The Mattingly Brewing Company may now be producing full scale productions of beer, but that doesn’t stop them from showing off what’s yet to come. Tonight, Head Brewer Drew Huerter and Assistant Brewer Jerid Saffell will be offering their Anniversary Ale I: Spiced Belgian Dark Strong Ale .

Here’s Drew giving a little information about the beer:

It has been a year already since our first production batch has come on tap at Mattingly Brewing Company. Well, over a year, actually, about 13 months, but that is beside the point. The point is that means it is time to celebrate the best way we know how. With a new beer!

Enter: Anniversary Ale I: Spiced Belgian Strong Ale. An amber elixir concocted from six malts, four spices, three hops, two sugars and our Belgian yeast culture, it is an aromatic and complex beer fit for savoring. 8% ABV *served by the snifter

Here’s a look at what to expect over the next couple of weeks:

2/10 – Oak Aged Old Harbinger American Barleywine
2/17 – Learn to Fly IPA – English Imperial IPA
2/24 – Pinball Blizzard Rye IPA
3/3 – Wheatwine
3/10 – Elderberry Irish Ale

Be sure to head out tonight and taste some of Drew and Jerid’s excellent beer.

Let’s face it, February sucks.  It’s too cold, too dark and pretty boring.  But, one of the best parts about Winter is that it’s the perfect time of year to drink some big, dark stouts.

Luckily Mattingly Brewing Company’s head brewer Drew Huerter agrees with that notion and has decided to celebrate the dark and cold by giving us a bunch of dark and cold beer.  Drew has deemed his event the Big Black Beer Bash.

This Saturday, February 6th beginning at 4pm, Mattingly will have Black Forest Maple Imperial Stout and Bourbon Oak American Stout on tap as well as some selections from Drew and Jerid’s personal cellars to share.  Like what from their personal cellars?

• GI BCS ‘07, ‘08
• Terrapin/Left Hand Midnight Project Brew Two 2009 Depth Charge Espresso Milk Stout
• 3F Dark Lord ‘09
• Deschutes The Abyss ‘08
• Lost Abbey Serpents Stout
• Stone Imperial Russian Stout ‘09
• Pisgah Cosmos
• Samuel Smith RIS
• Bell’s Expedition Stout Batches: 8729, 8728, 7251
• Arcadia Shipwreck Porter
• Brew Dog Rip Tide Stout
• Left Hand Smokejumper
• Avery Mephistopheles Stout 11/06, 11/08
• Schlafly Irish Extra Stout 3/07
• Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter 05G, 07L
• Bell’s Cherry Stout Batch 7674
• ODell Imperial Stout 2008
• Arcadia Imperial Stout 2006
• Olfabrikken Porter
• Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout
• Schlafly Imperial Stout ‘06, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09
• Old Rasputin XII

If you’re looking to warm up, this selection of beer is about the best way to do it.

The Mattingly Brewing Company may now be producing full scale productions of beer, but that doesn’t stop them from showing off what’s yet to come. Tonight, Head Brewer Drew Huerter and Assistant Brewer Jerid Saffell will be offering the Dry Hopped Old Harbinger American Barleywine.

Here’s Drew giving a little information about the beer:

Old Harbinger American Barleywine is our entry into the venerable style pioneered by Anchor’s Old Foghorn, Sierra Nevada’s Bigfoot, Great Divide’s Old Ruffian, Rogue Old Crustacean and many others.

Old Harbinger is hopped at a rate of 4.1 lbs/bbl to 90 IBUs with Magnum, Summit and fresh ‘09 crop Cascade, Willamette and Chinook, and weighing in at at hefty 25.6 degrees Plato (1.109 for you specific gravity types) it is one of the biggest and hoppiest brews yet from the cellars at Mattingly Brewing Company. At 11.8% ABV this is winter warmer of the highest order. *served by the snifter

Here’s a look at what to expect over the next couple of weeks:

1/27 – Dry Hopped Old Harbinger
2/3 – Oak Aged Old Harbinger

Be sure to head out tonight and taste some of Drew and Jerid’s excellent beer.

