W hen I started drinking beer in college, almost all the beer I tried was thin adjunct lagers that had little in the way of malt flavors. After graduating and moving to Boston, I ...

For instance, you'll never mistake Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock, one of Ron Minkoff's favorites, for Bud Light. Doppelbock is a malty, toasty traditional German beer variety first developed in ...

The Ayinger Oktoberfest is his favorite. This beer comes out only once a year, and Brauhaus buys the bulk of it (meaning, you can only get it here, on draft). It’s an amber, malty beer with a 5. ...

Bock beer originated in the German town of Einbeck ... Spaten’s Optimator, and Ayinger’s Celebrator. The next progression of the bock lineage came about as pale malts were developing in ...