2024 is ON and American craft brewers are addressing the new year with an exciting roster of beers you’re gonna want to have around.
A Cross-Continental Red (Milton, DE) – With more than 225 years of collective brewing experience, Delaware’s Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Belgium’s Brouwerji Rodenbach have joined forces and released something special that started with Rodenbach’s world-renowned Grand Cru, a Flemish red-brown ale aged in oak casks, that made the overseas trek from Belgium to Delaware via tanker ship.
After its cross-Atlantic journey, Rodenbach’s Grand Cru was blended with a Dogfish Head Red Ale infused with sumac and sweet orange peel. Definitely a beer wort chasing down, Dogfish Head Crimson Cru is a 7.1% ABV limited release with rich malty flavors of stewed fruits, plum, cherry, dried citrus and toffee.
“It was awesome to work with the folks at Rodenbach to create a deliciously complex, multi-continental brew. “We worked side-by-side with Rodenbach Brewmaster, Rudi Ghequire, on every component of this collaboration. I’m really proud of the end result and feel that Dogfish Crimson Cru is a liquid love letter we collectively floated across the Atlantic Ocean and back.”
Lighten Up (Anaheim, CA) – Founded in 2015, Bravus Brewing, North America’s first non-alcoholic craft brewery has never stopped innovating. The all-NA brewery was created by software engineer-turned-brewer Philip Brandes, who sought to solve a craft beer-loving friend’s dilemma of how to maintain his new sobriety without having to give up his favorite beverage.
And they’ve a terrific light beer that won’t muddy your head. Inspired by the mass-market Light Beers so popular in the US, but lighter on calorically and brimming with flavor, Bravus Golden Light is buzz-free take on the classic American style with a touch of biscuit malt sweetness and the crisp, clean finish you’d expect.
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