By 
‘the cask’
courtesy of ‘volcanojw’
It’s time for another item from the DC Omnivore 100 list of the top one hundred foods every good omnivore should try at least once in their lives.
Finding a beer above 8% alcohol by volume isn’t the challenge that it once was. The emergence of the craft beer movement in the past few decades and American beer aficionados unquenchable thirst for unique and challenging brews has caused the market for strong beer to explode. This is not to say that highly alcoholic beers are something new. In nearly every, beer-drinking country aside from the US, breweries and monasteries have been crafting batches of potent beer for centuries. It’s only in America that the trend has recently come into vogue.
If you’ve graduated from the typical grocery store, great American swill, you recognize that not all beer is created equal. There are full bodied beers, crisp and refreshing beers, fruity beers, darker beers, and so on and so forth. Each has something special that makes it unique, but each still has the same basic ingredients (barley, hops, water, and yeast) and each is created with variations on the same, basic brewing process.