“So smooth it’s almost creamy, the Pax reminds you that the Belgian Pilsner is a much more urbane creature than its Czech and German predecessors …”
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“… like with saké, the Extra Dry enjoys the tension between an earthy bitterness resting beneath a clear and clean ale on top …”
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“This beauty of a sparkler from just off the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona never fails to stir our souls …”
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“With a little more than a tenth of our population, Hinesburg is a small, northern Vermont town … and even it has a craft brewery …”
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“We have two single varietal Albemarle Pippin ciders in our shop right now. This simultaneity gives you the opportunity to check out VA’s most apt apple through the vision of two different cidermakers …”
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“The Tiny Bomb is a Pilsner style lager. Turns out (according to the brothers), the soft water from Memphis’ aquifer is similar to the soft water in Plzen. ‘Not only do we love this style of beer,’ they say, ‘our amazing water makes Memphis the best place in the country to make a pilsner.’ “
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“Man! Do we love a pommeau, and we love that the Long Night is such an engagingly layered one.”
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“It’s a common (and good) thing to go for a really clean and straightforward taste with your lagers. However, in the Waldnaab, Wheatland Spring opts for depth and complexity …”
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“What we have here is a combination of two testaments to beer brewing insanity …”
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“Lone Pine says that the Brightside IPA is ‘a euphoria of hops,’ and boy they are not kidding!”
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“Leave it to Albemarle CiderWorks not only to make a cider from a mostly unknown or forgotten apple, but also to win an award doing it …”
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“Enimgatic, eccentric, and unexpected, Bianco di Morgante is a white wine vinified entirely from *red* Nero d'Avola grapes …”
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“When we first heard that Cooperstown, New York’s Brewery Ommegang had collaborated with that gem from the Ardennes, Brasserie d’Achouffe, we squealed like the beer fan kids that we are …”
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“For the Ribe Mjød, Dansk Mjød starts with the same sweet mead base that they use for most of their meads. They then add unfiltered apple juice from local Danish apples, first, for the fruit taste, and, second, to give the final cyser some acidity for structure … (*No god-spat wise men were killed by dwarves in the creation of this mead.)”
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From a secluded area on the outskirts of Palermo…. this Nero d’Avola will challenge your perceptions of Sicilian wine!
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“Wild East’s Fervor & Defiance is not trying to mess with a good thing. They use ‘all Bohemian ingredients’ and brew them ‘using traditional European methods’ …”
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“Bjergsø, himself, has said that, of all his beers, he is the most proud of this one. ‘I always thought that was the most complex recipe I ever made!’ We’re glad we’re not the only ones who think the world of this beer …”
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“After Mahalia Witter-Merithew graduated from college, in 2003, she was living in Greenville, NC. Signing up with a temp agency, she found herself placed at a beer distributor, and there her adult life journey began …”
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“One of the great thing about the Barleywine is that it’s one of the styles of beer that can age well. Fortunately, we still have some of the 2022 vintage left over, giving you a chance to do your own little vertical tasting and see what a year does to the Bigfoot …”
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“Now, we dig lagers and would never turn away a decent one, but we never thought we’d find a brewery that would get us excited about them, but Wheatland Spring is starting to do just that …”
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