As a craft brewer, J.C. Hill has always had a romantic obsession with traditional European beer styles, but he had never gone to the source to try them.
That is until earlier this year when Hill, the owner and brewmaster of Alvarado Street Brewery in Salinas, took the trip of a lifetime. He moved his family to Munich, Germany, where he could immerse himself in the world-renowned beer culture of Bavaria and complete his beer bucket list.
“I was fortunate to try a lot of classic styles in their freshest form and talk to the brewers that made them, including Helles in Munich, Kolsch in Cologne, Pils in Prague, and Trappist Ale in Belgium,” Hill stated in a press release…