Hardliver Festival returns to Brouwer’s Cafe. Beer styles come and go. What’s most popular today loses its fancy tomorrow. Over the course of craft beer history, amber ales gave way to pale ales, then pale ales gave way to IPAs. Lately, the haze craze envelopes our world like a thick layer of fog. It too shall pass. One historic brew that survives the ages and continues to cut through the murk is barleywine. It’s always been there. Serious beer lovers adore the stuff, deeply if only occasionally. The first beer […]

Brouwer’s Cafe wants to help you feel normal again. Maybe some barleywine will help. Lately, with regards to the pandemic, it feels like things are slowly creeping back towards normal. For months it was like Groundhog’s Day, but now it seems there is light at the end of the tunnel. Fingers crossed, right? One thing that feels very normal right now, the announcement that Brouwer’s Cafe is moving forward with Hard Liver Barleywine Festival, its annual celebration of the biggest of all brews. Sure, things will look a little bit […]