For a fun twist to our regular beer offerings, join us each Tuesday for a uniquely crafted small batch brew, only available at our tap room. The “NoDable Series” will showcase beer styles & flavors to the public in small quantities that otherwise would not be possible on a larger scale. It should be a lot of fun and educational for everyone involved. If one of the NoDable releases becomes a success, we might even add it to our daily beer menu.
May 14, 2013 – Dark and Hazy – Porter Roasted Hazelnuts and Cocoa Nibs. ABV – 5.2% ~ IBU – 27 ~ SRM – 30
May 7, 2013 – Pine-Icle - Pineapple Saison. ABV – 6.7% ~ IBU – 23 ~ SRM – 5
April 30, 2013 – Jam Session: Solo – Nelson Sauvin Riff - Pale Ale. ABV – 5.1% ~ IBU – 31 ~ SRM – 6.5
April 23, 2013 – Home Alone 2: Lost in Brew York – Red Pale Ale. ABV – 8.0% ~ IBU – 72 ~ SRM – 17
April 16, 2013 – José - Pale Ale with Coriander. ABV – 5.0% ~ IBU – 35 ~ SRM – 7
April 9, 2013 – Loch and Loaded – Traditional Scotch Ale. ABV – 5.0% ~ IBU – 25 ~ SRM – 17
April 2, 2013 – ALEgamation – pseudo-hybrid of a German Wheat Beer & an American IPA. ABV – 6.0%
March 26, 2013 – Imperial Hop, Drop ‘n Roll - Imperial IPA. ABV – 10%
March 19, 2013 – New Old Beer - Gruit Beer. ABV – 4.0% ~ IBU – 0 ~ SRM – 5
March 12, 2013 – Weizen Up – Hefeweizen. ABV – 4.9%
March 5, 2013 – Jam Session Simcoe Solo Riff. ABV – 5.1% ~ IBU – 31 ~ SRM – 6.5
February 26, 2013 – Spring Pilsner. ABV – 4.6% ~ IBU – 30 ~ SRM – 3.7
February 19, 2013 – First Batch – Tapping kegs from our first batch of Coco Loco and NoDaRyeZ’d brewed in October 2011.
February 12, 2013 – Frontier – Smoked Porter. ABV – 5.9% ~ IBU – 30 ~ SRM – 34
February 5, 2013 – Back Slap – Rye India Brown Ale. ABV – 6.2% ~ IBU – 67 ~ SRM – 23
January 29, 2013 – Pond Hopper – English/American Pale Ale. ABV – 4.8% ~ IBU – 35 ~ SRM – 7
January 22, 2013 – Super Special Bart - Imperial ESB. ABV – 8.0% ~ IBU – 50 ~ SRM – 16
January 15, 2013 – NoDa Five’d – American Pale Ale. ABV – 5.0% ~ IBU – 55 ~ SRM – 5
January 8, 2013 – Raging Leprechaun - Irish Red Ale. ABV – 5.0% ~ IBU - 23 ~ SRM – 16.7
January 1, 2013 – Hangover Sweat – Berliner Weisse (or as well like to call it…NorthCarolinerWeisse). ABV – 4.5% ~ IBU – 6 ~ SRM – 3
December 18, 2012 – Humbug – Winter Warmer. ABV – 8.3% ~ IBU – 32 ~ SRM – 22
December 11, 2012 – Holiday Mac Attack – Imperial Porter. ABV – 8% ~ IBU – 44 ~ SRM – 33
December 4, 2012 – Belgian Snow Globe – Belgian Strong Ale. ABV – 8.5% ~ IBU – 28 ~ SRM – 16.5
November 27, 2012 – Evergreen IPA – India Pale Ale. ABV – 6.0% ~ IBU – 63 ~ SRM – 13.5
November 20, 2012 - Abbey Dabby Doo - Abbey Pale Ale. ABV – 5.5% ~ IBU – 20 ~ SRM – 8
November 13, 2012 – Word to Ya Mother – Red Saison. ABV – 5.8% ~ IBU – 32 ~ SRM – 16
November 6, 2012 – Cold Crash – Winter Ale. ABV – 6.2% ~ IBU – 26 ~ SRM – 21
October 30, 2012 – Home Alone – American Pale Ale. ABV – 5.0% ~ IBU – 45 ~ SRM – 10
October 23, 2012 – Pecan Your Interest - American Brown Ale with pecans. ABV – 5.5% ~ IBU – 26 ~ SRM – 14
October 16, 2012 – Hope’s Stout Cask with coffee beans from local coffee roaster Magnolia Coffee.
