You want this. New Holland Dragon's Milk Reserve Coconut Rum Barrel

New Holland Dragon's Milk Reserve Coconut Rum Barrel is the newest variant on the brewery's popular Dragon's Milk Imperial Stout.

Backstory for those that aren't familiar – New Holland has created an interesting in-house cycle for for this year-round barrel-aged stout. New Holland also creates their own whiskey in house. The whiskey leaves the barrel, Dragon's Milk goes in, ages, and is blended. In some instances, bourbon is aged in the barrels that had the imperial stout, creating New Holland Beer Barrel Bourbon.

Throw some of that idea out. New Holland Dragon's Milk Reserve Coconut Rum Barrel is coming in October.

“The barrels chosen are ones that retained more-than-usual barrel character and carry that forward into the beer. This variation is a special treat for bourbon lovers and those looking for a more flavor in their beer.” – Brett VanderKamp, New Holland President

This edition finds the imperial stout aged in rum barrels, with coconut. Think of it like the “Dragon” took a tropical vacation.

Taste. 

Let's just say holy sh!t this is good. Coconut, rum and chocolate are the key players here. But really though, it's all about the coconut. There are so many “whales” running around out there that have coconut that beer nerds will fight over. This coconut rum spin on Dragon's Milk is hitting your shelves now. Don't pass it up because it's not rare enough. We're talking rum barrel aged coconut imperial stout here. Drink this beer. You'll be glad you did.

New Holland Dragon's Milk Reserve Coconut Rum Barrel is hitting shelves now, in 12 ounce bottles and draft.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coconut. Barrel Aged. Rum.)

Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.

Debut: November, 2016

11% ABV

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Throwback Tuesday: A look Inside Carroll Shelby's Then-New Shop

Carroll Shelby needed a facility in 1962 to construct his Cobras, just as the feds were closing in on Lance Reventlow and his racecar operation at 1042 Princeton Drive, in Venice, California. Reventlow exited and Shelby entered, without so much as an employee change with Reventlow mastermind, Phil Remington, sticking around to help Shelby ramp up production of his Cobras, develop the Shelby Mustang, and give Ford a hand in developing Ferrari-beating GT-40s. Even Reventlow's Fiat car hauler was part of the deal. These shots from a week after New Years 1965, show plenty of Shelby Mustang action as stock fastbacks were being converted and then tested as 306hp GT 350s and 350Rs.

 

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Travel Style: Jeffrey Sirota

Jeffrey Sirota

Want to know how to travel in style, just like the pros? We check in with frequent fliers to find out how often they fly, their favorite destinations and what they never leave home without.

Name: Jeffrey Sirota

Occupation: Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Americas Region for Small Luxury Hotels of the World

Hometown: Monroe, Connecticut

Residence: Manhattan, NY

College: University of San Diego

College major: Business with Psychology and French Minors

Website: slh.com

Twitter: @SLHLuxuryHotels

Facebook: Jeff Sirota

Instagram: smallluxuryhotels

YouTube: Small Luxury Hotels of the World

Short bio: Jeff Sirota is Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Americas Region for Small Luxury Hotels of the World. Having spent nearly seven years working his way up through various sales roles within the company, Jeff now oversees the global sales team and strategy for Small Luxury Hotels of the World. In addition, he is the Americas Regional Vice President, heading up the New York office for SLH. Prior to Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Jeff worked on property at a boutique hotel in Los Angeles in sales and events. Additionally, he spent several years as a luxury travel agent with a top producing Virtuoso agency in LA.

How often do you fly? 2x/month or more. Over 100k this year.

How many countries have you been to? 25-ish.

How many continents have you been to? Just missing Africa and Antarctica!

Earliest travel memory: Lots of Delta wide-body flights down to Florida from LGA back in the day.

Favorite American city: My home: NYC!

Favorite international city: I feel as though Sydney is pretty near perfect.

Least favorite country: I have found something worth appreciating in each I have been to.

I have no desire to go to: Syria is up there right now.

