Colonial Spirits is in the Holiday Spirit with Staff Picks!

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We’re staying in the holiday spirit by offering up some staff picks as gift ideas! We will likely do this at least another time or two!

Little Book Bourbon is a VERY limited release by Booker’s.
E.H. Taylor Rye is $20 off for the holidays or until gone! This is a STEAL and beloved staff pick!
Meerlust Red is the newest edition from one of the most esteemed South African Estates and is on sale!
Walt Pinot Noir is by the Hall Family and is nicely fruited, loved by staff, also on sale!
Spencer Holiday Ale…but wait, this is an aged 2015 edition straight from the Monks’ Cellars!
Berkshire Holidale is an excellent, affordable barleywine that comes once a year!  A perennial staff favorite!
Lamplighter Raspberry Fields is an excellent gift for the person on your list who loves tart/wild ales!

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Goose Island Wild Ale #2

We did this back in October and it was a lot of fun.  So much fun that we decided to do it all over again.  December 2nd, starting at 6pm, we will be opening bottles of Sofie and Matilda from this year as well as bottles of Lolita, Juliet, Halia, Madame Rose, and Gillian all from 2015. With wild ales like these, we found that giving them a year to sit and mellow out was the right call, so we’re doing it again.  Keep an eye out for an email in which you can RSVP to.  This was a fun, relaxed tasting in which we had some fun with some very nice, rather expensive beers.  It is a great opportunity to try a $30 bottle of fruit added sour ale without paying the $30 price tag.  It does hurt that instead of one, we will be tasting five.

Goose Island Wild Ales

Goose Island has been taking over tap lines all over the place and takes over at the end of the year with Bourbon County.  What is probably their least known, or maybe better would be least tried, line up is their collection of Belgian-inspired wild ales.  So on October 27th, we will have a tasting to spotlight these beers.  We will do ALL of the wild ales.  Considering they range from $10-$32, this tasting is a rare opportunity to taste all of these back to back.

We will be opening Sofie, Matilda, Lolita, Halia, Gillian, Juliet, and Madame Rose.

More details to come, so stay tuned.  Also, keep an eye out for the Hop on the Bus with more details.