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Last year was the embrace of Czech Dark Lagers or CDLs if youre in the wellness community. For a New Jersey brewery to come out swinging with this as one of their standouts, my attention was seized.
The brewery is named after an Emerson poem but it doesn’t drip in the trappings of that Vermont pastiche that may come to mind. These are crushable beers for people who don’t have #wanderlust in the bio or an airplane emoji. The brewery itself wants...

Modern stouts are more caked up than a Pixar mom, but it wasn’t always this way. “Mexican” stouts were the darling of the mid-2010s allocation age. Starting with Huna, on to Mexican Cake, Bomb! On and on the spice must flow. When youre pulled by the...

In my review of “Sing,” I talked about the “Secret Boots” from Castlevania Symphony of the Night. These are an extremely obscure item most people never find. They don’t affect the game at all. When you equip the boots they stretch Alucard’s sprite to...

In a weird superlative @nibrewing has crafted the most challenging beer of 2023. It isn’t outright accessible or prima facie delicious. It is palate gatekeeping, port gaslighting and oxidation girlbossing.
It is dead flat and intentionally oxidized. The stewed dark fruits have a Faustian pop of smoke and pipe tobacco. You chew on this and it goes from peach hookah back into muddled prune....