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Half Acre Daisy Cutter
Canned Pale Ales and IPAs, still fairly uncommon in most US markets, happen to be some of the tastiest pale ales on American shelves these days. Dale’s Pale Ale rightly gets credit as the first boldly hopped beer to be canned in-house by Oscar Blues back in 2002. Since then many others such as Surly…
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A Visit to Cantillon Brewery
INTRODUCTION A trip to Belgium would be a waste if not for a visit to the Mecca of true gueuze blending, Cantillon. Not a far walk from the tourist friendly, the relatively quiet street on which some of the finest traditional sour beers continue to be brewed, even as most other similar blenders have been…
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Sun King GFJ
Sun King Brewing’s Grapefruit Jungle IPA, or GFJ, brings the small Indianapolis brewers vision for a huge tropical IPA to a 16oz can. THE BEER Founded in 2009, Sun King seemed to come out of nowhere to strike a cord with craft beer drinkers from Indianapolis and beyond. Unfortunately, being a startup with limited production…
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Bells Mars
The 1st in “The Planets” series, Bells Mars is offered as a double IPA inspired by Gustov Holst’s opus 32 THE BEER Released in August on 2014 Bells Mars, like all double or imperial IPAs should be tasted as close to brew date as possible. With so many volatile hop oil aromatics packed in, you will lose…
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3 Fonteinen Hommage
Brewed first in 2007 and again in 2013, 3 Fonteinen Hommage is a lambic loaded with raspberries and sour cherries. Located in Beersel Belgium, just south of Brussels, 3 Fonteinen was founded way back in 1887 as a Geuzestekerij, a blender of old and new lambic to produce geuze. Currently run by Armond and Guido…