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TREE HOUSE BREWING COMPANY – SARATOGA

United States Brewpubs,

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK

Taking up a sprawling Saratoga Springs complex at Route 9, TREE HOUSE BREWING COMPANY now operates six fabulously gargantuan wood-designed franchises in the Northeast. Inside an aluminum-roofed lodge with brown wood siding, Tree House’s first New York brewhouse opened for biz March 10, 2025.

A world class enterprise proudly ‘pioneering hazy India Pale Ales,’ Tree House has emerged as one of the finest IPA and ‘big beer’ makers nationwide.

Surrounded by several pavilions with multiple Adirondack chair and firepits, Tree House’s sprawling epoxy-floored interior features a large 40 draught tap station, a few brew room trees, multiple TV’s and cavernous skylight at the black metal ceiling (with hanging bulbs, white sailcloth design and exposed pipes). The enormous left side dining space benefits from a stone-based central hearth with surrounding lounge chairs, couches and tables. A rightside pizza kiosk serves hearty pies.

I initially perused the Saratoga pub on a Thursday afternoon, March 2026, revisiting the next day dinnertime.

For St. Patrick’s Day (a few days prior), Tree House crafted two superb nitrogenated Irish-themed suds.

Soft nitro-frothed amber-grained Irish red ale, Cleona, left nutty cocoa remnants and wispy rye splotch on brown-leafed black tea earthiness.

As for dry nitro Irish stout, Oh Danny Boy, its bristling hop-charred coffee nuttiness subsumed black cherry, blackcurrant and blackberry whims in a bitterly cocoa-dried Black malt setting.

Frothy English brown ale, Bear (With Coffee), draped dark chocolate syrup over medium-roast coffee nuttiness, gathering wood-burnt chicory bittering to counter caramel-candied molasses, fudgy cocoa and hazelnut paste atop brown breaded mocha malts.

Bold “classic stout,” Sojourn, allowed upfront dark-roast coffee nuttiness to consume fudged caramel, chocolate and toffee sweetness contrasting oncoming dark-roast piney hop char, picking up mild hazelnut molasses, pumpernickel rye and espresso sway.

While watching the NCAA basketball tourney and listening to a spry female acoustic guitarist, drifted back to Tree House within 24 hours to consume more excellent fare.

Sessionable Czech pale lager, Easy Does It, doused mild herbal Saaz hop spicing and dried maize starching with spritzy lemon zest over doughy pilsner malting.

Amiable Hallertau-hopped wheat lager, Quiet Satisfaction, let lemony passionfruit, mandarin orange, clementine, white grapefruit and white peach spritz prickle light basil-tinged spicing and dry Pinot Gris wining above hay-like torrified wheat base.

Dry hop-forward straw-yellowed New Zealand pilsner, Hopsy, utilized tropical Motueka, Rakau and Nelson Sauvin hops to lightly embitter lemony white grape, passionfruit, guava, gooseberry and mandarin orange zesting given mildly pined juniper sashay.

Belgian-styled pilsner, Parel, put dry compost-wafted wild oats next to zesty lemon peel, musky orange rot, musty herbage and juniper-tipped lemongrass.

Wee heavy Scotch ale, Old World, caressed dried cocoa stead with peat-smoked dewiness, hazelnut molasses and cola nuttiness.

Upping the citric Tangier hop influence, 7% ABV “American lager” variant, Tangier, spread orange zest, tangerine tanginess and tangelo tartness across dry grassy herbage atop creamy oats base.

Virant mango puree sweetness anchored Imperial IPA, Big Mango, a juicy hazy golden medium body with peachy guava, pineapple and papaya tanginess settling across juniper-tipped piney bittering.

Fudgy brown chocolate and chewy marshmallow aligned for delicious melted S’mores dessert, All That Is And All That Ever Will Be, a rich pastry stout with vanilla-spiced dark cherry, raisin and anise illusions seeping inside honeyed Graham Cracker sugaring.