October 9, 2012 – Thrilla’ in Vanilla – American Brown Ale. This brown ale has got an absurd amount of Madagascar vanilla beans in it along with 6 different malts. This beer packs a punch but has a smooth finish with notes of biscuity, caramel, toffee goodness. ABV – 6.0% ~ IBU – 30 ~ SRM – 25
October 2, 2012 – Dark-o’-Lantern - Pumpkin Spice Porter. We’ve spiced it up with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. Dark-o’-Lantern will have more of an earthy character with cinnamon being the primary taste. ABV – 6.0% ~ IBU – 38 ~ SRM – 36
September 25, 2012 – Wit’Chu’Talkin’Bout’ - Our Witbier comes is brewed with coriander and orange peel. 50% of the grist, ground up grain, is wheat malt making it a nice dry wit full of spicy fennels and Belgian esters. ABV – 8.0% ~ IBU – 28 ~ SRM – 5
September 18, 2012 – Half Nelson – American IPA. The second beer in our BARTigyle Series. Our partigyle, Half Nelson, is the runnings of Pacific Reign, our upcoming 9.8% Imperial IPA, plus we added a little orange blossom honey & agave nectar and then a 120 minute boil. ABV – 6.9% ~ IBU – 57 ~ SRM – 7.5
September 11, 2012 – James Blonde – This Belgian Blonde ale comes swinging in at 8.5 % with 32 IBUs and 7 SRM. It’s an action-packed beer that you sure don’t want to miss.
September 4, 2012 – Freshy Fresh – Wet Pale Ale. It’s just about as local as you can get since we used Centennial hops from our bine growing at the brewery. ABV – 5.2% ~ IBU – 45 ~ SRM – 9
August 28, 2012 – Nectar Squared – Belgian Pale Ale made with not one, but TWO types of delicious nectar. We added both agave and peach nectar to make this week’s beer incredibly refreshing for this end of summer heat. ABV – 5.5% ~ IBU – 24 ~ SRM – 7
August 21, 2012 – One of our most popular NoDable releases, Ghost Hop, is coming back with a kick! We will be randalizing it through some of the hottest peppers in the world, Ghost Peppers. Come out this Tuesday to get some double ghost action.
August 14, 2012 – BARTigyle Jade – IPA. The first beer in the BARTigyle Series. Our partigyle beer Jade with the runnings of NoDaRyeZ’d then hopped with Jade hops. ABV – 7.0% ~ IBU – 45 ~ SRM – 9
What in the world is a BARTigyle?! BARTigyle is similar to a partigyle, we just add some NoDa flair to it with our assistant brewer, Bart. Partigyle brewing allows us to take the grain from NoDaRyeZ’d that is no longer sweet enough (not enough fermentable sugars) and use it again (second runnings) rather than waste it. Essentially what partigyle brewing allows us to do is be more efficient by making two separate batches of beer from one batch of grain. This second batch is of lower ABV but can be different in taste by using different hops, yeast, and/or spices.
August 7, 2012 – Pacific Reign – Imperial IPA. This week’s release is a sneak peak of our next bottle release. ABV – 9.8% ~ IBU – 108 ~ SRM – 8
July 31, 2012 – Boiler Hater – Pale Ale. This week Chad gives us an experimental Pale Ale he’s made called Boiler Hater. No hops were added during the boil on this one, only mash hop and dry hop additions. Coming in at 5.8% ABV and 48 IBUs it’ll be a refreshing way to get out of this BOILING heat.
