A Constant Visual Feast

“Like “nuclear medicine” or “oyster stout,” “pickle beer” are two words that, at a glance, do not belong together at all. Even a palate apostate who drinks pickle juice from empty jars of Claussen on purpose may hear the term and ever so slightly blanche. It is, to the ear, a strange concept, mixing pickles, or pickle ingredients, into beer, but the style has its adherents all the same despite the combination of flavor profiles—and despite a middling presence in the craft beer market.” (Full feature at Hop Culture.)