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Now what?
Okay, you’ve got your glass, you’re through the doors and you’re staring at
a couple hundred beers. Now what?
With a festival this ecumenical, you really can’t lose in your selection of a
strategy. The only way you can go wrong is by sticking with old favorites
for the night. Safe, but missing the whole point of the fest
You need a strategy.
First things first. Get to the closest booth with the shortest line and ask
for whatever the person behind the booth likes best, and then, ask them
why. Break the ice. There—you’re at the fest and you have a great beer.
Now, give the next few hours of your life some careful thought. You’re in a
room with a few hundred beers and, no, you can’t taste them all. Not an
option. However, there are strategies to employ that will maximize your
enjoyment—really simple strategies—and at least one of them will be
just right for you.
Let’s assume you have a favorite beer. Check this Beer Guide and
find your brand or one like it, and note its style. Page through the
Guide, looking for beers in the same style, check the booth num-
ber and start your hunt. Not too shabby, and everyone will be
impressed that you’re on a mission.
Of course, the opposite is equally fun. Seek out beers in styles
that you’re not familiar with. For example, if you’re a hop head,
then try brown ales and porters for a change. Or you might
check out the wide variety in the wheat beer category.
Yet a third strategy would be to follow a favorite flavor. Enjoy the
sweetness of a malty beer, or the bitterness of pale and India pale ales,
or the tartness of a fruit beer? Look in the style directory for other
styles in that vein and check out the beer list for beers in those styles.
Back and forth through the Beer Guide and you’ll end up with some
wonderful beers to get on your next trip to the store. Frankly, I’m a fan
of big malt and look to those styles. I tend to hang around with hop heads
however, and they’re great at bird-dogging the IPAs and double IPAs.
If this is all too structured for you, consider my favorite strategy for maxi-
mizing my festival pleasure. I’m not such a fan of crowds and extremely
curious about beers I haven’t had. I tend to stay away from the crowded
booths and visit booths representing breweries I’ve not met or it’s been
awhile. Once there, I will go up their beer ladder from lightest bodied to
heaviest.
So, go forward and conquer. In your hands is your
map and in front of you is the great unknown,
beyond which lie monsters.
Daniel Bradford
Producer, World Beer Festival
Publisher, All About Beer Magazine
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 BEER EDUCATION
The Renaissance in Beer
T
he world of beer has changed dramatically. Thirty
years ago, virtually every beer sold in the world
belonged to a single category: the international
light lager style, a pale, highly carbonated, clean and deli-
cately flavored beer that is served very cold. Rival beers
could be differentiated by their marketing, but rarely by
their taste.
After nearly a century of consolidation, only 15 percent
of the 2,300 American breweries of the nineteenth century
were still operating. The statistics were no different in
Europe. Local and regional breweries were being swallowed
by national brands and the decline in beer diversity and
character was accelerating.
Then the renaissance began. As has happened with wine,
cheese, bread, coffee, chocolate and numerous other foods,
traditional, locally-produced alternatives began to capture
the beer drinking public’s imagination. In country after
country, grass roots organizations moved to protect their
favorite breweries and beers.
In the United States, beginning in the 1960s, antiquarian
Fritz Maytag took over the failing Anchor Brewery in San
Francisco, reviving nineteenth century styles. A few years
later, merchant marine Jack McAullife, who missed the ales
he had encountered in Scotland, started the first new ale
brewery in a century, also in California. Hop salesman Burt
Grant, tired of the timid hop flavors, opened the first mod-
ern brewpub, featuring the hoppiest beers brewed in the
States. Two physicists in Boulder, CO began the Boulder
Brewery to make the British-style ales that they had enjoyed
in England.
And that was just the beginning. Homebrewers-turned-
entrepreneurs decided that “going pro” with their home-
made beer wasn’t such an outlandish idea. The giants (rela-
tively speaking) of today’s craft beer world—breweries
including Samuel Adams, Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, and
Rogue—were all launched during the era of the hobbyist,
when beer enthusiasts walked away from on-going careers
to brew professionally.
Today, U.S. cities boast a diversity of beer, both domestic
and imported, unmatched anywhere else in the world. From
an all-time low of 41 in 1981, this country now boasts over
1,500 breweries of all sizes. With a cry of “Drink local!”
microbrewers and pubbrewers produced over nine million
barrels of handcrafted beer last year, permanently changing
the beer landscape. Light lagers still dominate our shelves,
but our brewers are crafting more than 70 other beer styles,
some traditional, others entirely new creations, each with its
own distinctive character and profile.
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The Revolution Goes On
Craft brewing itself has changed over the past thirty years, as
craft brewers rebelled first against the reigning brewing para-
digm but then went on to innovate new styles all their own.
English-style ales, the original beers on these shores—
George Washington was especially fond of porter—were
supplanted in the nineteenth century by lager beers from
the brewing traditions of Germany, Austria and the Czech
Republic. It was the sparkling, pale beer of Bohemian that
inspired brewery owners called Pabst, Schlitz, Busch or
Schmidt to build their empires.
So, in the earliest days of the “beer revolution,” craft
brewers reacted against the “mainstream” lager tradition of
Central Europe, and embraced the ale-brewing heritage of
Britain. Pale ale, India pale ale, porter and stout are still
prominent in the style rotation at any brewpub.
The next wave brought wheat beers—refreshing, fruit-
infused, and thought to appeal especially to female drinkers.
American-style wheat beers reinvented the authentic
German-styled originals, with their characteristic banana,
clove and bubblegum notes. American wheat beer was craft
beer, but it was safe.
As American brewers made traditional styles their own,
their tendency was to increase the intensity of every trait: in
particular, escalating hop bitterness and high alcohol came
to characterize the boldest U.S. offerings—sometimes at the
expense of balance. The double or imperial India pale ale
was born, followed shortly by the “imperialization” of a
range of other styles. Alcohol content records were—and
continue to be—broken by so-called “extreme” beers.
Meanwhile, the brewing styles of another great brewing
nation, Belgium, moved into prominence. A few U.S. brew-
eries—New Belgium, Allagash, Ommegang—committed to
brewing entirely in the Belgian vein, but it’s a rare micro-
brewery or brewpub that doesn’t offer a witbier, dubbel or
saison, all thanks to the Belgians.
Two new trends vie for dominance at the cutting edge of
American brewing today: barrel aged beers, that take flavor
from wooden casks already used to house wine or spirits;
and deliberately soured beers, which offer a completely dif-
ferent palate from almost any other convention. Both styles
are gaining in popularity.
On decade into the new millennium, the American
brewing community is diverse, professional, adventurous—
and an accepted part of the landscape. Specialty beers are
no longer an oddity: even beer drinkers who stick to the
mainstream styles realize that their choices are much wider.
With convenience stores and gas stations including pale
ales and Belgian-style wit beers in their coolers, there’s no
going back on beer diversity.
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Some Past Participating Breweries:
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Sheep Brewery • Blackthorn • Blue Moon Brewing Co. • Boddington’s • Bosteels Brewery • Boston Beer Co. • Brasserie d’Achouffe • Breckenridge Brewery • Brewery Ommegang • Brooklyn
Brewery • Carolina Beer Co. • Carolina Brewery • Charleston Brewing Co. • Chimay Trappist Brewery • Clausthaler • Clipper City Brewing Co. • D.G. Yuengling & Sons • De Koninck Brouwerij
• De Proef Brouwerij • Deschutes Brewery • Dogfish Head Craft Brewery • and many, many more!
 BEER EDUCATION
Glossary of Beer Terms
Abbey brewery. Founded by monasteries in France,
Belgium and Switzerland, abbey breweries are still sometimes
on the original site, but most often are names licensed to a
commercial brewery.
Adjunct. Unmalted grain, such as rice, corn, maize and
wheat used in addition to malted barley to make a beer. They
tend to stabilize and lighten the flavor of a beer.
Alcohol. An intoxicating by-product of fermentation, the
result of a process by which yeast acts on the sugars in the
malt. Alcohol content is expressed as a percentage of the vol-
ume or weight.
Ale. One of the two major families of beers, produced by
yeast strains that operate at warm temperatures, and at the top
of the brewing vessel (hence “top-fermented”). Quick fermen-
tation at relatively warm temperatures produces typical fruity
and spicy notes in ales. The traditional beer styles in England
and Belgium, although lager-loving Germany also produces
some spectacular ales.
Aroma. The particular combination of smells from malt,
hops, yeast and any unusual or distinctive characteristics in
the beer.
Barrel. One U.S. barrel equals 31 gallons.
Bitter. One of the British ales almost exclusively served on
draft in pubs.
Body. The particular viscosity of a beer is described as full-
bodied, medium-bodied, or light-bodied, depending on the
sense of “thickness” or “thinness” in your mouth. Also called
“mouthfeel.”
Bottle-conditioned beer. Beer with live yeast left in or
added to the bottle, so that the beer continues to ferment and
develop. It is the bottled equivalent of cask-conditioned or
“real” ale.
Bottom-fermenting yeast or lager yeast. The
yeast used to make lagers is active—it ferments—at colder
temperatures and on the bottom of the fermentation vessel.
Bouquet. The collection of smells, usually floral and spicy,
that a drinker smells before tasting the beer. Produced by the
combination of malt, hops, yeast, and other additives such as
fruit.
Brewpub. A bar, restaurant or tavern that makes its own
beer on the premises and rarely distributes it to other venues.
Considered the earliest form of commercial brewing.
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Cask conditioned. The essence of the real ale revolution in
England, cask conditioning an ale delivers a beer that is still
alive and evolving with delicate complex flavors. Very sensi-
tive, it requires the ministrations of a talented brewer and cel-
larman.
Craft beer. A controversial term, it generally refers to
beers brewed in traditional styles, without adjuncts or chemi-
cals, made in small batches by small brewing companies.
Esters. Esters are chemical compounds that result from the
interaction of acids and alcohol, causing fruity flavors and aro-
mas, such as banana, blueberry and pear, that intentionally or
unintentionally occur in some beers.
Fermentation. The process of producing alcohol and car-
bon dioxide through the actions of yeast on sugars.
Fining. A process of producing a “bright” beer by clearing
the beer of unwanted haze through the addition of ingredients
such as isinglass or Irish moss, which takes particles out of the
solution.
Homebrew. Beer made at home. Conservative estimates
have over two million Americans homebrewing. Hops. One of
the four principal ingredients in beer, hops are flowers from
the vine Humulus lupulus, added to beer as a preservative, bit-
tering agent and aromatic.
Keg. A vessel for serving beer in large quantities, varying in
size from five to 10 gallons.
Kraeusening. A German technique for adding fresh,
young beer to a fully fermented batch, kraeusening is expen-
sive and complex but adds character to lagers.
Lager. One of the two major families of beers, produced by
yeast strains that operate at cooler temperatures, and at the
bottom of the brewing vessel (hence “bottom-fermented”).
Longer fermentation at relatively cool temperatures produces
beers that are typically clean and free of side flavors. The tra-
ditional beer styles in Germany and central Europe.
Malt or Malted barley. The basis of beer, malted barley
results from sprouting and germinating barley for optimum
starch content.
Malt extract. Malt extract, either a powder or syrup,
results from evaporating excess water from mashed malted
barley.
Mashing. The preparation of the wort or liquid base of beer,
mashing converts starches to sugars by heating malted barley
with water. Microbrewery. Defined by industry associations as a
brewery that produces less than 15,000 barrels a year (105,000
cases).
Mouthfeel. A sensory way of evaluating the body of a beer,
mouthfeel describes the texture of beer on the palate ranging from
full to light.
Primary fermentation. After pitching the yeast (adding the
yeast to the wort) and during the first five days on average, fermen-
tation converts the sugars to alcohol, and produces carbonation in
the process of this conversion.
Pint. In the United States, a pint contains sixteen ounces. Top-fermenting yeast or ale yeast. A style of yeast that
However, in England it means a serving that is 20 ounces. works at room or warm temperatures and ferments at the top of
the beer.
Priming. Priming is the process of adding sugar to the brew at
the beginning of the secondary fermentation, creating carbonation. Trappist beer. Beer brewed under the supervision of Trappist
monks. There are seven Trappist monastic breweries; six in
Secondary fermentation. The final stage of the fermenta-
Belgium and one in Holland. Beers brewed in the monastic tradi-
tion, that can last from three weeks to three years, depending on
tion by commercial breweries will often refer to their beers as
the beer style.
“abbey” beers, but they are not allowed to use the appellation
Shelf life. Describes the number of days, usually a maximum of “Trappist.”
four months for commercially produced beers, that a beer will
Wort. The sweet liquid derived from heating the malted barley
retain its peak drinkability.
with water and hops. Wort is the beginning of all beers.
Specialty brewery. The majority of the beer produced in the
Yeast. Living micro-organisms that convert sugars to alcohol
world fits loosely into the so-called international lager style. The
and carbon dioxide.
other 70-plus styles are termed specialty beers. Specialty breweries
concentrate on these styles. Zymurgy. The art and process of fermentation.

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 BEER EDUCATION
A Sample of
Classic Beer Styles
T
oday’s revolution in beer originates in the rediscovery
of classic beer styles and the emergence of new styles.
The sheer diversity in profiles lies at the heart of the
explosion in new breweries and the renewed interest in old
breweries.
While most styles have their moment in history, the demo-
cratic nature of brewing allows brewers and the public to chal-
lenge style definitions, producing a continual evolution of some
styles and emergence or extinction of others.
Top Fermentation Styles: The Ales
Pale ale. The classic ale, pale ales have a pale to copper color
with a fruity /flowery nose. They tend to finish bitter with traces
of malt.
Brown ale. Brown ales are considered working class beers in
England, but are taking off in the States, no doubt because of
their amber/brown color, slight sweet beginning and cola finish.
India pale ale. An historical artefact, India pale ales emerged
from the need for quality preservation during long voyages.
This resulted in a copper-colored, big-bodied, strongly bitter,
rich ale with pronounced alcohol.
Scottish ale. The climate and relative isolation of Scotland led
to a well-rounded, big malty beer with negligible hop flavor.
Porter. A very romantic style, porters harken back to pre-indus-
trial England. Dark brown with ruby highlights and a slight
malty nose, porters have a medium, slightly chewy body with a
clean, quick finish.
Stout. Having descended from porters, stouts are darker in
color, almost black. Ranging from dry to sweet, these medium
body beers start with a toffee, espresso profile and most finish
with a gristy dryness.
Bottom Fermentation Styles: The Lagers
Light lager. Believed to represent 95 percent of the beer sold in
the world, these lagers are light yellow in color, highly carbonat-
ed and vaguely bitter in the finish. They are noted for being
clean, cold, refreshing and drinkable.
Pilsener (or Pilsner). Born in the 1840s, the grandfather to
light lagers, pilseners appealled to the eye as well as the palate.
Deep golden in color, with floral aroma, soft mouthfeel, and
long dry finish, pilseners are a multi-occasion beer.
Vienna. Similar to Märzen, and the abused Oktoberfest “style”
(not a style at all, but the term for the beer served at festivals,
and legally reserved for the six breweries of Munich), Viennas
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are the forefather of all amber beers, with their rich ruby color,
malty beginning and dry finish.
Bock. Not what was left in the vats from the winter, but a beau-
tiful spring beer with quite a goat’s kick. The basic style (there’s
maibock, helles bock and doppelbock) has a brown/ruby color,
strong malt aroma with rich medium body and bitterness for
balance only.
Dunkel. The original dark lagers, dunkels predate the beautiful
golden pilsener with their brooding dark color, and malt notes
in the profile. Dunkels are complex with slight sweetness and
balancing bitterness.
Wheat Beers
American wheat. A lighter, more carbonated ale, golden in
color with a light, dry finish. American wheats focus on refresh-
ment and are attracting new converts to specialty beers.
Berliner weisse. Extremely light and highly carbonated, this
weisse beer is highly acidic, and some drinkers choose to add
their own syrups. Best tasted at sidewalk cafes in Northern
Germany.
Bavarian weisse. One of the fastest growing styles, the weisse
beer usually has sediment (hefe-weizen) with obvious citrus,
clove or nutmeg characteristics.
Hybrid Fermentation Styles: Blending Brewing
Techniques
Alt. A German ale noted for its copper color and wine-like taste.
Kölsch. The legal name used only for beers of made in
Cologne, kölsch is pale gold, low in hop flavor and aroma with
a dry finish.
Cream Ale. Uniquely American, cream ales combine warm fer-
mentation with cold lagering, producing a fruity, clean, dry flavor.
Specialty Beer Styles: Unusual Ingredients
Lambic. Spontaneously fermented beers from Belgium, where
the yeast is not manually added but allowed to drift in from the
surrounding countryside—probably the oldest brewing method
still practiced. Lambics complex flavors can be enhanced by the
blending together of different aged beers. Lambics are also com-
bined with fruit such as raspberries (framboise) or cherries
(kriek) for sweeter beers that retain lambic’s underlying wild
character.
Smoke beers. From Scottish ales to Bamberg rauch biers,
smoke-flavored styles are as provocative as they are curious.
The addition of smoked malt (for example, peat or beachwood-
smoked) adds a level of complexity.
Trappist. Only seven monastic breweries can use this appella-
tion, six in Belgium and one in Holland. Top fermented with
multiple fermentations, Trappist ales are united by rich, com-
plex, yeasty flavors; deep auburn colors and big satisfying flavor.
 BEER EDUCATION
The Responsibility of Beer
T
here is a world of difference between appreciating
beer and guzzling beer. This festival is committed to
beer appreciation.
Whether it’s taking the edge off a day at the office, comple-
menting a well-cooked meal or contributing to pleasant com-
pany, beverage alcohol can add to life’s pleasures. However, an
excess of alcohol is destructive. For individuals who consume
alcoholic beverages recklessly, the negative impacts range from
painful hangovers to anti-social and dangerous behavior to
long-term health damage. For society, alcohol abuse can lead
to extensive damage to lives and property.
Faced with the failure of individuals to moderate their own
behavior, this country is increasingly turning to the courts to
seek redress for alcohol-related harm done to communities. In
effect, individuals who consume or serve alcohol without
regard for its consequences have broken a social contract to
protect others from excess. At the heart of individual responsi-
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bility is respect for this social contract.
The alcohol content of beer generally ranges from 3 per-
cent to about 8 percent by volume, with most beers at around
4 to 5 percent. While blood alcohol content (BAC) is a precise
measure, the rate at which alcohol enters your bloodstream
varies. Food in the stomach, higher body weight and low fat
ratios slow the absorption rate down. Taking drugs, legal (cold
medicine, for example) or illegal, can adversely affect toler-
ance, as can mental state. The spacing of drinks, taking time
out or drinking alternative beverages, slows alcohol absorp-
tion.
Recognize your own reactions to alcohol and know when
you are nearing the line between responsible and irresponsible
behavior. This self-knowledge is absolutely indispensable to
the social contract we enter into when we consume beverage
alcohol.
 BEER EDUCATION

