It’s February, and that means it’s time for the 12th annual Strong Beer Month, once again with six new extreme beers each at 21st Amendment and Magnolia throughout the month. Try them all, and you get to keep the commemorative logo glass. Just collect all 12 punches in your Strong Beer Month ticket before the beer’s all gone. You can read all about it at both Magnolia and 21st Amendment websites.
This year’s theme is the 1978 album “Some Girls” by the Rolling Stones. “The players on the album from left to right on the album (green row) are: Ben Spencer (Magnolia Head Brewer), Shaun O’Sullivan (21A owner), Zambo (21 Head Brewer), Dave McLean (Magnolia owner) and Nico Freccia (21A owner). There is also an Easter egg in the album, see if you can find Motor Kiesling, a good friend of both the 21A and Magnolia.”
Here’s the beer for this year:
- Rye Rye Rocco Rye Brown Ale: 8.1% abv
- Let It Rauch German-influenced Smoked Beer: 8.1% abv
- Promised Land Imperial IPA: 11.2% abv
- Smokestack Lightning Imperial Stout: 9.7% abv
- Quadlibet For Tenderfeet Belgian Abbey-style Quadrupel: 8% abv
- Old Thunderpussy Barleywine: 10.6% abv
- Framboise Forte d’Or Belgian-style Raspberry Golden Ale: 10.2% abv
- Dub Step Imperial I.P.A.: 10.2% abv
- Beast of Burden American-Belgo Imperial IPA: 9.9% abv
- Red Titan Giant Red Ale: 12.8%
- Bike Lane Hopper Imperial Black IPA: 9.6% abv
- Hendrick’s Imperial Stout: 9.3% abv
And here’s the back cover, too, with more details about each beer:
This year for the first time, they also created a third poster, this one showing the Strong Beer Month gang pal’ing around with all of their celebrity friends. Must be nice to be a brewer.