If the beers we drank all through October have been Halloween costumes, they may go somewhat one thing like this:
Micheal Phelps, aka a perennial gold-medal winner.
A slice of pizza and a can of beer—a pair’s costume!
The mighty T-Rex.
A skeleton.
We’re having an excessive amount of enjoyable right here.
Let’s simply get into the most effective beers we drank this month.
10 Greatest Beers We Drank in October 2022
Extra Dodge Much less RAM – Comrade Brewing Co.
Denver, CO
American IPA – After we received again from the Nice American Beer Competition in Denver a pair weekends in the past, we might really say that it was an epic occasion. Forty thousand individuals returned to the Colorado Conference Middle for the primary in-person GABF in two years.
However maybe our favourite half was saying good day to previous brewery pals and assembly some utterly new ones.
For example, Comrade Brewing. The tongue-in-cheek brewery blew us away with its dedication to brewing nearly completely American-style IPAs.
This 12 months, Comrade’s Extra Dodge Much less RAM nabbed a gold within the American-Fashion India Pale Ale class—essentially the most aggressive on the 2022 GABF Awards ceremony with 423 entries.
Though pretty excessive in bitterness, Extra Dodge Much less RAM feels easy to drink and finishes utterly balanced. We will completely see why it received gold this 12 months.
READ THE ENTIRE LIST OF WINNERS HERE
Alt Faculty Like That – Novel Strand Brewing Firm
Denver, CO
Altbier – Novel Strand’s tackle an altbier was the primary beer we drank once we touched down in Denver for the Nice American Beer Competition two weeks in the past….
And we’re nonetheless fascinated with that beer.
A mode barely discovered exterior of Dusseldorf Germany, altbier really interprets to “previous beer” in English. It’s a malty, roasty ale that’s made with extra of a lager-like fermentation at cooler temperatures.
Novel Strand’s interpretation, one of many solely ones we’ve seen in our travels, pours out a wonderful amber and knocks again so easy with malty greatness and a little bit of noble hop character.
Need to know the place else we ate and drank that weekend?
We spent a fairly epic 4 days in Denver. Right here’s the place we drank and ate for ninety-six hours within the Mile Excessive Metropolis.
Solace & Advantage – Fieldwork Brewing
San Leandro, CA
Pale Lager – Severely, who doesn’t love pizza and beer? Is there a greater pairing within the historical past of all humanity?
We requested specialists across the trade for his or her favourite beer and pizza mixtures.
Whether or not that’s a NY-style foldable cheese slice and lager.
A Detroit-style pepperoni slab with a West Coast IPA.
Or a Neapolitan-style floppy Margherita pie with a blonde ale.
No matter mixture of dough, cheese, and sauce you like finest alongside a full glass of beer, we’ve received a number of suggestions from self-proclaimed beer and pizza aficionados!
Fieldwork Brewing CEO and Co-Founder Barry Braden recommended pairing the brewery’s Solace & Advantage German Lager with their cheese pizza.
So we did!
The beer’s easy, crisp lightness offered the right foil to wealthy cheese.
With the maltiness of a helles however a definite floralness of a German pilsner, Solace & Advantage was the form of deceivingly advanced beer we might discover ourselves reaching for many times.
Particularly whereas consuming pizza.
Deth’s Tar – Revolution Brewing Co.
Chicago, IL
Oatmeal Stout – Revolution Brewing Head Brewer Jim Cibak developed this standard-setting oatmeal stout to really construct out Revolution’s barrel-aging program.
Accordingly, this barrel-aged or imperial oatmeal stout does decide up further character from napping in barrels for at least eight months, however as much as two or three years.
The very first thing you’ll discover when pouring out Deth’s Tar is a putting darkish hue from the roasted barley and black malt. “There’s little or no astringency from the darkish malt, only a jet black shade with a tan head that’s good and creamy from the oat malt,” says Cibak.
Whenever you go to odor the beer, Cibak says you’ll “decide up these deep notes of roast and the barrel character, vanilla, caramel, nearly toasted marshmallow.”
Carrying by way of to the sip, Deth’s Tar hits these advanced roasted, nearly coffee-like notes. All mix for a beer that’s sensible past its years. “We’re attempting to create a really easy, velvety texture with a beer clocking within the 14-14.5% ABV vary however that drinks prefer it’s 10-11.5% ABV beer,” says Cibak. “You’ll know sturdy beer, no query there, however needed a easy, nice ingesting expertise.”
For one of the crucial iconic variations of an American oatmeal stout, Revolution’s Deth’s Tar is a must-try.
Dunkelsaurus – Mobtown Brewing Firm
Baltimore, MD
Munich Dunkel – Considered one of our 4 “4 Hidden-Gem Breweries That Shocked Us in Season Considered one of Subsequent Exit“, Mobtown Brewing Firm is the primary brewery to open within the historic Brewers Hill neighborhood in forty-one years. (Test them out 👇👇👇)
Dunkelsaurus is their tackle a standard German dunkel leveraging the best heritage German malts, hops, and yeast for the Oktoberfest season.
That is simply one other instance of stable beer from a brewery placing Baltimore on the proverbial craft beer map.
Basic to the core, Dunkelsaurus harkens again to the time of dinosaurs (okay, not that far), however you get the purpose. It is a beer that travels again in time. Thick with caramelized malt and a touch of Baker’s chocolate, this beer simply screams fall, making us attain for our anorak and run for the campfire.
