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Production managers David Hubbar, left, and Alex Buck, right, watch as recently boiled wort flows over aged hops into the copper coolship to begin the spontaneous overnight fermentation process wort at Black Project Spontaneous and Wild Ales on Feb. 23, 2021 in Denver. The popular brewery, which started in 2014, uses a unique brewing process called Methode Traditionnelle, or MT, which is a Lambic Belgian style of brewing beer. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)
For centuries before the advent of modern brewing, early Scandinavian beer-makers coveted their “magic sticks,” special stirring utensils that miraculously turned otherwise ordinary liquid into beer.
2020 in Review: Best Craft Beers Brewed on O‘ahu
Signature brews, one-offs and specials too popular to stop brewing: These are the standouts from a year of local beer.
January 6, 2021
Hawai‘i is ranked 49
th in the US for number of beer breweries, a list that shrank last year with the closures of Gordon Biersch, Home of the Brave Brewing Co. and Real Gastropub. According to the Hawaiian Craft Brewers Guild, only 5% of beer consumed in the state is produced here.
This hits close to home for beer lovers like me. I drink a lot of beer. I seek it out and love trying new ones, both good and bad. When I was asked to curate a list of the best O‘ahu beers of 2020, I accepted while realizing this is an entirely subjective undertaking: What one person loves, another may find undrinkable. My tongue drools over IPAs, lagers, stouts and porters, but frowns on sours and insanely sweet adjuncts. Beer is a rainbow of colors, ingredients, flavors and aromas. The fact of the matter is e