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Orgasmic Double IPA by Trillium Brewing Company

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The experts here at Craft Brewniversity are here to educate you on a fantastic crafty American Double Imperial IPA we were lucky enough to try within recent weeks.  This special craft called Vicinity was brewed by the masters at Trillium Brewing Company based out of Boston and Canton Massachusetts.   This Craft is a must try when available at the Trillium locations.  Look - Has a hazy orange straw colored look. Smell - Consists of fruity, light citrus, grape, and hoppiness. Taste - Light citrus taste, with tropical fruit notes, and grape juice.  It is fruity but moderately bitter                taste on the palate. Feel - Vicinity is medium to full body, has light carbonation, and has a small dry finish. Rating -  4.5 out of 5 Due to this crafts medium to full body and light carbonation it was an easier to drink DIPA with great fruity notes and a hoppy dry finish.  This is a must t...

In Austria, You Can Literally Swim in Beer.

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A old Austrian brewery - Starkenberger , built the world's first-ever  beer swimming pools in their  brewing castle . There's Seven 13-foot pools of warm beer,  each containing 42,000 pints to soak up and relax in. The pools have been running since 2005, their old fermentation cellar of the 700-year-old castle became obsolete, hence the beer pools were born.  Now you're probably thinking about how gross this would be, however  beer is actually chalk full of vitamins and calcium, as well as notably recognized to help heal open wounds   (Cleopatra herself was famously known to bathe in beer for this reason).  Knowing this, I think we can all disregard the sticky  residue the bath will leave us with. Taking a dip will cost you a pretty penny though: $ 298   a pool - with an additional  $6.50 per person swimming . (And that's only for 2 hours!) But hey, it's a once and a life time experience for beer lovers - you can l...