July 24, 2012 – Tart Your Engines - Berliner Weisse (or as well like to call it…NorthCarolinerWeisse) with lemon grass, ginger, seeds of paradise and honey added. ABV – 5.23% ~ IBU – 6 ~ SRM – 3
July 17, 2012 – Single Berry – American Wheat Ale with fresh picked blackberries. ABV – 3.9% ~ IBU – 34 ~ SRM – 5
July 10, 2012 - S.S.A.S.M.A.S.H. – Single Spice And Single Malt And Single Hop Ale. ABV - 4.3% ~ IBU – 50 ~ SRM – 4.6
July 3, 2012 – Get The Party Tarted – Inspired by a Berliner Weisse…we call it a “NorthCarolinerWeisse”. It’s infused with Bing cherries and raspberries, a delicious way to escape the summer heat. Come in, grab a glass and join the party! ABV – 4.5% ~ IBU – 10
June 26, 2012 - CaraRyeZer – Rye Pale Ale. ABV – 5.0% ~ IBU – 40 ~ SRM - 12
June 19, 2012 – Woody & Wilcox IPA. Created for the 106.5 The End’s morning program, Woody & Wilcox. This beer is an American IPA with an assertive hop character and balancing malty backbone. The hops used give it a piney, citrus laced aroma and a bright, earthy bittering finish that we’ve come to know for American IPAs. It uses Columbus, Magnum, Cascade and Santiam hops throughout the brew to achieve this hop character and utilizes four different malts to give it the golden amber colored body and the flavor of caramel along with some toasty bread notes. ABV – 6% ~ SRM – 9.7 ~ IBU – 60
June 12, 2012 – Natural Blond – Belgian Blond Ale. Belgian Blond Ales are slightly stronger than Belgian pale ales, closer to the ABV of a Belgian Dubbel, but with the same rich and bright character of the Belgian Pale Ale. We used Belgian abbey yeast to give it a rich fruit forward yeast character. ABV – 7.6% ~ SRM – 7.1 ~ IBU – 19
June 4, 2012 – Ghost Hop Randalized through Fresh Basil. Come see our randal in action. Oh so tasty!
May 29, 2012 – Autopilot – Amercian Blonde Ale. This is somewhat of a summer “lawnmower” ale. It’s easy drinking and refreshing but to make it NoDable, we hopped it heavily in the late part of the boil and dry hopped with lots of Amarillo and Santiam hops. This gives a huge grapefruit & orange-like aroma and initial taste without overly bitter finish. ABV – 4.8% ~ SRM – 6.8 ~ IBU – 40
May 22, 2012 – NoDajito – Our Mojito inspired Belgian Wit infused with mint leaves and lime zest. ABV – 4.8% ~ SRM – 4.5 ~ IBU - 18
May 15, 2012 – Top of the Charts – Hopped with a total of 5 different hops, and using four malts, Chad & Bart blended their individual IPA recipes (each using the same base IPA recipe but different hops) to come up with this week’s NoDable Series Release. ABV – 6% ~ IBU – 62 ~ SRM – 10
May 8, 2012 – Dark Thymes – A Black Saison with spices that include Thyme, Seeds of Paradise and Coriander. ABV – 6.1% ~ IBU – 28 ~ SRM – 31
May 1, 2012 – HefeRyezen - A Hefeweizen made with wheat, pilsner, and rye malt and hopped with Magnum and Hallertauer Mittelfrueh hops. AVB – 4.7% ~ IBU – 13.4 SRM – 4.3
April 24, 2012 - KiWit – Kiwi Belgian Witbier. ABV – 5% ~ IBU – 18 ~ SRM – 4.2
April 17, 2012 – Extra Special Bart – Traditional English ESB (extra special bitter). ABV – 6% ~ IBU – 35 ~ SRM – 11
April 10, 2012 – ‘tis the Saison – a Saison brewed with rye malt and three types of peppercorn. This is Bart’s first NoDable Series brew so come out and enjoy! ABV – 7.2% ~ IBU – 30 ~ SRM – 7
April 3, 2012 – Calyptic Blonde Ale -A Belgian blonde ale using Calypso hops to give it a nice, apple character on top of the natural esters from the yeast used. ABV – 5.6% ~ IBU – 35 ~ SRM – 5.7
March 27, 2012 – Liquid Lust - Russian Imperial Raspberry Stout. ABV – 11.6% ~ IBU – 42 ~ SRM – 39
March 20, 2012 – Burnout – Double India Brown Ale. To celebrate Charlotte Craft Beer Week, we have collaborated on a beer with Mac’s Speed Shop. Both Mac’s & the tap room will debut Burnout at 4:00 pm. In the tap room, once the keg is finished, we will infuse Midnight Madness with whole leaf Centennial & Amarillo hops. ABV – 9.5% ~ IBU – 90 ~ SRM – 33
