Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
Earlier this year, Cusqueña launched the latest addition to its line of beers: Cusqueña Doble Malta (Double Malt). The launch was accompanied by the adpeople’s best hype. The announcements implied that Cusqueña’s brewers had accomplished something never done before: the “impossible mixture of two premium malts.” That, of course, is absolute bunk, but nonetheless, I…
For a lat-in-the-day International Beer Day, and belated IPA Day, post we are taking a look at Dokkaebier’s Hallertau Blanc IPA (Batch #22). Dokkaebier is an “Asian inspired” craft brewery based in San Francisco. From what I understand, it does not have a physical plant of its own, but rather, brewer and founder Youngwon Lee…
Buck Wild is one of a number of breweries that have opened in recent years in Oakland’s Jack London Square district. I had been interested in trying it since I met the owner, Mike Bernstein, a few years ago at a beer festival. That was well before they opened, but the beer he was pouring…
Today I’m reviewing Fort Point Brewing’s Rivet Double Red India Pale Ale. Rivet, named after the thousands of hand-placed rivets that hold the Golden Gate Bridge together, is the second in Fort Point’s Limited Release series of one-and-done beers. The 9% abv, 75 IBUs red DIPA was released on June 3rd, and I am reviewing…