February means chocolate, and chocolate means beer. Pair this year’s box with a bottle of Crooked Stave Mama Bear’s Sour Cherry Pie. This barrel-aged dark sour beer offers aromatics of funk, leather, spice and sour fruit that balance harmoniously with tasting notes of wood, earth, roasted grain and vibrant tart cherry. Effervescence and tannins pull the beer together to go perfectly with chocolate.
$27. Available at Lukas Liquor Superstore
Katie Herrera is a longtime contributor to Sauce Magazine and account manager at Craft Republic.
This article appears in February 2018.