How Much is
Too Much to Drink
if You’re Driving

A
ny alcohol you drink can be detected in
your blood, and chemical tests can deter-
mine your blood alcohol concentration
(BAC). For example, five parts of alcohol in 10,000
parts of blood is shown as 0.05 percent BAC.
Drinking any amount of alcohol can impair your
ability to drive. A driver with a BAC between 0.05 and
0.07 percent is presumed to be driving while his abili-
ty to drive is impaired (DWI). A driver with a BAC of
0.08 percent or more is presumed to be driving under
the influence (DUI). Both DWI and DUI convictions
can mean penalties including jail, fines, public service
and loss of your driving license.
Know your limit. Your life, and the lives of
others, depends on it.

BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL FOR MEN

= IMPAIRED TO SLIGHTLY IMPAIRED

DRINKS BODY WEIGHT IN POUNDS

= SLIGHTLY IMPAIRED – “BUZZED”

100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240

1 .04 .03 .03 .02 .02 .02 .02 .02
2 .08 .06 .05 .05 .04 .04 .03 .03
3 .11 .09 .08 .07 .06 .06 .05 .05
4 .15 .12 .11 .09 .08 .08 .07 .06
5 .19 .16 .13 .12 .11 .09 .09 .08
6 .23 .19 .16 .14 .13 .11 .10 .09
7 .26 .22 .19 .16 .15 .13 .12 .11
8 .30 .25 .21 .19 .17 .15 .14 .13
SUBTRACT ROUGHLY 0.015% FOR EACH HOUR OF DRINKING

BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL FOR WOMEN

= IMPAIRED TO SLIGHTLY IMPAIRED

DRINKS BODY WEIGHT IN POUNDS

= SLIGHTLY IMPAIRED – “BUZZED”

100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240

1 .05 .04
.0 .03 .03 .03 .02 .02 .02
2 .09 .08 .07 .06 .05 .05 .04 .04
3 .14 .11 .11 .09 .08 .07 .06 .06
4 .18 .15 .13 .11 .10 .09 .08 .08
5 .23 .19 .16 .14 .13 .11 .10 .09
6 .27 .23 .19 .17 .15 .14 .12 .11
7 .32 .27 .23 .20 .18 .16 .14 .13
8 .36 .30 .26 .23 .20 .18 .17 .15
SUBTRACT ROUGHLY 0.015% FOR EACH HOUR OF DRINKING

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 BEER EDUCATION

How Beer is Made

W
hat happens when the ingredients of
beer—malted barley (malt), water,
yeast and hops—are combined? Let’s
take a virtual tour through a brewery and see.
Whether you visit a giant like Anheuser Busch, or
your local brewpub, the steps are more or less the
same.
The first ingredient, malted barley, would
make a perfectly respectable breakfast cereal:
crunchy, bready, slightly sweet. The brewer mills
the malt, cracking the grains between rollers to
expose more surface area. Then, just as tea leaves
or coffee grounds are steeped in water to extract
their flavors, the malt is heated with water in a
large kettle called a “mash tun.” The hot water
pulls the sugars from the malt into a solution
known as “sweet liquor.”
The Magic of Fermentation
The brewer rinses the malt (“sparging”) and strains it to get
Cooled to the right temperature, and chock full of sugar, wort
the last of the sugars into solution. The malt is now “spent
is the perfect diet for yeast, the uni-cellular organisms that do
grain,” useless for beer, but still good for baking, or for animal
the work of fermentation. The yeast is pitched in and goes
feed.
ingesting sugar and making more yeast. But the brewer isn’t
The sweet liquor is piped into the next large tank in the
interested in yeast propagation, but in the by-products of the
brewery, the brew kettle. Here, hops—green, cone-like
process: when yeast consume sugars, they release carbon diox-
flower—are added and boiled with the liquor. Hops added
ide and alcohol, as well as the interesting extra fruity or spicy
early in the process preserve the beer and add welcome bitter-
flavors we associate with beer.
ness to balance the sweetness of malt; a dose of hops at the
After a while, the food runs low, and the increasingly alco-
very end adds the flowery aroma we prize in many beers. The
holic atmosphere becomes unfriendly: the yeast slow down, or
new stew of malt sugars, hop flavors and water is called “wort.”
even die. Fermentation is complete.
The “green” beer is transferred to conditioning tanks to
age. If the beer is an ale—a beer produced by a yeast that
works at relatively warm temperatures—it can be ready to
drink within days. If it is a lager, produced by a yeast that
works at lower temperatures, it will need conditioning (“lager-
ing”) at a cooler temperature for several weeks or longer.
At this point, the beer is almost ready for you. In a brew-
pub, you can order beer from serving tanks adjacent to the
fermentation tanks—as fresh as beer can be. A distributing
brewery puts its beer into bottles or kegs at this stage, either
bubbling with the natural CO2 the yeast releases into the
brew, or with the carbonation augmented in the beer or at the
point of dispense. Either way, you should end up with a glass
of fresh beer, packed with complex aroma and flavor.
Take a moment to gaze through the golden, amber or mid-
night liquid. Its elements have been soaked, warmed, germi-
nated, toasted, milled, steeped, boiled, cooled, fermented, fla-
vored, aged, gassed, and chilled. Four simple ingredients have
been through a lot to make that simple glass of beer. Enjoy it!

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BEER EDUCATION

How to Choose a
Beer You’ll Enjoy
P
erhaps you’re attending your first
beer festival. You enjoy beer, but If you enjoy: Try these beer styles:
you’ve never wandered far
beyond mainstream lagers. Suddenly, here Coffee, chocolate Stouts and porters
with over 175 beers, falling into as many as Sauvignon blanc, Kriek (cherry) lambic
50 styles–how do you decide where to other acidic white wines
start? Chardonnay, toasty whites Authentic hefeweizen, dunkel
Or perhaps you love beer in all its
diversity, but your companion doesn’t par- Lighter red wines Biere de garde
ticularly care for the beverage most often Bold, fruit-forward red wines Russian imperial stout
associated with beer—the international
Champagne Belgian wit beer
pale lager style that makes up 90 percent
of all beer sold. How can you guide your Port Barley wine
companion to new flavor discoveries? Gin and tonic India pale ale
Sometimes it helps to identify the other
Bourbon Belgian dubbles, doppelbock
flavors you enjoy, and then seek out a beer
style that has some of the same character- Milk shake Milk stout
istics.

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 BEER EDUCATION
Tasting Beer, and the Importance of Beer Sequence
T
here is a difference between drinking beer, which is a
wonderful pastime, and tasting beer, which is a more
focused approach to learning about what you like
and why. By taking the time to observe and talk about the beer
you’re tasting, you can appreciate its complexity. You’ll also
know how to find other beers you’ll enjoy, wherever you go.
Steps in tasting a beer:
First, look at the beer. What color is it? Is it clear or cloudy?
Some styles are meant to be hazy, but most are not. Look at
the foam: every style throws a characteristic head, some
scanty, some huge and rocky.
Next, smell the beer. Aroma is half of taste (this is the best
reason to drink out of a glass, and not from a can or bottle).
Look for bready, caramel notes—these hint at a malt-accented
beer. Or is the aroma floral, grassy or citrussy? These may
come from the hops.
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Sip the beer. Beers vary in viscosity—what beer lover call
“mouthfeel.” Is it thick or thin in your mouth? Then appreciate
the changing flavor in the beer. You may detect sweet, candy-
like, caramel, fruity, yeasty or spicy flavors. Or you may be
reminded of toast, cloves, fresh apples or orange marmalade.
Other flavor notes take over once you swallow the beer.
Taste is very subjective and individual; so feel free to iden-
tify the flavors in any way that makes sense to you? Bananas?
Soy sauce? Birthday cake? If that’s what you sense, it’s correct.
A note about sequences:
Everything we taste affects whatever we put in our mouths
next, so bear in mind that every beer you sample will be
affected by the previous sample. The best plan is to start with
beers that are lighter in character, and work up to heavier
beers, so as not to overwhelm the more delicate beers. Or
pause, have some water, and eat something neutral—pretzels
can’t be beat!
BEER EDUCATION

Pairing Beer and Food

B
eer isn’t just for brats and pizza anymore. With the Or, find an
proliferation of beer styles that are now available, exciting contrast.
there truly is a beer that can complement any food. When serving a
In fact, some beer lovers will insist that beer is a better com- very rich food,
panion for beer than wine, and it’s certainly true that certain pair it with a beer
foods that are awkward partners with wine find their perfect that will cut
match with the right beer. through the oili-
There are no hard and fast rules for pairing beer and food, ness and refresh
but here are some useful guidelines. the palate. For
Try to match intensities. A very robust beer will overwhelm example, offset
a delicate food. the intense, oily
Look for a flavor “hook.” Brooklyn Brewmaster Garrett character of grilled salmon by pairing it with an assertively bit-
Oliver used this concept to identify the dominant component ter India pale ale.
in a food, and match it with a complementary hook in a beer. Desserts and sweeter beers can be wonderful companions.
For example, many roasted or sautéed foods develop sweet, Chocolate desserts and stout are a natural pairing, or try a
caramelized flavors. A beer with caramel notes, such as a creamy dessert with a porter (complement) or a fruited lambic
dunkel, will underscore these flavors. (contrast).

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 BEER SCENES

Our Vibrant Triangle Beer Scene

F
ive years ago this fall, North Carolina finally became a the city known to
modern beer state. On August 13, 2005, Gov. Easley its fans as
signed a bill that swept away one of the more onerous ”Beervana.”
relics of the Prohibition era, and opened the way for our devel- The Triangle is
oping craft beer culture to flourish. becoming just as
Before that date, North Carolina was one of only five states attractive a beer
in the country that capped the alcohol content in beer at 6 destination. The
percent by volume. That restriction excluded the entire range opportunities that
of world beer styles that, as part of their character, finish fer- our thirsty beer
mentation at higher strengths. German dopplebocks, Belgian culture offers have
Roth Brewing Co.
triples, English barley wines, Russian imperial stouts—none of prompted three
these classic varieties could be explored by North Carolina new brewing companies to open within the past few months,
brewers, nor could our joining the six already in business.
retailers offer for sale such Raleigh’s Roth Brewing Co. is the brainchild of brothers
beers made out of state or Eric and Ryan Roth. The brewery opened its doors in June: its
out of the country. debut beers included a 10.5
A beer lover arriving in percent barley wine and a cinnamon-spiked porter, along with
North Carolina from a their flagship red ale.
more enlightened place “We’ll have our easy-drinking beer, but at any time we’ll
had to scratch his head at also have at hand beers you won’t find anywhere else,” explains
the lack of diversity on our Eric, who is the brewing brother. “That’s why we don’t make an
shelves and in our restau- IPA right now; I love hops, but if I need a good IPA, there’s a
Roth Brewing Co. rants. Not that local beer plethora in good beer stores. But there’s not a lot of cinnamon
wasn’t good, or that the porters around.”
quest for alcohol per se was paramount. But it was akin to A Chapel Hill-based brewery, but with no fixed address,
scanning a wine menu that contains only rose and chianti, Mystery Brewing Co. lives up to it name. Founder Erik
when what you really want is zinfandel: the choice wasn’t Myers—already
there. known to NC beer
Frustrated beer drinkers hoping to change the law formed lovers for his blog,
the organization Pop the Cap in early 2003, and invested two Top Fermented,
and half hard years of educating, lobbying and fund-raising. It and his role in the
was a remarkably diverse political organization: it seems that North Carolina
Democrats and Republicans, men and women, blacks and Brewers’ Guild—
whites, the devout and atheists could all find something to like will brew under a
in a beer movement. flexible licensing
Pop The Cap confronted anti-alcohol forces who were con- arrangement called
vinced a liberalization of beer laws would inevitably lead to alternating propri-
under-age drinking, religious elements who opposed all alco- etorship, by which
hol reform, and a surprising degree of resistance from some he will take over an
entrenched interests in the alcohol business, itself, who didn’t existing brewery
want to see their boats rocked. But in the end, the beer enthu- for a short time,
siasts won the day. brew his beer, and
The result? Not only do we now have a full range of move on.
stronger beer styles to choose from, but most of North Not only will
Carolina is genuinely beer-friendly across the board (dry coun- his location change
ties excepted). In a recent competition, Asheville, with more with from brew to
breweries per capita than any town in the country, took the brew, but the peri-
title “Beer City, U.S.A.” away from beer-absorbed Portland, OR, patetic brewer
© 2010 ALEX MANESS PHOTOGRAPHY Fullsteam Brewery
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clusters of beer-friendly bars worthy of a

pubcrawl. In Durham, a single block of West
Main Street is home to a string of stops,
from classic college sports bar Satisfaction to
the convincingly authentic James Joyce Irish
bar to all-hours Alivia’s with its attractive
outdoor seating and gastropub The Federal.
Carrboro Beverage Co.
Tyler’s Taproom and Mellow Mushroom
have anchored the ambitious American
doesn’t plan to repeat beer recipes. “This is my giant risk,”
Tobacco District for several years. This year, they are joined by
says Myers, “but what I see in the marketplace is that con-
Tobacco Roadhouse, where bar seating overlooks the Bulls’ field.
sumers really go after the new beer, the next new thing. That
The Chapel Hill beer scene continues to be centered on
rotation really appeals to people. I’m hoping to rotate a mini-
Franklin Street, aimed at the collegiate crowd, with craft beer
mum of four beers through each year, up to six or eight, with
variety represented by the two brewpubs—Top of the Hill and
two overlapping each season.”
Carolina Brewery. Moving south into Carrboro, the thirsty
Most recently, Fullsteam Brewery in Durham is the realiza-
beer lover finds the original Tyler’s and Belgian-influenced
tion of a dream for Sean Lilly Wilson, the creative force that
Milltown.
fueled Pop the Cap. After a summer of introducing beers to
The Raleigh craft beer scene is so well supported that it
the public, Wilson fittingly opened the brewery’s tavern on the
gave rise to the first annual Raleigh Beer Week in late August,
anniversary of the law’s change. His “plow-to-pint” philosophy
with five local bars in the downtown area offering beer dinners
connects the Fullsteam beers to the agricultural heritage of the
and cask-conditioned ales. A downtown pubcrawl would have
South, with a range of brews including a hickory-smoked
to include Busy Bee, Raleigh Times, Foundation, The
porter named Hogwash, built to go with barbeque, and Carver
Landmark Bar, Flying Saucer, and Boundary. Or hop across to
Sweet Potato Lager.
the Powerhouse District and make the venerable 42nd Street
Our local bar scene is just as lively, with neighborhood
Oyster House your starting point for a
crawl that takes you into Glenwood
South.
And the choices are impressive when
you want to pick up a sixpack to go. Sam’s
Quick Stop in Durham enjoys a state-
wide reputation, and Hope Valley Bottle
Store offers good selections. Tyler’s string
of great beer bars has now given rise to a
bottle shop, Carrboro Beverage Co., serv-
ing Chapel Hill area; Peace Street Market
and Team Beverage keep Raleigh well
supplied. And, with many locations, both
Whole Foods and Total Wine reliably
stock good beer choices.
It was much easier to write an article
like this five years ago. With fewer beer
options available back then, a comprehen-
sive survey only took a couple hundred
words. One sign of the health of our beer
community today is that this list is bound
to be incomplete: there are new places out
there waiting to be discovered.
— Julie Johnson
Alivia’s
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 BREWERY LISTING

