New Arrival: Hair of the Dog!

HAIR OF THE DOG: Just in! This legendary small batch brewery from Portland, a pioneer of interesting and delicious beers that defy style guidelines, is back in San Francisco after a long drought. And we got some! We have limited quantities of Fred, Blue Dot, and the very rare Cherry Adam. At the risk of pigeonhole-ing these beers, I will attempt to describe them:

Fred: A hoppy, Belgian Golden Strong Ale with Rye. $6.99/ 12oz

Blue Dot: While this is their only beer to explicitly display a known beer style, Double IPA, I wouldn't lump this in with the rest of the hop bombs out here on the West Coast. In fact, I would liken more to a Belgian IPA. Unfiltered and a bit funky, with a nice, clean, grassy hop character. $9.99/ 22oz

Cherry Adam: Where to start.. at %13.5 abv, one might call this beer a Barleywine or Old Ale, and it wouldn't be wrong to do so. It is indeed strong, malty and has little-to-no carbonation. But it diverges from the aforementioned styles in couple ways: an American dose of Pacific Northwest hops and the addition of local cherries. The beer is aged for at least 15 months(!) in oak, making it exceptionally smooth. One of the most complex, layered and tasty beers you'll ever have. $17.99/ 12oz

-Bradley

New Arrivals!

Healthy Spirits New Arrivals for June 4th, 2014

Clement Street New Things In No Particular Order:

Dupont Cuvee Dry Hopping 2014 25.4oz $14.99
Crooked Stave St. Bretta Citrus Winter Wildbier w/ Tangelo 12.7oz $9.99
Crooked Stave St. Bretta Citrus Spring Wildbier w/ Cara Cara 12.7oz $9.99
Morland Old Crafty Hen Vintage Ale 16.9oz $4.99
Avery Rufus Corvus Barrel-aged Sour Ale 12oz $15.99
Allagash Belgian-style Tripel 4packs $12.99
Oskar Blues Old Chub Nitro 4packs $9.99
Stone Enjoy By 07.04.2014 22oz $8.99
Stone Stochasticity Quadro Triticale 22oz $8.99
Avery Karma Belgian-syle Pale Ale 6packs $10.99
New Belgium/Odell Hop Kitchen #6 Pale Ale 22oz $5.99
Ommegang Three Philosophers Cellared Set ('11, '12, '13) 3x25.4oz $44.99
Stillwater Brontide Belgian-style Black Ale 4packs $12.99
Golden Road Heal the Bat IPA 4packs $12.99
Birra Baladin Super Belgian-style Tripel 25.4oz $22.99
Straffe Hendrik Heritage Oak Barrel Quadrupel 25.4oz $34.99
Hacker Pschorr Sternweisse Wheat Ale 12.9oz $4.99

Restocks:

Dupont Moinette Blonde 25.4oz $13.99
Dupont Foret Organic Saison 25.4oz $13.99
Witkap Pater Stimulo Belgian Single 25.4oz $15.99
Grand Teton Sweetgrass Amerian Pale Ale 6pack $10.99

LONG LIVE THE KING!

Since 2011 the team at Healthy Spirits has worked with our favorite distilleries to acquire exclusive bottlings of their spirits. When this happens we’re also able to get the emptied barrels these unique whiskies were aged in. We then hand these oaken vessels over to our favorite brewers to carefully age their offerings. The result has been a series of amazing bottled beers available only at our stores in very limited quantities.

The newest in this series of exclusive bottlings has just been released! Healthy Spirits and San Francisco’s Triple Voodoo Brewing announce KING LEOPOLD Barrel-Aged Belgian Stout. Black as a rickhouse floor at midnight, this stout features American and European dark malts with a portion of rolled oats to supply the roasty, nutty, and full-bodied granular structure without heaviness on the palate. Belgian yeast ate all the sugars supplied by these grains, leaving behind a dry, clean finish. Oak barrel aging provided extra fermentation and a fleeting hint of woody spice. Limited to a mere ten cases produced, this represents one of the smallest runs of our exclusive ale series offered to our beer-loving patrons, and at $17.99 per twenty-two ounce bottle we’re certain the supply will not last!


In addition to KING LEOPOLD Barrel-Aged Belgian Stout, some of our
previous exclusive bottlings are still available, but supplies are dwindling every day! These include:

Ale Industries SOMEONE TALKED! Imperial stout with coffee - Colorado Gold or Four Roses bourbon-barrel aged variants only: Buffalo Trace has SOLD OUT! $18.99/22oz.

