Crafty local bars push self-branded brewskis they didn’t make
As regulars of many, many watering holes around town, we’ve found a funny trend: Bars without their own breweries offering their own brands of beer. It’s not a bad gimmick for tavern owners, who buy some not-so-great beer from breweries, slap the establishments’ names on the kegs and hang up signs in restrooms touting the impostor suds.
In anticipation of a summer spent regulating our body temperature with cold drinks in dark bars, we sampled five bar-branded brews.
