Categories
Beer

New Arrivals: George Dickel 14 Year Healthy Spirits Exclusive Single Barrel

Hey All,

Got a brand spanking new exclusive barrel in from George Dickel, consequently with a certificate of authenticity to prove it (bonus!). This 14 year barrel was one of only two available in California, apparently the east coast ate up the rest. Needless to say fighting for it was a long-winded process, but we were able to work some magic and make it happen. This is the first time George Dickel has ever done a private barrel release and it’s without a doubt the best Dickel product I’ve ever tried! Here are my personal tasting notes:

On the nose I get notes of brandied cherries, burnt marzipan, red hot candies, lava rocks, blackberry pie and damp wood. The aromas are seriously oak driven and fruity. As I let it washes over the palate I get flavors of petrified wood, maple syrup, carrot cake, swamp rocks, wet cardboard and frosted corn flakes. The finish is long and woodsy. While this whisky definitely shows its age in full force it never cross the line for me.

Get em while you can! Cheers

Nate

Categories
Agave Beer Whiskey

Healthy Spirits Richmond District – WE ARE ONE

 

Categories
Beer

SOMEONE TALKED!

Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

For immediate release:

Healthy Spirits San Francisco and Oakland’s Ale Industries hatched the plan. Four Barrel, Philz, and Sweet Maria’s coffee kept the soldiers alert. Buffalo Trace, Four Roses, and Colorado Gold distilleries supplied the artillery. Their movements were top secret, or so they thought.
Caught in an ambush it was too late when they found out:

SOMEONE TALKED!

San Francisco’s ultimate beer, whiskey, and hummus purveyor teams up with the troops at Ale Industries for another exclusive barrel aged ale. SOMEONE TALKED! is a hyper-limited (fewer than 60 total cases) series of coffee-kissed imperial stouts aged in Healthy Spirits collection of world class bourbon barrels. Three distinct bottlings are available NOW at both Healthy Spirits locations (and draught at select SF Beer Week events).

1) WHITE or SILVER capped SOMEONE TALKED! went through a year of boot camp in a Buffalo Trace barrel with a Four Barrel Coffee addition.

2) RED capped SOMEONE TALKED! did a year-long tour in our Colorado Gold barrel with a touch of Ale Industries’ house-roasted beans from Sweet Maria’s Coffee.

3) YELLOW capped SOMEONE TALKED! counted 365 days in the brig with a Four Roses barrel with some  Philz Coffee.

Any of the three offerings are available now in 22 oz. bottles for $18.99

Categories
Beer

SF BEER WEEK at Healthy Spirits

For SF Beer Week: Healthy Spirits will be pulling from our sleeves magical offerings conjured by all of the wizards of fermentation here in the city this week. Every day a new conjuring, until the magic wears out. Today THREE new spells are cast from Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project

  • Vielle with Cranberry, Cinnamon, Hibiscus, & Nutmeg 375ml $12.99
  • Batch Number 60 Dry Hopped 100% Brett Fermented Wild Ale 375ml $13.99 
  • Nightmare on Brett Dark Sour Ale aged in Leopold Bros. Whiskey Barrels 375ml $16.99 

Available today at both locations. Limit one (1) per customer. Phone reservations for club members only please.

Categories
Beer

Ginger ain’t just for stepchildren no more!

Just one more hit…
“Yonks over ginger in Kentucky bourbon barrels? Take my dosh, I’m gunnae mainline that peeve.”