Friendliest people in the world: Brazilians!

Country with the meanest immigration officers: Probably USA!

Favorite World Heritage Site: Several of our SLH hotels are exclusively in UNESCO sites and they're absolutely breathtaking. You can find them here.

Favorite airline: Airline of choice? United. Favorite: Lufthansa.

Favorite aircraft type: A380: She's a beast, but love all that space! 747 will always be the most elegant.

Aisle or window: Aisle during the day, window for overnight flights. Love new business/first class configurations where you get a window AND an aisle in the same seat: perfection!

Favorite airport lounge: Lufthansa First Class in FRA.

Favorite U.S. airport: Denver.

Favorite international airport: Hong Kong.

Favorite hotel: Any SLH property-we have 520 in 80 countries!

Favorite cruise line: Just went on Regent: amazing.

Favorite travel credit card: United Mileage Plus Select (can't get it anymore!).

Favorite island: Mallorca: beautiful Mediterranean beaches mixed with fantastic Spanish culture and food.

Favorite beach: Ipanema.

Favorite National Park: Glacier National Park in Alaska.

Favorite fancy restaurant: I'm so spoiled living in NYC…Le Bernardin is up there.

Favorite hole-in-the-wall: Hill Country Chicken in NYC.

Favorite bar: Boom boom Room at The Standard Highline, NYC: Views of all Manhattan (even in the bathroom), craft cocktails, and retro chic.

Favorite fruit: Mango.

Favorite food: Chocolate.

Least favorite food: Sardines.

Drink of choice (in the air and on the ground): Champagne.

Favorite travel movie(s): Airplane!

Right now I am reading: The questions on this survey.

Top 3 favorite travel newsletters/magazines/blogs: Conde Nast Traveler.

Favorite travel website(s)-besides JohnnyJet.com, of course! FlyerTalk.

5 things you bring on a plane: Magazines, headphones, big bottle of water, protein bars, hand cream.

What do you always seem to forget? Headphones…I leave them everywhere!

What do you like least about travel? Economy class.

What do you want your loved one to buy you from an airport Duty Free store? Nothing. Buy me something unique from the location instead.

Favorite travel app(s): United app because I use it all the time (upgrade list!!), Flight Track, iTrans NYC.

Most embarrassing travel moment: I'll tell you my second most embarrassing one ;) the day United/Continental merged their systems, there were issues with the app, etc (which I didn't realize). I was connecting through IAH and waiting for my delayed flight in the United Club. Gate was right across from the club. I kept checking on the app to see where the plane was coming from and it kept on saying it was delayed and hadn't left, yet my flight departure time had been moved to a specific time. I kept seeing that the plane hadn't left its origin on the app, so I chose to ignore departure time and the monitors…finally, as it was departure time I thought I'd look at the board: the flight was gone! I ran across to the gate to see the plane pulling back! Oops. I ended up running across the huge airport bags in hand to catch a later one and just barely made it (but my upgrade cleared!!).

I'm embarrassed I haven't been to: Greece!

Worst travel moment: I was 13, headed to see family in New Orleans. My dad and I both had morning flights from LGA, so I went along with him. His business flight left, mine was delayed. Ended up being put on a new connecting flight, then told original flight was going. Got on original flight, delayed again. Put on a new flight, then told non-stop was going so I went back to it, they cancelled it. After back and forth on four different flights, finally left and connected through DCA. Took me 12 hours to get to New Orleans: best part was my dad had gotten me into the US Air Club and they took great care of me…I think that was the official start of me being an independent traveler…a little traumatic for a young teenager, though.

What's your dream destination? It's secluded and includes an overwater bungalow.

Favorite travel charity: My MileagePlus account.

Best travel tip: Be proactive and fend for yourself, because nobody else will do it for you (especially in airports)!!

