Beer of the Week: Cushwa Middle America Double IPA

WASHINGTON — Big towns, little towns, and everything in between. It doesn’t matter how big you are when it comes to making tasty craft beer.

WTOP’s Brennan Haselton is joined by Neighborhood Restaurant Group Beer Director and James Beard Award nominee Greg Engert to talk about Cushwa Middle America Double IPA for the latest edition of WTOP’s Beer of the Week.

Quick Facts: 

  • Brewery: Cushwa Brewing Co., Williamsport, Maryland
  • Brewery description: An aromatic, non-hazy double IPA with notes of stone fruit and tangerine and hints of pine and citrus with a light honey sweetness
  • ABV: 8 percent
  • Greg’s pairing suggestions: Fish, such as halibut, hake, snapper and rockfish; anything with pork like greasy pepperoni pizza, BLTs and bacon and eggs; hanger steak

See more Beers of the Week from previous weeks.

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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