USA, MD: Heavy Seas Brewery unveils 2013 portfolio

Heavy Seas announced on October, 30 its product line for 2013.

A number of modifications have been made to the 2013 portfolio to better reflect the Heavy Seas' brand and its focus, including: an overhaul of their Mutiny Fleet beers; preliminary plans for canned beers; expanded cask ale offerings; changes to select year-round products; and a new seasonal beer.

The biggest change Heavy Seas has in store for 2013 is the repositioning of their line of higher gravity beers (the Mutiny Fleet). This line will now be known as the Unchartered Waters line. Siren Noire Imperial Chocolate Stout aged in bourbon barrels will come out in January 2013. In March, the brewery will release Oak Aged Big DIPA (double IPA). Holy Sheet Über Abbey Ale aged in brandy barrels will be released in May. Great'ER Pumpkin (imperial pumpkin ale aged in bourbon barrels) will be released in September. Yule Tide, brewery’s November release, will take the place of the ongoing Plank project―aging beers on wood. That style will be determined closer to November of 2013.

The brewery has preliminary plans to release three products in cans in 2013: Loose CANnon, Davey Jones' Lager, and an Oktoberfest style.

As the largest producers of cask ale in the country, Heavy Seas is focused on expanding the number of offerings for retailers. They will continue to offer dry-hopped firkins of Loose Cannon and Powder Monkey (pale ale) year-round. They will also incorporate preset quantities of all seasonal beers and Unchartered Waters beers.

Year-round, the company will continue to offer Loose Cannon, Small Craft Warning, and Peg Leg. Clipper Fleet beers were renamed: Heavy Seas Märzen will now be Cutlass Amber; Heavy Seas Pale Ale will now be Powder Monkey; Heavy Seas Gold Ale will now be Gold. Heavy Seas Classic Lager will be discontinued.

Seasonally, the brewery will offer Black Cannon in January through March. Therefore Dubbel Cannon will be replaced by Riptide White IPA, which is currently in formulation; Riptide will be offered April through June. Red Sky at Night will be offered July through September. Winter Storm Imperial ESB will be offered October through December. Additionally, the new seasonal line-up will include 12 oz. bottles of Great Pumpkin, offered in Sunken Sampler packs exclusively in August and September.

31 October, 2012