AC Golden Prepares to Release Barrel-Aged Stouts & Sour Ales

The first is a Russian Imperial Stout that was brewed specifically so it could be poured into Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey barrels and aged for thirteen months. Known simply as Batch 2, it just won a bronze medal at the Great American Beer Festival. Which is good timing, since eighty cases of the beer — which will be sold in large-format bottles — will hit liquor stores around Denver in early November.

In late September, AC Golden began pouring its latest batch of an Apricot sour, made with brettanomyces yeast, into new cork-and-cage bottles that it just acquired.

Last May, the brewery released two sour beers – the Apricot and a Peche – exclusively at Mile High Wine & Spirits in Lakewood. The beers, which sold out immediately, were the first the AC Golden, founded in 2008, had released in 750 ml bottles.