1 Ska Brewing Co. 56 Triangle Brewing Co.

2 Kaiser Brewery 58 Carolina Brewery
2 Aspall Cyders 59 Natty Greene’s Brewing Co.
2 Black Sheep Brewery 60 Odell Brewing Co.
3 Dupont Brewery 61 Leelanau Brewing Co.
3 Gaffel Becker & Co. 62 Strangford Lough Brewing Co.
3 De Proef Brouwerij 63 Great Lakes Brewing Co.
3 Moosbacher 64 Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
4 Unibroue Brewery 66 Moon River Brewing Co.
5 Breckenridge Brewery 67 New South Brewing Co.
6 Oskar Blues Brewery 68 Thomas Creek Brewery
7 New Belgium Brewing Co. 69 Roth Brewing
8 Pabst Brewing Co. 70 Huske Hardware House Brewing Co.
10 Harpoon Brewery 71 Foothills Brewing Co.
11 Flying Dog Brewery 73 LoneRider Brewing Co.
12 Original Sin Hard Cider 74 Big Boss Brewing Co.
13 Avery Brewing Co. 75 Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery
14 Mash House Brewery 76 Mother Earth Brewing
15 Smuttynose Brewing Co. 77 Anheuser-Busch
16 Heavy Seas Beer 77 Michelob Brewing Co.
17 Rogue Ales 78 Gordon Biersch
19 Spoetzl Brewery 80 Abita Brewing Co.
20 Grupo Modelo 81 Peak Organic Brewing Co.
21 Abbaye de Leffe 82 Sweetwater Brewing Co.
22 Lion Brewery 83 Starr Hill Brewery
23 Mendocino Brewing Co. 85 Blue Point Brewing Co.
24 Moctezuma Brewery 86 Brooklyn Brewery
25 Blue Moon Brewing Co. 88 Claro!
26 Green Mountain Beverage 88 Kirin Brewing Co.
27 Belhaven Brewery 88 Damm
27 Wells & Young's Ltd 88 Magners
28 Blackthorn 88 Commonwealth Brewery
29 Brasserie Lefebvre 89 Lion Brewery Ceylon
30 North Coast Brewing Co. 90 Cucapá Brewing Co.
31 Left Hand Brewing Co. 91 Orange Blossom Pilsner
32 Arcobräu Brauhaus 92 Stoudt’s Brewing Co.
33 Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co. 94 Kona Brewery
35 Saranac Brewery 95 Widmer Brothers Brewing Co.
36 Warsteiner Brauerei 96 Redhook Ale Brewery
37 Murphy Brewery 97 Cerveceria Costa Rica
39 Heineken Brewery 97 Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana
40 Asahi Beer 97 San Miguel Brewery
40 Bitburger Brauerei 98 Kind Beers
41 Hoegaarden Brewery 99 Anchor Brewing Co.
42 Samuel Smith, The Old Brewery 100 Wynkoop Brewing Co.
43 Deschutes Brewery 101 Atwater Block Brewery
44 Weyerbacher Brewing Co. 102 Bear Republic Brewing Co.
45 Tibet Lhasa Brewery 103 Boulder Beer Co.
46 St. Martin 104 B.Nektar Meadery
47 Fullsteam Brewery 105 Mad River Brewing Co.
48 Craggie Brewing Co. 106 Holy Mackerel Beers
49 Weeping Radish Brewery & Restaurant 107 Yuengling
50 Boone Brewing Co. 108 Lagunitas Brewing Co.
51 Carolina Beer Co. 109 Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
52 Legend Brewing Co. 110 Pyramid Breweries
53 Capitol City Brewing Co. 110 Magic Hat Brewing Co.
55 Aviator Brewing Co. 111 Boston Beer Co.

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A-B World Beer Festival Brewery Listing
21 Abbaye de Leffe
Dinant, Belgium
www.leffe.com
Leffe Blonde - Belgian Pale Ale -
The flagship of Leffe. The unique
recipe is the fruit of centuries of expe-
rience in the art of brewing, which
brings a broad palette of aromas into
balance. It is smooth and fruity with a
spicy aftertaste of bitter orange.
80 Abita Brewing Co.
Abita Springs, LA
www.abita.com
Purple Haze - American Wheat
Beer - A crisp, American-style wheat
beer with raspberry purée added after
filtration. Therefore, you may see rasp-
berry pulp in the beer. The raspber-
ries provide the lager with a subtle
purple coloration and haze, a fruity
aroma, and a tartly sweet taste.
Andygator - Doppelbock -
Andygator, a creature of the swamp,
is a unique high-gravity brew made
with pale malt, German lager yeast,
and German Perle hops. Unlike other
high-gravity brews, Andygator is fer-
mented to a dry finish with a slightly
sweet flavor and subtle fruit aroma.
Reaching an alcohol strength of 8%
by volume, it is a helles dopplebock.
Jockamo IPA - American IPA -
A traditional india pale ale made with
the best pale and light crystal malts
that give the beer a copper color and
malty flavor. This full-flavored beer is
hopped and dry-hopped liberally with
Willamette Columbus hops from the
Pacific Northwest and has a 6.5%
ABV.
99 Anchor Brewing Co.
San Francisco, CA
www.anchorbrewing.com
Liberty Ale - American Ale - A
special top-fermenting ale yeast is
used during fermentation and is
responsible for many of Liberty Ale’s
subtle flavors and characteristics.
Humming Ale - American Pale
Ale - Anchor’s newest beer, this bold,
hoppy ale brewed to celebrate the
anniversary of the first brew at 1705
Mariposa Street.
77 Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis, MO
www.budweiser.com
Redbridge (gluten-free) - Light
American Lager - Rich, hearty and
full-bodied gluten-free lager brewed
BEER RATING SYSTEM: 1- Had it, 2- Liked it, 3- Loved it, 4- Buying it
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from sorghum. Redbridge has a dis-
tinctively fruity hop aroma, a sweet,
toasted grain flavor and a well-bal-
anced, moderately hopped finish.
Wild Blue - Fruit Beer - Brewed
with a blend of two- and six-row bar-
ley malt, classic aroma hops from the
Willamette Valley in the Pacific
Northwest and German hops from the
Hallertau region in Bavaria, and all-
natural blueberry syrup made from
real blueberries.
Select 55 - Light American Lager
A smooth, light golden lager with only
55 calories and the crisp, clean finish
of Budweiser Select. Brewed with
specialty malts and a blend of import-
ed and domestic hops, Select 55 has
a light golden color and offers aroma
notes of toasted malt and subtle hops.
32 Arcobräu Brauhaus
Moos, Germany
www.arcobrau.de
Bavarian Wheat - Weizen/
Weissbier - This wheat beer pours a
cloudy pale yellow with a large white
head. Fruity nose. Malty and wheaty
with hints of banana and mango.
Dark Wheat - Dunkelweizen -
This dark wheat beer is brewed
according to an old, traditional recipe;
naturally cloudy, subtle, malty and mild.
40 Asahi Beer
Tokyo, Japan
www.asahibeerusa.com
Asahi Super Dry - Light Lager -
A Japanese rice lager, pale yellow in
color, with a soft hop nose. Expect a
rounded, firm malty character, moder-
ate bitterness, and a trademark dry
finish.
2 Aspall Cyders
Suffolk, United Kingdom
www.aspall.co.uk
Aspall Perronelle's Blush
Cyder - English Cider - Deep blush
color with a rich appearance. There is
a subtle blackberry aroma with a hint
of traditional cider apple. Smooth,
silky and refreshing palate beautifully
balancing sweetness and acidity.
Lingering aftertaste of berries.
101 Atwater Block Brewery
Detroit, MI
www.atwaterbeer.com
Vanilla Java Porter - Robust
Porter - A robust porter made with
chocolate malt, blended with vanilla
and Java coffee beans, balanced with
U.S. Golding hops.
Cherry Stout - American Stout -
Cherry Stout is a blend of six malts
combined with Montmorency cherry
concentrate from Michigan. A stout to
be cherished.
13 Avery Brewing Co.
Boulder, CO
www.averybrewing.com
IPA - American IPA - In the 1700s,
English brewers discovered that a
healthy dose of hops and an
increased alcohol content preserved
ales during the long voyage to India
to quench the thirst of British troops.
Avery IPA, Colorado’s hoppiest pale
ale, has a citrusy, floral bouquet and a
rich, malty finish.
White Rascal - Witbier - An
authentic Belgian-style wheat or
“white” ale, Rascal is unfiltered and
spiced with coriander and Curaçao
orange peel, producing a refreshingly
fruity thirst quencher.
Ellie’s Brown - American Brown
Ale - This deep russet brew has the
sweet and somewhat nutty character
of Adam Avery’s late (1992-2002)
chocolate lab, for which it is named.
Crystal and chocolate malts give this
beer a brown sugar maltiness, with
hints of vanilla and nuts, and subtle
hopping.
Hog Heaven - American
Barleywine - This garnet-colored
American-style barley wine is for the
hop lover. The intense dry-hop nose
and the alcohol content are balanced
for a caramel candy-like malt finish.
Cellarable for three years.
The Reverend - Belgian Golden
Strong Ale - The Reverend is strong
willed, assertive, and pure of heart. It
contains as many authentic imported
Belgian specialty malts as the brew-
ers could cram into our mash tun, and
lots of Belgian dark candy sugar
stirred into the brew kettle. A divinely
complex and beautifully layered beer
with hints of dark cherries, currants,
and molasses, complemented by an
underlying spiciness. Sinfully smooth
considering the high alcohol content.
Cellarable for up to four years.
55 Aviator Brewing Co.
Fuquay Varina, NC
www.aviatorbrew.com
HotRod Red - Irish Red Ale - A
somewhat classic Irish red ale. This
ale is feisty and a bit hoppy. There is
a malty sweetness and a somewhat
dry finish. Hopped with traditional
East Kent Goldings, but with a nice
touch of Cascade. A dash of roasted
barley give this ale a great taste. 6.1%
ABV
HogWild IPA - American IPA - A
golden brew made with pale ale and
Vienna malts. A veritable fest of the
big "C" hops: Chinook, Columbus,
Cascade. Dry-hopped with 30
pounds of Magnum and Williamette.
A very hoppy and refreshing ale.
6.7% ABV
Devil’s Tramping Ground
Tripel - Belgian Tripel - A hearty tripel
Belgian ale, golden colored with a
fruity spicy flavor that finishes a bit
sweet. Light tasting from the addition
of candy sugar, with just the right
amount of hops to balance the sweet-
ness. If you are from NC, you will
know where this place is...
maps.google.com search on 'devils
tramping ground'. 9.2% ABV
Crazy Pils - Czech Pils - In the
style of a Czech Pils... but a bit more
body. This beer is in honor of those
days that don't seem to make any
sense. Brewed with German pilsner
malt and plenty of great hops from
Saaz to Hallertau Mittelfruh. 5.2% ABV
104 B.Nektar Meadery
Ferndale, MI
www.bnektar.com
Vanilla Cinnamon Mead -
Methaglin style mead - Made with a
light clover honey, then aged on
American oak with whole vanilla
beans and cinnamon sticks.
Orange Blossom Mead -
Traditional Mead - A mead made with
the honey from bees that pollinate the
Florida orange crops. Aged on
American oak. 14% ABV
Wildberry Pyment - Pyment
style Mead - A mead made with shi-
raz grapes, clover honey, and natural
strawberry, blueberry and blackberry
flavor. 14% ABV
Melomel - Melomel (mead made
with fruit) - Blended orange blossom
honey, dark agave, and light ferment
is the first step to this mead. The sec-
ond is fresh squeezed lime juice, lime
zest and orange zest.
102 Bear Republic Brewing Co.
Healdsburg, CA
www.bearrepublic.com
Racer 5 - American IPA - This
hoppy American IPA is a full-bodied
beer brewed American pale and crys-
tal malts, and heavily hopped with
notes

