Toddy's has a special area in its store for wonderful tasty specialty beers. The beers are rated all in the top 100. In case you are not so familiar with these beer come and check them out, the taste will surprise you!

The specialty beers category is more or less a catch-all for the beer styles that don’t fit elsewhere. When it comes to specialty beers’ place on the beer family tree, the wild artiste cousin is the model: bold, loud, experimental, often goofy, usually quite memorable, and lovable despite having flouted convention.

Specialty beers are typically regular beers brewed to a classic style (such as Porter, Stout, or Pale Ale) but with some new flavor added. Others beers in this category are made from unusual fermented foods. The addition of fruits, herbs and spices, miscellaneous flavorings (such as licorice, smoke, and hot pepper), and odd fermentables (such as honey, maple syrup, and molasses) turn an ordinary beer into a specialty beer. In many ways, specialty beers are the most fun to try.

People who are new to beer drinking or perhaps claim not to be beer fans seem especially surprised and pleased when they try these exotic brews for the first time, especially fruit-flavored beers. This fact isn’t lost on brewers, who now make creating new beers with broad appeal a high priority. Urge them on!

Brewmasters take a great deal of pleasure and artistic liberties when creating specialty beers. Everything but the kitchen sink can be added to a beer. After all, people have tried garlic beer (very, very bad idea) and even hot chili pepper beer (which is sort of like drinking liquid heartburn). Caveat emptor. Some of the more subtle blends are often the most outstanding — a Blackberry Porter comes to mind.