Hazard Seaside IPA – New Belgium Brewing
Fort Collins, CO
American IPA – New Belgium not too long ago introduced the launch of this 12 months’s Vote Voodoo, a contest pitting two new Voodoo Ranger beers in opposition to one another to battle for Sorcerer Supreme.
It’s Voodoo Vice IPA vs. Hazard Seaside IPA!
Who will win?
Nicely, it’s really as much as customers to resolve who emerges victorious and earns a coveted spot on the cabinets.
And for the primary time ever…you really get to style each beers earlier than casting your poll.
To not sway your vote in any respect, however our cash is on…
Hazard Seaside.
This beer simply smacks your tongue like a coconut falling in your head. It’s a bit bolder and extra adventurous than Voodoo Vice, washing over your tongue with a tropical creaminess.
Hazard Seaside pulses with tropical taste like the center of a surfer, however is beguilingly plush like a teddy bear.
However you don’t should take our phrase for it.
Exit and seize the Voodoo Ranger Hoppy Pack and select for your self.
In spite of everything, this can be a Voodoo-mocracy.
Actually Actually Ridiculously Phantastic – New Picture Brewing
Wheat Ridge, CO
New Zealand IPA – Add New Picture to that listing of breweries saying IDGAF. They’re simply brewing the way in which they need to brew!
Right here, New Picture Founder Brandon Capps, taproom supervisor and now minority companion Gavin Estes, and entrepreneur, author, brewer, and marketer-extraordinaire Ryan Pachemeyer push the beer envelope in each route attainable. An mental, a savant, and an encyclopedic fount of beer information, Capps approaches beer with a thoughts we simply actually haven’t seen wherever else.
For instance, discovering the right method so as to add Illusion, a freeze-dried sauvignon blanc grape powder that makes hazy IPAs even juicier, into beers.
“As a brewery, we’ve all the time been attempting to create beers which can be totally different however nonetheless sitting inside a method,” says Estes. “We’re going to check this somewhat bit…then put somewhat extra into it within the subsequent spherical and frequently try this time and again.” Which suggests New Picture has pumped out on common 125 beers a 12 months for the final 4 years.
“We’re experimental, however we’re not reckless about it,” says Pachemeyer.
For instance, beers like Actually Actually Ridiculously Phantastic. Filled with Mosaic Cryo and Illusion, this beer simply actually actually ridiculously pops.
Pops with aroma, taste, and charisma.
It’s a beer that actually encapsulates New Picture—avant garde and experimental but with an unbelievable quantity of intention.
German Pilsner – Shred Monk Brewery and Coffeehouse
Bozeman, MT
German Pilsner – I not too long ago joined my mother and father on a automobile journey from Minnesota to California. A fortuitous cease in Bozeman, MT, had me seeking out Shred Monk Brewery and Coffeehouse.
Why?
As a result of I observed that their German pilsner—aptly named German Pilsner—earned a bronze medal on the 2022 Nice American Beer Competition (GABF) Awards Ceremony. I’d seen their identify pop up once I attended GABF a pair weeks in the past and made a psychological notice to cease by whereas on the town.
The beer positively lives as much as the hype. Crisp, clear, with a pleasing minerality, Shred Monk’s German Pilsner actually features excessive accolades from me.
However once more, they don’t must take my phrase for it. They’ve a medal to show it.
Dyckman Brew Pilsner – Dyckman Beer Co.
New York, NY
Pilsner – At first of the 12 months we featured Dyckman Beer Co. Founder Juan Carillo in our piece on Latinx-owned breweries. He impressed us again then along with his tenacity and grit in getting Dyckman Beer Co. off the bottom. Not too long ago, he despatched us a bundle of beers and we will whole-heartedly see Carillo’s ardour and verve come by way of in every little thing he provides.
Impressed by the flavors, individuals, and tradition of Uptown NYC, Dyckman Beer Co. has a definite standpoint.
In his pilsner, Carillo hit a house run farther than Aaron Decide at Yankee Stadium. Pouring a deep gold, Dyckman Brew Pilsner instantly hit us with refined citrus notes. However on the sip we discovered a pleasant pale malt spine for a pilsner that’s each pleasantly malty and pleasantly spicy.
Clean, substantial, and stable, this beer runs deep, hitting us to the core. That is only a rattling good pilsner. And if you happen to stay in New York, it’s best to positively hunt down any Dyckman beers proper now!
Oktoberfest – Wallenpaupack Brewing Firm
Hawley, PA
Märzen – We’re large followers of Wallenpaupack’s Paupack Cream Ale, naming it one in all the most effective beers we drank final November. So we weren’t too shocked after they despatched us an Oktoberfest lager and it knocked our socks off.
And if you happen to don’t imagine us, we’re not the one ones!
Wallenpaupack’s Oktoberfest received a gold medal from the Brewski Awards in 2021 and VinePair named it one of many “Six Greatest American Oktoberfest Beers We’ve Tasted This 12 months (2020).”
We favored it for its fizzy aroma of cream soda of all issues. On the sip, it’s a lot toastier and fewer candy. Sort of just like the charred ends of buttered toast. We really like that this one is a little more bitter than among the different variations on this listing. There’s a advanced depth to the bitterness that rounds out the entire beer, giving it a strong mouthfeel and physique.
It is a grown-up Oktoberfest deserving of all its awards and recognitions.