ARTISANAL BREW WORKS

United States Brewpubs,

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK

The perfectly named ARTISANAL BREW WORKS crafts a wide range of proprietary beers and pub cuisine at its spacious beige cement-fronted North Plaza mall space in Saratoga Springs. Opened 2016, the ‘mod’ prairie-styled, metal-furnished, glass-fronted bistro welcomes patrons to the main space thru a brown metal-awninged entrance.

A marble-topped eight-seat bar in the back of the green tavern services the barny community-tabled, yellow-walled dining room off to the left. A beautiful hop-designed barrel-crossed chandelier hangs from the ceiling while a covered side terrace provides more metal seating.

Former homebrewer Colin Quinn started at Olde Saratoga Brewing, then partnered with fellow Saratoga high school teacher, Kurt Borchardt, to begin Artisanal’s decade-long journey. Originally well known nationally for having created Warheads Extreme Sour candy ales and seltzers plus nifty Belgian-styled ales, the dynamic duo crave experimentation. 

Burgers, pizza and salads were available on my April 2026 trip (alongside local wines, spirits and cocktails).

Easygoing golden bohemian pilsner, Hip Czech, sprayed Saaz-hopped herbal lemon zest upon popcorn-buttered cracked barley and bread crusted biscuity oats.

Another simple pleasure, casual dry-hopped Italian-styled pilsner, Intermezzo, matched raw-grained barnyard oats to floor-malted grains as its spritzy lemon pep gained minor floral herbage.

Perfectly centrist dry light lager, Artisanalager, let lemony orange fizz tickle pasty pale malts and mild hop astringency. Dryer variant, Artisanalager with Lime, was a limey offshoot for Mexican beer lovers.

Award-winning golden tripel, Trappist At The Track, utilized house Belgian yeast to guide its banana bubblegum sugaring, candied pineapple sway, light rum spicing, white-peppered coriander whim and slight butterscotch saucing over cereal grained pilsner malts.

St. Patrick’s Day ’26 Irish Red Ale, Rattlin’ Bog, snuck dewy peat into red and orange fruit spicing over tobacco-roasted amber grain toasting.

Flagship New England IPA, Saratoga Squeeze, sprayed lemon zest onto orange-peeled grapefruit bittering and peachy pineapple-guava-tangerine tanginess, leaving light pine hop resin upon contractive spicy pale malt sweetness.

Sharp West Coast IPA, Derailleur, spread floral-perfumed pine lacquer across lemony grapefruit bittering and sweet orange peel tanginess in an Amarillo-Cascade-Simcoe-hopped setting contrasted by less assertive caramel malting.

As for the dark ales, English-styled brown ale, BB Brown, plied light roast coffee and sweet chocolate to toasted rye graining while scattering Macadamia, almond and butternut snips across the dry mocha plain.

Milk-sugared coffee set up smooth oatmeal stout, Total Darkness, placing cocoa powdered tartness alongside oats-charred molasses sap.

Fudgy chocolate and Madagascar vanilla saturated the caramel coffee creaming of lactic milk stout, Multiple Infinities Vanilla Mocha, a decadent cacao-nibbed cold brew coffee alternative with espresso-laced cola nuttiness and black cherry tartness.

The soft-toned nitro Multiple Infinites version brought dewy earthen weediness to dark chocolate and medium roast coffee conflux, upping the dark-roast hop char.

As for the rich Irish Cream extract variant of Multiple Infinities, its cocoa nibs, vanilla and coffee adjuncts promoted milk chocolatey sweetness, picking up fudged Brownie and Neapolitan cookie illusions over oats-flaked mocha malting.

COMMON ROOTS BREWING COMPANY – ALBANY

United States Brewpubs,

ALBANY, NEW YORK

Taking over Albany Pump Station’s historic red brick warehouse brew space, South Glen Falls’ COMMON ROOTS BREWING COMPANY expanded to its second location 50 miles South in New York’s capital.