March 13, 2012 – Hart en Ziel – Belgian Strong Ale. Our Belgian Strong Ale that is hopped like an American IPA. This is our assistant brewer Matt’s first NoDable Series release and the name is appropriate. Hart en Ziel is Dutch for Heart & Soul. ABV – 7.8% ~ IBU- 88 ~ SRM – 8
March 6, 2012 – Hop Cakes, a maple syrup infused double IPA. Only base grain used in the mash so ALL the color and sweetness is given from the maple syrup instead of specialty malts. ABV – 10% ~ IBU – 118 ~ SRM – 10
February 28, 2012 – Zest Fest – Belgian Ale. First fermented on saison yeast and then finished with Belgian wit yeast. Infused with Valencia orange peels & seeds of paradise and hopped heavily with sorachi ace hops. ABV – 6.5% ~ IBU – 35 ~ SRM – 5.8
February 21, 2012 – Special Bee - Belgian Red Ale. What can we say other than… it’s special. ABV – 6.6% ~ IBU – 34 ~ SRM – 15
February 14, 2012 – In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re going a different direction. We’ll infuse Coco Loco with several different “sexy” flavors (at separate times). 1st round 4:00 – green M & Ms & cherries, 2nd round 5:30 – ancho peppers & Serrano peppers and 3rd & final round 6:45 – honey combs.
February 7, 2012 – Rye So Serious??? – Belgian Strong Dark Ale with Rye. Belgian beers have a long history, so why not screw it up with some American Rye Malt? This strong dark beer boast heavy raisin notes from the special b malts as well as a large fruity ester character form the yeast with undertones of spicy rye. ABV – 8% ~ IBU – 38 ~ SRM – 35
January 31, 2012 – Dirty Monkey is a chocolate infused Dunkelweisse. Dunkelweisse’s are basically dark hefeweisses but this one takes it up a notch. We add chocolate malt as well as roasted coco nibs to enhance the sweeter dark malt character and then ferment the beer hot so that the banana and clove notes from the German wheat beer yeast comes out strong. ABV – 5.4% ~ IBU – 17.5 ~ SRM – 26
January 24, 2012 – Rye Not Stout is an Amercian Stout with Rye malt and Chocolate Rye malt. Why two types of rye? Rye Not?! ABV – 6.8% ~ IBU – 47 ~ SRM – 46
January 17, 2012 – Prepare for Red Summit, a dark Amber American IPA using a slew of specialty malts to give a darker, bolder malt character to balance the full on assault of hops armed to the teeth with the most intense weapon in the hop arsenal, SUMMIT hops! This baby is packed with Summit, Centennial, Summit, Warrior, Summit, Cascade, and oh did I mention Summit. ABV – 7% ~ IBU – 80 ~ SRM – 15
January 10, 2012 – S’more Porter is exactly what it sounds like. A graham cracker milk porter with chocolate, cinnamon and vanilla. Heavy amounts of biscuit malt accompanying ACTUAL graham crackers in the mash give this porter a bready sweetness and bits of Hersey Dark Chocolate & Lactose add the signature chocolate notes and thickness of freshly roasted marshmallows. Add a little bit of smoke malt to for that “by the campfire” feel and finish with vanilla and you have yourself one tasty NoDable brew! ABV – 5.8% ~ IBU – 27 ~ SRM – 27
Our first NoDable Series release of 2012 is Winter Rose, a blonde ale for the colder season. With a clean 6% ABV, our American blonde ale is spiced heavily with rosemary and infused twice with clover & sourwood honey. ABV – 6% ~ IBU – 28 ~ SRM – 6
Last NoDable Series release of 2011! Jole Mole is our Mexican-inspired American Amber Ale which is lightly hopped with Challenger & East Kent Goldings, flavored with Mexican cocoa powder and New Mexico & chipotle chili peppers. The chipotle chilies add a smokiness to the pepper warmth. This beer is not for the faint of heart! ABV – 6.1% ~ IBU – 24 ~ SRM – 14 ~ Estimated 3,500 Scoville Units!!
