He died in 1996, two years after testing positive for HIV. His queer, countercultural writing made him a frequent target for censorship by the Brazilian government, yet Abreu’s writing ultimately prevailed, making him a cultural icon nonetheless. Abreu wrote in Brazil in the 1980s, through the country’s twenty-one-year military dictatorship. Caio Fernando Abreu’s short story collection, translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, serves as a coming to terms with life under a repressive government, life without a brighter future.
Moldy Strawberries is an inspiring exercise in hopelessness and futility. Galactica will vanquish any juicy, hazy IPA that dares to enter its swath of the beer galaxy.Īnother Back2School beer Marsha recommends is Hops 4 Teacher, featured in a previous review.Īcknowledgment: I’m grateful to CB Bottle Shoppe for nudging me to try Tiny Esses. Pours translucently topaz with a robustly foamy head. This bitter-forward, bitter-finishing IPA enhances its 9-hop profile with a delicious piney taste that rises to your palate. What if Red Bull and grapefruit juice joined forces in a beer with flakes of candy? Tartly refreshing with a sweet finish, this frothy pink concoction pours with a pale peach head. It tastes like a champagne mango and would make a good shower beer. Lightly juicy but not too sweet, this mango-forward ale pours hazy yellow with tiny white bubbles. Richly flavored for the light mouthfeel, this beer’s tastes play out on your mid-tongue. Its silky chocolate approach yields to a roastiness that’s malty without being too sweet. The red-brick building on the can evokes this molasses-hued brew’s classic tastes. Pours more hazy than clear.īellaire Brown Ale. With this Bellaire Brown ale, for it’s mal-īack to school. Of-age, don’t you’d think ‘twould be prudent Bryant is Associate Editor of Contemporary Women's Writing, and Professor of English & Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. Her recent essays appear in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath, the online journal Humanities, and the textbook Impact of Materials on Society. MARSHA BRYANT writes about poetry, modernism, pedagogy, and craft beer. Marsha parsed Märzens in an earlier brew review. There’s some hop tingle in the finish that tempers the toffee notes, keeping the beer from becoming sweet.
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The malts settle nicely into your foretongue before the full flavor moves toward the back of your throat. Pours mahogany brown with a beige, foamy head. Roasty with toffee notes in the finish, this beer is richly flavored with a stoutish mouthfeel. As you sip it, you’ll feel a small malty fan-out on your tongue before the smokiness rises to your palate these flavors blend beautifully as you finish your glass.Ĭelebrator Doppelbock, Ayinger, Aying, Germany. You’ll smell the smoke before you taste it in this opaque, molasses-colored beer, which pours with medium-sized bubbles in its frothy, tan head. Banana notes add to the refreshing smoothness, and the mouthfeel is lighter than Märzenbier.Īecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier (Urbock ), Schlenkerla, Bamberg, Germany. Pouring hazy amber with a foamy white head, this dark wheat beer tilts toward sweetness with notes of dry cider and yeastiness. Hefeweissbier Dunkel, Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany. It pours chocolate brown with a cream-colored head, and it finishes with a hint of sweetness on the tip of your tongue. With its lager-light mouthfeel and pleasing maltiness, this beer can be a refresher with pretzels or a good pairing with brats and desserts. Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier (the Urbock),ĭunkel, Erdinger Weissbier, Erding, Germany.
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