Get excited, people — it's finally fresh hop beer season. Plus:

• The pinnacle of mechanical sophistication: These are the best perpetual calendar watches on the market right now.
• New whisky from Beyoncé: It's a rye with a sherry maturation — and it works.

It’s Fresh Hop Beer Season. Here’s What the Fuss Is About.

One of beer’s most anticipated times of the year is upon us: fresh hop beer season. Think less fall’s pumpkin beer season or winter’s dessert stout season in all their marketing-friendly adjuncts, more heirloom tomato season or peach season in all their fleeting, natural perfection. Fresh hop beer season is a celebration of hyper-local sourcing, farm-fresh flavors and ephemerality. Hops are picked and go into brewers’ hands within hours, then those hops go into a brew within hours of that. It’s a delicate dance hinging on impeccable timing that delivers intensely flavorful beers, themselves celebrations of regional hop profiles. In other words, fresh hop beer season is pretty special, and people get pretty excited about it.

Yesterday, we asked you what car from Robert Herjavec's collection you would most want to own. You said:

• Rolls-Royce Spectre EV (17%)
• Mercedes-AMG One hypercar (25%)
• 1956 Ford Thunderbird, once owned by Sinatra (26%)
• 2019 Porsche 911 Speedster (32%)

The World’s Best Perpetual Calendar Watches

Patek Philippe continues to craft intriguing perpetual calendars, and many other marques have since gotten in on the game. There are now quantième perpétuel (“QP,” for short) mechanisms, to suit every taste, from reserved, dressy variants to sporty pilot’s watches that wouldn’t look out of place on the deck of an aircraft carrier. From the elegant symmetricality of Patek’s own ref. 5236 to Bulgari’s avant-garde titanium Octo Finissimo, the perpetual calendar has found a home in a stunning variety of case designs, each well suited to a different type of collector.

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A First Taste of SirDavis, the New American Whisky From Beyoncé

If anyone was going to play the celebrity spirits game differently, it was bound to be Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.

The megastar’s new American whisky, SirDavis, is a collaboration between the singer and Moët Hennessy (and yes, they spell whisky without the “e”). The striking bottle features intentional design elements inspired by the story of Davis Hogue — Knowles-Carter’s great-grandfather — who was a farmer and moonshiner. According to the brand, the vessel’s finely ribbed glass evokes the Art Deco style of Hogue’s era. The bottle also features a black medallion with a bronzed horse, “emblematic of strength and respect and symbolizing Knowles-Carter’s Texas roots.”