| Back when this blog started, 3,633 days ago*, I used to do a year-end award for the best new beer released that calendar year. I managed to keep it alive through 2011, when the sheer force of new releases overwhelmed me. In 2012 I gave a sort-of Satori to Occidental Brewing for excellence in lager beer, and general overall awesomeness. Since then the Satori has been dark…
Until now. It’s certainly not that things have gotten easier. It’s now so impossible to keep up with beers–so much so that the New School declared Occidental, my 2012 Satori winner, the second-most “most underrated brewery.” The winner, absurdly, was my 2009 Satori winner, Upright Brewing. Apparently we can not only not keep up with new breweries, what to speak of new beers, but now we’re losing track of beloved existing breweries. But I digress. This year I wanted to make special note of a new brewery here in town that should quickly jump to the top tier of must-see stops on a visit to Beervana. That brewery is Culm … |
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