THE HIGH COUNCIL
Lucas
I first found my love of craft beer when I landed my first serving job. The first craft beer I ever had was Frogtown IPA from Moeller Brew Barn, and that one pour kicked off a mission to drink my way through as much local craft beer as I could find. This was back in 2015 — craft breweries existed, but nowhere near as thick on the ground as they are a decade later. I went to a school with a dry campus, and while my classmates were smuggling Miller Lite and Keystone into their dorm fridges, I was smuggling in growlers of whatever Findlay Brewing had on tap that week. After graduation I bounced through a string of odd jobs before getting lucky with a position at a local craft beer and wine store. That place cracked the world of beer wide open for me, and somewhere between shelves of bottles I decided I wanted to be on the other side of it — making the stuff. When the world shut down, my wife and I moved to Columbus, and I waited it out until I could get my foot in the door at a local brewery. In 2021 I took a job as a cellar technician, and over the next few years I worked my way up to assistant brewer. Around the same time, a friend and I started the Pint Pals Podcast, where we reviewed local craft beer and breweries and helped spread the word about everything happening in the Columbus brewing scene.
WHAT I'M SIPPIN' ON
Silhouette - Peach
Sour IPA · 5
Another absolute banger from Hudson Valley Brewery. This tasty Sour IPA is incredibly delicious, delivering a perfectly tart and refreshing experience in the glass. It drinks with just a slightly hoppy edge, but the real star of the show is the flavor, it legitimately captures the exact tasting notes of biting into a fresh, juicy peach. Anytime you have the chance to pick up some Hudson Valley Brewing, it is a brewery that you simply cannot pass up, and this offering is exactly why.
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