Widmer Brothers Ginger Barrel Aged Brrrbon ’13 22oz $12.99

Widmer Brothers Barrel Aged Brrrbon ’13 22oz $8.99

Widmer Brothers Barrel Aged Brrrbon ’11 22oz $8.99

Golden Road 2020 IPA 4pks $12.99

Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout 22oz $5.99

North Coast Barrel-aged Old Rasputin XVI 500ml $23.99

Knee Deep Belgo Hoptologist 22oz $8.99

Knee Deep Imperial Tanilla Porter 22oz $8.99

Midnight Sun XXX Black Double IPA 22oz $13.99

Midnight Sun Arctic Devil Oak Aged Barleywine 22oz $20.99

Caldera Lawnmower Lager 6pks $8.99

De La Senne x Tired Hands Crushable Saison 330ml $5.99

Mikkeller x Prairie Artisan Ales American-Style IPA 750ml $16.99

To Øl Liquid Confidential Imperial Chili Stout aged in Sherry BBLs 375ml $16.99

B.O.M. Triporteur From Heaven Blonde 750ml $11.99

B.O.M. Triporteur From Hell Brune 750ml $11.99

Prearis Quadrupel 750ml $12.99

Wild Beer Iduna Cru Apple Saison 330ml $9.99

Restocks:

Lagunitas Daytime 6pks $9.99

Iron Springs Kent Lake Kolsch 22oz $5.99

J.K. Scrumpy Northern Neighbor Cider 22oz $6.99

Reel Ales 10² Barleywine 22oz $11.99

Categories
Beer

Beats, Rhymes & Hyph

Healthy Spirits stackin’ cases so high you could prolly call us dizzy. Flip the script if you call when we answer “Hizzy Spizzy”.

Fresh rhymes for your mind on the shelves.

  • The Bruery Saison de Lente 750ml $10.99
  • The Bruery Oude Tart 750ml $22.99
  • Hof ten Dormaal Zure van Tildonk 375ml $11.99
  • Cismontane Single Malt Munich 500ml $4.99
  • Cismontane Single Malt Vienna 500ml $4.99
  • Cismontane Single Malt Pilsner 500ml $4.99
  • FiftyFifty B.A.R.T. (Barrel Aged Really Tasty) 22oz $24.99
  • Omnipollo Fatamorgana 22oz $15.99
  • Anchor Bock 22oz $5.99
  • Uinta Hoodoo Kolsch 6pks $9.99
  • Angry Orchard Iceman Apple Eiswine 750ml $16.99
  • Angry Orchard Green Apple Hard Cider 6pks $9.99
  • Aspall Organic Draught Cider 500ml $8.99
Almanac sours nice up the shelves! A favorite has been restocked in the Bourbon Sour Porter, and THREE NEW SELECTIONS just in time to celebrate SF Beer Week! 
Sourdough Wild Ale 375ml $12.99
Brewed with a mash of raw and malted barley, oats, rye, spelt and lemon, this beer was fermented in used wine barrels with a blend of Brettanomyces wild yeasts and Marla Bakery’s San Francisco sourdough yeast. The finished beer is dry-hopped with tropical Mosaic hops. This unfiltered ale is alive in the bottle: drink fresh for a bright, passionfruit aroma or age to develop the wild yeast funk.
Brandy Barrel Peche 375ml $12.99
Historically, fruit-infused sour beers were a way of preserving the summer harvest. In that tradition, this blonde ale was added to brandy barrels with high-summer peaches, hand-picked by the Loewen family at Blossom Bluff Orchards in Reedley, California. We aged this liquid gold for six months until we needed a reminder that summer will come again. Pair with Prosciutto, crusty bread and fruit preserves.
Valley of the Heart’s Delight 375ml $12.99
This sour ale is inspired by the agricultural history of the Santa Clara Valley. Long before it became Silicon Valley, it was known as the Valley of The Heart’s Delight, a fertile basin overflowing with fruit orchards. Brewed with foraged apricots, loquats and cherries handpicked by the Garden To Table non-profit, this collaborative beer celebrates and supports their mission to promote urban farming in San Jose.
Categories
Beer

Abacus reklaW enotseriF | Firestone Walker sucabA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: HEALTHY SPIRITS LIMITED BEER ACQUISITION

SF Beer Week approaches, a week dedicated to all things brewed. Capping this sudsy celebration is Toronado’s Barleywine festival, an event unlike any beer gathering in the world. More than fifty taps are dedicated to the most revered, misunderstood, misrepresented, and missing-keys/wallet/friends/mind, beer styles. The concentrated nectar of grains and hops; Barleywine.

