This year's special anniversary beer bucked the trend of being named after the brewery's age (Yearling, Deuce, Threes) and the "imperial wit beer" was dubbed White Rabbit.
Grab a bottle of Sake Ichinokura "Ace Brewery" Taru Cedar Aged Junmai, if you enjoy Gruner's medium body, along with its citrus and spice notes.
A perfect complement to the microbrews from Abigaile's on-premise brewery, the Dry Aged Brewery Burger oozes with Gruyere and truffle aioli and is topped with arugula, heirloom tomato, caramelized onion and an optional fried egg or slab bacon.
The blenders are broken into teams of two, given access to Firestone's long list of brews, and asked to create a blended beer -- or "cuvee," to use a winemaking term -- that showcases the best elements of the brewery's groundbreaking barrel-aging program.
By the High Middle Ages breweries in the fledgling medieval towns of northern Germany began to take over production.
It's home to an impressive array of old-school artisanal breweries and new-age, genre-busting craft beer makers who are pushing the envelope.
(of Drinking Age), uses the term macro brewery — often defined as a brewery annually producing more than 6 million barrels of beer — for the beer giants.
In November, the Longmont, Colo., outpost of the Oskar Blues Brewery peddled cans of Ten FIDY Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels.
"Brooklyn Brewery and I do a beer-aging project together," he said, proudly, before slipping through a doorway and into the chilly space.
Unlike many beers, its quality can improve drastically with age, which is why breweries like The Kernel are buying up old wine barrels to play with.