Chinook, Cascade, Columbus and
Centennial.
Peter Brown Tribute Ale -
American Brown Ale - A malty
American brown Ale, brewed with
molasses, brown sugar, and hopped
with Cascade and Centennial. It's just
the way Pete would have wanted it.
27 Belhaven Brewery
Dunbar, Scotland
www.belhaven.co.uk
Scottish Ale - Scottish Heavy -
Classic Scottish ale. Ruby-colored in
the glass. Malty and hoppy, with a
sweet, smooth and creamy finish.
Belhaven has been brewing this beer
longer than any of the other beers
they produce.
74 Big Boss Brewing Co.
Raleigh, NC
www.bigbossbrewing.com
Angry Angel Kölsch Style
Ale - Kölsch - A refreshingly pale
German- style ale, cold-fermented
and cold-conditioned to achieve a
beautiful balance between biscuit
malt flavors and floral hop notes. It is
light bodied and finishes somewhat
dry to enhance its easy drinking
nature.
Bad Penny Brown Ale -
English Brown Ale - This dark brown
ale is slightly sweet with a caramel
and dark fruit finish. A showcase of
fine English malts, floor-malted the old
way. We use pale, chocolate and
crystal malts to produce a complex,
but easy drinking dark ale. Very remi-
niscent of northern English ales.
Hell’s Belle Belgian Blond
Ale - Belgian Blond Ale - This subtle
but complex ale is a showcase for our
favorite Belgian yeast and beautiful
Belgian malts. These elements pro-
duce and clean spicy citrus finish.
Hell’s Belle remains light and refresh-
ing but still packs a 7% finish.
Harvest Time Pumpkin Ale -
Specialty Beer - This is a subtly
spiced fall ale brewed with real pump-
kin that evoke memories of holidays
past. Our own proprietary blend of
spices make this one of the best-
received pumpkin ales available.
Blanco Diablo Wit Ale -
Witbier - A traditionally spiced wit,
brewed with orange peel, coriander
and fermented with a traditional
Belgian wit yeast. It has a dry, thirst
quenching finish, perfect for summer
in North Carolina. 4.5%
High Roller IPA - American IPA -
BEER RATING SYSTEM: 1- Had it, 2- Liked it, 3- Loved it, 4- Buying it
An abundance of Pacific Northwest
hops blend with pale and caramel
malts to bring you High Roller IPA.
40 Bitburger Brauerei
Bitburg, Germany
www.bitburger.de
Bitburger - German Pilsner (Pils)
This full-bodied beer is brewed
according to the German Purity Law.
It has a dry-finished, hoppy taste and
is one of Germany’s most popular
beers.
2 Black Sheep Brewery
Masham, England
www.blacksheepbrewery.com
Monty Python’s Holy Grail
Ale - English Pale Ale - Distinctive
English ale flavor with plenty of fruity
hops and 4.7% ABV. Specially com-
missioned to commemorate the 30th
anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying
Circus.
28 Blackthorn
Somerset, England
www.dryblackthorncider.com
Blackthorn Cider - Cider -
Blackthorn is a dry, yet sweet apple
cider with bushels of flavor.
Sir Perry - Cider - Perry is a cool,
refreshing pear drink that has been
popular in the UK and Europe for cen-
turies. Sir Perry is made in the tradition-
al English style, using 100% fermented
pear juice. Not to be confused with
American pear cider, which is made
from fermented apple juice with pear
flavoring added later. 5.9% ABV
25 Blue Moon Brewing Co.
Golden, CO
www.bluemoonbrewingcompany.com
Blue Moon - Witbier - A refresh-
ing, medium-bodied, unfiltered
Belgian-style wheat ale spiced with
fresh coriander and orange peel for a
uniquely complex taste and an
uncommonly smooth finish.
Blue Moon Pumpkin -
Specialty Beer - An amber-colored,
naturally pumpkin-flavored ale brewed
only in the autumn, combing the flavor
of vine-ripened pumpkin and spices.
85 Blue Point Brewing Co.
Patchogue, NY
www.bluepointbrewing.com
Toasted Lager - American
Amber Ale - Copper in color, this
unique brew is made from six different
malts, including English pale, crystal,
Munich, Carapils, wheat and Belgian
Caravienna.
Hoptical Illusion - American
IPA - This classic American-style IPA
features a rare hop grown exclusively
on a farm in Oregon.
Rasta FaRye - American Rye
Beer - A hearty rye malt blended with
fresh West Coast hops, resulting in a
delicious, deep copper ale with just
the right amount of rye flavor to offset
the spicy, floral characteristics of the
hops. A portion of RastafaRye sales
will be donated to TOCO (They Often
Cry Outreach) to help underprivileged
children around the world.
Blueberry Ale - Fruit Beer -
Brewed with 100% American ingredi-
ents, this blueberry ale has 132
pounds of blueberries carefully added
to each special batch.
50 Boone Brewing Co.
Blowing Rock, NC
www.boonebrewing.com
Blowing Rock High Country
Ale - American Pale Ale - An
American ale, perfectly balanced with
hops and malt and created in the
mountain peaks of western North
Carolina.
Blowing Rock Oktoberfest -
Oktoberfest - A German Märzen style
brew, this vibrant copper colored
lager is characterized by big malt
favor and roasted caramel aroma. Its
healthy addition of Hallertau hops is
present in reflection of this heady
change of seasons.
Blowing Rock High Country
Lager - Bock - Blowing Rock Bock is
fermented with a proprietary lager
yeast strain and aged for 5 weeks.
Typical of the traditional German Bock
style, its light copper tone is charac-
terized by a toasty malt backbone
derived from a combination of domes-
tic 2 row malt and imported German
specialty malts. The kettle hopping is
derived from German Hallertau to
impart a well balanced bitterness with
only subtle hop aroma.
111 Boston Beer Co.
Boston, MA
www.bostonbeer.com
Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Lager - Brewed by traditional methods
with only the finest ingredients, includ-
ing Bavarian noble hops, Boston
Lager is full flavored and balanced.
The balance of malty sweetness con-
trasted by hop spiciness and followed
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by the robust, smooth finish sets the
standard for all the Samuel Adams
beers.
Samuel Adams Octoberfest -
Oktoberfest - A Märzen-style beer
brewed with a blend of five varieties
of malted barley. This beer is hearty
and smooth, the sweet flavors from
the malt, including caramel and toffee,
are balanced with the hand-selected
Bavarian noble hops.
Samuel Adams Latitude 48 -
IPA - A unique IPA with a select blend
of hops from top German, English,
and American growing regions all
located close to the 48th latitude with-
in the "hop belt" of the Northern
Hemisphere. The combination of hops
creates a distinctive but not overpow-
ering hop character. The beer is dry-
hopped with Ahtanum, Simcoe, and
East Kent Goldings hops for a power-
ful citrus and earthy aroma. The hop
character is balanced by a slight
sweetness and full body from the malt
blend.
103 Boulder Beer Co.
Boulder, CO
www.boulderbeer.com
Flashback IBA - India Brown
Ale - Citrusy with a prominent hop
aroma, finishes clean, crisp and dry
with dark roasted flavors from the bis-
cuit and chocolate malts.
Hazed & Infused - American
Pale Ale - Hazed & Infused is “hazed”
in its natural unfiltered state, and
“infused”—dry-hopped—with Crystal
and Centennial hops during fermenta-
tion for a big, bold taste.
29 Brasserie Lefebvre
Quenast, Belgium
www.brasserielefebvre.be
Blanche De Bruxelles - Witbier
The natural spice aromas of coriander
and bitter orange peels, which are
added during the brewing process.
The brewing method, which includes
infusion, is very slow. The unfiltered
beer is bottled and refermented with
yeast and brewing sugar.
5 Breckenridge Brewery
Denver, CO
www.breckbrew.com
Avalanche Amber Ale - Amber
Ale - Blended with pale and caramel
malts and just a kiss of bittering hops
to create a refreshing-but-flavorful,
any-time beer.
Vanilla Porter - Porter - An ale
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that has all the chocolate and roasted
nut flavor of a classic porter, with an
enigmatic surprise thrown in for good
measure: real vanilla bean.
471 IPA - American IPA - 471 is a
double IPA that combines pale,
Munich, caramel-30, Carapils and tor-
rified wheat malts, with Chinook,
Centennial, Simcoe and Fuggles
hops. It has a big, sweet mouthfeel,
followed by more hoppiness than
you’ve ever had at one time.
Agave Wheat - Fruit Beer - This
true American-style unfiltered wheat
has something a little special–the nec-
tar of the great Salmiana Agave.
Agave complements the refreshingly
light quality of our wheat and adds a
subtle note of flavor that expands this
beer’s uplifting taste profile. It is famil-
iar, yet creative.
86 Brooklyn Brewery
Brooklyn, NY
www.brooklynbrewery.com
East India Pale Ale - India Pale
Ale (IPA) - Brooklyn East India Pale
Ale is inspired by the original East
India pale ales brewed in England in
the early 1800s for the troops in India.
Brooklyn Lager - Light
American Lager - A classic lager that
is amber-gold in color and displays a
firm malt center supported by a
refreshing bitterness and floral hop
aroma. Caramel malts show in the fin-
ish. The aromatic qualities of the beer
are enhanced by dry-hopping.
53 Capitol City Brewing Co.
Arlington, VA
www.capcitybrew.com
Pale Rider Ale - American Pale
Ale - English pale and German
Munich malts, and American Simcoe
and Amarillo hop varieties makes this
American-style pale ale perfect for all
hopheads. A floral nose with a smooth
finish.
Oktoberfest - German
Oktoberfest Lager - A traditional
German-style fest bier. Light malts
with a clean finish.
51 Carolina Beer Co.
Mooresville, NC
www.carolinablonde.com
Carolina Blonde - Blonde Ale -
Made with 100% real barley, this flag-
ship beer is a full-bodied golden ale
with a smooth, refreshing taste. The
hop aromas and flavors are mild. 5%
ABV
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Carolina Strawberry Ale -
Fruit Beer - A medium-bodied ale
made with real, all natural Carolina
strawberries and the finest malts and
hops, resulting in a refreshing, crisp
beer that has just the right balance of
strawberries and real beer flavor.
Cottonwood Pumpkin Spiced
Ale - Specialty Beer - Think of grand-
ma’s pumpkin pie with a kick! This
dark, copper-colored ale has caramel
maltiness with hints of pumpkin, cin-
namon, ginger and spice! Loyal fol-
lowers hoard this because quantities
sell out quickly on this Gold Medal
Winner.
58 Carolina Brewery
Chapel Hill, NC
www.carolinabrewery.com
Sky Blue Golden Ale - Kölsch -
This thirst-quenching brew is spritzy,
not too malty, with the pleasing aroma
of imported Hallertauer hops. While
fermented warm like all ales, Kölsch
beer undergoes a cold aging period
like a lager, which results in a brew
that is complex yet easy to drink.
Copperline Amber Ale -
Amber Ale - This brilliant red ale,
brewed with caramel and pale malts,
is a best seller at the Carolina
Brewery. Using traditional brewing
methods, the ale yeast provides a
touch of fruit and works in tandem
with the malt to make for a very drink-
able ale. Kent Golding hops lend just
enough bitterness and aroma to
round out the flavor.
Flagship India Pale Ale -
English IPA - This beer has a unique
floral aroma from the generous addi-
tion of Cascade hops to the fermenter
in a procedure known as dry hopping.
Oktoberfest - Vienna Lager - An
amber-colored lager with a toasty malt
flavor, medium body and a spicy hop
finish.
97 Cerveceria Costa Rica
San Jose, Costa Rica
www.beer.co.cr
Imperial - Light Lager - Full bod-
ied pale lager with smooth flavor.
97 Cerveceria Nacional
Dominicana
Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic
www.cnd.com.do
Presidente - Pilsner - A medium-
bodied golden yellow pilsner from the
Domincan Republic.
88 Claro!
San Salvador, El Salvador
www.clarobeerusa.com
Claro Beer - Pilsner - Claro! is a
crisp, refreshing, flavorful beer created
by Dutch brewers to celebrate the mil-
lennium. The fun, straightforward confi-
dence of the brand mirrors the flavor
characteristics of the beer perfectly.
88 Commonwealth Brewery
Nassau, Bahamas
www.heinekeninternational.com
Kalik - Light Lager - A light bod-
ied lager with a pale gold color.
48 Craggie Brewing Co.
Asheville, NC
www.craggiebrewingco.com
Toubab Brewe - Bavarian-Style
Zwickel - Organic Munich and Pilsen
malts are bittered with Organic
Hallertau Tradition. This unfiltered
Bavarian lager is crisp and malty with
a slight hoppy flavor. 4.2% ABV
Germinator Doppelbock -
German-Style "Double" Bock - With
hints of alcohol in the nose to comple-
ment the clean, malty flavor of this "liq-
uid bread" beer; Munich and Pilsen
malts are lagered for months to pro-
duce rich, caramel undertones and a
slight fruity finish. 6% ABV
Antebellum Ale - American Ale
An 1840s American recipe using
water, yeast, molasses, ginger and
spruce tips. The ingredients from the
historical drink have been adapted
into a flavorful modern day beer incor-
porating malt and hops. 5.0% ABV
Herkulean IPA - Dark IPA -
Munich, wheat and chocolate rye
malts are blended for a dark color
and unique body in this Beer City
Brew. We infuse Germany's Hallertau
Herkules hops at each stage of the
brewing process for a smooth floral
aroma and a powerful spicy flavor.
6.0% ABV
90 Cucapá Brewing Co.
Mexicali, Mexico
www.cucapa.com
Chupacabras Pale Ale -
American Pale Ale - Wildly hopped
with fresh cascade and centennial
hops. Deep copper color with a lacy
taupe head. Rich creamy dark
caramel, dark chocolate, and roasted
nut aromas follow through to a rich
medium-full body with layers of citrus
marmalade and earthy hops on the
long finish.
Cucapá Honey - Amber Ale -
Deep golden amber color with a
frothy white head. Rich aromas of
caramel, roasted grains, and earthy,
citrusy hop aromas. A frothy entry
leads to a dry-yet-fruity medium body
of candied citrus peels, mild spice,
flan, and toasted grains. Finishes with
a long, nutty, citrus-accented, piney
fresh hop fade.
88 Damm
Barcelona, Spain
www.damn.es
Estrella Damm - Light Lager -
This Spanish lager has a deep malt
tone with a subtle hop presence, full-
bodied and smooth.
3 De Proef Brouwerij
Lochristi, Belgium
www.sbs-imports.com
Reinaert Flemish Wild Ale -
Belgian Specialty Ale - Fermented
three times with two different yeasts,
including a strain of Brettanomyces—
the "wild yeast" of lambic brewing.
Pale golden color with an enormous
rocky white head. Brett and spicy aro-
matic notes, with a malty-juicy note on
the palate. Finishes with Brett and dry
hop notes.
43 Deschutes Brewery
Bend, OR
www.deschutesbrewery.com
Black Butte Porter - Porter -
Black Butte is rich in flavor yet easy to
drink, with a creamy, smooth mouth
feel. The slight hop bitterness up front
only enhances the distinctive choco-
late and roasted finish to come. It
continues to reap accolades and
medals from those who know best.
Mirror Pond Pale Ale - American
Pale Ale - Mirror Pond Pale Ale has four
different hop additions along with the
all-important dry hopping.
64 Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
Farmville, NC
www.duckrabbitbrewery.com
Milk Stout - Sweet Stout - The
top-selling beer all year long at The
Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, this is a
traditional full-bodied stout brewed
with lactose (milk sugar). This beer
won a gold medal at the 2010 World
Beer Cup and was named best of
show at the 2010 Carolina
Championships of Beer.
Porter - Porter - Robust English-
syle ale full of roasted malts. This
notes

