Wisconsin Cran-bic

Dan Carey has decided to throw a changeup.  The folks at New Glarus Brewing are now nice enough to begin each year by deciding what the lineup for year-long, seasonal and Unplugged releases will be, so that beer geeks can hound their local beer store until they get it in. They have had a vote page up on their site for a while that allowed us to throw in our opinions on what we want to see in 2010.  There's a summary of how the voting went on beernews.com, and next year's lineup should be on the New Glarus site in December.  The original list for 2009 had an Eisbock as the final Unplugged, but they have now decided to do a Cranberry Lambic for release in November instead.  Fans of Raspberry Tart should be happy to hear that, as this will be a sour ale-style fruit beer with Wisconsin cranberries that spent 5 months in oak. We should have it in-store by mid-November.

Update: An early leak has next year's Unplugged being mostly a return to past year's favorites.  The 4 for 2010 will be Enigma (sour brown ale), Apple Ale, Cherry Stout, and Abt (similar to Westy).  While not treading much new ground, it should make all the people who still come in store looking for the Apple Ale happy.