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Barrel-Aged Borealis is a limited edition mead crafted with 100% raw wildflower honey, buckwheat honey, vanilla bean, and just a touch of locally roasted coffee bean. Aged for one year in barrels used by a local brewery for their award-winning Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout, this complex mead is not for the weak at heart.

This massive wallop of a Baltic Porter is brewed with a lot of hard work, and a 14-hour triple-decoction rest! Now that's not something you see every day! And then... we aged it in whiskey barrels! Like the long coal trains of Nebraska, this brew takes a long while to put together and a long time to enjoy. The double sense of the name (Coltrane) reminds us of the jazz artist’s four-disk collaboration with Miles Davis in 1956, the titles of which describe the decoction method used in brewing this elegant beer: “Cookin’, Relaxin’, Workin’, Steamin’.” Coal Train is a beer to be savored – like fine jazz.

Barrel-Aged Belgian Strong Dark Ale (Red Wine; w/ Cherries)

There are always exceptions to certain rules and this beer is the case. Head High should always be consumed fresh…except for when its going to be aged in a bourbon barrel. The four to six month period this beer spends in a barrel softens and rounds out some of the bitterness you get from this beer fresh. The citrus and grapefruit aroma from the dry hopping fades and is replaced with more subtle notes of pine and vanilla. Earthy and woody flavors from the barrel are easily picked up by the pale malts and oak tannins give this beer a more substantial mouth-feel. ABV: 7.5%

An artful creation which began with our Hop God Belgian-Style IPA, enhanced by a 6 month maturation in French Oak Chardonnay Barrels. This version of Hop God is a fascinating, big, bold Belgian-style Tripel hopped in very high amounts to concentrate citrus, grapefruit and floral aromatics in the nose. The addition of Chardonnay barrel aging adds further dimension and oak tannins to an already wonderfully complex Ale - bringing to mind tropical fruits and peach. We know of nothing that compares - enjoy! Formerly Known as Barrel Aged HopGod

This is our darkest, strongest and most flavorful beer. You can expect multiple sensations with this full bodied beer clocking in at 10%. Vanilla, coffee, Cherry, chocolate, and plum can all be experienced in one sip. We aged these in used barrels from FEW and Koval distilleries.

Blonde ale aged in a French oak foeder.

Ale Brewed With Lactose & Chocolate Aged In Bourbon, Reposado Tequila And Red Wine Barrels

Ale aged in oak barrels

Every year we age a special batch of our much-loved Russian Imperial Stout in Bourbon barrels. The depth, intensity, and complexity of the flavor profile of this special release, like its predecessors, make it a worthy tribute to Old Rasputin. Prior to 2010, Barrel-Aged Old Rasputin was released in such limited quantities that it was available only at the North Coast Brewing retail shop in Fort Bragg, California. However, we received so many requests for this beer that we began producing enough Barrel-Aged Old Rasputin to put into broader, but still limited, distribution.

Every year we age a special batch of our much-loved Russian Imperial Stout in Bourbon barrels. The depth, intensity, and complexity of the flavor profile of this special release, like its predecessors, make it a worthy tribute to Old Rasputin. Prior to 2010, Barrel-Aged Old Rasputin was released in such limited quantities that it was available only at the North Coast Brewing retail shop in Fort Bragg, California. However, we received so many requests for this beer that we began producing enough Barrel-Aged Old Rasputin to put into broader, but still limited, distribution.

The characteristics of Overhead that under normal circumstances help to differentiate it from Head High – more residual sweetness, wider range of malt flavor, and a shift to the piney, resiny end of the hop spectrum – also make it an interesting candidate for barrel aging. Time softens the high IBU punch of fresh Overhead, and caramel sweetness from the bourbon adds a new layer to its malt backbone. Piney hop aromas, made more subtle during the aging process, are reshaped by the underlying notes of earthy oak and hints of vanilla.

A porter aged in bourbon barrels with vanilla beans & Cocoa nibs added

To celebrate our first year, we teamed up with fellow Evanston alcohol-producer FEW Spirits to create something unique to our hometown: a barrel-aged dark beer that’s not high alcohol. Mellow, rounded vanilla notes mix with a touch of chicory and chocolate, enveloped in the unmistakable rye whiskey.

Immense oak and bourbon flavors from 6-months aging in Buffalo Trace Bourbon barrels overlay sweet/sour cherry flavors.

When the first barrel-aged version of Wreck Alley Imperial Stout made its debut, we dropped hints about a mysterious “Batch #2.” Lucky for you, the wait is over. Like previous versions of Wreck Alley, this batch has additions of cocoa nibs and locally roasted Ethiopian coffee beans. But this time we didn’t stop there. Our brewers split whole vanilla beans from Papua New Guinea, added them to the beer, and left it to age in American oak barrels for an entire year. The result? All of the dark chocolate and espresso-like roast you expect from Wreck Alley, plus exotic vanilla undertones. This bad boy is strong, refined, and damn tasty.