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WTOP’s Beer of the Week: Sapwood Reality Is Frequently Inaccurate Sour Ale

WTOP's Beer of the Week: Sapwood Reality Is Frequently Inaccurate Sour Ale

How can this be wrong, when it tastes so right?

WTOP’s Brennan Haselton is joined by Neighborhood Restaurant Group Beer Director and James Beard Award nominee Greg Engert to talk about Sapwood Reality Is Frequently Inaccurate Sour Ale for the latest edition of WTOP’s Beer of the Week.

Brewery: Sapwood Cellars, Columbia, Maryland

Description: A sour ale aged in oak barrels with grapefruit zest, hibiscus and Spanish cedar added

ABV: 8.5%

Pairing suggestions: Fried chicken katsu, creamy pastas, salmon on the grill and chocolate

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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.