In 2008, Firestone Walker sucabA (then Abacus) took home the judges’ Honorable Mention. The following year, a bronze medal. And in 2010 a silver medal. Though they never took first, this streak is proof that Firestone Walker sucabA is among the finest oak-aged beers in the world, and for a limited time, BOTH HEALTHY SPIRITS LOCATIONS have some.

22oz bottle in a handsome display box will set you back $17.99 plus tax and CRV. Two (2) bottles per person per diem limit, please, and phone reservations for club members only.

Categories
Beer

Heavy heavy hitters every week at Healthy Spirits

The elusive Bigfoot in his native habitat…

HS = Healthy Spirits, but it also means HEAVY STOCK. The trucks rolled in, the truckers rolled out, and we’re flexing our massive biceps to roll up the best stuff in the city. Like the Macho Man (RIP) says OOOHYEEUH!

Uinta Detour DIPA 750ml $10.99
All-pro halfback with a ballet danseur’s steps: Hershel Walker through a goal-line defense.

Früh Kölsch 500ml $3.99
Köln = Cologne. No perfume, only beer!

Grand Teton Trout Hop Black IPA 4pks $10.99
Water can flow, or it can crash! Be water my friend.

Jolly Pumpkin Calabaza Blanca 375ml $7.99
Every Macho Man needs a Miss Elizabeth.

Sierra Nevada Ovila Abbey Quad 375ml $4.99
Holy men who praise their creator(s?) through work. Praise be to Belgian STRONG Ale!

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine 4pks $9.99
Yetis, Yowies, Yeren, Sasquatches, Hibagons, Tsul ‘Kalu. The hairy apeman cometh!

Kulmbacher Pils 330ml $3.49
Try to say Kulmbacher without sounding all tough and stuff. I dare you. See? Impossible!

Anchor Bock 6pks $9.99
Bock means ram. Rams butt heads. Possibly your last chance to square up to this San Francisco classic before Anchor headbutts them out of the market!

BrewDog Hardcore Imperial IPA 4pks $11.99
Scottish brewpunx oi oi oi up the mashpit and slamdance hops in the whirlpool. Punks not dead.

Sam Adams Rebel IPA 6pks $9.99
“Slim” Jim Koch and the Boston boys lay down the gauntlet by putting “West Coast Style” on the package. East vs. West revisited!

Categories
Agave Beer Whiskey

Holiday Gift Ideas!

Hey All,

Got a couple great last minute gift ideas:

-Hooker’s House 3 bottle gift set $79.99: includes three 200ml bottles of the pinot noir finished bourbon, zinfandel finished rye and cohabitation bourbon (blend of 21, 11, 9 and 7 year finished in 7 unique barrels)
-The Glenrothes 3 bottle gift set $46.99: includes three 100ml bottles of the Select Reserve, 2001 and 1998 vintages
-St. George 3 bottle gin gift set $32.99: includes three 200ml bottles of the Dry Rye, Terrior and Botanivore gins
-Mi Casa 3 bottle tequila set $139.99: includes three 750ml bottles of blanco, reposado and anejo (*available at Castro only*)

First three items available @ Both Shops

Happy Holidays!

Nate

Categories
Beer

New arrivals to Clement Street:

Evil Twin Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Biscotti Break 22oz $29.99 | New Belgium x Patagonia Califonia Route Lager 6pks $9.99 | Drake’s Drakonic Imperial Stout 22oz $7.99 | Xbeeriment Copper Snow Barleywine 16oz $11.99 | Emelisse Imperial Russian Stout 12oz $6.99 | Henney’s Vintage Cider 16oz $7.99 | Angry Orchard Strawman Farmhouse Cider 25oz $16.99

Restocks:

Firestone Walker Pivo Pils 6pks $9.99 | Marin Brewing 3 Flowers 22oz $5.99 | Haandbryggeriet Barrel Aged Porter 16oz $11.99 | Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye 22oz $5.99 | Gueuze Tilquin 25oz $26.99