Every brewing trend eventually circles back to nostalgia, and this one skips the subtlety entirely. Dessert Station: Butter Beer is Corporate Ladder's return of a beer built to evoke a drink that does not technically exist outside of a book series, which is either a strange premise for a recipe or the most honest one on this list.
The execution is straightforward enough: butterscotch, cream soda, and vanilla, combined into a 6.5 percent gluten-free dessert beer with a creamy body. No elaborate backstory required beyond "people wanted this back," which the brewery seems content to let stand on its own. It is one of four beers in the taproom's Harry Potter weekend lineup, no preorders, no online store availability, just 16oz four-packs while they last.
It drops Saturday at noon on draft and to go. Sometimes the entire pitch really is just giving people back the thing they asked for.