A Short Walk Off A Craft Beer

Figure 1: Omnipollo: Bianca Lemon Coconut Tart Lassi Gose in a can. The Brewery Omnipollo  is a Swedish gypsy brewery [1] , founded in 2011 by Henok Fentie, a long-time home brewer, and Karl Grandin, a graphic designer and artist. The company was created out of a belief that craft beer wasn't "fashionable" enough, and hence the Omnipollo brand has an equal dependence on style, as well as substance. Omnipollo are well known for the "creative" beer recipes, and their use of unique adjuncts [2] , however, they might also have some of the strangest names for their beers too [4] . While Omnipollo are a seriously innovative brewery, they don't just create weird or strange beers, they create wonderfully balanced beers that are easy to drink, as well as some weird and strange beers. As a testament to this, Omnipollo are credited with creating the (still unofficial) style of "Milkshake IPA" which has seen an explosion in popularity recently. I ...

Figure 1: Big Ass Money Stout 3 The Brewery Okay, so this beer is a collaboration between two breweries: Lervig from Norway and Evil Twin Brewing  from the United States [1] . In the interest of brevity, and since it was brewed in the US, I'll only talk about Evil Twin (Brewing), but I'll definitely find an excuse to review a Lervig brew soon. Evil Twin Brewing has one of the more interesting histories, given how short their history is! The brewery was founded in 2010 in Copenhagen by Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, as a gypsy brewery [2] . If his name looks at all familiar, it's because Jeppe is the brother of Mikkeller  founder Mikkel Borg Bjergsø. Specifically, Jeppe is the identical  twin brother of Mikkel. The brothers are definitely not on good terms since Jeppe started his own brewery, competing directly with Mikkeller in Copenhagen in the beginning, and for this reason he calls his brewery Evil Twin Brewing. In 2012, Evil Twin moved their operations to Queens, ...

Wylam - Danse Des Coco The Brewery Founded in 2000, Wylam began brewing in a potting shed in Heddon-on-the-wall [1], on a farm in the town of Wylam. However, when owners Dave Stone and Rob Cameron bought into the company in 2010, they decided to move to a larger premises to allow the company to grow. The location decided upon was a twenty minute drive away to the The Palace of Arts [2] , in Exhibition Park, Newcastle. I first saw Wylam due to their collaborative beers with breweries such as Northern Monk, Lervig, Deya and Yeastie Boys, but after trying just one of them, I started buying their non-collaborative beers whenever I saw them. Wylam seem to like making IPAs [3] , I notice this because out of the nine beers I've tried from them, seven are IPAs, and the other two are pale ales. Reading through their beer list  though, they also make a couple of stouts, and don't shy away from using interesting fruits and adjuncts in their recipes. However, they are also w...