The Mattingly Brewing Company may now be producing full scale productions of beer, but that doesn’t stop them from showing off what’s yet to come. Tonight, Head Brewer Drew Huerter and Assistant Brewer Jerid Saffell will be offering the Old Harbinger American Barleywine.

Here’s Drew giving a little information about the beer:

Old Harbinger American Barleywine is our entry into the venerable style pioneered by Anchor’s Old Foghorn, Sierra Nevada’s Bigfoot, Great Divide’s Old Ruffian, Rogue Old Crustacean and many others.

Old Harbinger is hopped at a rate of 4.1 lbs/bbl to 90 IBUs with Magnum, Summit and fresh ‘09 crop Cascade, Willamette and Chinook, and weighing in at at hefty 25.6 degrees Plato (1.109 for you specific gravity types) it is one of the biggest and hoppiest brews yet from the cellars at Mattingly Brewing Company. At 11.8% ABV this is winter warmer of the highest order. *served by the snifter

Here’s a look at what to expect over the next couple of weeks:

1/27 – Dry Hopped Old Harbinger
2/3 – Black Forest Maple Imperial Stout

Be sure to head out tonight and taste some of Drew and Jerid’s excellent beer.

The Mattingly Brewing Company may now be producing full scale productions of beer, but that doesn’t stop them from showing off what’s yet to come. Tonight, Head Brewer Drew Huerter and Assistant Brewer Jerid Saffell will be offering the Afterburner Chipotle Smoked Imperial Brown Ale.

Here’s a look at what to expect over the next few weeks:

1/20 – Old Harbinger American Barleywine
1/27 – Oak Aged Old Harbinger
2/3 – Maple Imperial Stout

Be sure to head out tonight and taste some of Drew and Jerid’s excellent beer.

The Mattingly Brewing Company may now be producing full scale productions of beer, but that doesn’t stop them from showing off what’s yet to come. Tonight, Head Brewer Drew Huerter and Assistant Brewer Jerid Saffell will be offering the Old 41 Stock Ale. Here’s Jerid’s description of the beer:

Old 41 Stock Ale – Local homebrewer Scott Walters artfully crafted this delicious beer. Not quite a barleywine, not quite a IIPA, but taking great aspects from each style. Four malts, American Pale, American Wheat, Crystal 60, and Special B make a bold medium bodied background for the 90 IBU’s worth of hops from Chinook, Amarillo, and Simcoe. Slightly aged like a good barleywine but then dry hopped with more Simcoe right before kegging. 8% ABV, 90 I.B.U.
Here’s a look at what to expect over the next few weeks:

1/6 – Old 41 Stock Ale
1/13 – Afterburner Chipotle Smoked Imperial Brown Ale
1/20 – Old Harbinger American Barleywine
1/27 – Oak Aged Old Harbinger
2/3 – Maple Imperial Stout

Be sure to head out tonight and taste some of Drew and Jerid’s excellent beer.

The Mattingly Brewing Company may now be producing full scale productions of beer, but that doesn’t stop them from showing off what’s yet to come. Tonight, Tonight, Head Brewer Drew Huerter will be offering the Abominator Smoked Doppelbock. Here’s Drew’s description of the beer:

This is the first beer brewed on the brewhouse at MBC. It was my calibration batch. It was also when I realized that the Mash/Lauter tun is extremely efficient. I thought I would be brewing a Smoked Oktoberfest, but when I took a gravity reading with at the end of collection, I was stunned. It was at 1.070…so much for an Oktoberfest.

At this point, my plan changed, and I only had so much fermenting capacity in the cellar, so I boiled it down until it came close to fitting. Hours and hours of boiling later, a massive smoked Doppelbock emerged. Months and months of fermentation later and the Abominator came to be. 54 weeks since it was brewed, we release it to just before 2010. At 13% ABV, please be careful, and enjoy!

Be sure to head out tonight and taste some of Drew and Jerid’s excellent beer.