Year Round & Distributed Beer
Daily Double IPA
DDH Double IPA
7.3% ABV
Slightly hazy, super juicy double India Pale Ale abound with flavors of citrus, apricot, and melon. Double dry hopped (DDH) and secondary fermented with a wee bit of Apricot puree to provides balanced flavors and silky mouthfeel. It’s an amazing blend of Juice and light Pine!
BB Brown
English Brown
5.6% ABV
Smooth classic brown ale with a hint of dark chocolate malt flavors. We engineer our water to match London’s water chemistry. See why England loves their Brown Ales?
White in the Glasses
Belgian Wit
4.6% ABV
Unfiltered, pale and cloudy due to the high level of wheat used in the mash. Lightly spiced with coriander and orange peel, delightfully light yet full flavored
Special Release Stouts
Multiple Infinities Stout
7.5% ABV
Multiple Infinities is a super smooth, milk chocolate vanilla coffee oatmeal stout with a balance of flavors from a wonderful interaction of grains, flaked and malted oats, Kru Coffee, Cacao Vita nibs, organic vanilla, and lactose.
Raspberry Chocolate Lava Cake
12.5% ABV
A pastry stout named after the delectable dessert, the brewers made a “big” stout and aged it over a huge bed of Peruvian Cacao nibs from Primo Botánica (Troy, NY), then secondary fermented with fresh raspberry puree and organic vanilla. The flavors are immense and the body is intentionally heavy, but because it isn’t overly cloying, you won’t fill up after one beer. Contains lactose.
Seasonal Distributed Beers
Rotating Fruited Wit Series
Rotating Fruited Wit Series
4.6% ABV
We use our White in the Glasses ingredients, but instead of putting in spices, we put in fruit puree to make a variety of tasty wheat beers. Blackberry, Peach, Raspberry, Passion Fruit, and soon fruit puree blends are used to create very refreshing, natural fruit flavored wheat beer! What will the brewers do this month?
Total Covfefe
Oatmeal Coffee Stout
5.0% ABV
Our tOATal Darkness Stout with a shot of Kru cold press coffee. Great chocolate and real coffee flavors make for a tasty brew!
tOATal Darkness
Oatmeal Stout
5.0% ABV
Rich, smooth malty chocolate flavors without the burnt toast flavors found in many stouts. Lighter bodied so you don’t fill up after one pint.
Seasonal Release
Centrist IPA
Centrist IPA
5.9%
We combined the piney flavor of a West Coast style IPA with the haze of an East Coast style IPA. So it’s not an East or West coast style; it’s a “Centrist” IPA!
S’Mores Beer
S’Mores Beer
5.6% ABV
We tweak our chocolate brown ale recipe by adding a touch of Lactose, then aged on LOTS of Peruvian Cacao nibs, fresh roasted by Primo Botanica (Troy, NY). We then add a touch of organic vanilla extract to tease out wonderful marshmallow flavors.
Chocolate Brown Ale
Chocolate Brown Ale
5.6% ABV
Smooth dark chocolate in a glass! We use our BB Brown recipe, but add lactose and LOTS of Peruvian Cacao nibs fresh roasted by Primo Botanica (Troy, NY).
1/4 Acre IPA
Wet Hopped IPA
5.6%
Lemon and a mild grassy flavor come from 100 pounds of locally grown centennial hops (sourced from Kelsey’s 1/4 acre farm in Greenfield, NY). The hops were picked and immediately put into the brewing process, making a very flavorful “Wet Hopped” IPA.
Trappists at the Track
Belgian Triple
9.1% ABV
Tart, crisp apple flavors are achieved with a delicate balance between Pilsner malt, hops, and our house Belgian yeast.
Whole Lotta Trouble
Belgian Quad
10.5% ABV
Our Belgian Quad (that just won Gold at Tap NY this year) Warning!! With it’s chocolate banana taste profile it doesn’t drink like a 10.5% beer It may cause a whole lotta trouble. Consume with caution…and enjoy!