For the holiday week, we offer up our Naughty List. Every year Santa plagues the poor naughty people of the world with coal in their stockings. This is a problem that we at NoDa have decided to fix. We give you Naughty List, a succulent winter warmer with bourbon soaked vanilla beans, aged on dark rum infused oak chips offering that even Santa himself can’t cart away from you. ABV – 7.2% ~ IBU – 29 ~ SRM – 20
CHAIlie Brown is our 7th beer in the NoDable Series. Spiced with organic vanilla beans, fennel seeds, coriander, cloves, cinnamon sticks, black pepper and whole nutmeg for a modest chai spice in a slightly sweet, low hopped English Brown ale. ABV – 4.4% ~ IBU – 17 ~ SRM ~ 21
Don’t be scared, it’s only Ghost Hop, our 6th NoDable Series release. This spookily pale IPA (white IPA) technically doesn’t exist in style guidelines. It is the contrast to the now commonly seen Dark/Black IPAs or Cascadian Dark Ales.
The beer is a unique contrast from the standard IPA recipe. It is hopped like a normal IPA and has a standard IPA malt bill MINUS any dark caramelized or crystal malts. A heavy amount of White Wheat adds body & head retention and the lack of the darker caramel malts leave this beer as pale as a Belgian Wit, which is the other twist… This beer is fermented on Belgian Wit yeast as opposed to the typical Californian yeast you would find in most IPAs. ABV – 6% ~ IBU – 68 ~ SRM – 4
Our 5th NoDable Series release is Belgian Baster, a Belgian Dubbel. This Belgian dark hued ale with lots of malty and Belgian yeast character accented for the recent holiday with fresh cranberries & cinnamon giving it a unique spice that you’d never expect from a Belgian style ale. Feels like Thanksgiving all over again. ABV – 7.4% ~ IBU – 20 ~ SRM – 17
Are you ready for some Morning NoDaVation? The 4th beer in our NoDable Series is a breakfast stout worth waking up for. An easy drinking stout with dark malts and chocolaty character infused with Costa Rican and Sumatran coffee blends cold pressed for us right down the road at Smelly Cat. Adding to the mouth-feel and backbone of the flavor is a heaping portion of oatmeal. ABV – 5.8% ~ IBU – 40 ~ SRM – 38 Watch Video >
Our 3rd NoDable Series release was Barn Hopper, a Farmhouse IPA. A fusion of an American IPA & a Saison blends American & Belgian malt with a heavy hop load of American Centennials and notes of Tettanger, a spicy German hop used sometimes in Saisons. We’ve spiced it lightly with seeds of paradise and bitter orange peel to give it the citrus character of an IPA while still being spiced like a Saison. ABV – 7.5% ~ IBU – 80 ~ SRM – 9.3
Our 2nd NoDable Series release was Ryet Spice Belgian Wit. Our Belgian Wit substitutes the flaked oats with flaked rye and adds lavender, thyme & coriander to the mix. ABV – 4.8% ~ IBU – 18 ~ SRM – 4 We are thinking about bringing it back in the spring.
Midnight Madness was the first in our first NoDable Series release and was tapped on Tuesday, 11/1. This is our version of a Cascadian Dark Ale, more commonly known as a Black IPA. Made with four hop varieties: Cascade, Warrior, Centennial and Chinook. ABV – 6.65% ~ IBU – 71 ~ SRM – 43 It was a huge success and will be back as an offering in our regular line-up. Watch Video >