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Audi Finally Renames its Sporting Division, Promises Eight New Performance Models

While the general populace will likely remain confused, automotive enthusiasts will now be able to differentiate between Audi's all-wheel-drive system and its performance sports car subsidiary. The company has officially taken its Quattro GmbH division and renamed it Audi Sport GmbH. Quattro (which means four) will now only refer to the all-wheel drive system and Sport (which […]

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Porn site xHamster launches their own beer. How you pair it is up to you.

One of the world's largest porn websites, xHamster now has something else to offer their fans. xHamster Beer.

At first we thought it was a joke. Upon investigation (beer investigating, not porn), the Cyprus-based site has gotten into commercial brewing. The beer is a nearly 9% alcohol by volume Belgian-style tripel. Even before your mind wanders, no there aren't any weird additions to the beer like lube, and it wasn't aged on sex toys either.

xHamster Beer is brewed with two hop varieties, and five different malts, plus organic honey. Brewed for the fans of a special kind of “nature documentary.” Touted as the world's first “porn beer.”

Five different malt varieties, two hop varieties, organic honey, and the finest spices and yeast flow into the beer. Very full-bodied, slightly sweet and yet spicy, this beer will fill your mouth and guarantee your satisfaction.

Right now the beer is only available in Europe but there are plans to to bring it stateside. Perhaps it's the perfect gift for that special porn and beer lover in your life.

Style: Belgian Tripel (Honey.)

 

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Next-generation Ford Fiesta Debuts, But Doesn't Tell All

The next-generation Ford Fiesta had its coming out party at a corporate event in Cologne, Germany today, and there's no mistaking the updated B-segment runabout. Ford clearly wasn't willing to mess with the exterior too much, but changes abound on the 2018 model year Fiesta. That includes an industry-first advancement made to its available three-cylinder […]

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Say What?! This Scat Pack Beats Hellcats, Power To Spare!

We love the history of Mopar performance around here and we respect it. We respect the fact that in the mid 1960s you could drive off a dealer lot with a snotty, angry, snarling beast of a street car that would do burnouts for blocks and mix it up with the other machinery of the day at the strip. Those days were magic and they will forever be lionized in the hearts and minds of muscle car enthusiasts everywhere. One thing we cannot get on board with is calling those the “good old days,” because frankly, we're living in the “good old days” and the 2016 Challenger Scat Pack of Illinois resident Jim Hayes is proof positive of that.

Largely stock aside from the addition of a Kenne Bell supercharger package, this thing runs middle 10s and kills Hellcats, classic muscle cars, and virtually everything else that rolls up next to it. Oh, and unlike the muscle car guys of yesteryear, he is not constantly running the valves, boiling the car over on a warm day, or stuck to a sweaty vinyl bench seat in the summer. Nope, he's rocking factory parts from front to back including the air conditioning in this Plum Crazy killer and that's what really caught our eye when we saw him competing at the Hellcat and Scat Pack Shootout during the Monster Musclecar Weekend at Gateway Motorsports Park outside of St Louis.

We'll get to the real meat of this 10-second late-model stormer in a minute, but one of the things that really stands out about this car is just how much of it is stock, as delivered from the factory, and yet still standing up to the abuse and massive 730-plus wheel horsepower the car has. The transmission? Stock. Rear end? Stock, driveshaft? Stock. Suspension? Totally stock. Yes, there are drag radials on the back but let's be honest, that is an even greater testament to the driveline strength of these cars. Late-model muscle cars of other persuasions would be spitting out parts like Tic-Tacs when trying to do what Jim is doing with this Scat Pack Challenger. The Challenger has not been lightened up at all and likely comes across the scales a little heavier than stock with the blower and its components installed, but it is also making hundreds more horsepower than FCA planned to have it. Tipping the scales at just over two tons before the blower, this car with its full interior and amenities is a luxury rocket.

But there's always that one burning question: Why? Why build this car, this way? “I love all cars, but there's just something about these late-model performance cars that just blows me away,” Jim said with a laugh. “These things take me back to the days when we were running at our local drag strip as kids making 400 hp and thinking we were the kings of the world. These cars today have huge horsepower along with reliability. You can hop in this thing and drive it across the country without a worry. I drove the car 200 miles from my house to the race at St. Louis, raced it, and drove home getting a total combined average of 20.6 mpg.”

