Big news for all you Dogfish Head lovers out there.

Today an announcement was made via a blog post on Dogfish's website that the 120-minute IPA drought will be over for a number of states within the next few days to few weeks (depending on shipment schedules and wholesalers). For those of you who are not familiar with Dogfish 120-minute IPA here is a description from the Dogfish website:

 "Brewed to a colossal 45-degree plato, boiled for a full 2 hours while being continuously hopped with high-alpha American hops, then dry-hopped daily in the fermenter for a month & aged for another month on whole-leaf hops!!!Our 120 Minute I.P.A. is by far the biggest I.P.A. ever brewed! Between 15-20% abv and 120 ibus you can see why we call this beer THE HOLY GRAIL for hopheads!"

Basically for those of you who have had it and enjoy it a lot (like me) it is a hoppy, heavenly, high-alcohol beer that is matched by few. I'm pretty sure this beer was what turned me into an extreme beer enthusiast because it was my first exposure to an extreme beer out of the norm, or in the words of Dogfish themselves, "Off-centered".

If any of you ever watched Brewmasters on the Discovery channel this past fall you are well aware that Dogfish had to dumb their last batch of 120-minute because it did not meet the high standards for quality they have set. They basically lost not just a batch of beer but also hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now don't expect to see it everywhere. The brewery only made a smaller batch and are going to be releasing it pretty much immediately to their wholesalers and then depending on shipping times and other factors it will be hitting shelves in the next few days to few weeks. It will only be available in 19 states though. This is due to the fact that some states do not allow the sale of beer this high in alcohol, and some states just don't get Dogfish beer. 

Read the full post from Dogfish about the new release and to see if your state made the cut for 120-Minute IPA here

Enjoy Dogfish founder Sam talk about the 120-minute IPA

MLB Relief Pitcher by day, Brewmaster by night.

So I found this cool article today about one of the pitchers for the Seattle Mariners, Chris Ray. He recently teamed up with Fremont Brewing Company to make a limited edition IPA to benefit Operation Homefront. He says that he started home-brewing a few years ago when he was in the Minors with some of the guys on his team. His plans after baseball are to start a brewery with his brother in Virginia, where he is from. You can read the full article here..."The Mariners' Relief Pitcher of Beer"

This is pretty cool. For multiple reasons. First, dude likes beer. Second, dude is a professional baseball player. Third, he realizes he wont play forever so he is going to turn a hobby he has into his future career. Best of luck to him. Someone in Washington should try the Homefront IPA when it comes out and tell me how it is. Or you can send me one.

Pourin' beer like there's no tomorrow

So there are these new beer pouring mechanisms that are popping up across the world pretty much. The machine is called the Exactap. Here are the remarkable things about it...

1. It can pour a perfect beer in 4 seconds
2. Can drain a keg in 15 minutes
3. Guinness gives it a 5 out of 5 rating

I would like to see one of these things in action and make my own judgements. It kinda takes the fun out of being good at pouring beer though, but I guess that's what automation has done to most things. Fenway has a couple, I'll have to check it out when I go to a game this summer. Here is the article.