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effervescent in all those ways that beer is. So much better than drinking a coke.
So, I occasionally go there for that, but when I am drinking beer, Hoppy Poppy is
a really cool, hoppy IPA. They always have a lot of rotating taps and something
on nitro.
The other great new thing in town is the Apiary, which is all mead and cider.
They have some incredible wild apple ciders--really tart and alive--and do a lot
of experimenting with local herbs and like flavor combinations. Their meads are
just fantastic. I used to live kind of near a creek, and I would make beer. There
was I think just enough ambient whatever in the air. I was having trouble getting
a clean batch. There were always some inadvertently Belgian flavors in there.
Accidentally Trappist! Ha ha!
A lot of breweries get good money for those accidental flavors these days.
I was getting those in, and I wasn’t totally happy, so I started making mead
because nobody knew what mead was supposed to taste like 15 to 20 years ago.
Mead was great because people were like, “Huh, what is it?” They’d never tasted
it before. Also, it’s a little more bulletproof than beer. I’m the guy who’s going
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