“… leave it to Stone to take an IPA made with only Australian hops — known for their fruity and floral characteristics — and smack you with a bracing bitter backhand that not even John McEnroe would argue over …”
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“Finally, during an assignment to cover the 2009 Great American Beer Festival, DeBenedetti stood surrounded by breweries and excited attendees and decided that times had changed. Time to chase his dream …”
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“It’s just like Evil Twin to make something that should be so big go down so easily … You want your juicy IPA? Well, Evil Twin has your juice right here!”
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“Tox Brewing Company, the science-inspired brewers from New London, CT have collaborated with fellow Connecticut brewers, Hop Culture Farms & Brewing Company …”
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“It’s an interesting presentation of balance on a number of levels — tasty enough that you’ll want to toss it down but rich and layered enough that you’ll want to sip it …”
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“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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