My wife and I enjoyed Cheese and Charcuterie board while downing six snazzy suds and snagging some slammin’ stouts for the road.

A lovely fruited opener, sweetly tart blonde ale, Berry Bunch, let pureed raspberry and strawberry and slight blueberry-boysenberry whims soak into the white wheat bottom.

Sessionable IPA, Shreddie, steeped pine resin into floral-daubed clementine, tangerine and tangelo fruiting as well as tangy pineapple-passionfruit-papaya tropicalia above sugary pale malts.

Lemony grapefruit sugaring and ‘red candied’ tartness paraded thru Psychedelic Sky, a moderate-bodied New England IPA with delicate oated wheat backdrop.

‘Mild sour’ variant, Tasteful Deception: Pineapple Mango, combined salted mango tang with brisk pineapple tartness given spritzy lemon liming.

Cold-brewed coffee sanctified luscious stout, Latte Cup, leaving creamy vanilla latte, cappuccino and mochaccino serenity on its dark chocolatey espresso base.

Richly fudged lactic campfire treat, S’mores Snowy Night, a decadent pastry stout variant, brought chewy marshmallow fluff to honeyed Graham Cracker, creme brulee, vanilla mocha cake and dark chocolate sumptuousness.

BOLTON LANDING BREWING COMPANY

United States Brewpubs,

BOLTON LANDING, NEW YORK

Residing at an old Victorian manor in the Lake George hamlet of Bolton Landing, family-owned BOLTON LANDING BREWING COMPANY came to fruition in 2017. Diligently operated by Brendan Murnane, the casually cozy cafe-styled pub (with Brit tavern-like low ceiling) features a snug right side wood bar with eight draught handles, small den with wood-metal chaired tables and diminutive open kitchen area while a snazzy picnic-tabled front porch overlooks beautiful Lake George.

Creating impressive home recipes (and temporarily brewing offsite before renovations begin), Murnane has crafted 40-plus one-offs and recurring beers at his seven-barrel system in nearly ten years. Expect that number to rise when the windowed rear brew section gets updated and redesigned.

The fine pub fare includes smashburgers, cheese pies, chili dogs, wings and pretzels. Guest taps from nearby Frog Alley, Paradox, Common Roots and Ommegang were available alongside two superb Bolton originals while my wife and I enjoyed hummus during my noon time excursion late March 2026.

Frothily creamed New England IPA, Tight Squeeze, took lemony orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple, mango and tangerine tanginess plus mildly resinous wood tones to the pasty oated wheat base – casually colliding bitter West Coast-styled citric pining with limey East Coast-styled green grape, gooseberry and guava tartness in a Citra-Moteuka-Sauvin hop blend.

Meanwhile, richly robust Imperial Stout, Urban Lumberjack, utilized local maple syrup and roasted coffee to sidle its Tahitian vanilla bean ‘heft,’ draping bittersweet dark chocolate all over the hop-charred vanilla, molasses and coffee-laden finish (and picking up tertiary creme brulee, hazelnut java, mocha truffle, glazed pecan, candied toffee and sticky anise illusions).

APOTHECARY BREWING COMPANY

United States Brewpubs,

CLAYMONT, DELAWARE

At the Town And Country Shopping Center in Claymont (just outside Wilmington), APOTHECARY BREWING COMPANY took over Hangman Brewery’s former space October 2025. Long time homebrewers John Ponte and Andy Poole craft well rounded fare for the community-focused pub that hosts local talent at its small stage and features an art gallery.

In a mustard yellow side shop, the rustic white-walled, cement-floored, brown aluminum-ceilinged mill opens up to a bark-laden bar with three draught boards (offering 20-plus taps). There are several chaired tables and TV’s at all sides.

