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…
The Review In 2017 TrimTab struck a partnership with Abita Brewing in Louisiana that expanded their production tenfold, and one of the beers they scaled…
The Review Every brewery has that one beer that punches above its weight class. For Good People, it’s not the famous Snake Handler or the…
The Review Cahaba Brewing named their flagship IPA after the indigenous word for the Cahaba River — “the water above” — and it’s the kind…
The Review Ghost Train Brewing occupies Cahaba’s old space on 3rd Avenue South, which gives the operation an immediate credibility that most new breweries have…
The Review If Miss Fancy the elephant had a preferred beer — and given the historical record, she absolutely would have had a preference —…
The Review TrimTab is known for expressive IPAs, experimental stouts, and fruited sours. The Pillar to Post Rye Brown Ale is none of those things,…
The Review There’s a certain kind of craft beer that doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t have a punny name or a maximalist hop bill or…
The Review Most breweries open with a pale ale or an IPA. Avondale opened with a saison as their flagship and dared Birmingham to keep…
The Review TrimTab opened in 2013 with a philosophy borrowed from Buckminster Fuller — the trim tab is the tiny control surface that steers a…
