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Founders Brewing President, Mike Stevens, provided me with a quick update this morning. Following up on my initial report of the return of Founders Imperial Stout and Porter, the two beers are now tentatively set for a January release.

Last Thursday I brewed this years batch of The Merchant of the Devil , my own Imperial Stout. The brew went very well and despite suffering the only stuck mash I have ever had with my current mash tun set up I achieved an O.G of 1111, and was able to make a small beer of O.G. 1056 from the late runnings.

Tidbits from the forums and elsewhere (note that, for the most part, these are all rumors and nothing is official): Port High Tide Fresh Hop IPA begins hitting stores this and early next week. [Additional note: Rumor is that the Lost Abbey September Sinners release will come in November so two brews that month] Great Divide Barrel-Aged (Whiskey) beers will be on sale beginning Monday.

Brewdog has another Paradox Islay stout coming from Scotland. This one has been aged in Smokehead Islay barrels from Ian McLeod Distillers. Initial beer reviews appear to be quite favorable. The guys also blogged about another new project last month: We had 2 Invergordon 1965 whisky casks, Invergordon is a fantastic grain whisky with amazing coconut, vanilla and toffee flavours.

WOODINVILLE, Wash. – After hearing numerous requests from craft beer drinkers across the country, Redhook Ale Brewery (Nasdaq: HOOK) will reintroduce the cult classic craft brew Double Black Stout for a limited time.Originally created by the brewery in 1995, Redhook stopped producing Double Black Stout in 2000 and craft beer enthusiasts have been reminiscing about it ever since.

Struise Head Brewer, Urbain Coutteau, left us a note this week as to the status of Black Albert: “Black Albert should have been already on US soil a long time ago but some technical issues have delayed the departure, and we are very sorry for that.

The details were posted on the Surly Brewing site this morning. The Surly Darkness release takes place on Saturday, October 25th at 12pm. First 700 people in line can get up to six bottles so I am presuming that at least 4200 bottles have been produced. That is over a 500% increase from last year’s total.

(Portsmouth, NH) - Peter Egelston, the Founder/Owner of Portsmouth Brewery and Smuttynose Brewing, sent out a scintillating newsletter this afternoon with some interesting tidbits.  Here are the highights: Portsmouth Kate the Great details: The beer will be released on Monday, February 9, 2009, at 1:14PM.

A couple quick reminders: Alesmith Barrel-Aged Speedway Stout - Happens today at noon, Beer Advocate discussion here Flossmoor Station Collaborative Evil release - Happens tomorrow (details at the blog), Beer Advocate discussion here Some random tidbits from the email/web: From email correspondence

(Bend, OR) - While perusing the Beer Advocate forums at lunch, I stumbled onto this thread about a note that recently appeared up on the Deschutes Brewery website (specifically the page about The Dissident).