Category: Craft Drinks #LevelUp
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Drinking Chocolate: From Aztecs to Swiss Miss to Craft
When the days turn cooler, many of us turn to one of our favorite warm beverages – hot chocolate. Yet many don’t know that drinking chocolate has a history that dates back thousands of years. From over 3,000-year-old civilizations to commercialization to today, this chocolate beverage continues to evolve. Origins of Drinking Chocolate in Early…
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What Are Barrel-Aged Beers All About?
Barrel-aging is a technique brewers use to place the beer into a wooden barrel for a certain period of time. It’s a relatively cheap, eco-friendly method that uses discarded liquor barrels to make delicious beer. Many craft breweries have begun producing all sorts of barrel-aged beers and they’re proving quite popular. Why Barrel Aging? Barrel-aging…
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Style Profile: Berliner Weisse
Berliner Weisse is a sour wheat beer that’s technically only produced in Berlin. Napoleon once called it “the Champagne of the North”. While there are plenty of breweries throughout the world that make this style, true Berliner Weisse beer is brewed solely by two small Berlin breweries, Berliner Kindl and Schultheiss. Berliner Weisse History Though…
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Beer Style Profile: Gose
Sour beers have recently become popular and breweries are coming out with more sour beer options to keep up with demand. As brewers explore new styles, they have begun to revisit older, traditional styles. Gose (not to be confused with the Belgian lambic style “gueze”), is one kind of traditional sour beer that has recently…