Name: Chonky Brewers: The Marc’s & Tony Brewing Co. (Philippines) Style: Fruit Beer (Base Style: Berliner Weisse) ABV: 4% Review Year: 2020 Tony Sindayen of The Marc’s & Tony Brewing Co. doubles down on his mantra of brewing fun, flavorful, and fresh beers with the first of two simultaneously released fruited kettle sours– Chonky, a Berliner Weisse fruited heavily …
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Name: Duck Ale / 덕후선생 덕 에일 Brewer: Magpie Brewing Co. (South Korea) Style: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer (Base Style: Historical Beer: Gose) ABV: 5% Review Year: 2020 Duck Ale (덕후선생 덕 에일) is a kettle sour beer by Magpie Brewing Co. from Jeju Island. Brewed with cucumber distillate and Sichuan peppercorn, this beer takes after Ghost, …
Name: The Ghost / 고스트 Brewer: Magpie Brewing Co. (South Korea) Style: Historical Beer: Gose ABV: 4.5% Review Year: 2020 The Ghost (고스트) is a gose brewed by Jeju Island’s Magpie Brewing Co. A batch of this beer won gold for the Gose category and the Barth-Haas Champion Beer of Asia in the Asia Beer Championship …
Name: Sector 5 Brewer: The Veil Brewing Co. (United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Specialty IPA: New England IPA) ABV: 12.5% Review Year: 2020 Sector 5 is a “quintuple dry-hopped Quadruple IPA” brewed by Virginia’s The Veil Brewing Co. originally meant for their fourth-anniversary celebration. This behemoth weighs in at 12.5 % ABV and was …
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Name: Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Somethin’ (2016) Brewer: Wiley Roots Brewing Company (United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Imperial Stout) ABV: 13.6% Review Year: 2020 In 2016, Colorado’s Wiley Roots Brewing Company released the Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Somethin’, a barrel-aged Imperial Stout at 13.6% ABV brewed with hazelnuts and almonds. Earlier this year, …
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Name: Way Down DDH Brewer: Outer Range Brewing Co. (United States) Style: Specialty IPA: New England IPA ABV: 8.7% Review Year: 2020 Way Down DDH is a hazy “Double IPA” brewed by Outer Range Brewing Co. from Frisco, Colorado. This beer features the hop varieties Wakatu and Mosaic. STYLE GUIDELINES This beer is being evaluated as a Specialty …
Grapevine Manila commissioned a batch of Imperial Stout each from Half Baked Brewing Collective and The Marc’s & Tony Brewing Company as a bundled release for the Holiday season. These beers can be bought exclusively from the Grapevine Manila website. The first of the pair is the Chocolate Imperial Stout by Half Baked Brewing Collective. …
Name: These Go to Eleven (NZ Brewed) Brewers: Behemoth Brewing Company (New Zealand), Heart of Darkness Brewery Saigon (Vietnam) Style: Specialty IPA: New England IPA ABV: 6.6% Review Year: 2020 Behemoth Brewing Company (known as Chur Brewing Company in Australia) from New Zealand teamed up with Heart of Darkness Saigon for These Go to Eleven, …
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The BEER BLENDER! series by the Auckland-based Urbanaut Brewing gives its drinkers the choice to drink and enjoy a curated pair of beers on their own or as a blend. For this pair, we reviewed the Black Forest Stout and the Espresso Scotch Ale individually and then concocted a fifty-fifty blend to try it out. …
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Name: Dank Harvest Brewer: McLeod’s Brewery (New Zealand) Style: Specialty IPA: India Pale Lager ABV: 5.7% Review Year: 2020 Dank Harvest is an India Pale Lager (IPL) brewed by the award-winning McLeod’s Brewery from Waipu, New Zealand. This lager was hopped entirely with the classic American varieties Simcoe, Citra, Centennial, and Columbus. Established in 2014, McLeod’s Brewery …