The winner was a bright, mineraly, eminently gluggable 2017 vintage from Idlewild, a small winery in California.

Most of the selections are simple and gluggable, inspired by the Bowl experience itself: uplifting, unheavy acid-driven whites and reds, meant to be chilled down and knocked back.

Point out that some of the most popular fruit beers have much in common with traditional macrobrew machoswill: A fuzzy apricot slug of Magic Hat No. 9 will well wash down a mouthful of spicy barbecue, for instance, and Hell or High Watermelon Wheat Beer, from 21st Amendment, is familiar in its gluggable blandness; its tropical bouquet is like a candied cloud of perfume hovering at a taproom ceiling.