brew includes oats for a silky mouth-
feel, which helps to balance the cof-
fee--like acrid roastiness from the dark
malts.
Brown Ale - American Brown Ale
An American-style brown ale, brewed
with loads of American hops from
start to finish,which give the beer a
distinctly citrusy, piney bitterness.
Märzen - Märzen - A soft
German-style lager traditionally
released around fest season. This
brew offers round malt characteristics
and a very clean flavor profile.
3 Dupont Brewery
Tourpes-Leuze, Belgium
www.brasserie-dupont.com
Saison Dupont - Saison - The
classic example of the saison style. A
pleasing pale straw color with a
dense creamy head. The nose is
estery with citrus and spicy notes. Full
bodied and malty, it sparkles on the
palate and finishes with a zesty hop
and citrus attack.
11 Flying Dog Brewery
Denver, CO
www.flyingdogales.com
Doggie Style - American Pale
Ale - American-style pale ale, brilliant
amber in color and dry hopped with
buckets full of Cascade hops.
Raging Bitch - Belgian IPA - An
American IPA augmented with
Belgian yeast, this 20th anniversary
beer jumps out of the glass and nips
at your taste buds with its delicate
hop bitterness. At 8.3% ABV, this
bitch is dangerously drinkable.
71 Foothills Brewing Co.
Winston-Salem, NC
www.foothillsbrewing.com
Torch Pilsner - Pilsner - A
Czech-style pilsner loaded with flavor
from Hallertau and Saaz hops. 5.3%
ABV
Hoppyum IPA - American IPA -
A well-balanced, West Coast-style
India pale ale featuring five hop vari-
etals; 6.3% ABV.
Seeing Double IPA - Imperial
IPA - An imperial India pale ale featur-
ing six hop varietals; 9.5 % ABV.
People’s Porter - Robust Porter
An English-style robust porter, dark
brown in color with a ruby hue.
Chocolate and sweet toffee aroma.
Firm unsweetened chocolate flavor
with moderate notes of caramel and
toffee, an herbal hop bitterness up
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front with a slight note of espresso in
the finish.
Oktoberfest - Oktoberfest - A
German-style amber lager, dark
amber to light brown in color. Sweet
caramel and toffee aroma. Caramel
and toffee sweetness up front with
notes of toasted bread and hints of
roasted cashews and almonds.
Barrel-Aged Selection.
47 Fullsteam Brewery
Durham, NC
www.fullsteam.ag
El Toro Cream Ale - Cream Ale
We break craft beer convention by
unabashedly brewing beer with corn.
El Toro is a lager-like classic American
cream ale brewed with malted barley,
hops, yeast, water…and Carolina
roasted corn grits. Simple, refreshing,
and distinctly Southern.
Carver Sweet Potato Lager -
Spice, Herb or Vegetable Beer - In
our quest to work with local Southern
ingredients as much as possible, the
humble sweet potato is an obvious
choice: after all, North Carolina is the
largest U.S. producer of sweet pota-
toes. The goal of this modestly-
hopped amber lager is to have you
explore the nuance of the sweet pota-
to…not hit you over the head with
Obvious Spices. What is, after all, the
taste of a sweet potato? Carver asks
this question and encourges you to
explore the answer.
Hogwash Hickory-smoked
Porter - Other Smoked Beer - Malted
barley is house-smoked over hickory
wood, imparting a sweet, subtle
smoke. But Hogwash only tastes
smoky at first glance: when paired
with North Carolina barbecue, the
smoky meat and smoky beer meld
together in total harmony. While iced
tea is all about contrasts (sweet tea
against vinegar or tangy tomato),
Hogwash accentuates subtle smoke.
Smoke on smoke….only in North
Carolina!
Working Man’s Lunch - Stout -
A low-alcohol creamy stout, and a
tribute to the Works-Progress Era
"Working Man's Lunch" (an R.C. Cola
and a MoonPie for 15 cents). Go
ahead, boss man: have your three
martinis. We’ll have a Working Man’s
Lunch.
3 Gaffel Becker & Co.
Köln, Germany
www.gaffel.de
Gaffel Kölsch - Kölsch - The
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laws protecting the brewing of Kölsch
are as strict as Germany’s Purity Law
of 1516. Kölsch beer can only be
brewed within the city of Cologne.
Gaffel’s flavor is derived from an ale
yeast that is “lagered” or aged in cold
cellars. From the best-known Kölsch
brewery, Gaffel is pale and faintly
fruity with a crisp hop finish.
78 Gordon Biersch
Atlanta, GA
www.gordonbiersch.com
Märzen - Märzen - Gordon
Biersch Märzen accentuates the fla-
vors of the dark roasted imported
malted barley and exhibits a caramel
malt aftertaste, while downplaying the
hop level. 5.8% ABV
Blonde Bock - Bock - Blonde
Bock is golden-colored and malty with
a rich, creamy head. The rich flavor is
counterbalanced with the just the right
level of bitterness from the Hallertau
aroma hops to create a very smooth
profile. 7% ABV
Pilsner - Pilsner - Czech Style
Pilsner is a celebration of hops. We
use imported Bavarian Hallertau and
Tettnang aroma hops along with the
finest pilsner malt. 5.2% ABV.
FestBier - Oktoberfest - FestBier
celebrates fall and the flavor profiles
of beers served at the modern day
Oktoberfest. The maltiness is created
via a combination of dark-roasted
Munich malt and pilsner malt. The
hoppy aroma is achieved via the
imported Hallertau and Tettnang
aroma hops. 5.6% ABV
63 Great Lakes Brewing Co.
Cleveland, OH
www.greatlakesbrewing.com
Burning River Pale Ale -
American Pale Ale - An assertively
hopped American pale ale with cit-
rusy and piney Cascade hops.
Edmund Fitzgerald Porter -
Robust Porter - A complex, roasty
porter with a bittersweet, chocolate-
coffee taste and bold hop presence.
26 Green Mountain Beverage
Middlebury, VT
www.woodchuck.com
Woodchuck Amber - Cider -
Amber was the first cider produced
under the Woodchuck name in 1991.
It is a blend of Red Delicious and
Macintosh apples fermeneted with
champagne yeast to produce a great
tasting and refreshing product. It has a
notes
golden hue, medium sweetness with a
crisp sparkling finish and is 5% ABV.
Woodchuck Granny Smith -
Cider - Made from 100% Granny
Smith apples: tangy and tart with just
a touch of sweetness, it retains a
freshly cut green apple flavor.
Woodchuck Pear Cider - Cider
- Aged in small batches, the pear is a
light flavorfull delight with a tantalizing
essence of pear flavoring. It has been
available since 2001 and is 4% ABV.
Woodchuck Fall Limited
Release - Cider - The perfect combi-
nation of complexity and elegance,
with a unique taste and special aroma
not found in any other hard cider. This
cider begins with an attractive cinna-
mon, nutmeg, spicy bouquet, and bal-
ances out the taste with a hint of
American white oak. The perfect bev-
erage for a crisp, autumn day.
20 Grupo Modelo
Mexico City, Mexico
www.gmodelo.com
Negra Modelo - Munich Dunkel -
To achieve its unique taste, Negra
Modelo uses a greater quantity of
malt, the finest hops, a special yeast
and the purest water. It is a delicious,
creamy, full-flavored dark brew with a
pleasant malt aroma and dry hop fla-
vor that has a smooth mellow taste.
Modelo Especial - Pilsner - A
rich, full-flavored pilsner beer with a
slightly sweet, well-balanced taste,
light hop character and crisp finish.
10 Harpoon Brewery
Boston, MA
www.harpoonbrewery.com
IPA - American IPA - In the tradi-
tion of IPAs, this copper-colored ale is
floral, medium-bodied, with a distinct
hop finish.
UFO White - American Wheat -
Light, crisp, refreshing UFO White fol-
lows in the tradition of spiced wheat
beers that have been brewed in
Belgium for well over 300 years.
Brewed with orange peel and a
unique blend of spices.
Octoberfest - Oktoberfest -
Brewed with festivals in mind (you can
almost hear the oompah), the charac-
ter and complexity of this Märzen-
style beer comes from the malts and
hops. This beer is full bodied, smooth
and malty.
100 Barrel Series - Glacier
Harvest Wet Hop - This copper-col-
ored ale is a celebration of local ingre-
diants: freshly harvested "wet hops"
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from New York state and Maine grown
pale malted barley.
Leviathan Series - Imperial IPA
Leviathan Imperial IPA is loaded with
big, juicy American hop character
and balanced by a strong, malty
backbone. A massive hop profile
dominates at 10% ABV.
16 Heavy Seas Beer
Baltimore, MD
www.ccbeer.com
Loose Cannon - American IPA
Called Hop 3 (hop cubed) to reflect
the enormous amount of hops in this
beer: there are over three pounds per
barrel, and the beer is hopped in
three ways: in the kettle, in the hop
back and dry hopped.
Yule Tide 2009 - Belgian Tripel -
Slightly sweet with a complex malty
flavor. The spicy notes come from our
unique blend of Belgian malt, yeast
and candi sugar, making it both aro-
matic and flavorful. It will benefit with
aging up to two years. Vintage dated.
Approx. 10% ABV
Summer Ale - Specialty Beer -
Light gold in color, yet crisp and
refreshing. This ale will pair well with
grilled seafood and salads. Approx.
4.5% ABV
Great Pumpkin - Specialty Beer
Pumpkin is added during the mash at
precisely the right time to create just
the perfect balance of malt, hops,
pumpkin and spice.
39 Heineken Brewery
Amsterdam, Netherlands
www.heineken.com
Heineken - Light Lager -
Heineken is a 5% ABV pale lager.
Heineken Light - Light Lager -
A light beer with 99 calories per 12
ounce bottle and 6.8 grams of carbo-
hydrates. The beer has fewer calories,
fewer carbohydrates and less alcohol
than lager beers such as the Heineken
Pilsener. The beer has 3.2% ABV.
Amstel Light - Light Lager -
Amstel Light is a 3.5% ABV pale
lager.
41 Hoegaarden Brewery
Hoegaarden, Belgium
www.hoegaarden.org.uk/
Hoegaarden Original White
Ale - Witbier - The original surviving
Belgian witbier. A delicious and
refreshing taste, naturally cloudy and
brewed using a unique recipe of
wheat, malted barley and a subtle hint
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of coriander and orange peel.
106 Holy Mackerel Beers
Fort Lauderdale, FL
www.holymackerelbeers.com
Holy Mackerel Special
Golden Ale - Belgian Golden Strong
Ale - A strong golden ale brewed in
the Belgian tradition. Dry yet flavorful;
complex yet refreshing. Handcrafted
in small batches using pilsner malt,
Saaz hops and Belgian Trappist yeast
to create a fresh, Florida take on a
style popular with craft beer aficiona-
dos.
Holy Mackerel Panic Attack
Belgian Strong Ale - Strong Belgian
amber ale with a hint of spice. 10%
ABV
Holy Mackerel Black - Belgian
Dark Strong Ale - Dark chocolate bar-
ley and roasted grains paired with
American hops and Belgian yeast
create a mouthful of flavors: dark
chocolate and espresso with a very
subtle hint of pomegranate. Caramel
and smoky flavors in the middle and
only a hint of berry in the finish. Bold
yet not heavy, and a perfect accom-
paniment for oysters, chocolate, triple
cream brie with jam or BBQ ribs.
70 Huske Hardware House
Brewing Co.
Fayetteville, NC
www.huskehardware.com
Level-Headed German
Blonde - Kölsch - An easy drinking
German ale made with the finest
German pilsner malts and finished
with German Hersbrecker Hops.
Kill A Man Irish Red - Irish Red
Ale - A robust, more aggressive ver-
sion of its mass-produced cousin, our
red is made with British caramel
malts, finished with East Kent
Goldings and Williamette Hops.
Sledgehammer Stout - Stout -
An imperial oatcreme stout made with
flaked oats and barley, finished with
lactose for extra body and creami-
ness. Slightly sweet and full-bodied.
Farmhouse Ale - Bière de
Garde - A blonde French-style ale full
of four different Franco-Belgian malts,
finished with a touch of floral
Strisselspalt hops.
2 Kaiser Brewery
Diviaopolis, Brazil
www.allgoodbrands.com
Xingu Black Beer - Schwarzbier
(Black beer) - Pronounced “shin-goo”,
Xingu Black Beer is named after the
Xingu River, in the Amazon Rainforest.
Inspired by old recipes of Indian beer,
Xingu Black Beer is a two-time winner
of Beverage Testing Institute's Gold
Medal as the best dark lager in the
world.
98 Kind Beers
Charlotte, NC
www.kindbeers.com
Pale Ale - Strong Pale Ale - This
ale is a more robust version of an
American-style pale ale but brewed
with an international blend of malts
including British Maris Otter pale malt
and specialty malts, Belgian aromatic
as well as Crystal 60. The hop vari-
etals includes American Amarillo and
British East Kent Golding for flavor
and aroma. 7.3% ABV
Belgian Style Red Ale -
Belgian Style Red Ale - A wonderful
6% ABV red ale with toasted and
caramel notes. The hops used include
Czech Saaz and Hallertau. Hints of
tropical and fruit flavors come through
with the addition of Trappist yeast.
88 Kirin Brewing Co.
Kirin, Japan
www.kirin.com
Kirin - Light Lager - This single
wort (or first press) process yields a
unique, complex flavor.
94 Kona Brewery
Kailua-Kona, HI
www.konabrewingco.com
Longboard Lager - Light
American Lager - A smooth Island
lager perfect for sitting on the beach,
by the pool, or at your favorite water-
ing hole. A slightly spicy hop aroma
and smooth, clean finish gives this
Lager true craft credentials. This is the
flagship for Kona Brewery, bringing
liquid aloha 12 or 16 ounces at a time.
Pipeline Porter - Porter -
Smooth and dark with a distinctive
roasty aroma and earthy complexity
from its diverse blends of premium
malted barley. With freshly roasted
100% Kona coffee grown at Cornwell
Estate on Hawaii’s Big Island, lending
roasted aroma and flavor. A delicate
blend of hops rounds out this palate-
pleasing brew.
108 Lagunitas Brewing Co.
Petaluma, CA
www.lagunitas.com
IPA - American IPA - A well-bal-
anced IPA with huge hop character
and enough malty richness to keep
things insane and drinkable.
Little Sumpin Wild - Belgian
Ale - Loads of malted wheat for a curi-
ous malt foundation and a light color,
Our Belgian yeast leaves a huge fla-
vor and complexishness. 7.8% ABV.
33 Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co.
Kiln, MS
www.lazymagnolia.com
Southern Pecan Nut Brown -
Specialty Beer - The first beer in the
world, to our knowledge, made with
whole roasted pecans. The pecans
are used just like grain and provide a
nutty characteristic and a delightful
depth to the flavor profile. This beer is
very lightly hopped to allow the malty,
caramel and nutty flavors shine
through. The color is dark mahogany.
Southern Pecan won a Bronze Medal
in the 2006 World Beer Cup in the
Specialty Beer category.
61 Leelanau Brewing Co.
Lake Leelanau MI
www.leelanau.com
Good Harbor Golden -
Michigan Bière de Garde - Decidedly
refreshing despite the 7.5% ABV, this
style of beer was originally brewed in
the slow winter season as payment for
farmhands in the summer. We certain-
ly don't mind sitting down after a long
day of work and breathing deep the
symphony aromas wafting from the
lofty, lacey head burgeoning from our
tulip glass. Subtle notes of peaches,
apricots, canned pineapple, bitters,
and a faint herbaceousness belie the
smooth and delicate taste.
31 Left Hand Brewing Co.
Longmont, CO
www.lefthandbrewing.com
Milk Stout - Sweet Stout -
Roasted malt, chocolate, and coffee
flavors build the foundation of this
sweet. “Chocolate Milk for Adults!”
5.9%
400 LB Monkey - English Style
IPA - English-style IPA, more earthy,
spicy and zesty than the Americian
style. 6.8% ABV
Polestar Pilsner - Pilsner - A
zesty German-style pilsner with a dry,
crisp finish. 5.0% ABV
notes

