How Craft Breweries Are Looking to Revive Malt Liquor | The New York Times

In August 2022, Virginia Beer Company created a malt liquor called 39 Words.

Over the last couple years, I’ve watched as a number of breweries have tried reviving malt liquor through heritage grains and fine-tuned brewing techniques. Why now? How do they balance the style’s cultural history and lingering lowbrow associations? I turned that curiosity into my latest article for the New York Times.