Strange Brews from The New Yorker

Dark and exotic beers have always attracted my husband. Wherever we travel, he remains alert to local hand-crafted offerings of the hops and barley kind.

This week in New Yorker magazine, staff writer Burkhard Bilger reports on the Dogfish Head brewery and the rise of extreme beer. Here Bilger ventures out to the Beer Table, a tasting room in Brooklyn, to sample American beers from Budweiser to Dogfish Head, as well as traditional German and Belgian brews.
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