Festival Beers

It’s finally getting hot here in Arkansas. We can now look forward to sweltering heat until Halloween…. Then some wonderful cool air, followed by more sweltering heart.

Many of us beer geeks change our drinking preferences with the weather. Some nights may call for something special, while days may call for something more appropriate or thirst quenching. We are here to give you the down low on two of the newest beers to hit Arkansas, and we like to call them festival beers.

What’s a festival beer? These are the rules:  It must be delicious; you can’t go around and have amazing fun with boring and fizzy biff light. It must be thirst-quenching; you can’t really scratch that itch on a hot day with a stout aged in bourbon barrels with cocoa nibs, whale blubber, espresso and pig ears added.  It must look cool; you just don’t look cool with a biff heavy unless you have a mullet. It must be sessionable; you can’t crush those delicious Belgians without running the possibility of falling back i

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