(limited distribution)
A Touch of Spice
Holiday Ale
5.9% ABV
A red ale lightly spiced with Cinnamon sticks, freshly ground nutmeg, and whole cloves. Great accompaniment for the upcoming holiday season!
Mocha Brown
Mocha Brown
5.6% ABV
We add a wee bit of cold press coffee to the chocolate brown, adds on another layer of GREAT flavor to an already amazing beer! Note: cold press coffee is sourced from local coffee shops.
Taproom Only Selections
Taproom Series IPA
ABV: TBD
Our rotating Double IPA series (starting in 2019). The brewers use different ingredients and techniques to make tasty DDH DIPAs. Most often hazy New England Style IPA’s, but not always!
Taproom Series #11 IPA
“Amcoe”
7.75% ABV
Tastes of cantaloupe, guava, berry, apricot, passion fruit, and citrus coat the roof of your mouth, then wait for it… a pleasant hop bitterness develops and keeps on riding on your taste buds. Great floral and citrus aromas are best expressed in a Teku glass. Amarillo and Simcoe hops (aka Amcoe) play well together in the DDH IPA!
Taproom Series #10 IPA
“MoTra II”
7.75% ABV
This is the first re-release from our Taproom series lineup. We chose to repeat Taproom #8 as this beer was the fastest selling beer we’ve ever produced. For Taproom #10 we used the same recipe as Taproom #8, only with a slight decrease in the lactose. Based off the feedback from Taproom #10, we’ll decide which version, Taproom #8, or Taproom #10, makes it into the permanent rotation of Artisanal’s IPAs.
Taproom Series #9 IPA
“MiCash”
7.75% ABV
A cornucopia of tropical flavors, which ones do you taste? Mango, guava, lime, melon, and/or peach? Featuring NYS grown Michigan Copper and Washington grown Cashmere hops, the pleasant aroma, blend of flavors, and silky smooth bitterness lend to a crushable double IPA that belies it’s 7.75% ABV. Contains a wee bit of lactose to help with balance and mouthfeel.
Taproom Series #8 NEIPA
MoTra
7.5% ABV
Flavors of Honeydew Melon and citrus from massive whirlpool and DDH additions of Mosaic and Citra hops. Takes you on a tropical beercation!
Taproom Series #7 NEIPA
SiMiCo
7.4 % ABV
Super hazy and exceptionally smooth citrus and tropical flavors, with a silky smooth mouthfeel. Featuring malted oats and massive whirlpool and DDH additions of Simcoe and NYS grown Michigan Copper.
Taproom Series #6 IPA
Ella Simtra
5.5% ABV
Super hazy and dank. Citrus flavors and silky mouthfeel due to massive whirlpool and dryhop additions of Ella, cryo Simcoe, and cryo Citra hops.
Taproom Series #5 IPA
Mo Mo IPA
6.0% ABV
Can release (if there’s any left) 11/9
Tropical flavors and aromas abound. Pineapple, mango, papaya, you name it! Generous amounts of oats and Mosaic and Motueka dry hops, along with a touch of lactose lends to a hazy, wonderful mouthfeel. At 6% ABV, you can enjoy more than one!
Picture Days IPA
ABV: TBD
Our rotating single IPA series. The brewers use different ingredients and techniques to see make crushable DDH IPAs. Most often hazy New England Style IPA’s, but not always!
Picture Day IPA #5
Lorenz
5.9% ABV
Lorenz drips with huge aroma and flavors of juicy tropical fruits,stone fruit, and citrus, supported by faint notes of pine and black tea.
Picture Day IPA #4
Mullet
5.9% ABV
Fresh bright citrus aromas and flavors from copious additions of Amarillo and Citra hops.
