Firestone Walker Brewing’s Anniversary Ale is a remarkable beer by itself—it’s a master blend aged in bourbon, rum, and gin oak barrels—but Brouwer’s Cafe has found a way to make this striking beer even more interesting. The venerable Fremont beer bar is serving a 10-year vertical of Firestone’s Anniversary Ales: Firestone Walker XIV–XXIII. In the pantheon of beer geekery, a vertical—a tasting event where you sample the same brewery’s beer aged to different years—sits somewhere near the top of Mount Olympus. The longer the vertical, the better, and Brouwer’s Cafe’s 10-year Firestone vertical will give you the chance to see how a beer changes across an entire decade. by Lester Black