Jim is no stranger to the fun of late-model performance cars or the magic of a Kenne Bell blower. He has a 2010 Mr. Norm's car that is also boosted in the same manner. When the time came to scratch his performance itch again, Jim was thinking Hellcat all the way but his wife was not. “My wife was opposed to the Hellcat because she figured the insurance would be higher along with virtually everything else,” Jim explained. “I thought that buying a Scat Pack and adding to it would be fine, so that is what I did. I saved a ton of money all around and my wife got a new Dart as well. The insurance is cheaper, I ended up with a bigger motor, a bigger blower, and more power anyway.”

Jim's itch to get one of his cars back onto the strip was kicked into overdrive when he found out about the shootouts: “I had been following along with the Hellcat and Scat Pack races and thought that when we were ready with the car we should bring it out. The winning elapsed times seemed achievable and with the combo we were working on we thought that we would have a legitimate shot at winning.” The “we” that Jim mentions includes Tim Barth of the Midwest Performance Center in Rock City, Illinois. He's the talented wrench behind making this Scat Pack a Hellcat's worst nightmare.

The engine in the car from the cylinder heads down is 100-percent absolutely stock. As we all know, the Apache cylinder heads that these 6.4L engines wear are some of the best to ever get bolted onto a factory short-block in Chrysler's history, so if they work that good naturally aspirated, you darn sure know they will really gulp if you help them breathe a little.

The breathing “help” that Tim Barth decided to use happens to be a healthy Kenne Bell liquid cooled supercharger. If you are going to add a blower there are other concerns that need to be addressed, and those are primarily on the fuel, ignition, and exhaust sides. Stainless Works 1 7/8-inch long-tube headers were installed to get the gasses out of the engine.

Handling the fuel system upgrades was Midwest Performance Center. Using a Fore Innovations triple pump in-tank unit to supply the volume of fuel that the engine needs under boost, a Snow Stage 3 water/methanol injection system to keep detonation from hurting the engine, and other fuel system enhancements to handle the increased demands, this engine is making crazy power, Hellcat-dominating power-on bone-stock internals.

As you might expect, when the car is in race tune mode with more boost, the fuel it is happiest on is E85. During normal driving, Jim is able to fill the tank with 93 octane and cruise the town.

It should also be noted that this is not an engine that is being run on the ragged edge. Consider when the 10.50/131mph run was made at the Scat Pack Shootout, there was only 8.6 psi of boost being put to work. It took a pass or two in order for Barth to get the car happy coming off the line to achieve those numbers, but they did it and in the weeks following the event, they achieved an elapsed time of 10.32/132 mph after more tuning and tweaking.

Turbos are fantastic for making power, but for a guy like Jim who was already in love with a previous supercharged modern Mopar, he knew what he wanted. The Kenne Bell blower used on this car is an interesting piece. It is a twin-screw style that uses a liquid cooling system to manage the heat that is inherent in the supercharging process. When you compress anything you get heat, and that includes air. This is also a big benefit for all the moving parts inside the blower to keep them cool, lubricated, and happy. This particular application also uses the Kenne Bell Mammoth rear inlet manifold. This high-flowing piece allows the air to more efficiently make it into the blower, which in turn makes the whole system more efficient. Finally, the blower is equipped with a bypass valve that bleeds off boost during low-rpm, part-throttle situations like cruising down the highway. This allows the supercharger to be more efficient and reduce any parasitic drag on the engine trying to turn it. By using the bypass valve, the supercharger is effectively returning air back to the inlet. The end result is you have a car that is really nice to drive and then REALLY fun to drive when you land on the loud pedal.

