Two New Creations

Welcome to the Sainthood

Goat Rodeo's latest crusade into craft brewing has led to the creation of a French style saison brewed with honey and rye.  6.8% ABV.  Enjoy.

Fruitilicious

Summer beers can be pretty boring in my opinion.  Usually nothing more than some wheat, light spice, and lemon flavors.  That's alright, but here at Goat Rodeo, we like our beers a bit more flavorful.  Therefore, we juiced up the mash tun with a heaping amount of wheat then doused it with some booming hops in the brew kettle.  Wanted to keep the ABV low for mass consumption (aka - sessionable), registering an easy-going 4.3%.  Copious amounts of Amarillo and Citra were used during the brewing and then a blend of Mosiac, Simcoe, and Citra dropped in for dry-hopping.  Bodacious tropical fruit aromas abound and flavors follow.  It's fruitilicious!

Soured on Goat Rodeo?

Lambic brewed with Brettanomyces Lambicus, raspberries, and golden raisins.  Aroma of berries, flavor is mildly tart, with subtle fruit notes, wheat, light-bodied, and refreshing for the summer season.

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This is a decadent concoction of honey, fresh pressed farm apple cider, brown sugar, sweet orange peel, and cinnamon that was fermented with a sweet mead/wine yeast.  The style is known as a cyser, which is a mead and cider hybrid.

The nose is that of cider, with mostly apples and sugar aromas.  The flavor is the same upfront, but quickly changes to a wine-like finish (think grapes and lemons).  The alcohol is evident, as the ABV is 12.6%.

Roughly 4 gallons were produced with the plan to bottle in 750 ml.  Stay tuned.

Are you ready for some Rye Wit?

Dimwit, Halfwit, Nitwit is a Belgian Wit (aka- White Ale) brewed with bitter orange peel, coriander, Tettnang and Warrior hops, and true Belgian Wit yeast.  This beer was brewed for the purpose of party libations at the 3rd Annual Man Weekend at Camp Pocahontas.  At 4.8% ABV, it's light and refreshing, and perfect for a hot August day.  Drink up fellas!

Fight For Your Rye To Party is a hopped up Roggenbier (aka- Rye Ale).  Coming in at 96 IBU due to a heavy dose of Polaris, Centennial, and Amarillo hops.  Dark Belgian candi sugar, brown sugar, and seeds of paradise were added to the rye grain, and pale and wheat malts.  Flavor is complex, with upfront spice from the rye and citrus in the nose from the hops, but finishes bitter sweet.  Clocks in at 7.2% ABV.

I have a Hunch that it's a Quad

Goat Rodeo Brewing is proud to announce our first collaboration brew with North Shore Brewers, based out of Massachusetts.   During my recent beercation, I stayed with some awesome people, drank some great beer, ate some scrumptious seafood, and brewed a Belgian Quad. This beer goes by the name of Quadsimodo. It's extra special because it will be halved into a Turkey Shore rum barrel for some further aging.  That version will lovingly be referred to as Drunken Quadsimodo.

Double Doozy

Beer 1- Hudson's Dirty Blonde Ale, loving named after our new addition to our family via cousins from Florida.  Slightly darker than a typical ale, due the use of a little crystal malt 60.  Extremely hoppy with a nice array of hops from America and New Zealand.  6% ABV, 86 IBU, 5 gallon batch.

Beer 2- Goat Rodeo has added a new brewer and this is his first batch "First Batch Butt Scratch".  A light American ale with aromas of banana and bubble gum.  3.8% ABV, 2 gallon batch.

Beat the Heat with a Wheat

Summer is awesome.  Beach, vacation, pool, bikinis, cookouts, baseball, no school, air conditioning, etc.  All good things must come to an end, and unfortunately, Labor Day weekend signals the setting of the summer sun, and the dawn of the harvest moon.  This beer wants to hold on a wee bit longer.  It's a German style wheat beer brewed with Barvarian wheat, German Hallertau hops, and a Munich wheat yeast.  It's an easy drinking summer classic. Light bodied with a smooth finish.  Keg's unveiling will be held on none other than Labor Day weekend for the picnic goers at our "silent partner's" house
. Viva la Summer!!!

The Hop Monster Cometh

Goat Rodeo Brewing loves hops.  We salivate of the thought of hops.  We yearn for hops.  We want to bathe in hop water.  We worship hops!  Yet, we still haven't brewed a good India Pale Ale.  That streak ends now with the introduction of Gila Hop Moster, an Imperial IPA brewed with tons of hops that should give off a floral, citrus, and grapefruit aroma.  It has a sweet malty backbone, so that the bitterness of the beer won't overwhelm the palate.

