PUT DOWN, for five fucking minutes, the IPA glass and at least try something that you have assumed, on no evidence, you wouldn’t like. Because you MIGHT. And it MIGHT change the way you look at a LOT of what’s overlooked in this country.
For those brewers who do NOT want to hang it up, this idea may well be a viable means of continuing the brand at a lower-impact scale.
I could go on about what I find when I do a tasting at Echoes but my real goal, here, is to encourage anyone who reads this to get the hell OUT of Seattle, once in a while.
Brewers have managed to find techniques and ingredients – especially a spate of newer hybrided and imported hops – that pack as much flavor and/or fruitiness into clear beers as were the main reason Hazys came to popularity.
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As far as I am concerned, there is NO EXCUSE for ANY functionally intelligent American adult to be drinking ANY beverage from global mass-producers. NONE.
The Dissident sour walks the fine line between civilized and a firm tongue-punch and that’s just how we like it.
Over-indulging in Barleywine is the stuff of police reports, in which the officer tries to think of ways to say “naked, with a feather duster up his ass”.
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