This blog hasn’t been showing much love to the Blind Tiger Ale House, being that most of us live and spend most of our time in Brooklyn. However, now that half of us work in Manhattan on the west side, and another Dog might be joining the Manhattan workforce, I see more visits to this venerable institution in our future. Indeed it was the first place I thought of when Ceeg came to visit t-bone and I at work yesterday, and I am really glad that we did, because it gave me a chance to sample something I had missed out on a few weeks back during the Smuttynose festival at The Gate, their “Brett Beer,” called Brett and I.
Right away red flags were raised when Ceeg ordered a Lagunitas “Censored,” and I ordered the Brett and I, and it took us a full minute of deep sniffing to make sure that I was actually drinking the Brett beer. While the beer opened up a bit over time, I really did not get any of the satisfying funk I was looking for. This was a nice, sessionable, pretty bitter beer that is typical of Smutty’s offerings, but no way was it funky or even Bretty for the most part. There was a nice amount of balancing malt here and the body was perfect. I could drink this beer all day, but even in comparison to the Avery Fifteen beer I reviewed, this was very mild. A great, if mislabeled beer, drinkable but not surprising or deep in any way.
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