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Burial Beer in Asheville, North Carolina, probably brews the best IPAs. They are my favorite brewery. This India Pale Ale is Life Walks Right Through You. It is 7.2% ABV, mashed with wheat and oats, and whirlpool-hopped with Nectaron and Citra Cryo hops, and Citra Incognito. It is double dry-hopped with Citra, Nectaron, and Vic Secret, finished with a d...

This is another New Holland Brewing Dragon’s Milk beer. This one is Reserve S’more, an 11% bourbon barrel-aged stout from Holland, Michigan. This stout pours dark and black with a two-finger beige head. The aroma is milk chocolate, toasted marshmallow, graham cracker, and malts. This really smells like a s’more. The flavor is milk chocolate, marshmallow...

New Holland Brewing Co.’s Dragon’s Milk beers have really grown on me. I am really liking what Dragon’s Milk is doing. I was recently at my local Total Wine and came across Dragon’s Milk Crimson Keep, an 11% bourbon barrel-aged red ale. Dragon’s Milk ages this red ale in bourbon barrels for one month deep in their cellars. This red ale pours deep red wi...

Sometimes I buy beer because it sounds interesting, like Boulevard Brewing Co.’s Cherries Jubilee Quad. This 12.9% Belgian-style Quad is infused with Washington and Belgian tart cherries and matured for 13 months in oak apple brandy barrels in Kansas City, Missouri. That sounded interesting to me. This quad pours a deep, dark red with a beige one-finger...

This beer, purchased from World Market, is another Birrificio Baladin beer from Piozzo, Italy. This is L’IPPA, a traditional 5.5% IPA. I have been to their brewpub in Rome, which I recommend visiting. This IPA uses Water from the Maritime Alps, Barley malt from our fields in Basilicata and Apulia, Italy. The hops come from our fields in Piozzo and Busca, and the y...