During a bustling chili cookoff on a Sunday in February ’26, my wife and I stand at the bar and try four fine draughts amongst the standing room only crowd. We missed out on caramelized Greazed Scotsman Scottish Ale, juicy-fruited In Between Haze IPA, citric Philadelphia Pike Pale Ale and Arch-Bier Amber Ale. Ciders and meads were also available.

Crisply clean pale-cleared flagship, Claymont Cream Ale, placed corn-sugared sweet beading across grassy hop astringency and herbal whims.

Soft-toned, flattish Cupid’s Arrow Blonde Ale stayed mild as tart passionfruit and hibiscus adjuncts picked up floral-daubed kuzu lemon, mandarin orange and tangerine snips.

On the dark side were two robustly full bodied enchanters.

Dry medium-roast coffee nuttiness consumed The Queen Is Dead English Porter, leaving dark chocolate bittering on its wood-burnt hop char.

On the sweet side, Stone School Stout, an Apothecary staple, combined caramelized nuttiness with roasted chocolate, creamy vanilla and milk-sugared coffee tones.

SINEPUXENT BREWING COMPANY

United States Brewpubs,

BERLIN, MARYLAND

On a rustic farm inside an old wooden-floored barnhouse, Berlin’s unapologetically rural SINEPUXENT BREWING COMPANY came to life in 2020. A certified Maryland farmhouse brewery one mile southwest of Burley Oak Brewing, Sinepuxent’s expansive agrarian territory includes picnic-tabled side deck, planted fruits, hop vines and goats plus a glimmering side-walled blue tile mosaic.

The smallish cabinesque interior features a bark-fronted wood top bar with a few four-seaters and wood-tabled aluminum chairs. Endless beer stickers line the walls and olden wood beams. A centralized refrigerator contains beers-to-go while flatbread pizzas and snacks prove pub-worthy.

Head brewer Matt Kansak joined me and the wife buried eight dandy suds on a windy Thursday afternoon, February ’26.

Placing dark-spiced lemony grapefruit tanginess across musky grain-husked rye breading, Rye-PA Pale Ale picked up a mild herbal nip at the citric-laced finish.

Lightly sea-salted oyster shells gave Werster Erster Saison its buttery umami frontage before strawberry rhubarb tartness, Chardonnay buttering, banana bubblegum and sweet orange peel gathered at its dry peppery barnyard base.

Abbey-styled Belgian Dubbel retained caramelized dry rum spicing as subtle pear, banana and vanilla illusions slowly emerged.

Candied strawberry powdering sweetened almond and coconut toasted macaron knockoff, Strawberry Macaron with Almond IPA, a berry-fortified IPA offshoot with stylish piney grapefruit bittering and orange peel zesting merely backdrop.

Wintry cinnamon-toasted nutmeg, allspice and clove saddled Disgourd Pumpkin Ale, tucking bourbon vanilla inside its pumpkin-spiced finish.

Disguising its pumpkin pie spicing with Buffalo Trace bourbon, Barrel-Aged Disgourd Pumpkin Ale sunk earthen gourd into mild orange oiling and oaken vanilla at the dewy peated whiskey base.

English-styled Pony Kick Porter let roasted Costa Rican and Peruvian coffee sway dark chocolate, espresso, vanilla, coconut and coffee cake subsidies.

Brown chocolate-spiced bourbon molasses saturated exquisite Barleywine, leaving butternut, chestnut and almond flirtations on its sweet mocha-induced spirits.

BERLIN BEER COMPANY

United States Brewpubs,

BERLIN, MARYLAND

At a renovated freight train station and feed store in a historic Delmarva downtown, BERLIN BEER COMPANY opened September ’24 (one mile down the road from Burley Brewing). A homebrewer since 2013, owner Adam Davis mans the windowed brew tanks at this rustic aluminum Industrial shed.

