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Six to Seek: The Best Beers of the Week

(Photo by Jill McNamara) FOUNDERS TRIGO Founders Brewing Co.   Grand Rapids, Michigan 6% | Hoppy Wheat Lager Trigo is the sixth release Founders Brewing Co. has brewed for ArtPrize, an art competition held every other year in Grand Rapids, Michigan (other past releases for this event include beers like Green Zebra and Mosaic Promise). The nose boasts big aromatics of orange and pineapple that carry through on the palate; it’s clearly been brewed with an abundance of late-addition hops like most IPAs these days, but there’s a balance to the beer. The fruit notes linger on into the finish,

Six to Seek: The Best Beers of the Week

Sixpoint Brevity Wit Sixpoint Brewery Brooklyn, New York 6% | Witbier w/ Coriander, Orange Peel, Chamomile & Vanilla Beans A limited release from Sixpoint Brewery, Brevity Wit is brewed with ingredients both traditional (coriander and orange peel) and untraditional (chamomile and vanilla beans). And if you look to the back of the can, you’ll also find that the beer comes in at 3.9 pH, a bit more acidic than your average Belgian wit. The beer is indeed tart, but not overly so. There is a burst of citrus on the palate courtesy the orange peel, and the coriander lends a

Six to Seek: The Best Beers of the Week

(Photo by Jill McNamara) BADGER STATE WI BIEN Badger State Brewing Co. Green Bay, Wisconsin 4.7% | Mexican-Style Lager w/ Limes Badger State Brewing Co.’s Wi Bien is the second lime-infused Mexican-style lager to make our Six to Seek (the first being Hangar 24’s Aventura). Both beers, as so many others in the market right now, show that brewing this broad style isn’t so much about hewing to tradition, but rather using ingredients that put you in mind of the style. “Perhaps as often as anything else,” writes Ken Weaver, “it’s about capturing that vibe of drinking a Mexican lager.”

Six to Seek: The Best Beers of the Week

(Photo by Jill McNamara) ANCHOR STEAM Anchor Brewing Co. San Francisco, California 4.9% | California Common Did you know we’re on the tail end of Drink Steam Week? While there are plenty of events in San Francisco and beyond, you don’t need to be in the city by the bay to celebrate. This is the fourth year that the city of San Francisco has recognized the week, however it marks the first time that you can enjoy the revolutionary Anchor Steam beer in cans–big, 19.2-ounce cans, in fact. If it’s been a while since you’ve had one, you’ll be happy

Six to Seek: The Best Beers of the Week

(Photo by Jill McNamara) BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK HEFEWEIZEN Big Bend Brewing Co. Alpine, Texas 5.5% | Hefeweizen Big Bend’s National Park Hefeweizen has earned the brewery a number of awards, most recently a gold medal at the World Beer Cup this past May. With bubble gum, banana, clove and wheat bread on the nose, this has the aroma of a true-to-style German hefeweizen. Those notes carry through on the palate, yet the beer feels a little thinner and drinks more cleanly than some examples of the style. That’s not a fault; it’s simply to say that Big Bend’s Hefeweizen

Six to Seek: The Best IPAs of the Week

Since today is IPA Day, we’re showcasing not just the best beers we’ve had this week, but the best IPAs. And truth be told, it wasn’t hard to find six really impressive examples of a single (though admittedly broad) style. Of the many beers sent to us on a weekly basis, probably 80 percent are some style of IPA. And of those, the overwhelming majority fall under the hazy/juicy/milkshake/New-England-style umbrella. This week’s Six to Seek, then, reads like the state of IPA today, dominated by hazy beers with one example of the emerging Brut IPA style. But know this: we