For discriminating beer lovers, upcoming featured brands will be Red Stripe (in April), Pete's Wicked Ale, Red Wolf and Anchor Steam.

He twisted the cap off a bottle of Pete's Wicked Ale and slid it across the table to her.

Its major product line is Pete's Wicked Ale, an American Brown Ale that is 5.3% alcohol by volume.

There are 14 beers from the United States and Mexico, including Chili Beer from Arizona and Pete's Wicked Ale from Minnesota.

We ordered Pete's Wicked Ale and linguini with clams, and, as women sometimes do, we got personal within minutes.

The style became popular with homebrewers in North America in the early 1980s; Pete's Wicked Ale is an example, similar to the English original but substantially hoppier.

The beers on tap include Foster's, Amstel Light, Pete's Wicked Ale and Samuel Adams, all par for the course, but Anchor Steam provides a mild surprise.

Bottles are listed according to locale, running the alphabet from the African Mamba Ivory Coast to Pete's Wicked Ale from the United States.

By 1986, he was marketing Pete's Wicked Ale to pubs and food specialty stores in Silicon Valley.

Within a few years, Pete's Wicked Ale and its growing line of beers had won a national following and had become a force in creating the multibillion-dollar microbrew industry.