52 Legend Brewing Co.
Richmond, VA
www.legendbrewing.com
Brown Ale - English Brown Ale -
A full-bodied brew with caramel and
roasted malts and hopped for bal-
ance with Mount Hood hops. 6.0%
ABV
Oktoberfest - Oktoberfest/
Märzen - A true Märzen style beer
marked by a smooth malty sweetness,
deep auburn color and a subtle hop-
piness. Light bodied. 5.4% ABV
Cask IPA - Cask India Pale Ale -
Pleasantly full-bodied, hoppy, and
fruity. A beer brewed in the tradition of
English ales, both strong and highly
hopped. 7.2% ABV
Porter - Porter - Rich, roasty and
loaded with chocolate and coffee fla-
vors. This sweet black ale is a robust,
full-bodied brew. 6.0% ABV
22 Lion Brewery
Wilkes-Barre, PA
www.lionbrewery.com
Stegmaier Amber Lager -
American Amber Lager - A classic
American amber lager with a soft, ele-
gant malt complexity and a firm hop
bitterness to provide a balanced finish.
Stegmaier Gold - Light
American Lager - A classic American
lager, very crisp and clean and easy
to drink. It is brewed with American
two-row and six-row barley and a
blend of the finest American hops.
Stegmaier Porter - Porter - This
robust porter brewed with ale yeast
has a strong malt flavor with some
burnt, chocolate and coffee notes and
a pleasing roasty finish. Brewed with a
blend of two-row and six-row malt,
black malt, chocolate malt and
caramel malt.
Lionshead Deluxe - Light
American Lager - A classic standard
American lager. Crisp, clean and
slightly dry with some residual sweet-
ness, it is very refreshing and thirst
quenching. Brewed with American
two-row and six-row barley and corn.
Domestic hops add just a touch of bit-
terness.
89 Lion Brewery Ceylon
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
www.lionbeer.com
Lion Stout - Stout - A bottle con-
ditioned beer brewed from British,
Czech and Danish malts with Styrian
hops and an English yeast strain. All
the ingredients are transported along
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precarious roads to the brewery locat-
ed 3,500 feet above sea level. 8.0%
ABV
Imperial Lager - Imperial Lager
Lion Imperial Lager from Sri Lanka is
specially brewed to acheive it’s high
alcohol content. The finest natural
ingredients deliver a rich, smooth
taste and refereshment.
73 LoneRider Brewing Co.
Raleigh, NC
www.loneriderbeer.com
Shotgun Betty Hefeweizen -
Weizen/Weissbier - Shotgun Betty is a
sexy, tough cowgirl who is always
armed and dangerous. Don’t be
fooled by her good looks, she will
have you for an appetizer! That's why
we picked her to represent our
hefeweizen, a wheat beer with a rich,
banana-clove nose and refreshing dry
finish. Sound good? Try one. But
beware, once Betty gets a hold of you
there is no escape.
Sweet Josie Brown Ale -
American Brown Ale - A temptress
who will seduce you, but leave your
wallet feeling empty. Sweet Josie is
crafted in the American brown style.
This is a complex beer balancing a
nice hop bitterness with a generous
amount of chocolate and aromatic
malts.
Peacemaker Pale Ale -
American Pale Ale - Peace is a dan-
gerous thing. Peacemaker is a West
Coast-style American pale ale that
uses several hop varieties to produce
a unique and bountiful aroma with a
balanced bitterness. A special blend
of American and European malts
make this a very well rounded, char-
acterful beer.
105 Mad River Brewing Co.
Blue Lake, CA
www.madriverbrewing.com
Steelhead Double IPA -
Imperial IPA - The Double IPA is the
big brother to the Jamaica Sunset IPA.
Maltier, hoppier and more assertive,
this one is for big beer lovers. 8.6%
ABV
Steelhead Extra Pale Ale -
Extra Pale Ale - A bright golden hued
ale with a medium body and a crisp
spicy /floral hop character and very
mild bitterness.
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110 Magic Hat Brewing Co.
South Burlington, VT
www.magichat.net
#9 - Fruit Beer - A beer cloaked in
secrecy. An ale whose mysterious and
unusual palate will swirl across your
tongue and ask more questions than it
answers. A sort of dry, crisp, refresh-
ing, not-quite pale ale. #9 is really
impossible to describe because
there’s never been anything else quite
like it.
88 Magners
Tipperarym, Ireland
www.magners.com
Magners Original Irish Cider
Cider - Magners is a gluten-free Irish
cider made with no artificial colors or
sweeteners.
23 Mendocino Brewing Co.
Ukiah, CA
www.mendobrew.com
Eye of the Hawk - American
Pale Ale - Generous amounts of pale
and caramel malt and our special pro-
prietary yeast strain produce an
extremely well balanced ale with 8%
ABV. Coppery amber in color and
characterized by a luxurious caramel
malt flavor, a substantial mouth-feel
and a slightly warming yet dry finish.
Blue Heron - American Pale Ale
A delightful, medium-bodied smooth
ale, with a distinctive, crisp mouthfeel
and a fresh hoppy finish. It is brewed
using premium two-row pale malted
barley, generous amounts of both
Cluster bittering hops and Cascade
finishing hops and our own special
proprietary yeast strain. Blue Heron
Pale Ale is bottle conditioned.
White Hawk IPA - American IPA
American West Coast Cascade hops
are blended with a very generous
dose of English Fuggle hops. This
combination makes for a very aromatic
character, as well as a truly authentic
English flavor you must taste to
believe,“Hopheads” will love this brew!
77 Michelob Brewing Co.
St. Louis, MO
www.stonemillpaleale.com
Shocktop - Witbier - A unfiltered
Belgian-style wheat ale, this beer is
naturally cloudy with a light golden
color.
Amberbock - Traditional Bock -
Michelob AmberBock is an American-
style bock beer with a rich, malty and
notes
smooth taste that is hearty and full-
bodied, yet finishes cleanly. Anheuser-
Busch introduced this premium-plus
beer nationally in 1995. Best served
with grilled, barbecued and German-
style foods.
24 Moctezuma Brewery
Monterrey, Mexico
www.dosxx.com
Tecate - Light Lager - Tecate is
one of the more popular Mexican
imported beers, first brewed in 1944.
Bohemia - Light Lager - Bohemia
is rich in hops and corn giving it a
unique flavor among the Mexican
beer family and a sweetness with the
aftertaste.
Carta Blanca - Light Lager -
Carta Blanca is a light bodied brew
with a slightly sweet corn flavor and a
spicy, earthy hop smell.
66 Moon River Brewing Co.
Savannah, GA
www.moonriverbrewing.com
Wild Wacky Wit - Witbier - It's
wild... it's wacky... it's a brew that has
been described as a virtual party in
your mouth! The exotic fruitiness of
fresh ground coriander seed and
curaçao bitter orange peel coalesce
energetically within this lightly tart
wheat ale.
Apparition Ale - English Pale
Ale - A classic English pale ale made
with all English ingredients. A well-bal-
anced, smooth-bodied beer.
Swampfox IPA - American IPA -
The big-brother beer of our Slow-van-
nah Pale Ale. As such, one can
expect Swamp Fox to pack a much
bigger punch on all counts: more
malt, more alcohol and a whole lot
more hops!
Captain’s Porter - Porter - A
UK-style porter, slightly chocolately
with hints of caramel.
3 Moosbacher
Moosbach, Germany
www.moosbacher.com
Weissbie - Weizen/Weissbier - A
smooth, fine filtered beer that has a
very bright color. Made with the finest
Bavarian hops.
76 Mother Earth Brewing
Kinston, NC
www.motherearthbrewing.com
Weeping Willow Wit - Witbier -
This beer style is over 400 years old,
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and continues to enjoy overwhelming
popularity. Offering low hop bitter-
ness, it is easy to enjoy. It pours very
hazy, with a light gold color... we say
it's like summertime in a glass. Bitter
orange peel and fresh coriander add
zest and depth to this refreshing beer.
Dark Cloud - Munich Dunkel -
Steeped in a long history dating back
hundreds of years, this "old-fashioned"
beer is again in vogue. Lager is the
German word meaning "to store," so
this beer ages three times longer than
our ales do. "Dunkel" means dark in
German, but don't let the color fool
you: it is by no means heavy, over-
bearing or bitter. In fact, it proves to
be a very drinkable session beer.
Sisters of the Moon -
American IPA - Made with hops grown
in the good 'ol USA... you'll proudly
support American farmers when you
drink this beer! Light copper in color,
it has an intense hop aroma and
strong hop bitterness. Our hopback
process uses fresh hop cones to take
this IPA to unexpected places.
Prepare for a mouthful of flavor.
Endless River - Kölsch - A
clean, crisp beer, Kölsch offers a very
slight fruity flavor and aroma. Light
gold in color, with a delicate head.
This light-bodied beer appeals to nearly
everyone who samples it. Expect to
enjoy a slight tang in the finish.
37 Murphy Brewery
Cork, Ireland
www.murphys.com
Irish Stout - Dry Stout - Murphy’s
is a light, sweet, dry stout with a hint
of caramel flavor.
Red Ale - Irish Red Ale - Well-bal-
anced and full-bodied, this truly
refreshing red beer has a unique
specialty beer flavor.
59 Natty Greene’s Brewing Co.
Greensboro, NC
www.bigdraft.com
Buckshot Amber Ale -
American Amber Ale - A full-bodied
amber ale with rich, smooth flavor and
notes of caramel and toffee.
American Pale Ale - American
Pale Ale - A medium-bodied deep
golden ale with distinct, bitter charac-
ter and a hoppy, piney, citrus finish.
Farmstead Saison - Saison - A
traditional belgian saison, golden in
color with a medium bitterness. The
yeast gives the beer a dry finish with
spicy and fruity notes.
Oktoberfest Lager -
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Oktoberfest - Deep copper colored
lager has toasty malt notes with a
medium body and low German hops.
Wildflower Wit - Witbier - A tra-
ditional Belgian Wheat Beer, light bod-
ied with citrus notes on the finish.
Red Nose Winter Ale - Winter
Specialty - Full bodied winter ale with
caramel rich malt body. Spiced with
cinnamon ginger and orange peel.
7 New Belgium Brewing Co.
Fort Collins, CO
www.newbelgium.com
Fat Tire Amber Ale - American
Amber Ale - Named in honor of our
founder Jeff's bike trip through
Belgium, where he discovered that
Belgian beers use a far broader
palette of ingredients (fruits, spices,
esoteric yeast strains) than German or
English styles. Upon his return, Jeff
created Fat Tire and Abbey Belgian
Ale, (assuming Abbey would be his
big gun). Fat Tire's appeal quickly
became evident. People liked every-
thing about it. Except the name. Fat
Tire won fans with its sense of bal-
ance: toasty, biscuit-like malt flavors
coasting in equilibrium with hoppy
freshness.
1554 Enlightened Black Ale -
Belgian Dark Ale - This beer uses a
light lager yeast strain and dark
chocolaty malts to redefine what dark
beer can be. In 1997, a Fort Collins
flood destroyed the original recipe our
researcher, Phil Benstein, found in the
library. So Phil and brewmaster, Peter
Bouckaert, traveled to Belgium to
retrieve this unique style lost to the
ages. Their first challenge was deci-
phering antiquated script and outdat-
ed units of measurement, but trial and
error (and many months of in-house
sampling) culminated in 1554, a high-
ly quaffable dark beer with a moder-
ate body and mouthfeel.
Hoptober - Golden Ale - Five
hops and four malts make Hoptober
Golden Ale a veritable cornucopia of
the earth. Pale and wheat malt are
mashed with rye and oats to create a
medium-bodied ale with a creamy
mouthfeel. Centennial, Cascade,
Sterling, Willamette, and Glacier hops
form a bonfire of citrus notes, fruity
cheers and a bold finale.
Ranger IPA - American IPA - So,
here it finally is—New Belgium’s foray
into true American India pale ales.
Bring out the hops! This clear amber
beauty bursts at the starting gate with
an abundance of hops: Cascade (cit-
rus), Chinook (floral/citrus), and
Simcoe (fruity) lead off, with Cascade
added again for an intense dry hop
flavor. Brewed with pale and dark
caramel malts that harmonize the hop
flavor from start to finish, Ranger is a
sessionable splendor for all you
hopinistas. Thank your Beer Ranger!
67 New South Brewing Co.
Myrtle Beach, SC
www.newsouthbrewing.com
White Ale - Witbier - An
American interpretation of a classic
Belgian wheat ale or “witbier.” Light
and refreshing, brewed with just a hint
of a orange zest and coriander.
Nut Brown Ale - American
Brown Ale - Beautiful mahogany color.
A traditionally mellow English hop
character, in a very drinkable brown
ale, with pleasant hints of chocolate
and caramel in the finish.
Oktoberfest - Oktoberfest - This
Oktoberfest exhibits a clean and crisp
German hop character, slightly domi-
nated by a malty smoothness.
Bourbon Stout - Stout - A clas-
sic Irish stout aged in Woodford
Reserve barrels.
30 North Coast Brewing Co.
Fort Bragg, CA
www.northcoastbrewing.com
Red Seal - American Amber Ale -
Malt and hops are beautifully married
in this full-bodied, copper-red pale
ale. Red Seal is generously hopped
for a long, spicy finish. An excellent
accompaniment to grilled meats and
rich sauces.
Brother Thelonius - Belgian
Dark Strong Ale - In the style of a
Belgian dark strong ale, the beer is
rich and robust with an ABV of 9.3%.
La Merle - Belgian Specialty Ale -
Le Merle is a rustic ale, pale in color,
inspired by the rich brewing traditions
of the Flanders region. Abundant
hops and a Belgian yeast strain con-
tribute exotic aromas of tropical fruit.
60 Odell Brewing Co.
Fort Collins, CO
www.odellbrewing.com
90 Shilling - American Amber
Ale - The name 90 Shilling comes
from the Scottish method of taxing
beer. Only the highest quality beers
were taxed 90 Shillings. A shilling was
a British coin used from 1549 to 1982.
Odell Brewing thinks you’ll find this
original ale brilliantly refreshing, and
worth every shilling.
IPA - American IPA - A spin on the
traditional IPA, originally shipped from
England to India in the 1700’s. New
varieties of highly aromatic American
hops are added to create a distinctive
bitterness profile and an incredible
hop character.
Bourbon Barrel Stout -
Bourbon Barrel Stout - This limited
edition offering begins with a full-bod-
ied imperial stout that has notes of
sweet milk chocolate, smooth vanilla
and roasted coffee beans. Then
things get interesting. It is transfered
to Kentucky bourbon barrels where it’s
aged for four months to let traces of
oak and caramel come forward. The
bourbon barrels have a remarkable
effect on the beer. In turn, the beer
has a remarkable effect on the senses.
91 Orange Blossom Pilsner
Orlando, FL
www.uniquebeers.com/obp
Orange Blossom Pilsner -
Fruit Beer - Brewed with 2.3 tea-
spoons of orange blossom honey in
each bottle. The yeast ferments all the
sugar and leaves behind a delicate
honey and orange blossom character.
12 Original Sin Hard Cider
New York, NY
www.origsin.com
Original Sin Cider - Common
Cider - A 6% alcohol cider made from
domestic Granny Smith apples. Light
and crisp with a smooth finish,
Original Sin contains no artificial fla-
vors or colors, allowing the natural fla-
vor of the apple to speak for itself.
O.S. is gluten-free.
6 Oskar Blues Brewery
Lyons, CO
www.oskarblues.com
Dale’s Pale Ale - American Pale
Ale - America’s first hand-canned craft
beer delivers a hoppy nose and
assertive but balanced flavors of pale
malts and hops from start to finish.
First canned in 2002, DPA is a critical-
ly acclaimed trailblazer that has
changed the way craft beer fiends
perceive canned beer.
Mama’s Little Yella Pils -
Classic American Pilsner - Oskar
Blues’ newest beer is a small-batch
version of the beer that made Pilsen,
Czech Republic famous. Brewed with
100% pale malt, German specialty
malts and Bavarian hops. Gentle hop-
ping (35 IBUs) and low ABV (5.3%)
notes

