Tour the Sacramento Area’s Best Breweries With Rob Archie of Pangaea Bier Cafe | Eater SF

"Specializing in barrel-aged imperial stouts, Moksa Brewing Co. — led by head brewer Derek Gallanosa (formerly of Abnormal Beer in San Diego) — uses oak aging plus spices, fruit, chocolate, vanilla, unique sweeteners, and coconut to build layered flavors; I found their fruit sours and imperial stouts transformed after long oak aging, from the tart, fruit-forward One Million Blueberries to Smells Like C.R.E.A.M. Spirit, an imperial stout aged with port barrel maple syrup, vanilla beans, and coffee that drinks like a dessert wine after roughly 20 months in oak when the ingredients concentrate and coalesce." - Lou Bustamante