What We’re Drinking – Week of 2/9/15

Welcome to a new segment we’re going to try to complete weekly. In an amazing burst of creativity, we’re calling it What We’re Drinking, until we find something better. Anyway, every week, DCBeer staff members will tell you about the beer highlights they had from the previous week. Have a highlight from the last week? Let us know what it was via editor@dcbeer.com, and you might just find your post in another new segment, which is aptly named What You’re Drinking.

Jacob Berg, Staff Writer

It took a perfect storm of events for me to get Friday off and head up to Max’s Taphouse in Baltimore for the first day of their annual Belgian beer festival. Perusing the bottle list, one beer stood out, Cuvee De Ranke. A 70/30 blend of pale ale and lambic, the beer is at once thirst-quenching and -inducing. The beer exhibits a surprising amount of juicy hoppiness given the Old World varieties of Hallertau and Brewer’s Gold, but the addition of lambic, from Giardin, makes this beer supremely dry on th