Lakefront Brewery releases two more Brewery Reserve brews this week and they're both barrel-aged barleywines.
The two new Kitchen Sink Barleywines are the 11th and 12th installments in Lakefront's ongoing Brewers’ Reserve series of beers.
The barleywines are brewed with seven varieties of malts, leading to a deep, malty brew that was then aged in rum, bourbon and rye barrels.
One of this week's releases is the barleywine aged in rum barrels and the other is a mixture of the brew aged in bourbon and rye barrels.
“We’ve been barrel-aging our beer for a long time now," says Lakefront's barrel program guru Tyler Senz. "You could say that we’ve built a fun little library of options to play with.
"It’s all about timing with this series and it’s time for some barleywine.”
The results clock in at 10.68 percent ABV for the rum barrel results and a whopping 12.6 for the whiskey barrels barleywine.
They are available in 12-ounce cans to-go, exclusively at the Commerce Street brewery beginning at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 19. Online ordering begins at 9 a.m. and you can schedule a weekend pickup time.
Cans are $4 plus tax and mix-and-match six-packs are $20 plus tax.
“This is a fun one for us,” says Head Brewer Luther Paul. “With the same base liquid, you can do a great side by side and really take in the differences between the barrels used.”
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press. A fifth collects Urban Spelunking articles about breweries and maltsters.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has been heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
