Beer of the Week: Garden Path Fermentation The Curious Mix Methods Wild Ale

Garden Path Fermentation The Curious Mix Methods Wild Ale (WTOP/Brennan Haselton)

WASHINGTON — Here’s a path you’ll want to get on. (And don’t forget a glass!)

WTOP’s Brennan Haselton is joined by Neighborhood Restaurant Group beer director and James Beard Award nominee Greg Engert to talk about Garden Path Fermentation The Curious Mix Methods Wild Ale for the latest edition of WTOP’s Beer of the Week.

Quick Facts:

  • Brewery: Garden Path Fermentation, Burlington, Washington
  • Brewery description: a blend of mature barrel-aged beer and stainless-steel-fermented beer, inoculated with coolship wort and bottle conditioned with Skagit Valley blackberry honey
  • ABV: 6.9 percent
  • Greg’s pairing suggestions: Vietnamese food of all kinds (especially pho and bánh mì); seafood; poultry; pork

Brennan Haselton

In 2000, Brennan Haselton took a job at WTOP as reporter and anchor, and that's where he has been ever since (with the exception of a brief return to Seattle in 2005). He is a two-time winner of the national Edward R. Murrow Award, and winner of the National Headliner Grand Award.

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