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Middle Ages Druid Fluid

Product - Middle Ages Druid Fluid
Brewed By: 
Middle Ages
Self-Defined Style: 
Barley Wine
Strength (ABV): 
9.0% ABV

An epic barley wine, made in the tradition of British Farmhouse Brewing. Lavished with a velvety blend of six different malts this is a warming beer with a lush mouth feel. The complexities your discriminating palate will detect are ever changing as this barley wine matures. When young, an assertive hop character predominates and with age the beauty of the big malt balance unfolds.

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Primarily thought of as a digestif, Barley Wines have an affinity to lamb, venison and wild boar. Classic cheeses such as English and Vermont cheddars as well as aged Gruyeres from Switzerland. Caramelized desserts as crème brûlée and crepes as well as a good vanilla ice cream can finish a wonderful evening of food and beer.
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Middle Ages Syracuse Pale Ale

Product - Middle Ages Syracuse Pale Ale
Brewed By: 
Middle Ages
Self-Defined Style: 
Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
5.0% ABV

A Sparkling golden ale with a complexity of malt and hop flavor brewed in a similar style to a turn of the century Canadian ale.

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This English Pale Ale pairs nicely with clear broth based soups, salted almonds, game birds and all sorts of seafood. This brew also offers a nice balance to spicier Indian and Cajun foods.
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Saranac Pale Ale

Product - Saranac Pale Ale
Brewed By: 
Saranac
Self-Defined Style: 
Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
5.5% ABV

A beer that would make the English jealous! This true English Pale Ale is rich and fruity, yet finishes crisp. You'll love the copper amber color and medium body.

Best With: 
Lamb, beef, stews, and cheeses.
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Saranac India Pale Ale

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Brewed By: 
Saranac
Self-Defined Style: 
American IPA
Strength (ABV): 
5.8% ABV

A hop lover's delight. In the India Pale Ale tradition this brew is very hoppy in both aroma and flavor from the generous amounts of cascade hops used in brewing. Look for a medium to full body and golden straw color.

Best With: 
Seafood, pizza, and Mexican cuisine.
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Saranac Imperial IPA

Substyle - Imperial Or Double India Pale Ale
Brewed By: 
Saranac
Self-Defined Style: 
Imperial India Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
8.5% ABV
Best With: 
Spicy food.
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Saranac Golden Pilsener

Substyle - American-Style Pilsener
Brewed By: 
Saranac
Self-Defined Style: 
American-Style Pilsener
Strength (ABV): 
5.1% ABV
Best With: 
Fish and chips.
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Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Product - Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Brewed By: 
Sierra Nevada
Self-Defined Style: 
American Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
5.6% ABV
Bitterness (IBU): 
38 IBU

Our most popular beer, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, is a delightful interpretation of a classic style. It has a deep amber color and an exceptionally full-bodied, complex character. Generous quantities of premium Cascade hops give the Pale Ale its fragrant bouquet and spicy flavor.

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While we think Pale Ale tastes great with everything, its assertive hop flavor goes especially well with spicy cuisine, since its clean flavors counterbalance the richness of many hot dishes. It also goes well with starters and salads, its spicy complexity stimulating both appetites and conversation.
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Saranac Root Beer

Substyle - Soda
Brewed By: 
Saranac
Self-Defined Style: 
Root Beer
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Perfect with vanilla bean ice cream for a root beer float!
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Samuel Adams Boston Ale

Product - Samuel Adams Boston Ale
Brewed By: 
Samuel Adams
Self-Defined Style: 
Stock Ale
Strength (ABV): 
5.1% ABV
Best With: 
Old ales such as this work great with steak, game birds, venison and sausages. Big cheeses like the Roquefort or Stilton would pair nicely.
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Samuel Adams Boston Lager

Product - Samuel Adams Boston Lager 2
Brewed By: 
Samuel Adams
Self-Defined Style: 
Vienna Lager
Strength (ABV): 
4.9% ABV

Complex and balanced, with a beautiful hop aroma. This deep amber to golden colored full bodied lager displays caramel sweet notes balanced with distinct citrus and piney notes. A strong, smooth finish and mouth feel.

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Samuel Adams Boston Lager is an outstanding food beer, with a huge variety of complimentary pairings. In particular, this beer is fantastic with medium weight meals such as glazed hams, cured meats, smoked fish, chicken, turkey and Cornish hen dishes. This beer would also work well fresh grilled steak, burgers, or chicken, and works great with salads made with almonds or walnuts.
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Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence

Product - Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence
Brewed By: 
Ommegang
Self-Defined Style: 
Belgian Stout
Strength (ABV): 
8.0% ABV
Color (SRM): 
42º L

Chocolate Indulgence comes with a thick tan head of foam resting on top of the rich onyx-colored liquid. The aroma immediately speaks of dark chocolate and dark malts. The gentle herbal nose of Perle hops compliments the darker notes, making the beer savory to the senses. The taste continues with the intense Belgian dark chocolate gliding across the tongue; starting sweet up front but giving way to rich cocoa flavors at the back.

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Perhaps the ultimate companion to chocolate dipped Belgian waffles.
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Ommegang Witte

Product - Ommegang Witte
Brewed By: 
Ommegang
Self-Defined Style: 
Belgian-Style Wheat or White ale
Strength (ABV): 
5.1% ABV

Ommegang Witte is our take on a Belgian-white, or Witbier. Adhering closely to traditional ingredients and flavor profiles, Witte proved its worth at the 2010 and 2008 World Beer Cup by capturing Silver in its category amongst the best in the world. Initially the first Ommegang beer available on draft, Witte is now featured as the Summer Seasonal in our featured-seasonal draft rotation. Though available for year-round enjoyment in 750 ml and 12 oz bottles, summer is the ideal time to enjoy a Witte draft at your favorite warm weather, draft beer destinations.