There’s a hanging silo and green Berlin Beer Company sign welcoming patrons to the daintily warm and elegant hearth-walled pub. Inside, olden wood beams, original wood floors, Edison-lighted chandelier, barn doors and the oak top bar get displayed below the slanted ceiling. Four-seat tables surrounded the U-shaped bar (with central tap station and a few TV’s). A 50-seat dining room, patioed biergarden and wood porch add further seating.

“Elevated street food” got served alongside five well rounded home brews on my late February ’26 venture.

Spritzy lemon fizz tickled the nose for herbal Saphir-hopped light lager, Lawn Chair, a crisply sessionable pilsner-malted opener.

Flagship New England IPA, Green Suede Shoes, let salty lemony grapefruit and lightly embittered orange rind reach mild oats base in brisk Citra-Mosaic double dry-hopped setting.

A stronger 9.4% ABV NEIPA, Berlin Fog, caressed lemony grapefruit, pineapple and orange rind bittering with pungent pine bluster over creamy vanilla-sugared oated wheat base, gaining fruited vodka, dry rum and candied peach whims.

Brown-sugared peach puree anchored cinnamon-sweetened fruited sour, Ad Libs Peach Cobbler Cinnamon Toast, leaving Fruity Pebbles, limey pina colada and zesty marinade illusions on the tartly tangy peach frontage.

On the dark side, syrupy black chocolate and dark coffee resin swiped nut-charred Forgotten Porter, picking up thin pudding skin crusting.

FIN CITY BREWING COMPANY

United States Brewpubs,

OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND

Originally operating inside Hooper’s Crab House, FIN CITY BREWING COMPANY moved within walking distance to West Ocean Beach’s Westside Square Plaza, May 2024. Crafting a decent variety of mostly straightforward small-batch fare, the small taproom celebrates Ocean City’s fishing heritage while faring well as a local sportsbar.

A blue-tiled oak top bar (with ten stools and twelve draughts) captures the eye with its simple elegance. Small wood tables, cornered TV’s, exposed pipes and aluminum-ceilinged hanging lights furnish the barroom. A rear nano setup contains the liquid suds. I grabbed a pint o’ pilsner and a mug of stout on my three-day Ocean City venture.

I took home several Fin City canned brews (reviewed in Beer Index) before heading out at nightfall on a Friday in late February ’26.

Honeyed cereal grain sweetness welcomed delicate German pilsner, Pure Lure, letting sugar cookie and lemon cookie confections reach lightly spiced hop pep.

Semi-rich dessert stout, German Chocolate Cake, placed confectionery coconut-pecan frosting inside brown-sugared dark chocolate fudging, picking up black cherry nuances.

CHESAPEAKE & MAINE

United States Brewpubs,

REHOBOTH BEACH, DELAWARE

Completing a Rehoboth Beach expansion beyond its brewpub two doors down, Dogfish Head also operates a proprietary beer and liquor store plus a nautical-themed seafood and suds tavern named CHESAPEAKE & MAINE since 2016. Inside a shipping vessel-like engine room serving Dogfish Head beer, scratch-made spirits and cocktails alongside fine seafood, C&M features an exquisite white marble top bar with beautiful aquamarine columns, gleaming white tile and engineered wood floors.

A raw bar at the entrance and a small banquet room in the back sidle several two and four seat tables – a few by the window. Thirsty landlubbers will enjoy the 20 central draught selections and sports lovers will enjoy the televised competition.

I enjoyed seared rockfish for dinner while consuming five previously untried Dogfish elixirs.

Corn-sugared sweetness contrasted salty lemon-fizzed souring of dry kolsch, Eddy & Maud, picking up mild perfumed herbage atop its white bread base.

Classic summertime pale ale, Still Pale After Summer, let mild lemony grapefruit and orange rind bittering gain light pining (and peachy guava-mango wisps) atop sugary cereal malts.

Classic American IPA, No Time For Sippin’, forwarded sweet orange peel zesting and candy-glazed tangerine, mango, passionfruit and peach tanginess to piney hop dryness over caramelized wheat.