Picture Day IPA #3
Burger
5.9% ABV
Smooth flavors of Honey Dew Melon, Peach, and a wee bit of Pineapple. Super crushable, just in time for the warmer weather! Pictured is Jeff Burger, one of our sales guys and beer nerd, when he was a young lad unaware life’s journeys would lead him to being featured on a beer can.
Picture Day IPA #1
Lasers
6.3% ABV
“Lasers” has distinct flavors of tangerine and guava. DDH with cryo Citra and NYS grown Michigan Copper.
Available only at the brewery in 16 oz / 4 packs
Picture Day IPA #2
Hall Pass
6.1% ABV
Great flavors of citrus, musk melon, and Loquat. DDH with cryo Citra and Azacca hops
Totes McGoates
(that means: “Totally cool!”)
ABV: Varies
Our rotating experimental beer that use lots of oats in the grain bill. Often these beers fall outside of an existing beer style, such as Session Oat IPA, Milk Shake Beer, Creamsicle IPA, etc.These brews are made at the whim of what the brewers think is a Totes McGoates (totally cool) beer!
Totes McGoates BBBBerry Smoothie
7.0% ABV
Imagine a berry smoothie with alcohol. Blackberry, blueberry, boysenberry, and raspberry puree come together with lactose for sweet enhanced mouthfeel of berry creaminess. You better bbbbelieve it!
Totes McGoates “Fudgesicle”
7.0% ABV
We never heard of someone doing a Fudgesicle beer, so we decided to do it. Why? Why not! We also hoped this would help usher in warmer weather 😉
Inaugural release – Session Oat IPA
5.0% ABV
Totes McGoates is a SOIPA (session oat IPA) created especially for Extreme Beer Fest in Boston, Massachusetts. Aromas and flavors of banana, mango, citrus and kiwi come from a combination of juicy hops and fresh Mango and Lulo puree. The grain bill is mostly oats, which yields a super hazy, silky smooth mouthfeel. Contains lactose.
Totes McGoates “Creamsicle”
8.0% ABV
Heavy oat grain bill, lactose, blood orangepuree, Motueka and Amarillo hops secondary fermented with Vanilla yield a smooth creamsicle finish, yet there’s enough DDH to give a mild pleasant hop finish
Collaborations
ABV: TBD
Local Master Brewers getting together to create a joint-effort Premium Brew
Arm Pants IPA
6.5% ABV
A collaboration between Artisanal Brew Works and Rushing Duck (Chester, NY)
Sweet citrus flavors abound, you’ll feel like you picked the best orange from the bunch! Great mouthfeel from ample amounts of oats, and massive amount of Azacca, Ekuanot, and Motueka hops. A blend of pale malt from Wisconson and New York State lends to a pleasant straw colored IPA.
Taproom SIPA Series
ABV: TBD
SIPA is a Sour IPA. Every month we’ll be changing ingredients and techniques to create refreshing sours!
Savage IPA
5.15% ABV
Aromas and flavors of tart grape and fresh crushed gooseberry. Savage is a marriage between New Zealand an Australian flavors, Mate!. With ample amounts of Nelson Sauvin hops (NZ) and Cabernet Sauvignon grape juice (AUS), Boysenberry puree, and a wee bit of lactose, it’s a sour with pleasant complexity. Like wine, this is sure to only get better with time, so buy some for now, and cellar some for later!
Go ahead, get Savage! Ohhhh Yeah!
Available in Cans and Draft
LIT Sour IPA
8.0% ABV
Flavors of tart mango and tropical juice. Hopped with Simcoe and Michigan Copper, secondary fermented with fresh mango puree. Very juicy, and very dangerous as it doesn’t taste anywhere near 8% abv!
Woke! Blood Orange Sour IPA
6.0% ABV
A citrusy, tangy, orange wake-up. With lactose and DDH’d with Mosaic.
Available in Cans Only
Sours
Sours created with less hops than our SIPAs, but wonderful flavors nonetheless!