FiftyFifty HEALTHY SPIRITS FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY BLEND - Truckee’s masters of barrel-aged imperial ales blended a barleywine with an imperial porter then aged it in our Four Roses bourbon barrel. The result, released in October of last year, is really hitting its stride after resting in glass. $25.99/22oz

Mill Valley Beerworks ESPIRITU OSCURO - also released in celebration of our store’s 15th anniversary, the “Dark Spirit” is a dark Belgian-style ale brewed with spices and smoked sea salt. It was aged in our hand-selected Four Roses Bourbon barrels. They also aged a batch of their fantastic FOUR BROTHERS Belgian-style golden ale in another Four Roses barrel. Both available for now: $13.99/16oz

Telegraph Brewing Company RHINOCEROS Rye-wine - aged in a dry Evan Williams barrel, this rich ale picked up some serious woody spice. $19.99/25.4oz

Moylan’s OLD BLARNEY Barleywine - aged in a re-wet Buffalo Trace barrel that was once filled with Ryan Sullivan’s Imperial Stout for our very first Healthy Spirits exclusive offering. $13.99

Healthy Spirits and the beers they love.

-Pretty Things Fluffy White Rabbits 22oz
'Hoppy' Belgian-style Tripel from our fave husband, wife, & bunnies brewing team.

-Pretty Things 1955 Double Brown 22oz
An homage to days gone by: a recreation of Whitbread brewery's London Brown Ale.

-Iron Springs JC Flyer IPA 22oz
Fairfax's favorite floral quaff.

-Dogfish Head Black & Blue 750ml
Belgian-style strong golden ale with black raspberry and blueberry puree.

-Coronado Old Scallywag Barrel Aged Barleywine 22oz
Barrel-aged American Barleywine from World Beer Cup Champion Mid-sized Brewer

-Green Flash Road Warrior 4pks
Green Flash's anti-session ale bucks the trend of light summertime releases with a 9% ABV Imperial Rye IPA.

-21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon Wheat 6pks
Get your giant watermelon wedge garnish and enjoy the summertime properly!

-Rogue Dirtoir Black Lager 22oz
Award-winning dark lager from Rogue Farm's GYO (Grow Your Own) Series.

-Rogue New Crustacean 750ml
"Barleywineish Imperial IPA-sorta". Finally, a brewery correctly puts the dreaded "B" word on their hoppy imperial ale. I'll give you ninety minutes to guess the other arrogant brewsterds who don't.

-Ovila Dubbel 750ml
The Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, CA and Chico's most devout break their vows of silence and shout praises in this abbey dark ale.

-Cascadia Dry Hard Apple Cider 4pks
"The Pacific Northwest grows more apples than anywhere else in the country, so we make hard cider here. Our ciderworkers use only Cascadia-grown whole apples, never juice from concentrate."

-Hanssens Oude Gueuze 375ml & 750ml
Lambic blender extraordinaire back on the shelves after being out of stock for some time.


-Drie Fonteinen Golden Doesjel 375ml
Drie Fonteinen's master blender pays himself tribute by blending 1, 2, 3, and 4 year old lambics to create his "sleeper" Gueuze. Mmmmmmmzzzzzzzzz...

-Fantome Artist No. 1 750ml
Hoppy Belgian farmhouse amber ale with fruity esthers care of the ghostly spirit of Soy.

-Fantome Printemps 750ml
Spiced Belgian farmhouse golden ale celebrates Spring in Soy.

-Brewfist Caterpillar Rye Pale Ale
Pale ale brewed with rye, and hopped with Columbus and Motueka hops.

-Brewfist Galaxie Saison
"Imagine what a German brewer would do with a Saison if he brewed it in Italy. It tastes like that."

-Lervig Konrad's Stout
Norwegia komes korrekt with the oats & roast while making 10.4% ABV disappear.

-Nogne-O/Terrapin GA Imperial Rye Porter
Spike from Georgia goes to Hell and makes a deal with the Kjetil. The dark ale rye-ses and the portering time commences. 

Toccalmatto/Prairie Okie Matilde
The gents at Lime Ventures put it best: "A drinkable tribute to the famed Trappist beer Orval, Okie Matilde is the product of a collaboration between the folks at Toccalmatto and Chase Healey of Oklahoma's own Prairie Artisan Ales."

Don't Hate. Update!

Donnie: Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?

Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

While our stock still has a large selection of delicious warming ales for these brisk San Francisco nights, the easter bunny brought our stores a whole basketfull of new goodies!

Castro Street:

Midnight Sun - Meltdown Double IPA

Cismontane - Marea Roja

Boulevard - Chocolate Ale

Boulevard - Grainstorm

Heretic - Torment

Calicraft - Chez Panisse

Allagash - Saison

Devil's Canyon - Belle Cherry Lambic

Flying Dog - Double Dog Imperial IPA

Uinta - Sum'r

Dogfish Head - Aprihop

Bear Republic - Grand Am Pale Ale

Clement Street:

Uinta - Sum'r

Coronado - Frog's Breath

Maui Brewing - CoCoNut Porter

Bear Republic - Grand Am Pale Ale

Golden Road - HefeWeizen

Anderson Valley - Summer Solstice

Dogfish Head - Aprihop

Midnight Sun - Meltdown Double IPA

Boulevard - Grainstorm Black Rye IPA

Boulevard - Chocolate Ale

Figueroa Mountain - Davy Brown Ale

Figueroa Mountain - Danish Style Red Lager

New Brews on Tuesday??