Meanwhile, double dry-hopped IPA, Setlist Shuffle, left piney citrus expectancy in the dust as tart blueberry, passionfruit and redcurrant seeped thru delicate caramelized wheated oats creaming.

On the dark side, nutty dark chocolate and coffee paraded thru oak-aged porter, Cannon Aid, leaving subtle burgundy, black cherry and bitter vanilla extract illusions to fend its ashen hop char.

OCEAN VIEW BREWING COMPANY

United States Brewpubs,

OCEAN VIEW, DELAWARE

Opened St. Patrick’s Day 2021 in a charmingly mod tan-shingled station (with decorative white silo), OCEAN VIEW BREWING COMPANY is an extension of Rehoboth’s Thompson Island Brewing. Head brewer Jimmy Valm, Thompson Island’s guiding light, assumed control at the start, building a new lineup of rounded beers good enough to satisfy your soul.

Featuring a white-walled and wood paneled interior with decorative antique window frames, Ocean View’s taproom has several tiled draughts lining the bar wall and an open kitchen boasting coastal comfort foods. Several sylvan booths and tables (with leather backing) fill out the main space while a cozy hearth-warmed backroom and small benched front deck provide further seating.

Offering seafood specials, fried chicken, cocktails and wine alongside a dozen well-rounded house brews, spiked lemonade, shandy’s and sodas, Ocean View covers the bases well. During late February ’26, watched Olympics on a cold Friday at noon while downing all brews on the board except Historic Village Hazy IPA and Sunset Shift West Coast IPA.

Ocean View’s most popular beer, Little Bay Lite Lager, bests most ‘delicate’ lo-cal fare as dry lemon spritz coasts thru sweet Easter breading for a crisply clean beige-cleared lightweight.

The second favorite amongst locals, Got Waves Kolsch, contrasted hay-like maize acridity against sugary corn malts as zesty lemon fizz sparkled in the breeze.

Standard American lager, Squad 90, put spicy citrus fizz atop thin pale-malted wheat cracker neutrality.

Sweet orange-peeled coriander and clove spicing spread thru Where The Waves Break Witbier, leaving rummy sugaring upon herbal cilantro, perfumed flowers, tangy marmalade and tart lemon meringue.

Tartly fruited kettle sour, Bliss Raspberry, laced sour-candied raspberry powder with mild lemon-limed acidity, buttery Chardonnay wining and sinister blueberry-boysenberry tease.

Zesty grapefruit jumps out front for tropical NEIPA, Ocean View, a vibrant citric blast with juicy mango, peach and passionfruit gaining lacquered pine at the oats base.

Lemony orange and tangerine tanginess soaked up the honeyed malts bottoming boozy (8% ABV) Double IPA, Asking For A Friend, scurrying ‘candy peach rings,’ dried apricot and yellow plum illusions.

Slightly smoked peat malts scoured the cocoa powdered midst of Dark Rift Roggenbier, a German-styled rye beer with oaken vanilla, sour prune and dried cherry snips.

It’s difficult to get the right nuances for a German rauchbier, but Burning Down The Haus comes damn close, leaving stylish wafting Band-aid astringency and peat charred dewiness on cherrywood-smoked briny pastrami, smoked salami and cured meat ensemble.

The nitro version of lactic milk stout, Cosmic Cow, let vanilla coffee, spiced brown chocolate and Black Cow whims infiltrate the soft eclair surface.

THE ANSWER

United States Brewpubs,

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

Maybe my favorite brewpub along the Virginia Beach-Fayatetteville-Savannah-Hilton Head-Richmond post-Christmas Southern state journey, THE ANSWER opened 2014 in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition area on West Broad. Featuring an astounding 56 tap lines, the interactive community pub is the brainchild of Vietnamese restaurant entrepreneur An Bui, whose love for Belgian brews and IPA’s got the ball rolling.

