Beer Reviews

Finback “Archipelago Breeze” Pilsner

Name: Archipelago Breeze Brewers: Finback Brewery (United States) Style: Fruit Beer (Base Style: International Pale Lager) ABV: 5.4% Review Year: 2020 We continue our documentation of the various artistic interpretations of the world’s most familiar beer style– the “lager.” Archipelago Breeze is a “pilsner” brewed with apricot and lemon zest by Finback Brewery from Queens. STYLE GUIDELINES …

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Pomona Island “Sploice” Exotic Fruited Sour

Name: Sploice Brewer: Pomona Island Brew Co. (United Kingdom) Style: Wild Specialty Beer ABV: 5% Review Year: 2020 Sploice is a “sour beer” brewed by the Pomona Island Brew Co. from Salford, England. This beer features a blend of mango, passion fruit, pineapple, and peach with a touch of lactose. STYLE GUIDELINES This beer is being …

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The Cloudwater x Dry & Bitter Mobile Speaker Trilogy (2019)

In 2019, the Manchester-based Cloudwater Brew Co. worked with the Danish craft brewery, Dry & Bitter to recreate Mobile Speaker, their 2017 collaboration juicy and hazy “Double IPA”. However, this time around, the reboot of the original is joined by two brand new reinterpretations featuring different hop combinations. All three versions were dry-hopped at a …

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The Marc’s & Tony x Cycle Philippines “Kafe Porter” Coffee Baltic Porter

Name: Kafe Porter Brewer: The Marc’s & Tony Brewing Co. (Philippines) Style: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer (Base Style: Baltic Porter) ABV: 8% Review Year: 2020 The latest collaboration beer by Tony Sindayen of The Marc’s & Tony Brewing Co. is Kafe Porter, a Baltic Porter concocted with cold brew coffee concentrate by Cycle Philippines that features …

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Adroit Theory x Cushwa “Future You Hates You (Ghost 825)” Russian Imperial Stout

Name: Future You Hates You Brewers: Adroit Theory Brewing Company, Cushwa Brewing Company (United States) Style: Imperial Stout ABV: 13.5% Review Year: 2020 The Virginia-based nano-brewery, Adroit Theory joined forces with Cushwa Brewing Company of Maryland to bring to life Future You Hates You (Ghost 825), a “Russian Imperial Stout (RIS)” clocking in at 13.5% ABV. …

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Mills x Olivier’s Cider & Perry “Foxbic Three” Barrel-Fermented Graf

Name: Foxbic Three Brewer: Mills Brewing, Olivier’s Cider & Perry (United Kingdom) Style: Specialty Cider/ Perry ABV: 8.2% Review Year: 2020 Mills Brewing teamed up with Olivier’s Cider & Perry to create Foxbic Three, a beer-cider hybrid made using the turbid mash method in the style of traditional Lambic producers. The wort was then fermented using …

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Don’t Panic, It’s Achromatic! Vol. 1

We turn to the dark side of the award-winning Colorado-based WeldWerks Brewing Co. as we document and explore the different iterations of Achromatic in this new series of batch reviews, Don’t Panic, It’s Achromatic! Achromatic is a popular stout staple of WeldWerks, with different dessert-inspired versions being released occasionally. For this first volume, we will be …

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