make it a flavorful but low-dose
refresher.
Old Chub - Scottish Strong Ale -
This Scottish strong ale (8% ABV) is
brewed with bodacious amounts of
malted barley and specialty grains,
and a dash of beechwood-smoked
malt. Old Chub features a skim-milk
mouthfeel, semi-sweet flavors of
cocoa and coffee, and a kiss of
smoke.
8 Pabst Brewing Co.
San Antonio, TX
www.pabst.com
Pabst Blue Ribbon - Premium
American Lager - This classic premi-
um lager brew is hand crafted with a
hefty infusion of six-row barley, plus a
unique combination of Pacific domes-
tic and imported Yugoslavian hops.
Aged at high gravity, PBR is then
cleared and finished to the smooth,
robust likeness of a fine pilsner.
McSorleys Ale - Scottish Ale - A
classic ale craft-brewed in the tradi-
tion of Olde New York.
81 Peak Organic Brewing Co.
Washington, DC
www.peakbrewing.com
IPA - American IPA - A hoppy yet
smooth IPA showcasing Nugget,
Simcoe and Amarillo Hops. 7.2% ABV,
74 IBU.
Amber - American Amber Ale -
This amber ale features a beautiful
balance of sweet caramel malts and
spicy Hallertau hops.
Nut Brown - American Brown
Ale - Smooth brown ale with nice
Hallertau hop kick.
110 Pyramid Breweries
Seattle, WA
www.pyramidbrew.com
Haywire Hefeweizen -
Weizen/Weissbier - A refreshing,
unfiltered wheat ale with a smooth
flavor.
96 Redhook Ale Brewery
Seattle, WA
www.redhook.com
Long Hammer IPA - American
IPA - A great crisp taste with wonder-
ful hop aroma, this is a pitcher-friendly
IPA all hop heads can enjoy. This is
one of Redhook’s oldest and best-sell-
ing brews.
Late Harvest Autumn Ale -
Specialty Beer - As the fall days grow
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shorter, beer drinkers naturally start
their migration toward more robust,
full-bodied brews. Late Harvest is an
easy-drinking, yet flavorful brew that
features a deep chestnut color and
unique, roasted malt aroma and flavor.
Late Harvest's rich flavor is the result
of using four different malts, yet the
robust profile remains balanced and
sophisticated, thanks to the two dis-
tinctive hop additions.
17 Rogue Ales
Newport, OR
www.rogue.com
Brutal IPA - American IPA - An
Imperial bitter with exotic traditional
floor malts. Citrusy, hoppy flavor; stu-
pendous hop aroma.
Captain Sig’s Northwestern
Ale - American Amber Ale - Deep red
in color, this ale starts off with a floral,
slightly citrus hop nose, hop flavor
soon fades into the malty backbone of
this red ale.
69 Roth Brewing
Raleigh, NC
www.rothbrewing.com
Raleigh Red - American Amber
Ale - Medium-bodied with a biscuit
flavor and a subdued floral hop
aroma. Well-balanced . 4.3% ABV
Forgotten Hollow - Cinnamon
Porter - Dominated by a smooth cin-
namon taste and aroma. Medium-
bodied with a rich tan head. Finishes
with sweet toffee notes. 6.5% ABV
FoeHammer - Barleywine Style
Ale - This well-hopped, heavily-bodied
beer is supremely balanced and
sports hints of toffee and apricot that
mask its 10.5% ABV.
42 Samuel Smith,
The Old Brewery
Tadcaster, England
www.merchantduvin.com
Taddy Porter - Robust Porter - A
very dark porter, fairly full in body and
packed with flavor. Intense, dry tangy
character of roasted barley.
Pale Ale - English Pale Ale - A
beautiful balance of malts and fresh
hops.
Organic Lager - English Lager -
A full-bodied lager with lots of malt and
hop character. A touch hoppier than
many lagers yet perfectly balanced.
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97 San Miguel Brewery
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
www.sanmiguel.com
San Miguel - Pilsner - A slight
hoppy note with a distinct bitter hop
character. The beer has a well-bal-
anced medium body and slides
smoothly across the palate with a
pleasant clean finish.
35 Saranac Brewery
Utica, NY
www.saranac.com
Pale Ale - English Pale Ale - This
true English pale ale is rich and fruity,
yet finishes crisp. It has a
copper/amber color and medium
body.
Pumpkin - Spiced Beer - Brewed
with pumpkin, cinnamon, allspice,
cloves, ginger and vanilla. Look for a
full body and amber color.
Oktoberfest - German Lager -
Saranac Octoberfest is a medium-
bodied, copper colored lager. Its rich,
malty taste is subtly balanced by
Saaz and Tettnang hops. The beer is
aged slowly in the tradition of the
Oktoberfest beers of Munich.
109 Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Chico, CA
www.sierranevada.com
Pale Ale - American Pale Ale -
The classic example of the American
pale ale style. It has a deep amber
color and a full-bodied, complex char-
acter. The fragrant bouquet and spicy
flavor are the results of generous use
of the best whole-cone Cascade
hops.
Tumbler Autumn Brown Ale -
American Brown Ale - As the nights
grow cool, the leaves on the valley
oaks begin to turn and fall. In honor of
this yearly dance, Sierra Nevada
brings you Tumbler Autumn Brown Ale
and invites you to enjoy the show.
They use malt within days of roasting
at the peak of its flavor for a gracefully
smooth malt character. So pour a
glass, and grab a window seat to
watch as the leaves come tumbling
down.
Kellerweis - Weizen/Weissbier -
One of the only American
hefeweizens made using the tradition-
al Bavarian style of open fermentation,
adding uncommon depth and flavor
complexity.
Torpedo Extra IPA - American
IPA - A big American IPA; bold,
assertive and full of flavor and aromas
notes
highlighting the complex citrus, pine
and herbal character of whole-cone
American hops.
Porter - Porter - A delicious, dark,
medium-bodied ale made with roast-
ed malted barley. It has a creamy
head and a very rich, yet smooth,
malty flavor.
1 Ska Brewing Co.
Durango, CO
www.skabrewing.com
Modus Hoperandi - American
IPA - An American India pale ale with
a deep golden-orange color. Bitter
and hoppy with a surprisingly smooth
finish.
Decadent Imperial IPA -
Imperial IPA - Citrus aroma prevails.
Mounds of fresh hops and caramel
malts explode upon the palate.
Originally produced to celebrate the
brewery’s tenth year in business, this
imperial IPA does nothing to hide
Ska’s tendency toward self-indulgent
behavior,
15 Smuttynose Brewing Co.
Portsmouth, NH
www.smuttynose.com
Finest Kind IPA - American IPA
A liquid salute to the glory of the
American hop grower. The citrusy hop
flavor coming from a mixture of
Simcoe and Santiams is pleasantly
balanced by a smooth bitterness from
the Amarillo hops. The beer itself is
light bodied and crisp with a golden
color that will throw a slight haze, as
we bottle it unfiltered.
Old Brown Dog - American
Brown Ale - Old Brown Dog has been
cited as a classic example of the
American brown ale style of beer.
Compared to a typical English brown
ale, this example is fuller-bodied and
more strongly hopped.
19 Spoetzl Brewery
San Antonio, TX
www.shiner.com
Shiner Bock - Bock - Bock
reflects the tradition of genuine
Bavarian beers as a brew only a
craftsman like Kosmos Spoetzl,
trained in the “Old Country” could
bring to life. With its deep amber
color, distinctive rich flavor and full
body, Shiner Bock demonstrates the
care of a handcrafted brewing
process to bring forth a mellow taste
free of the bitter aftertaste found in
many micro, specialty and imported
beers
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Shiner Black - Dark Lager -
Crafted according to exacting old-
world standards with imported Czech
Saaz, Styrians Hops and selected
roasted malts, this is the darkest beer
we brew. Initially added to the Shiner
family as the 97 Anniversary Brew, the
unique and complex flavor found
such a following among customers
that they brought it back for good!
Shiner Hefeweizen - Weizen - This
beer captures Munich malt, wheat
grist used in a scant 1% of all brews
worldwide, orange and lemon zest in
a frothy classic example of bottle-con-
ditioned beer. Adding clover honey
and yeast just before it' s bottled
touches off a unique, secondary fer-
mentation process inside every keg
and bottle before its final release from
the brewery.
Shiner 101 - Pilsner - With the
same commitment to well-crafted
beer with no frills, classic recipes and
bold taste, and with just four ingredi-
ents—hops, barley, yeast and water—
our 101st anniversary beer is the cul-
mination of more than a century of
brewing know-how.
46 St. Martin
Brunehaut, Belgium
www.brunehaut.com
St. Martin Brune - Belgian
Strong Ale - Sweet caramel flavor,
some molasses and fruit with Belgian
spice notes. Medium-full body with
moderately high carbonation.
83 Starr Hill Brewery
Crozet, VA
www.starrhill.com
Festie - Oktoberfest - Rich and
malty, our tribute to great German
lager is available in September and
October. Its name invokes the
German tradition of Oktoberfest, while
also paying homage to the end of the
summer music festival season.
The Love - Witbier - The Love is
an unfiltered wheat beer, also known
as a hefeweizen. It is distinguished by
its extremely light body and hints of
banana and clove. A slice of lemon
can complement this refreshing brew.
Dark Starr Stout - Dry Stout -
Brewed with roasted barley, with hints
of coffee and dark chocolate, this
stout packs a robust taste into a sur-
prisingly light body. This signature
brew pours like velvet and drinks like
a slice of grandma’s pumpernickel
bread.
Northern Lights IPA -
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American IPA - Northern Lights is a
classic American-style India pale ale.
Characterized by its full-flavored bitter-
ness and citrus aroma, a perfect blend
of barley and hops make this a very
balanced IPA, not to mention a deli-
ciously crafted piece of the heavens.
92 Stoudt’s Brewing Co.
Adamstown, PA
www.stoudtsbeer.com
American Pale Ale - American
Pale Ale - A crisp pale ale with medi-
um body and a light amber color.
Generous additions of Cascade hops
provide a refreshing bitterness and
vibrant citrus aroma.
Scarlet ESB - English Pale Ale -
This English-style ale is brewed with
Maris Otter and caramel malts for a
rich reddish-copper color and a
smooth malty palate.
62 Strangford Lough Brewing Co.
Killyleagh, United Kingdom
(Northern Ireland)
www.slbc.ie
St. Patrick’s Best Ale - Irish
Ale - Light and refreshing on the
palate, this session best bitter has a
classic Irish malt and traditional hop
aroma. Light amber in color, this
smooth beer has hints of caramel with
a woody bitterness.
Legbiter Ale - American Ale -
Brilliant golden ale with an inviting cit-
rus fragrance of late-added Cascade
and Glacier hops. The fine hop and
light malt aromas carry through to the
palate to give an ale that is full but
refreshing, with a clean caramel malt
bitter finish.
82 Sweetwater Brewing Co.
Atlanta, GA
www.sweetwaterbrew.com
420 Extra Pale Ale - American
Pale Ale - A West Coast-style pale ale
with a good hop feel that finishes with
a nice clean crisp taste.
Blue - Fruit Beer - A lighter-style
pale ale with a hint of fresh blueberry.
IPA - India Pale Ale (IPA) - A mam-
moth IPA that is defined by generous
quantities of premium hops. An exten-
sive dry-hopping process contributes
to its intense flowery hop character,
with an underlay of grapefruit.
Motor Boat - Extra
Special/Strong Bitter/(English Pale
Ale) - Motor Boat is a titillating version
of an ESB. Dry-hopped for a face--full
of flavor.
68 Thomas Creek Brewery
Greenville, SC
www.thomascreekbeer.com
Appalachian Amber Ale -
American Amber Ale - A full-bodied,
crisp and refreshing American-style
amber ale with a malty flavor, rich
caramel color, smoky notes and a
smooth aromatic finish.
Class Five IPA - American IPA
A citrusy and crisp, fully-hopped India
pale ale brewed for a true hop head
with hop varietals ranging from
Magnum and Cascade to a dry- hop-
ping with Willamette and Centennial.
Deep Water Dopplebock -
Doppelbock - A full-bodied, German-
style dark lager with a rich creamy fla-
vor, roasted nut tones and an easy fin-
ish with notes of coffee and toasty
chocolate.
Pump House Porter - Robust
Porter - A fully-flavored and fully-
hopped robust English-style porter
with a deep charcoal brown hue and
a proper bitter finish.
River Falls Red Ale - Irish Red
Ale - Our flagship beer, a medium-
bodied, extremely smooth Irish-style
red ale with an evenly roasted malt
character from start to finish.
Up The Creek Extreme IPA -
Imperial IPA - UTC is mashed in at a
low temperature to increase the
amount of fermentable sugars while
reducing residual sweetness. This
creates a hoppy behemoth of a beer
with its alcohol well hidden.
45 Tibet Lhasa Brewery
Lhasa, Tibet
www.lhasabeerusa.com
Lhasa - Dortmunder Export -
Lhasa Beer is a super premium quali-
ty, all-natural, all-malt lager beer made
in Tibet with the world's finest ingredi-
ents, including Himalayan spring
water, Saaz hops, yeast and a maxi-
mum possible quantity of ia unique
Tibetan barley.
75 Top of the Hill Restaurant &
Brewery
Chapel Hill, NC
www.topofthehillrestaurant.com
Curve Inn Light - Light Lager -
A lighter version of the Kenan Lager,
just in time for football season.
Old Well White - Witbier - A
smooth and light wheat beer that is
characteristically cloudy. Spiced with
orange peel and coriander. Quite dif-
ferent and unexpected.
5.5% ABV
Ram’s Head IPA - American IPA
The brew-master’s favorite! Strong
hop flavor dominates this internation-
ally-known beer.
Blue Ridge Blueberry Wheat
Fruit Beer - Back by popluar demand,
this is a delicately-flavored and thirst-
quenching wheat beer.
Frank Graham Porter - Porter -
Named after the famous UNC
President nicknamed the "Fighting
Half Pint," this smooth, nitrogenated
beer is a perfect example of its style.
4.2% ABV
Southern Saison - Saison - A
tart fruit taste and dry finish. A refresh-
ing summertime beer.
56 Triangle Brewing Co.
Durham, NC
www.trianglebrewery.com
Belgian-Style Golden Ale -
Belgian Strong Ale - This strong gold-
en ale measures in at 8% & showcas-
es a variety of the ingredients and
brewing methods that help differenti-
ate Triangle beers. The Strong Golden
is fermented at a higher temperature
than our other beers adding an under-
current of fruitiness (although there is
no fruit in the beer). Very lightly fil-
tered, the Golden exhibits complex
mouthfeel, strong malt flavors, a spicy
hop presence and soothing alcohol
warmth, followed by a clean, dry fin-
ish. It is excellent with food as well as
served by itself.
Belgian-Style White Ale -
Belgian Style White Ale - Triangle
Brewing’s interpretation of a traditional
Belgian wheat beer, Triangle White Ale
is unique and truly refreshing. The
style gets its name from the white,
slightly cloudy appearance of this
unfiltered wheat ale. Brewed with a
generous amount of white wheat and
our own special blend of spices,
makes Triangle White Ale complex in
flavor without being overpowering or
cloying. Overall, it is a beer that is
light, fruity and very drinkable during
a hot summer day. 5% ABV
Triangle IPA - American IPA -
This Anniversary 2.0 IPA sparkles with
effervescence. The 2.0 presents a flo-
ral, citrusy aroma and full hop flavor,
while downplaying the bitterness and
balancing out the malt. This beer has
been specially dry hopped with 3 dif-
ferent hop varieties for a wonderful
drinking experience. The 2.0 meas-
ures in at 5.7% ABV.
Triangle Imperial Amber -
Imperial Amber - This strong amber
notes

ale has a strong malt presence that
holds this brew together. IBUs of
around 90 balance the brew which is
dry hopped to add an invigorating cit-
rus and floral aroma that lingers to the
end while complementing all that
malt. It is excellent with food as well
as served by itself or in the company
of a fine cigar.
4 Unibroue Brewery
Quebec, Canada
www.unibroue.com
La Fin Du Monde - Belgian
Tripel - A brilliant golden color with
vigorously effervescent foam. It is
mildly yeasty with a complex palate of
malt, fruit and spice notes followed by
a smooth, dry finish.
Maudite - Belgian Dark Strong
Ale - Maudite has a deep amber-red
color with a rocky foam head and an
appealing aroma of wild spices and
floral hop notes. It is spicy, vinous and
deliciously complex with a crisp hop
finish.
Éphémère - Fruit Beer - This
wheat beer has an alluring, pale gold-
en color, effervescent foam, and a
bouquet of Granny Smith apples and
spices. It is slightly sweet, slightly tart
and refreshingly thirst-quenching.
Trois Pistoles - Belgian Dark
Strong Ale - A dark brown color
topped with a rich foam mousse. Its
slightly sweet taste is enhanced by
accents of roasted malt, cocoa, ripe
fruit and dark spices with a smooth
finish like an old port.
36 Warsteiner Brauerei
Warstein, Germany
www.warsteiner.de
Premium - German Pilsner (Pils) -
Brewer’s Reception Sponsors
A slightly pale German-style pilsner
with a clean, crisp, refreshing taste.
Dunkel - Munich Dunkel Lager -
A medium-bodied German dark lager
with a deep chestnut brown hue,
toasty malt and mocha aromas.
49 Weeping Radish Brewery &
Restaurant
Jarvisburg, NC
www.weepingradish.com
Black Radish - Schwarzbier
(Black beer) - A medium-bodied, dark
German lager-style beer. Clean lager
character with an aftertaste that tends
to dry out slowly and linger, featuring
hop bitterness with a complementary
but subtle roastiness in the back-
ground.
OBX - Kölsch - A crisp, clean
Kölsch-style beer.
Fest - Amber Lager - Dark gold to
deep orange-red in color. Medium
body. Distinctive and complex malti-
ness, moderate hop bitterness.
Smooth and clean, with a depth of
malt character.
27 Wells & Young's Ltd
Bedford, Bedfordshire
www.charleswells.co.uk
Wells Bombardier Ale -
Standard/Ordinary Bitter - This English
bitter has a burnt copper color with a
rich aroma of peppery hops and
raisins; the taste takes on more dark
fruit and juicy malt flavors.
Wells Banana Bread Ale -
Fruit Beer - This brew combines all
the traditional qualities and style of a
Charles Wells bitter with the subtle fla-
vor of banana.
Young's Double Chocolate
Stout - Sweet Stout - Chocolate malt
World Beer Festival Brewery Listing U-Y
and real dark chocolate are combined
with Young’s award-winning rich, full
flavored dark beer to craft a satisfy-
ing, but not overly sweet experience.
44 Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Easton, PA
www.weyerbacher.com
Double Simcoe - Imperial IPA -
A full-flavored, single hop-variety India
pale ale with hints of pineapple and
citrus upfront, a good malt backbone
in the middle, and a clean finish that
doesn't linger too long.
Merry Monks - Belgian Tripel -
The pilsner malts in this Belgian-style
abbey tripel, combined with the
Belgian yeast strains, yield a remark-
able and complex flavor. Perhaps
you'll note subtle hints of banana and
cookie dough.
95 Widmer Brothers Brewing Co.
Portland, OR
www.widmer.com
Hefeweizen - Weizen/Weissbier -
The first America-style hefeweizen,
this golden unfiltered wheat beer is
truly cloudy.
Drifter Pale Ale - American Pale
Ale - Brewed with generous amounts
of Summit hops, a variety known for
their intense citrus flavors and aro-
mas, the bittering hops are percepti-
ble enough to give the beer a crisp,
clean, quenching finish, yet also soft
enough to keep the beer smooth and
balanced.
100 Wynkoop Brewing Co.
Denver, CO
www.wynkoop.com
Railyard - Amber Hybrid Beer -
An amber ale with a mahogany color
and a creamy tan head. Aromas of
biscuit malts and sliced apples or
pears, and flavors of toasted malts
and caramel. 5.3 % ABV.
107 Yuengling
Pottsville, PA
www.yuengling.com
Lager - American Amber Ale - A
rich amber color and medium-bodied
flavor. Brewed with roasted caramel
malt for a subtle sweetness and a
combination of Cluster and Cascade
hops, this true original promises a
well-balanced taste with distinct char-
acter.
Light Lager - Light Lager -
Skillfully paired caramel malt flavor
and mild hop character creates a
beautifully rich-colored beer with deep
amber highlights that finishes smooth
and clean, with only 99 calories.
Black & Tan - Dark American
Lager - Combines Yuengling’s popu-
lar Dark Brewed Porter and Premium
Beer to create a brew that is rich and
dark in color, with a well-balanced fla-
vor and a smooth finish. Faint sweet-
ness with hints of caramel and coffee
from the dark roasted malts.
Porter - Porter - Brewed with a
generous portion of caramel and dark
roasted malts that deliver a rich, full-
bodied flavor and creamy taste, with
slight tones of chocolate evident in
every sip.
Chesterfield Ale - American
Pale Ale - Brewed with select hops, its
distinct robust flavor combines sweet
maltiness and lingering herbal bitter-
ness. The bright gold color is comple-
mented by a lightly laced foam head
and fragrant zesty aroma.
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 FESTIVAL MUSIC MAIN STAGE:
Afternoon session
12-2pm Big Daddy Love
2-4pm Children of the Horn
Evening session
Big Daddy Love 6-8pm Brushfire Stankgrass
Asheville, North Carolina’s Big Daddy Love brings a unique and 8-10pm BIG Something
natural blend of jam, grass, roots, and rock to the emerging North VIP TENT:
Carolina music scene. With fiery vocals, sweet-sugary harmonies,
12-4pm Voodoo Flute
authentic song-craft, and undeniable musicianship, the quintet
6-10pm Paul Bomar
delivers high-energy performances of “Appalachian Rock”– their
own brand of good-time music. Big DaddyLove

Children of the Horn

Children of the Horn has created a unique sound by combining
influences from soul jazz, rhythm and blues and world music.
With a front-line of horns, the band takes the listener on a kalei-
doscopic journey through original compositions that range from
super-syncopated funk and Latin to swaggering New Orleans
Second Line to classic Motown-inspired grooves.

