Рецепт And Now For a Beer That’s A Little Different

Your eyes are not fooling you.

If you think the foamy head on that frosty mug of beer looks a shade pink, your eyes are not deceiving you.

That’s because this beer has the unlikely ingredient of blackberries.

A full pound of blackberries per liter, in fact.

The Palos Verdes Brouwerij West’s beer is whimsically named “Dog Ate My Homework.”

I had a chance to try a sample of that, as well as some of the craft brewery’s other beers, all made in a classic Belgian style.

You taste the berries in the “Dog Ate My Homework,” but it is not cloying in the least. It’s not at all like a blackberry soda. Instead, the berry flavor is melded with distinct hoppiness and bitterness to make it quite well rounded.

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