Inside a long-windowed, overhead-doored professional Industrial building with extra seating at the enclosed cement-floored Adirondack-chaired covered deck, The Answer also has a game room for family entertainment. A block wood top bar matches the plank wood floor and the right side lounge (with three TV’s) counters the community tabled spot across the bar.

Topnotch outside brews by Oxbow, Perennial, Side Project and more join the 30-plus Answer fare. Highlighted this cold January ’26 eve were a series of superb stouts.

Spritzy lemon fizz tickled lo-alcohol table beer, Little One, placing roasted corn husk across skunky hop musk and light grassy astringency.

Mild straw clear Japanese lager, Kurisupiboi, retained dry lemony herbal hop musk for its sweet rice adjunct and crusty barley roast.

Brisk India Pale Lager, Hushed Casket, let crisp citrus spicing and sticky pine graze sweet vanilla-daubed oated wheat, leaving Simcoe/Riwaka-hopped grapefruit rind, orange pith and lemon pit bittering on its dry finish.

Mellow beige-yellowed Citra-hopped Imperial IPA, Unfamiliar Sheep, stayed bright ‘n lively as lemony yellow grapefruit bittering softly settled alongside milder mandarin orange, clementine and tangelo tanginess.

Thickly creamed Smoothie-like fruited sour, Quadrupel Mother Of Berries, embraced yogurt-milked boysenberry, loganberry, blackberry and raspberry tartness as slight orange concentrate bittering anchored this melted popsicle alternative.

As for the sturdy stouts, bold Answer variant, King Kahuna with Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, spread sweet coffee alongside toasted coconut, glazed hazelnut, toasted almond and macadamia atop black chocolate malting.

Treacly Christmastime Imperial Stout, Tis The Season, draped Vermont maple syrup upon Saigon cinnamon and Tahitian vanilla atop dark chocolate as black peppered Chai tea pungency and ancho chili heat ascended.

“Decadent” Imperial Stout, Colonel Angus, an Oreo cookie knockoff, soaked milk chocolate sweetness into whipped cake battered vanilla creaming, picking up creme brulee, caramel pudding and floured dough illusions.

Bourbon-aged stout, Swiss Chocolate Macaroon, swept bourbon chocolate sweetness inside biscotti, almondine, creme brulee, shredded coconut and cocoa butter tenacity.

BINGO BEER COMPANY

United States Brewpubs,

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

After some late afternoon big brews up the road a few miles at The Answer, stopped by BINGO BEER COMPANY for a little easygoing dinnertime fare during early January ’26. Opening for business in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition neighborhood during November 2018, Bingo’s family friendly games make it one of the city’s best entertainment options.

An epoxy cement-floored sportsbar/ arcade/ brewpub, the pale blue-walled interior features multiple tap handles on two draught boards. A lager-focused brewery specializing in Detroit-style pizza, Bingo spreads metal-stooled yellow wood tables across the spacious expanse. A dining space and game area fill out the space and an open kitchen exists.

Dry-hopped Italian-styled pilsner, Old Maps, seeped mild Noble-hopped floral spicing into honeyed cereal graining.

Off-dry Mexican amber lager, Costa Chica, a Vienna-malted retained a maize-dried corn tortilla crust for its tingly lemon spurt.

Equally crisp hazy golden German-styled moderation, Bingo Lager, stayed dry, bringing mild floral citrus spicing to ricey toasted oats, picking up latent cherry kirsch and tangerine snips.

Soft-toned Hefeweizen lacked creamy vanilla backing for its banana-clove sweetness, lemon custard tartness and mandarin orange snips, but its powder sugared wheat base held up.

On the dark side, “smooth” cocoa-dried fruticake nuttiness and cold-brewed coffee tones serenaded Black Lager, leaving Brazil nut, hazelnut and walnut upon the dewy carafa malt bottom.