Creating beers using only regional ingredients is a thing — more a thing than ever.
And when the Wall Street Journal took a road trip across America this year to identify the most interesting regional brews, it found Oskar Blue’s Beerito, a low-alcohol lager first made to commemorate the opening of a company restaurant, the cyclist-friendly CyclHOPS Cantina in Longmont.
How stiff was the competition? Well, the Boulder-based Brewers Association lists some 3,500 craft brewers nationwide as members, and more than 490 of those call Colorado home. The Journal chose 21 beers for its list.
To win notice in that busy pool of contestants “is great,” said Oskar Blues spokesman Jeremy Farmer.
The Wall Street Journal described Beerito, which is 4 percent ABV (alcohol by volume), as “having the earthy chew of good corn masa, like a handmade tortilla.”
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