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...Every drop of John Harvard’s beer is a DeBisschop creation—even the five beers in the John Harvard’s sampler are personally chosen by him. What does the master himself prefer to drink? “My favorite is a good pale ale,” he says...
...most famous now as the beverage of the Vikings and their pantheon; in Valhalla, the Viking heaven, newcomers were welcomed with generous chalices full of mead. Dodd’s version is an uncarbonated drink made from molasses and mixed—more accurately, chased—with ginger ale and lemon juice. He brought two kinds of mead to the competition. Why mead? “I wanted to diversify from the vodka and whiskey,” Dodd explains from underneath his cowboy hat, also noting that whiskey takes years to age properly, while his meads take closer...
Besides the Senior Tutor Stout, another of the beers entered is the Nahuatl Pale Ale. “Nahuatl”—pronounced NA-wat—is the Aztec word for rabbit, and this beer has a very hoppy taste, which the two call a “Sierra Nevada Pale Ale kind of style.” Their third and final beer is “Lou Brown’s Olé,” a Belgian-style brew. “We were trying to make a lambic ale,” Hornstine says...
...Nahuatl is first up, and only Herrera goes up to face the master brewers. The pale ale is a solo creation, made before the two teamed up. “Sounded good, a nice release,” Slesar says, referring to the CO2 released when the bottle is opened. Herrera explains the word “Nahuatl” to the judges while filling their glasses. “It’s a word that means rabbit, and this beer is really hoppy,” he says. “It’s got a unique...
...It’s really spicy,” DeBisschop says. Meyers nods. “Great complexity,” he says. “If you hadn’t told me anything about this I would have thought it was a Belgian brown ale.” Slesar thinks he picks up on a fig taste. “There’s a fig thing going on, there’s some residual sweetness, the hop profile’s really good,” he says. “It’s figgy...