021.
Key dates are as follows.
Fluffy Tufts - December 2020 - January 2021
Time Warp - February & March
Catch 23 - April & May
Hold Tight - June to Mid-August
Smackdab - Mid-August to Mid - October
Fluffy Tufts - Mid-October - January 2022
Seasonal Lager
Focusing on different hop combinations, Ben and Van are continuing their unique approach to your favorite Pilsner. Starting with Lotus hops, then Mosaic, Crystal, Citra, Galaxy and finally Motueka hops, the brewery hopes you’ll collect them all!
As always, here are the dates of importance.
Project Pilsner Lotus - January & February
Project Pilsner Mosaic - March & April
Project Pilsner Crystal - May & June
Project Pilsner Citra - July & August
Project Pilsner Galaxy - September & October
Project Pilsner Motueka - November & December
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Seasonal Hazy IPA
Once again what is old is new in 2021 as the brewery brings back Super-Charged, from late 2020. Then every two months look for Boom Star, Glow Cloud, Fuzz Wumper, Boom! Pow!, and finally Cloudberries.
Dates are as follows.
Super-Charged - January & February
Boom Star - March & April
Glow Cloud - May & June
Fuzz Wumper - July & August
Boom! Pow! - September & October
Cloudberries - November & December
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Seasonal Stouts
From the mouths of Ben Love,
We have brewed a number of bigger seasonal stouts over the years and they always sell well, so we decided to add a line of Seasonal Stout that continues (almost) year around. We kicked off the series with the return of The Deep, which is out now. Next up is a Mexican Chocolate Stout with chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon and a hint of chili. We're following that up with a delicious Maple Breakfast Stout. In the summer months we will not be making a stout, it just too damn hot - "No stout, it's summer". As we ease into September we will release a delicious Caramel Coffee Stout. We'll finish the year with an over the top Hazelnut Chocolate stout.
If you didn’t get all that, here are the dates for each beer.
The Deep - January & February
Mexican Chocolate Stout - March & April
Maple Breakfast Stout - May & June
No Stout, It’s Summer - July & August
Caramel Coffee Stout - September & October
Hazelnut Chocolate - November & December
Pipewrench + Cocktail
Following up in 2021, Gigantic Brewing confirms the return of Corpse Reviver Gin Citrus Cocktail Sour. Following this look for Pipewrench Gin Barrel Aged Beer, Pomegranite Gin Barrel Aged Beer, and finally an encore of Pipewrench.
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Corpse Reviver - January
Pipewrench - April
Pomegranite - July
Pipewrench - October
Fantastic Voyage
We are preparing to bottle and keg barrels of Fantastic Voyage Brett Saison that have been aging to perfection in our cellar. We will keep you apprised of release dates for those beers.
Most Most Premium
The brewery’s barrel aged Russian Imperial Stout, the brewery is releasing variants including bourbon, scotch, rum, port, and rye whiskey.
Massive!
Because what’s 2021 without more Massive!, the brewery is happy to announce the upcoming release in the Fall of 2021. Included in this release are barrel-aged variants including Weller, Old Forester, Scotch, Mezcal, and Pinot barrels. Set your clocks to October and November 2021.
Fresh Hop
Later in 2021, during the hop harvest season, Gigantic intends on releasing several fresh hopped beers. So far the brewery has confirmed “2 Fresh Hop IPAs” and Fresh Hop Kolschtastic. The rest is TBD until they get their hands on the hops. Look to September, when these beers roll out.
Winter Beer
With the approach of releasing their beloved “The Cat Ate My Stash & Pissed on the Xmas Tree” twice, the brewery is looking to July and October as key months for this release.
Starting in July, the brewery releases a “Cat Ate My Stash”-inspired version of their West Coast IPA and called it Cat Stash Fever. Using the same hops but with a lighter malt body, it’s Christmas in July.
Finally, here’s a list of unconfirmed but omitted beers from 2020.
Rainbow Supreme Hazy IPA
Mystery Cloud Hazy IPA
Project Pilsner - Citra
Oktoberfest
Shake & Shimmy Juicy IPA
Hold Tight Tropical IPA
Pipewrench + Cocktail - Blood Orange Gin
For information on these and other beers, visit https://www.giganticbrewing.com/. Gigantic Brewing Company is located at 5224 SE 26th Avenue in Portland, OR 97202.
About Gigantic Brewing Company
At Gigantic we only do two things: make the best damn IPA in Portland, Oregon and produce seasonal, exciting, flavorful beers, most of which will be brewed only once. Our goal is simultaneously to create new interpretations of classic styles and to ignore those same style guidelines completely and brew whatever our creative natures produce.
We hold ourselves to a simple principle – Never Give an Inch. We vow to start small and (stubbornly) stay small, focusing our efforts on making exceptional beer, rather than a lot of beer. When you drink Gigantic, know that we didn’t just put our names on the label – our effort, imagination, and dry wit are in every bottle.
Look for Gigantic on tap at your local, and in 500ml bottles at your favorite place to buy good beer. Better yet, come visit us at our Tap Room and Champagne Lounge and Taste the Awesome!
Cheers!
Ben & Van
