
Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie dough whiskey.
Firestone Walker emerged as a leader in American craft brewing in the 2000s. All the hallmarks were there. Cool, somewhat complex/obscure branding? Yep. Pale ales with the IBUs cranked all the way up? 1000 percent. Weird beer names? Well, eventually.