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“Over in the mead world, a ‘handshaking’ between honey and beer is nothing new. (In fact, there’s a style of mead called a ‘braggot,’ which mixes mead with malted grains and, often, hops as well.) However, you don’t see many brews putting the ‘bee’ in ‘beer’ as it were. That’s a shame because we’ve seen it work really well. Case in point …”

Atheling Meadworks has a new mead, and where their other meads are semi-sweet, the Aelfwynn’s Song is an unabashedly fully sweet melomel …

“A staggeringly impressive number of breweries took up that charge. Even more impressive (and moving) is that, two years later, breweries are still making Black Is Beautiful stouts having raised over $3,000,000 so far, which brings us to this week’s Beer of the Week …”

“Thank Heaven it’s Parabola time again.”

“Danville’s Ballad Brewing Company has done something really special with their Thai Sour …”

“Big Fish makes lovely off-dry and semi-dry ciders from apples they grow in their orchards. However, for their Wild Meadow cider, they’ve gone a different route …”

“The Lunar Highlands is Lester’s [the head brewer’s] take on the Scottish Export Ale, and it is an exercise in even-handed brewing.”

“The River Run Barrel Aged Imperial Stout is an annual winter offering for Vanish, and it’s almost good enough to make us wish for more snow (and we really, really don’t like the snow)!”

Richmond’s Bingo Beer Company was clearly feeling a bit sassy when they whipped this sucker up …

“Sometimes we go a little crazy. Sometimes we go a little insane. Sometimes we feel very little shame. Sometimes — we’ll say it — we like to spice things up! Apparently, we’re not the only ones …”

“When we were looking to put a Doppelbock on our shelves (‘cause everyone deserves a Doppelbock every once in a while) we looked at some very fine American offerings. Then we thought, ‘Heck. Why not just go directly to the source?’ ”

For the first time since 1955, Trappistes Rochefort has a new release — the Triple Extra! Yes! Rochefort has added a Tripel to its lineup!