Imagine...

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A picnic with light summer foods, appetizers, salads, and barbeques. Or while sitting on the beach, watching clouds drift by.
Awards: 
2011 Gold - Belgian Style Wheat Ale - Great American Beer Fest
2010 Silver - Belgian Style Wheat Ale - World Beer Cup
2009 Silver - Belgian Style Wheat Ale - World Beer Cup
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Newport Storm Hurricane Amber Ale

Substyle - American-Style Amber Red Ale
Brewed By: 
Newport Storm
Self-Defined Style: 
Amber Ale
Strength (ABV): 
5.2% ABV
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This ruby hued amber ale would be fantastic with medium weight meals such as glazed hams, cured meats, smoked fish, chicken, turkey and Cornish hen dishes.
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Magic Hat Circus Boy

Product - Magic Hat Circus Boy
Brewed By: 
Magic Hat
Self-Defined Style: 
Unfiltered and Unfettered
Strength (ABV): 
5.4% ABV

Our hazy shade of Hefeweizen is light bodied American style elixir of ultimate drinkability whose wheat malt character is capable of quenching serious thirsts of all kinds.

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Great with lighter foods, like sushi and salads. Or while watching life swing by with the greatest of ease on a flying trapeze.
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Magic Hat #9

Product - Magic Hat #9
Brewed By: 
Magic Hat
Self-Defined Style: 
Not Quite Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
5.1% ABV
Color (SRM): 
9º L
Bitterness (IBU): 
20 IBU

A beer cloaked in secrecy. An ale whose mysterious and unusual palate will swirl across your tongue and ask more questions than it answers. A sort of dry, crisp, refreshing, not-quite pale ale. #9 is really impossible to describe because there's never been anything else quite like it.

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Best enjoyed with spicy foods and to bring out the spice in life.
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Lindemans Framboise

Product - Lindemans Framboise
Brewed By: 
Lindemans
Self-Defined Style: 
Raspberry Lambic
Strength (ABV): 
4.0% ABV

Long before hops were common in most beers, various fruits and vegetables were used to season beers. The acidity of lambic beers blends perfectly with raspberries. Rose in color. Magnificent aroma, delicate palate of raspberries with undertones of fruity acidity; elegant, sparkling clean natural taste.

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Chocolate desserts (especially chocolate decadence), fresh raspberries, ice cream with a raspberry demi-glaze sauce, créme caramel, baked Alaska, Olympia oysters, caviar. Serve in flute-shaped Lambic glasses at 45 degrees.
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Lagunitas IPA

Product - Lagunitas Ipa
Brewed By: 
Lagunitas
Self-Defined Style: 
India Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
6.2% ABV
Bitterness (IBU): 
46 IBU

Thanks for choosing to spend the next few minutes with this special homicidally hoppy ale. Savor the moment as the raging hop character engages the imperial qualities of the Malt foundation in mortal combat on the battlefield of your palate!

Best With: 
This IPA would have a wonderful relationship with a hearty meal of steak, stew or chili. Strong and sharp cheeses, like the Roquefort or Stilton pair nicely.
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Harpoon IPA

Product - Harpoon Ipa
Brewed By: 
Harpoon
Self-Defined Style: 
India Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
5.9% ABV

The high hopping of Harpoon IPA is not only noticeable in the nose but especially in the finish. The lingering bitter finish of this beer is not harsh or astringent, but crisp and pronounced. This is created, in part, by dry hopping - a technique that involves adding fresh hops to the conditioning beer to provide a fresh hop aroma.

Best With: 
Grilled seafood, Thai food, spicy chicken.
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Grolsch Premium Lager

Product - Grolsch
Brewed By: 
Grolsch
Self-Defined Style: 
Lager
Strength (ABV): 
5.0% ABV

With a sophisticated, bright golden pour and a stable white head, this beer is the epitome of a world class European lager. Subtle hop notes and a mild maltiness give way to a clean finish.

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A great gold pilsner will always work with all seafood dishes, clear broth soups, tapas, and just about anything off the backyard grill. This brew also lends itself nicely jambalaya, falafels, and certain Caribbean dishes. Fried pub fare is also a fine accompaniment to German pilsener.
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Fullers India Pale Ale

Product - Fuller's India Pale Ale
Brewed By: 
Fullers
Self-Defined Style: 
India Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
4.8% ABV

India Pale Ale, so-called because of the market it was created for, was first brewed in Burton-Upon-Trent in 1822. Demand for an English ale amongst British troops serving in India was high, so the ale sent out to the East was heavily hopped and brewed to a high gravity, so that it could ferment slowly throughout the long journey, reaching the peak of its condition as it arrived. Fuller's own premium quality India Pale Ale reflects all the traditional characteristics associated with this historic beer.

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This very drinkable English IPA has an affinity for spicier fare, but also pairs with anything from avocados to Mexican dishes to calamari to bar foods.
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Guinness Extra Stout

Product - Guinness Extra
Brewed By: 
Guinness
Self-Defined Style: 
Extra Stout
Strength (ABV): 
5.0% ABV

Distinctive. Matured. Toasted. Bitter. GUINNESS® Strong tasting with a distinctive roasted bitterness, GUINNESS® Extra Stout is our authentic carbonated classic. It'll transport you back to an 18th Century world of stouts when the ancestor of this beer was known as GUINNESS® East and West India porter. In 1821, the definitive early GUINNESS® became known as Extra Superior Porter.

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GUINNESS® Extra Stout is beer to enhance the flavor of meat in a casserole and GUINNESS® to concoct your own cocktails. So handle with care.