Sour Blackberry Lemon Bar
6.6 % ABV
We love blackberries and we love sours. We were wondering, what flavor would pair well with blackberry, plus the tartness of a sour? We conjured up a dessert inspired brew from blackberry lemon bars. This kettle sour uses all natural blackberry puree, lactose, lemon peel, and organic lemon oil to create the delicate balance of amazing flavors. Clocking in at 6.6% ABV, the flavors and effervesce play great together in this crushable sour.
Citrus X Paradisi (Grapefruit Sour)
5.7% ABV
Aroma and flavors of fresh squeezed grapefruit juice. Beer or juice? You decide! Contains Lactose.
Mangava
6.0 % ABV
Mango Guava Kettle Sour, dry hoped with Azacca! The aroma is of a heavenly tropical garden, leading your taste buds to a sweet and sour experience!
About the Can Artwork
These beautiful labels were created by Jean Ellen Sotansky, a 24 year old oil painter from Saratoga Springs, NY. Her work combines figure, color, and abstractions. She encompasses the emotions of humans, while also illuminating the chance of life and the unexpected. See her artwork
Passionate Dreams
7.5 % ABV
A super crushable passion fruit sour. Great tropical flavors come from massive amounts of all natural passion fruit puree and a touch of lactose to balance the body and tartness.
Barrel Aged Releases
tOATal Darkness Stout
6.9% ABV
We aged our tOATal Darkness Stout in Yankee Distilling Whiskey barrels for over 5 months lends to a great balance of whiskey, oak, and roasted malts.
Whiskey Barrel Aged Whole Lotta Trouble
11.5% ABV
Our award winning Belgian Quad barrel aged in Whiskey barrels for over 5 months. Exceptionally complex with fig, cherry, tobacco, chocolate, and whiskey notes. Strike the sentence “Drink one now but cellar another bottle, as this will age exceptionally well.”
Whiney Whole Lotta Trouble
11.5% ABV
Extreme Beer Fest Release. We aged our Belgian Quad in Saratoga Winery Cabernet barrels for 6 months, the flavors aromas of a beautiful Quad pair great with the woody wine aromas and flavors
Savage Warhead IPA
6.2% ABV
Extreme Beer Fest Release. Made with ample amounts of Nelson Sauvin hops and Cabernet Sauvignon must, Boysenberry puree, and a wee bit of lactose. Soured with Lacto and pedio cultures, aged in a wine barrel that previously held Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc wines, and secondary fermented with EXTREME Black Cherry Warheads
Throwback Series
The throwback series are limited release beer styles that are a thowback to a time when breweries made beer that tasted like, wait for it, beer! Most of these releases will feature NYS grown grains and hops whenever possible.
Kölsch
5.0% ABV
Light and crisp ale with muted fruity tones. Featuring 100 % grown NYS Pilsner malt and Newport hops, this German inspired Kölsch will be sure to please!
Holiday Browns
Small batch, custom blend of our ever-popular Chocolate Brown Ale expertly dosed with all-natural extract to yield amazing flavors!
Peppermint Patty, Orange Chocolate, S’mores, and Habanero flavors.
Orange Chocolate
Peppermint Patty
S’mores
Habanero
Fruited Wheat Series
ABV: TBD
We use our White in the Glasses ingredients, but instead of putting in spices, we put in fruit puree to make a variety of tasty wheat beers.
Blackberry, Peach, Raspberry, Passion Fruit, and soon fruit puree blends are used to create very refreshing, natural fruit flavored wheat beer!
What will the brewers do this month?
See the splash page for current offerings!
Passion in the Glasses
4.6% ABV
A wheat base secondary fermented with fresh passion fruit puree. Juicy flavors of….you guessed it, passion fruit!
Available in Cans
Blueberry in the Glasses
4.6% ABV
250 lbs of all natural Blueberry puree make this deep colored blueberry wheat ale, with slight tartness reminiscent of a slice of blueberry pie.