Grain - carafoam and crystal.
Malt Extract - golden light (both dry and liquid) and maltodextrin
Hops - Columbus, Cascade, Citra, and Centennial (2 oz of each/8 oz total)
Yeast - White Labs liquid California Ale Yeast
Corn sugar added to boost alcohol content.
OG - 1.074 (9-9.5% ABV)
Color - burnt orange with slight reddish hue

My Beer & My Dog Are Better Than Yours!

It's been awhile since Goat Rodeo Brewing has been in action, but we're back with something special in the vat.  It's a red kolsch ale, that will be fermented at lager temperatures for roughly 3 weeks.  German pilsner is the base malt with crystal, chocolate, and carafoam grains used as well.  The featured hop is one of my favorites- cascade, both for bittering and aroma.  This brew is lovingly named after the Goat Rodoe family's dog- Chunk, and dammit he is super!

IPA Time!!!

The Nibbler is an  India Pale Ale that showcases Palisade, Summit and Ahtanum hops to create a flavorful brew. ABV- 6%, IBU- 60, Release Date- 1st week of February.

American Light Ale

Finally, Goat Rodeo Brewing is back with another batch.  The new brew is an American light ale with cascade hops for both bittering and aroma.  Estimated ABV- 3.8%, release date- end of January, code name- Timbo's Tick Bite American Ale.  This is the first beer brewed on with the new system.  5 gallons of pure joy.

Honey Cider Apple Mead

Goat Rodeo brewing was ready to embark on a new adventure and somehow the journey drove us straight to a cyser.  A what?  A cyser!  A cyser is a cider-mead hybrid.  Cleverly named Bumble Bear Cyser, it is brewed with apple juice, Granny Smith apples, honey, pure vanilla extract, molasses, dark candy Belgian sugar, cinnamon stick, dark brown sugar, sarsaparilla, and some of Captain Morgan's spiced rum Tattoo.  Unveiling during Thanksgiving.

Session Ale

 Goat Rodeo Brewing typically attempts to brew "big beers" as in flavor and alcohol content.  Sometimes the palate just wants something tasty and tame.  Therefore, we've decided to do a session ale for those days when you want to drink a sixer or so.

Now and Later Gator is half an IPA malt extract mix with a little dark candy sugar, dried elderberry flowers, basil, and sarsaparilla added for some nice spice notes.  This should be well balanced between malts and hops.  Release date- mid August.  ABV- 3.9%.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Wheat ales are typically light on the tongue, refreshing, with some fruity notes and low in alcohol, but not this one my friend. This is Wicked Wildebeest Wheat Wine and it's a blend of grenadine (cherry syrup), honey, lemon zest and juice, ground coriander seed, sweet gale, whole allspice berries, ground nutmeg, and grains of paradise. Release date - end of August, right in time for Labor Day. ABV - 9.5%.

The Funky Monkey!

Remember when you were a kid and would mix all the flavors at the soda fountain? SUICIDE was what we called it, and in homage to those glorious times of yesteryear we bring to you Goat Rodeo Brewing's Suicide Series. This is a unique beer, with only one in existence. It is a combination of Gnarly Narwhal Lager and Bi-Polar Bear Ale. ABV - 6.5%, release date - May 10th, codename - Mad Monkey. It is the third edition to our Suicide Series.

Bi-Polar Bear

What happens when a red-head meets a blonde and a brouhaha begins, while some dried elderberries and millennium hops begin kicking and punching too? A Bi-Polar Bear Ale! This brew is set for release in mid-May and will clock in at 6% ABV. It will be a nice blend of malty, crispness, and hops. Watch out though, you might just go bonkers drinking it.

Gnarly Narwhal Lager

Are you ready for a big lager that will rip through you without surrender? Gnarly Narwhal Lager is ready to make a big splash, registering a 7% ABV. It is a dark amber lager with cascade hops both wet and dry hopped, as well as allspice berries, ground clove, molasses, fresh ginger, and orange zest and freshly squeezed juice. This mystical creature will be free to swim the abyss at the end of April. Cheers!

Razorback Red Ale

Wild and untameable, Razorback Red Ale will run rampant over the tastebuds. Blended with Granny Smith Apples, fresh ginger root, pine nuts, and dry-hopped with a fragrant mix of Cascade and Warrior hops, this brew will go down smooth, but finish with a sharp bite. The release date is scheduled for mid-March. Alcohol; between 5-6%.