Pair your holiday dinner with Modern Times's Octagon City

Pair your holiday dinner with Modern Times’s Octagon City

Modern Times Octagon City, photographed, November 15, 2019.

Nov. 24, 2019

6 AM

There’s a fine line between pleasantly tart and stomach-turningly sour. Modern Times’s Octagon City (6.5% alcohol by volume) is decidedly and enjoyably on the correct side of that divide.

Credit the sweet malted wheat base, which softens the raspberry, black cherry and lime notes. I’m not sure if Thanksgiving is celebrated in Octagon City, but this Berliner weisse would pair well with cranberry sauce and stuffing.

Pour the beer into a clear glass and there’s a bonus: Octagon City screams “HAPPY HOLIDAYS!” with its electric red body and frothy pink head.

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Peter Rowe

Peter joined The San Diego Union-Tribune in 1984. A native Californian who grew up in Encinitas, Rowe is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Northwestern University. He is past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and a former Fulbright scholar. He has won a few journalism awards, but would trade them all for a chance to avenge his 1994 “Jeopardy!” loss. Married to a terrific woman who has saved him from errors in writing and in life, he has three sons. At the U-T, Rowe writes profiles and features and is even paid to review beers, which hardly seems fair.