The Cigar City Brewpub’s brewer Tim Ogden has been working on new beers for the Northdale brewpub since opening earlier this year. Tim’s newest projects received updates this week from the brewpub, and Tim has been keeping busy.

Gourds of Thunder:

What is Gourds of Thunder? We wanted to make a festive ale for the holidays that we could make sessions of starting before Halloween and continuing well past solstice. Something we could pair with ice cream and or chocolate, as well as with a traditional holiday meal, or just by itself. At roughly 6% abv, this is easily a sessionable beer, brewed with chocolate rye, dark chocolate, butternut squash, calabaza, coriander, allspice and other subtle spices, and fermented with the brewpubs house Belgian yeast.

Gourds of Thunder is bottled and currently available at the CCB Brewpub.

Saint Somewhere Collaboration:

Beelzebob, a berliner weiss with a metric ton per barrel of hibiscus flowers.