Late last week one of our favorite distributors dropped a bombshell of a list into our laps. Now, these guys already have world-class sheets every week but this had some selections to make even my jaded palate tingle. Get some!

The boys at Castro are swingin':

• Anchorage Brewing Rondy Brew 750ml spiced saison with brett & French oak
• Anchorage Brewing/Crooked Stave Between the Staves 750ml Cognac bbl sour ale
• Jolly Pumpkin IO 750ml red saison
• Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Peche 'n Brett 750ml oak aged ale with peaches*
• Heater Allen Hugo Bock 22oz traditional German-style dark bock
• Heater Allen Pils 22oz traditional Czech-style pils
• De Ranke XX Bitter 330ml hoppy Belgian ale
• Amager Envy West Coast IPA 500ml American-style IPA
• Amager Gluttony Imperial IPA 500ml Sinner series Imperial IPA
• Amager Fru Frederiksen 500ml powerfully feminine stout
• J.W. Lees Harvest Ale Rayoso Sherry 2009 275ml vintage barleywine in Sherry casks
• J.W. Lees Harvest Ale 2012 275ml vintage barleywine
• J.W. Lees Harvest Ale in Lagavullin Casks 2012 275ml vintage barleywine in Scotch casks
• J.W. Lees Harvest Calvados 2010 9.3oz vintage barleywine in apple brandy casks
• Timothy Taylor Landlord 500ml profound English pub pale
• Monchshof Schwarzbier 500ml swing-top German black lager
• Mahr's Bock 500ml German strong lager
• Mahr's Pilsner 500ml bottles traditional German lager
• Prof. Briem '1809' Berliner Weisse 500ml tart wheat ale
• De Molen / Narke Goths & Vandals bourbon barrel aged 330ml bourbon barrel imperial stout
• De Molen/Tired Hands Lost & Found 750ml 100% brett Black IPA
• De Molen SSS Tripel Stout 330ml Dutch imperial stout
• BFM Abbaye de St. Bon Chien Vintage 2011 375ml vintage sour Biere de Garde

New brews on the avenues:

• Anchorage Brewing Rondy Brew 750ml spiced saison with brett & French oak
• Anchorage Brewing/Crooked Stave Between the Staves 750ml Cognac bbl sour ale
• Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Ales- Seizoen Bretta 750ml brett fermented saison
• Logsdon Organic Farmhouse Peche 'n Brett 750ml oak aged ale with peaches*
• Heater Allen Hugo Bock 22oz traditional German-style dark bock
• MAD Beer Bitter 750ml shiso IPA
• MAD Beer Sod 750ml popcorn porter
• MAD Beer Umami 750ml seaweed pilsner
• Mikkeller Barrel-Aged Monk's Brew 375ml bourbon barrel Belgian-style strong dark ale 
• Mikkeller Black Hole 375ml imperial stout with coffee
• Mikkeller Sort Gul 330ml black IPA
• Timothy Taylor Landlord 500ml profound English pub pale
• Mahr's Ungespundet Lager 500ml unfiltered German lager
• Prof. Briem '1809' Berliner Weisse 500ml tart wheat ale
• De Molen/Tired Hands Lost & Found 750ml 100% brett Black IPA
• BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien 2012 750ml vintage sour Biere de Garde

*extremely limited quantities
 

Healthy Spirits Clement Street: new arrivals for your weekend departures!

Nevermind the 2pacs, here's the Newpacs:
** JUST IN ** Anchor Saison 6packs $9.99
-Anderson Valley Keebarlin' 100% Columbus hopped Session Pale Ale 6pack $9.99
-Avery New World Porter 6pack $10.99
-Boulevard mixed 4pack (Tank 7, Sixth Glass, Dark Truth, Double-Wide) with glass $13.99

The bombs:
-El Segundo Citra Pale Ale (bottled 3.16.14!) 22oz $7.99
-Heretic Torment Dark Belgian-style Ale 22oz $9.99

Dealin' in import/export:
-St. Sylvestre Gavroche French Red Ale 750ml $10.99
-Blanche de Bruxelles Belgian Witbier 750ml $8.99 AND 4pack $9.99
-Franziskaner Hefeweisse and Dunkelweisse 500ml $2.99
-St. Stefanus Blonde 750ml $11.99

Stoutin' 4 life:
-Clown Shoes Luchador En Fuego Mexican-style boubron-barrel aged Chocolate Stout 22oz $15.99
-Clown Shoes Undead Party Crasher (formerly Vampire Slayer) American Imperial Stout 22oz $9.99
-Anderson Valley Huge Arker Imperial Stout aged 6 months in Wild Turkey Bourbon Barrels 22oz $16.99
-Stone Imperial Russian Stout 2014 (2013 still in stock!) 22oz $8.99
-101 North Naughty Aud Imperial Stout 22oz $7.99
-Allagash Odyssey Belgian-style Dark Ale aged in oak barrels 750ml $23.99