Brushfire Stankgrass
Brushfire Stankgrass*
Mixing Moog effects with bluegrass backbeats, the sound of
Brushfire Stankgrass is instantly unique. While the music is
certainly not straight bluegrass, the sound is undeniably Children of the Horn
derived from mountain musical traditions. Their eclectically
entertaining live performances have earned the band a loyal
following.

BIG Something
The BIG Something is an ever-evolving, groove-based mod-
ern rock band from Burlington, NC. With unique electronic
embellishments and an alternative feel, funk, soul and rock n roll
are all fused into “one savory package, well delivered in execution,”
says Evan Wade on behalf of Leeway’s Homegrown Music
Network.

Voodoo Flute
Voodoo Flute has been playing throughout the region for almost
a decade, amazing fans with their brilliant performances.
Specializing in bebop, fusion and Latin jazz, Voodoo Flute effort-
lessly weaves intricate rhythms and melodies into captivating and
beautiful solos.

Paul Bomar
Paul Bomar is a jazz guitarist, composer, and guitar
instructor (any style) from Clayton, North Carolina. Paul Bomar
He has been involved with numerous musical projects
throughout the area which include Steel Belted Slinky,
Evil Jungle, the Corey Parker Band, Human Beans, the
3tet, Blue Concept, The F.O. Finch Quartet, the Marc
Getter Trio, and the Paul Bomar Trio both on stage
and in the studio. Voodoo Flute

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STOP!
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souvenir glasses, and more. Subscribe to All About Beer Magazine for the best
on beer and get in on the subscribers’ ticket presale for the next festival. Get a
free American Brew DVD with the purchase of $25 or more in merchandise.
Don’t miss out… stop by NOW!

Go to the All About Beer Magazine Tent for World Beer Festival souvenirs!
• T-shirts
• Beer glasses
• Subscriptions
• DVDs

S T O P AT T H E A L L A B O U T B E E R M A G A Z I N E T E N T !

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Become a Member
Anybody can become an enthusiast member
96rock is a of the North Carolina Brewers Guild! It’s a
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World Beer Festival To become a member visit us online at
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 BEER FLIGHTS

Get the most out of the festival—and make some sense of the baffling array of beers available for tasting—by organizing
your sampling around a theme. Here are a few ways to plan your festival session, and to leave the festival with a much bet-
ter understanding of the world of beer!

TARHEEL BREWS
Sample some great beers made by North Carolina brewers. Eighteen breweries–eighteen different beer styles.
BOOTH BEER NAME BREWERY LOCATION

50 Blowing Rock High Country Lager Boone Brewing Co. Blowing Rock, NC
71 Torch Pilsner Foothills Brewing Co. Winston-Salem, NC
47 El Toro Cream Ale Fullsteam Brewery Durham, NC
51 Carolina Strawberry Ale Carolina Beer Co. Mooresville, NC
76 Weeping Willow Wit Mother Earth Brewing Kinston, NC
58 Copperline Amber Ale Carolina Brewery Chapel Hill, NC
59 Farmstead Saison Natty Greene’s Brewing Co. Greensboro, NC
98 Belgian Style Red Ale Kind Beers Charlotte, NC
74 Harvest Time Pumpkin Ale Big Boss Brewing Co. Raleigh, NC
48 Antebellum Ale Craggie Brewing Co. Asheville, NC
73 Sweet Josie Brown Ale LoneRider Brewing Company Raleigh, NC
49 Black Radish Weeping Radish Brewery & Restaurant Jarvisburg, NC
75 Ram’s Head IPA Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery Chapel Hill, NC
56 Belgian-Style Golden Ale Triangle Brewing Co. Durham, NC
55 Devil’s Tramping Ground Tripel Aviator Brewing Co. Fuquay Varina, NC
64 Porter Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery Farmville, NC
70 Sledgehammer Stout Huske Hardware House Brewing Co. Fayetteville, NC
69 FoeHammer Barleywine Roth Brewing Raleigh, NC

NOT AFRAID OF THE DARK

A selection of dark beer styles. From soft maltiness to burnt toast, dark beers are packed with flavor.

81 Amber Peak Organic Brewing Co. Washington, DC

36 Dunkel Warsteiner Brauerei Warstein, Germany
32 Dark Wheat Arcobräu Brauhaus Moos, Germany
13 Ellie’s Brown Avery Brewing Co. Boulder, CO
46 St. Martin Brune St. Martin Brunehaut, Belgium
2 Xingu Black Beer Kaiser Brewery Diviaopolis, Brazil
7 1554 Enlightened Black Ale New Belgium Brewing Co. Fort Collins, CO
63 Edmund Fitzgerald Porter Great Lakes Brewing Co. Cleveland, OH
47 Hogwash Hickory-Smoked Porter Fullsteam Brewery Durham, NC
31 Milk Stout Left Hand Brewing Co. Longmont, CO
27 Young's Double Chocolate Stout Wells & Young's Ltd Bedford, England
67 Bourbon Stout New South Brewing Co. Myrtle Beach, SC
89 Lion Stout Lion Brewery Ceylon Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka

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CULTURE CLASH BEER FLIGHTS
Taste some classic European styles and bold American interpretations.

41 Hoegaarden Original White Ale Hoegaarden Brewery Hoegaarden, Belgium

10 UFO White Harpoon Brewery Boston, MA
3 Weissbier Moosbacher Moosbach, Germany
9 Shiner Hefeweizen Spoetzl Brewery San Antonio, TX
2 Monty Python’s Holy Grail Ale Black Sheep Brewery Masham, England
90 Chupacabras Pale Ale Cucapá Brewing Company Mexicali, Mexico
27 Scottish Ale Belhaven Brewery Dunbar, Scotland
6 Old Chub Scottish Strong Ale Oskar Blues Brewery Lyons, CO
3 Saison Dupont Dupont Brewery Tourpes-Leuze, Belgium
30 La Merle North Coast Brewing Co. Fort Bragg, CA
42 Taddy Porter Samuel Smith, The Old Brewery Tadcaster, England
68 Pump House Porter Thomas Creek Brewery Greenville, SC
37 Irish Stout Murphy Brewery Cork, Ireland
83 Dark Starr Stout Starr Hill Brewery Crozet, VA

YOU PUT WHAT IN MY BEER?

Sometimes, there’s more to beer than barley, hops, yeast and water.

77 Wild Blue Anheuser-Busch St. Louis, MO

91 Orange Blossom Pilsner Orange Blossom Pilsner Orlando, FL
5 Agave Wheat Breckenridge Brewery Denver, CO
4 Éphémère Unibroue Brewery Quebec, Canada
25 Blue Moon Pumpkin Blue Moon Brewing Co. Golden, CO
85 Rasta FaRye Blue Point Brewing Co. Patchogue, NY
27 Wells Banana Bread Ale Wells & Young's Ltd Bedfordshire, England
33 Southern Pecan Nut Brown Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co. Kiln, MS
69 Forgotten Hollow Porter with Cinnamon Roth Brewing Raleigh, NC
94 Pipeline Porter Kona Brewery Kailua-Kona, HI
101 Vanilla Java Porter Atwater Block Brewery Detroit, MI
106 Holy Mackerel Black Holy Mackerel Beers Fort Lauderdale, FL
60 Bourbon Barrel Stout Odell Brewing Co. Fort Collins, CO

THE HOP HEAD’S DELIGHT

If you love the flavor of hops, here are some of the festival’s bitterest brews.

99 Liberty Ale Anchor Brewing Co. San Francisco, CA

15 Finest Kind IPA Smuttynose Brewing Co. Portsmouth, NH
102 Racer 5 Bear Republic Brewing Co. Healdsburg, CA
86 East India Pale Ale Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn, NY
108 IPA Lagunitas Brewing Co. Petaluma, CA
109 Torpedo Extra IPA Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Chico, CA
103 Hazed & Infused Boulder Beer Co. Boulder, CO
11 Raging Bitch Belgian-style IPA Flying Dog Brewery Denver, CO
17 Brutal IPA Rogue Ales Newport, OR
44 Double Simcoe Weyerbacher Brewing Co. Easton, PA
71 Seeing Double IPA Foothills Brewing Co. Winston-Salem, NC
105 Steelhead Double IPA Mad River Brewing Co. Blue Lake, CA
16 Loose Cannon Heavy Seas Beer Baltimore, MD
1 Decadent Imperial IPA Ska Brewing Co. Durango, CO

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 FESTIVAL SPONSORS

We are extremely grateful for the support and participation of this year's sponsors.
They have been essential in helping us to:

• Promote the event to beer enthusiasts

• Provide the brewers with great hospitality
• Pay for the Beer Guide
• Underwrite our presentations
• Make tickets more convenient

Their assistance allows us to deliver a higher quality experience

and support our charity, Carolina Theatre.

THANK YOU.

Please honor their support by patronizing their businesses.

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 ALL ABOUT BEER
MAGAZINE BEER TALKS

Every hour on the hour, come to the All About Beer

presentation area above the left field corner to taste specially-
selected beers and learn about them from our experts.

AFTERNOON SESSION:

1:00 Homebrewing 101 EVENING SESSION:

John Federal (American Brewmaster)
Discover how easy it is to start making your own beer. 7:00 Hop Head’s Delight
Rick Lyke (All About Beer Magazine)
2:00 Sour Beer, The New Frontier Explore differences in hop varieties by tasting a series
Charles Psenka (Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales and of differently-hopped brews.
Leelanau Brewing Co.) and Grady Hull (New
Belgium Brewing Co.) 8:00 Meet the Triangle's New Breweries
Is sour the new bitter? Learn about a new flavor Two new breweries introduce their brews and tell
spectrum in beer. their stories.

3:00 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (Beer) 9:00 Pairing Beer and Chocolate
Gregg Glaser (All About Beer Magazine) Julie Johnson (All About Beer Magazine)
Think dark beer has to be heavy and strong? Unusual combinations of different beer styles and
Not necessarily. chocolates.

W H E R E C A N I B U Y A L L T H E S E G R E AT B E E R S ?
Check out these bars, restaurants and Total Wine and More Flying Saucer Big Boss Brewing Co.
beer retailers to find some of the Triangle Plaza 328 W. Morgan St., Raleigh 1249 Wicker Dr., Raleigh
beers you have enjoyed at the festival. 6105 Capital Blvd., Raleigh
Carolina Ale House The Borough
RETAIL STORES Carrboro Beverage Co. 512 Creekside Dr., Raleigh 317 W. Morgan St., Raleigh
102-A E. Main St., Carrboro
Sam’s Quick Shop Carolina Ale House Tyler’s Restaurant and Taproom
1605 Erwin Rd., Durham BARS AND Brier Creek 1483 Beaver Creek Commons Dr.
RESTAURANTS 7981 Skyland Ridge Pkwy. Apex
Total Wine and More
Patterson Place Fullsteam R&D Tavern Carolina Ale House Tyler’s Restaurant and Taproom
3615 Witherspoon Blvd., Durham 726 Rigsbee Ave., Durham North Raleigh 324 Blackwell St.
4512 Falls of Neuse Rd. Durham
Hope Valley Bottle Shop The Federal
4711 Hope Valley Rd., Suite 4E 914 W Main St., Durham Tir Na Nog Tyler’s Restaurant and Taproom
Durham 218 S. Blount St., Raleigh 102 E. Main St.
City Beverage Carrboro
Peace Street Market 4810 Hope Valley Rd., Durham Boylan Bridge Brew Pub
804 W. Peace St., Raleigh 201 S. Boylan Ave., Raleigh Carolina Ale House
Triangle Brewing Co. 2240 Walnut St.
College Beverage 918 Pearl St., Durham Raleigh Times Bar Cary
3006 Hillsborough St., Raleigh 14 E. Hargett St., Raleigh
Top of the Hill Restaurant and Carolina Ale House
Total Wine and More Brewery The Busy Bee Café 3911 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.
Brier Creek Shopping Center 100 West Franklin St., Chapel Hill 225 South Wilmington St., Raleigh Durham
8381 Brier Creek Pkwy.
Carolina Brewery Woody’s at City Market Aviator Tap House
Total Wine and More 460 W Franklin St., Chapel Hill 205 Wolfe St., Raleigh 600 E. Broad St.
4261 The Circle at North Hills St. Fuquay Varina
Raleigh Natty Greens Pub and Brewing
505 W. Jones St., Raleigh

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 MERCHANDISE & FOOD VENDORS

MERCHANDISE
VENDORS
All About Beer Magazine
ww.allaboutbeer.com
Festival merchandise and maga-
zine subscriptions. Buy your fes-
tival t-shirt here!
American
Brew Master #87
Raleigh, NC
www.americanbrewmaster.com
A full-line home brewing supply
shop, with most all the kinds of
supplies, equipment and ingredi-
ents you might typically use or
want. Our prices and service are
as good as, or a little better than
most of our competitors.
Dr. T-Shirt #18
Manasquan, NJ
www.DrT-Shirt.com
Fun beer & drinking t-shirts
made of top quality material.
Men’s & Ladies’ t-shirts that are
short sleeve.
Rocky Mountain Chocolate
Factory #65
Raleigh, NC
www.rmcf.com
A gourmet chocolate store spe-
cializing in caramel apples with
various toppings, dipped fruits,
assorted chocolates, store-made
fudge and much more!
Lusty Monk Mustard #84
Asheville, NC
www.lustymonk.com
Spicy, fresh-ground mustards
that will bring you to your knees!
The perfect companion for pret-
zels and beer.
The Durham Convention &
Visitors Bureau (DCVB) #99
DCVB is the heart, soul, and
energy of Durham as a visitor
destination. It's the defender of
Durham's image and brand and
guardian of its unique sense of
place. It drives economic success,
enhances quality of life, and gen-
erates tax revenues to fund local
governments.
Bull City Homebrew # 9
A wide variety of wine & beer
making ingredients and supplies
Cackalacky ® Hot Sauce #57
The famous original Cackalacky ®
Spice Sauce that was seen on
Food Network. This uniquely
delicious and mouthwatering
sauce tastes great on everything
that needs more zest - from
burgers and beans, to barbecue,
and beyond.
Weeping Radish
Jarvisburg
Brats, sauerkraut on a pretzel roll
Chubby's Tacos
Durham
Tacos, nachos, chips/salsa,
chips/queso, burritos
International Cuisine
Chapel Hill
Pita, kabobs, polish sausage
Golden Krust Caribbean
Bakery & Grill - Durham
Spinach Wrap, Asstd. Cakes,
Beef, Veggie, or Chicken Patties,
Jerk Chicken, Jerk Chicken
Wings, Fried Fish, Curry Chicken
Tacos Jaliscos
Garner
Fajita Nachos, Tamales, Fajitas
w/rice as a plate, Fajita tacos,
Fajita Quesadilla

AlkeSport #79 Joey D's NY Dogs

Pints For
Prostates #54
www.lyke2drink.com/pints
Pints for Prostates supports the
education, advocacy and support
efforts of Us TOO International.
North Carolina
Brewers Guild #72
www.ncbeer.org/
The NCBG is a not-for-profit
organization comprised of brew-
ers, vendors, retailers and craft
beer enthusiasts focused on pro-
moting North Carolina beer.
North Carolina boasts the largest
number of craft breweries in the
American South, with more than
20 brewpubs and 20 packaging
breweries.
Carolina Ale House
Triangle, NC
www.carolinaalehouse.com
Carolina Ale House is a family-
friendly sports-themed restaurant
best known for food, sports and
fun. Its extensive menu goes
beyond the typical sports bar fare
to satisfy all cravings, and its
wide selection of ales is recog-
nized as one of the best in the
market.
www.alkesport.com
FOOD VENDORS Durham
AlkeSport — gadgets and gear for R&B Grill Regular hotdogs, footlong hot-
the drinking athlete. Durham dogs, spicy sausages
Pork bbq, turkey legs, dyno wings
Rocky Mountain Outback Broad Street
Hats #34 Rudinos Pizza And Grinders Durham
www.rockymountainoutback.com Durham Hamburgers, chicken wings
Hills and Rocky Mountain Cheese or pepperoni pizza, sodas
Outback’s hats accompany out-
door enthusiasts around the
world.
Thousand Oaks Barrel Co. # 93
The Thousand Oaks Barrel Co.
specializes in premium quality
American White Oak Barrels for
aging Wine, Beer, Tequila,
Bourbon, Whiskey, Rum, Scotch,
Brandy, Cognac, Wine Vinegar or
any spirit that benefits from
aging. The barrels are hand craft-
ed for the home-winemaker,
brewer, or distiller and make a
wonderful centerpiece for the bar
or kitchen.
DotYourTees # 38
Funny T-shirts made in the US,
so you can be both patriotic and
funny at the same time. All T-
shirts are screen printed on
American Apparel shirts that are
100% combed cotton.

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