Spice Spice Baby
Type: Spicy wheat beer
Brewery: MashCraft Brewing Co.
Alcohol by volume: 5.5 percent
What is it? “It’s a wheat beer with camomile, orange peel, ginger and clove that makes for a very unique beer.” — Andrew Castner, head brewer
Released: Feb. 18
Ninja Skillz
Type: Black India pale ale, aka American black ale
Brewery: Mashcraft Brewing Co.
Alcohol by volume: 5.8 percent
What is it? “It’s what is called an American black ale — it has hops like a pale ale, and we use Cascade hops, but it’s black in color due to the malt that we use.” — Castner
Released: Feb. 25
The Deep
Type: Oatmeal stout
Brewery: MashCraft Brewing Co.
What is it? “It’s an oatmeal stout, a second running of an oatmeal stout that we did back in July. We’re bringing it back because of its popularity. A really nice oatmeal stout with some nice mouth feel, some chocolate and roast character to it.” — Castner
Released: March 4
Biere de Mars
Brewery: Taxman Brewing Co.
Alcohol by volume: 7.2 percent
What is it? It’s a common Belgian style for spring, designed for immediate spring consumption. It’s a reddish golden ale, rye-forward amber, with a lot of clean spice and earthy malt notes to it. It’ll be malty and slightly sweet.” — Colin McCloy, head brewer
Released: First week of March
Belgian Pale Ale
Brewery: Taxman Brewing Co.
Alcohol by volume: 4.8 percent
What is it? “This is one of our rotating Belgian pale ales. For this one, we’re using hops that accentuate orange and grapefruit. It’s a session pale ale.” — McCloy
Released: March 6 or 7
Vienna-style lager
Brewery: Oaken Barrel Brewing Co.
Alcohol by volume: About 5 percent
What is it? “We wanted to do an homage to the fire department, which is celebrating an anniversary soon. We’re planning on releasing that later this spring. It’s kind of a traditional European-style lager. It’s an old style, light and crisp like a lager, but it has a little more character to it.” — Sara Turner, lead brewer
Release: April
Death and Taxes
Type: Imperial Belgian stout
Brewery: Taxman Brewing Co.
Alcohol by volume: 12.5 percent
What is it? “It’s a very robust and rich, deep-roasted stout with Belgian esters. Added on top of it, we added some Indonesian vanilla. We brewed it a couple months ago, to let the alcohol settle a little bit. But we also split the batch up and will be offering a two-month barrel-aged version of it.” — McCloy
Release: April 18
German altbier
Brewery: MashCraft Brewing Co.
What is it? “This is a German-style red ale that typically comes from Dussendorf in Germany. It has a nice hop presence and pours really nicely.” — Castner
Released: March 11