The bottom line is that in today's world of muscle cars, a guy like Jim can have a Scat Pack Challenger with a 100-percent stock engine making nearly 900 hp at the flywheel and well over 700 hp at the tires. Yes, it requires the knowledge of a tuner to help it all live happily together, but the point is that it can be done, enjoyed, and counted on to get you around town. That's a mind boggling thing for anyone who lived through the dark ages of performance in the 1970s when it looked like 300hp engines would be a stretch, let alone monsters like this one.

Jim Hayes absolutely loves his car and he should. It has rekindled emotions he has not had since he was a young buck. It has garnered awards at shows like the prestigious Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, it runs 10s, and it is cheaper to insure than a stock Hellcat. This thing is Plum Crazy and the man is enjoying every second of it.

This Plum Crazy colored 2016 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack looks stock, and frankly, it mostly is but it doesn't run like it. The Kenne-Bell liquid-cooled supercharger makes sure of it. Owner Jim Hayes rips off 10s.

Here's the heart of the beast, a thumping Kenne Bell supercharged 6.4L blown Hemi that makes huge power and does so reliably. The blend of robust factory parts and some well-placed modifications have turned this Scat Pack into a Hellcat hunter.

The Kenne-Bell blower with its Mammoth series air intake is a well packaged horsepower making wonder. The twin-screw design keeps things compact and under the stock hood. We dig the support on the blower snout-it looks beefy!

People may moan about the “good old days” of muscle cars being over, but owner Jim Hayes disagrees. An otherwise stock modern muscle car with a blower that can wax virtually anything that rolls up next to it with the AC on? What's that about the “good old days” again?

Anybody with a 392 Hemi can bolt on a Kenne Bell 2.8L supercharger kit and get similar results to Jim Hayes, although Hayes did convert to E85 and add Snow's water-meth injection kit to further extend the capability of the stock 6.4L Hemi bottom end.

Outwardly the only deviation from the stock appearance is the presence of drag radials in the rear. Mounted on the factory wheels, unsuspecting victims may glance right past that part of the equation. This car needs the grip that those tires provide.

Want to see just how awesome the power curve is for this car? Here's the dyno sheet to prove it was still making power like a freight train when the dyno rip ended. With some more rpm there's more power potential to unlock. Long live the Gen III Hemi!

FAST FACTS

2016 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack

Jim Hayes; Machesney Park, Il

ENGINE

Type: 392ci Gen III “Apache” Chrysler Hemi

Bore x stroke: 4.09(bore) x 3.724(stroke), 392 ci

Compression ratio: 10.9:1

Block: stock

Rotating assembly: stock

Cylinder heads: stock “Apache” cast A319 alloy aluminum

Camshaft: stock

Valvetrain: stock

Induction: Kenne-Bell 2.8L liquid-cooled twin-screw supercharger

Fuel system: Fore Innovations fuel system with three pumps

Exhaust: Stainless Works 1 7/8-inch diameter long-tube headers

Ignition: stock

Oiling system: stock

Cooling: stock

Fuel: gasoline

Output: 733.74 hp to the wheels and 673.75 lb-ft of torque

Engine built by: FCA of America

DRIVETRAIN

Transmission: stock 8-speed TorqueFlite 8HP70 automatic overdrive transmission

Driveshaft: stock as delivered by Chrysler

Rearend: stock and unaltered, 3.09:1 limited-slip

CHASSIS

Front suspension: stock, independent SLA, with high upper A-arm

Rear suspension: stock, five-link IRS in isolated suspension cradle

Steering: factory stock, electric power steering

Brakes: stock Brembo, 14.2-inch rotors with 4-piston calipers (front);

13.8-inch rotors with 4-piston calipers (rear)

Chassis: stock, unit-body construction

PAINT & INTERIOR

Color: factory applied Plumb Crazy purple

Painter: FCA of America

Interior: stock

WHEELS & TIRES

Wheels: stock 2015 Challenger Scat Pack 20 x 8 wheels

Tires: stock 245/45R20 Goodyear (front), Mickey Thompson 275/40R20

SS Drag Radials (rear)

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