Blackberry in the Glasses
4.6% ABV
Over 200 pounds of all natural Blackberry puree, and a touch of Raspberry puree, makes this beer remind you of a fresh Blackberry pie. Refreshing and crushable for any weather.
Peach WIT
4.6% ABV
We use our White in the Glasses Ingredients, but instead of putting in spices, we add copious amounts of all natural peach puree, and a wee bit of Apricot puree. This beer is NOT sweet. Real peach is one of the most delicate flavored fruited wits we make. While the peach flavor isn’t in your face like our Raspberry or Passion Fruit cousins, it’s still a very pleasant fruited wit. (Contains a small amount of lactose.)
Available in Sixtels and Cans
Raspberry WIT
4.6% ABV
We use our White in the Glasses ingredients, but instead of putting in spices, we add copious amounts of all natural Raspberry puree. Just like Raspberries, this is NOT sweet, just tart, all natural raspberry flavors
Available in Cans Only
SEASONAL / NOT CURRENTLY ON TAP
Gone, but not forgotten…
SPA
Currently Not on tap
Session Pale Ale
4% ABV
A classic pale ale that gets Double Dry Hopped with Mosaic giving it rich citrus, herbal, blueberry and stone fruit notes.
The perfect boat beer or cutting the lawn beer. So good, you’ll want to cut your lawn twice!
SPA Classic
Currently Not on tap
SPA Classic
4.0% ABV
Very low hop additions yield a nice malt flavored beer. At 4% abv, very sessionable and refreshing!
SPAC
Currently Not on tap
SPAC Pale Ale
4.0% ABV
Our classic pale ale that gets Double Dry Hopped with Centennial hops, yielding a pleasant lemony flavor and smooth bitterness. This beer was sold exclusively at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (hence the name SPAC) during the 2018 season.
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Currently Not on tap
Belgian Double
Dark, malty, spicy, and fruity – this is why God made beer.
Belgians on the Beach
Currently Not on tap
Belgian-American Single
5.6% abv
Rich Belgian malt characteristic with fresh NY hops – the best of new and old world.
Better Late Than Never
Currently Not on tap
West Coast IPA
Hops, hops, hops – pure hop joy
Belgian Red
Currently Not on tap
Belgian Red
6.0% abv
A touch of Rye in the malt bill pairs great with our house strain of Belgian yeast.
Impeachment IPA
Currently Not on tap
New England Style IPA
6.7% abv
We use our popular Derailleur IPA as a base, but then secondary ferment with peach puree and NYS grown Southern Cross hops. A classic hazy New England style IPA.
iMango
Currently Not on tap
iMango IPA
6.7% abv
We use our popular Derailleur IPA as a base, but then secondary ferment with mango puree and NYS grown Chinook hops. A classic hazy New England style IPA.
Trifecta
Currently Not on tap
Triple IPA
9% ABV
A hazy, triple India Pale Ale featuring hops from near and far – from Australian Galaxy hops to NYS grown. Flaked oats and huge dry hop additions smooth it out for the win.
Harvey’s Pouka Red
Currently Not on tap
Irish Red Ale
4.6% abv
A touch of Rye in the malt bill pairs great with NYS Newport dry hops.
Little Bit of Trouble
Currently Not on tap
Belgian Dubble
7.5% abv
The summer version of our Belgian Dark Strong “Whole Lotta Trouble,” this Belgian Double has very pleasant caramel malt tones with a slight touch of spice imparted from our house Belgian yeast. Warning! This Belgian dubble ale tastes too good to be 7.5% abv. It may cause a little bit of trouble. Consume with caution…and enjoy!
Derailleur IPA
Currently Not on tap
Single IPA
6.2% ABV
A West coast India Pale Ale balanced with late hop additions lending great hop flavor of citrus & grapefruit with a touch of malty sweetness.
(limited distribution)
Harvey’s Pouka Red
Currently Not on tap
Irish Red Ale
4.6% abv
A touch of Rye in the malt bill pairs great with NYS Newport dry hops.