Pastry stouts have turned into something quite specific: strong stouts mimicking flavor profiles of desserts, ranging from classic pastries to packaged sweet snacks often delivered with a heaping spoonful of irony. But there’s more to them than just that.
In the world of beer, and certainly German beer, weizenbocks are strange unexpected beers.
Triple Crossing Beer’s flagship DIPA is overwhelmingly dry hopped with Mosaic and Simcoe. It’s soft, smooth, and hugely hops-forward with notes of tropical fruit, pineapple, passion fruit, and mango balanced with hints of resin and pine.
While some think of beers as being either lagers or ales, there is a third category: hybrids. Let's examine how the beers in this category differ from each other but also how we can make recipe and/or process changes to make them the best they can be.
Brewers around the world continue to brew and improve upon a once largely forgotten style, and its combination of earthy and woody flavors is gaining new fans every day. Stan Hieronymus explores the world of Grodziskie.
A collaboration between Moonraker Brewing Co. and their friends at Highland Park Brewery, this NEIPA boasts huge hops flavors and aromas of gooseberry, diesel, orange zest, mango, and evergreen over a biscuit-like malt foundation.
This modified Weldwerks Juicy Bits recipe (which is in no way created by, endorsed by, or otherwise affiliated with the brewery) has your favorite juicy aromas and infuses THC for a pleasant focused body high.
Seen as a set-in-stone style today, the Irish stout went through many iterations before landing on the beer we recognize today. Synonymous with nitrogenated pours and a country where rounds of pints are encouraged, this humble ale has quite a history.
After 450 North Brewing Company changed their focus to embrace New England–style IPAs and revamped their look, traders across the country have sought them out, and their can releases have become day-long events.