North Peak Brewing Co. Traverse City, MI Available: MI, OH The beer recipes at North Peak are developed between brewmasters Mike Hall at North Peak and Ron Jeffries at Jolly Pumpkin and are brewed at the North Peak facility located on Old Mission Peninsula, North of Traverse Michigan. ABV: 6.7 ABW: 5.31 Color: 14 Bitterness:... View Article
Sierra Nevada’s newest year-round release—Torpedo Extra IPA, an India pale ale embellished by the brewery’s homemade hop-extractor, dubbed “the hop torpedo”—may be viewed as a thank-you to the craft beer drinking community. After all, the brewery helped launch our collective love of hops when it introduced its flagship pale ale in 1980.
In a world of refined and sophisticated beercraft, the most cutting-edge beers today may also be the most reckless. They shun laboratory yeast strains. They scoff at sanitation. They are ancient, magical and funky—almost mythological. They are known as wild ales.
“Mussels in Brussels?” That’s what the gal who wrote our plane ticket asked us before our first trip to Belgium.
