6 Farmhouse Ales To Try in 2021
Farmhouse ales, aka saisons, were, back in the day, brewed with local-to-the-farm ingredients in, you guessed it, farmhouses. They were meant to slake a worker’s thirst during the warm summer...
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6 Delicious Beers That Smell Like Weed
Sticky icky in a pint glass? Yep. Why not? When it’s good, it’s good. Over the last couple of years, there’s been an uptick in the number of breweries making...
Kentucky Fog Is the Bourbon County Brand Stout Variant to Drink in 2020
Daylight saving time is here, its unwelcome bags stuffed with 5 p.m. sunsets and a potential sales pitch for breweries. Dark days deserve dark beers. It’s marketing magic for imperial...
Sierra Nevada Celebration IPA Is Fall’s Perfect Party Beer
This year marks my 20th anniversary of moving to New York City, a temporary adventure turned into a more or less permanent perch, a writing career, a marriage, and a...
Dogfish Head Makes Oat Milk the Star of Its Must-Try Hazy-O! IPA
These are strange days to be a cow. Dairy milk consumption is continuing its national decline, and coffee drinkers are going nuts for alternative milks. But the beer industry has...
Go for Gold: Best Festbier Lagers to Try This October
Oktoberfest will look mighty different this fall. Germany’s annual beer-and-sausage blowout is canceled, and large American gatherings will likely remain limited—but don’t see the glass half-empty. Instead, fill it to...
Why You’ll Be Drinking Yuengling Hershey’s Chocolate Porter This Halloween
Certain human body parts are simply unnecessary. We need no appendix or tailbone, and dentists often extract wisdom teeth. Personally, I’ve lived a satisfied life without a sweet tooth, favoring...
57.8 Percent ABV Collab Beer Ends Decade-Long Brewery War
In 2008, German brewer Schorschbräu fired the first shot in what became an epic beer war. The initial volley? A 31 percent ABV beer known as the Schorschbock. At the...
The Pro(biotics) Move: Drinking Kombucha-Beer Hybrids From Allagash and Stone
Here’s my list of pandemic hobbies. I grew a vegetable garden and baked focaccia, propagated houseplants and fermented gallons of tangy kombucha, the barely boozy, probiotic-packed bubbly tea that’s supposedly...
Is the French’s Mustard Beer Worth Drinking?
The pandemic has upset the apple cart of everyday life, impacting school, weddings, restaurants, sports, and even beer. Yes, beer! It’s no longer possible to spend lazy afternoons lounging at...
