10 Great Beers Brewed In Unlikely Places

For the true beer aficionado, there's nothing like being able to treat your friends to not just a tasty beer, but also an interesting story about that brew's origins. The editors at Imbibe Magazine put together this list of 10 beers that will give you something to talk about until the next round.

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Blind Bat Hellsmoke Porter Centerport, N.Y. 5.7% ABV, 22 oz. There are plenty of microbreweries out there, but Long Island illustrator and cartoonist Paul Dlugokencky calls his Blind Bat a nanobrewery. The one-man (that would be Dlugokencky, working part-time) operation brews back-to-back batches of beer in his home, one-third of a barrel at a time, until he has enough for a full barrel; Dlugokencky also hand-mills all his grain just before mashing. In the case of his Hellsmoke, he also smokes a portion of his malts himself over alder and applewood. You’ll be lucky to find this beer outside of Long Island, much less New York, but it’s worth seeking out if you’re in the area or can arrange a trade.

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Blind Bat Hellsmoke Porter
Centerport, N.Y. 5.7% ABV, 22 oz.
There are plenty of microbreweries out there, but Long Island illustrator and cartoonist Paul Dlugokencky calls his Blind Bat a nanobrewery. The one-man (that would be Dlugokencky, working part-time) operation brews back-to-back batches of beer in his home, one-third of a barrel at a time, until he has enough for a full barrel; Dlugokencky also hand-mills all his grain just before mashing. In the case of his Hellsmoke, he also smokes a portion of his malts himself over alder and applewood. You’ll be lucky to find this beer outside of Long Island, much less New York, but it’s worth seeking out if you’re in the area or can arrange a trade.

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