Honest craft beer reviews with no corporate sponsors and no bad takes. IPAs, stouts, lagers, sours — if it’s interesting, we drink it.
The Review Every great brewery needs a beer that says “you’re welcome here.” For Birmingham District, that beer is Maingate Blonde — named for the…
The Review Coby Lake knows how to use a brewery to transform a neighborhood. He did it in Avondale, where Avondale Brewing Company — which…
The Review Terminal Station is Ghost Train’s tribute to Birmingham’s demolished 1909 train station — a building that once connected the city to the rest…
The Review Back Forty’s Birmingham location at Sloss Docks opened in July 2018 with a 1.5-acre beer garden, a full pub kitchen, and a dramatic…
The Review On July 4th, 2008, Good People rolled out their first keg at a Five Points South celebration and Birmingham’s craft beer history officially…
The Review Birmingham District Brewing opened in November 2018 in The Battery — the mixed-use development at 2nd Avenue and 22nd Street — and named…
The Review In 2010, Back Forty Beer Company was still brewing their beers under contract at Lazy Magnolia in Mississippi while they built out their…
The Review Every September, Cahaba Brewing does something quietly impressive: they make one of the most authentic-tasting Oktoberfest beers south of the Mason-Dixon line, and…
The Review Ghost Train invented their own style with the Gulf Coast IPA, and they’re upfront about it: this is a light-bodied, lightly hopped, easy-drinking…
The Review Avondale Brewing is known for their Belgian farmhouse ales, and rightly so. But Battlefield IPA is a reminder that they can play the…
