Beer of the Week! 12/29/20

We’ve doubled our time with this Doppelbock.

Ballad Lebkuchen Doppelbock

Regularly $13.99 / Now on Sale for $12.96
Spiced Doppelbock Style Lager

Last week’s Beer of the Week was good enough to be held over … so we did! It’s week two of Ballad’s Doppelbock as Beer of the Week!

Once upon a time, microbiologist Dr. John Andorfer took a liking to craft brewing and co-founded a brewery and brewpub in Danville, VA. Ensconced in a renovated tobacco warehouse, Ballad has been developing beers since 2017.

We’ve never been disappointed by a Ballad beer that we have tasted, but their Lebkuchen Doppelbock is the first brew to really knock us back. The Lebkuchen (or “Gingerbread”) Doppelbock is such a great idea, we’re surprised we haven’t run into it before now. Take a solid Doppelbock style lager and add “German holiday cookie spices” to it. You get the bready sweetness of the Doppelbock with just a tinge of spice at that finish capping off the sweetness before it becomes cloying. It’s quite a successful ride (unlike the local train wreck enshrined in Country music that inspired the brewery’s name).

From the part of the country where you can actually see the Aurora Borealis.

Beer of the Week (‘Cause doesn’t everyone love a Christmas bonus?)

Ten Bends Northern Heights

Regularly $16.99 / Now on Sale for $15.96
Double New England Style IPA

“Double IPA – 8% ABV

“Northern Heights is brewed with wheat and oats, then double dry-hopped with Mosaic and Citra hops. It is the result of an evolution of craft brewing that began in a shed in the northern woods of Vermont and has culminated in a definitive and well-balanced ale that will take your perception of a Double IPA to new heights.”

- Ten Bends Beer

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