An obsession with drinking beer can only take a person so far into completely understanding beer. At some point, most sufficiently nerdy brew-heads think about making their own beer, and in my case I’ve certainly been no exception. I decided to start brewing in a pretty unconventional way — jumping right into All-Grain. After gathering [...]
I am posting this from neck-deep in a fermentation obsession. My house is full of the books, talk, fruits, and stink of it. I have 4 vessels currently in some transformative state, including my first homebrew (more on this later), a crock of sour garlic dill pickles, a crock of lactic beets, and my first [...]
Stinky, Ceeg and I, along with my wife Maya and Stinky’s better half Jillian, represented the Brew Dog Blog crew in Pleasantville, NY this weekend at the Captain Lawrence Cuvee de Casteleton release. The doors opened at noon to obsessive enough beer hounds who wanted to get their hands on the limited run of the [...]
Since I spend most of my time drinking beer in bottles 22oz or greater, that comprises most of what I review as well. Last night instead of going for a gigantic experience from a big bottle, I wanted to take it a bit easier — so I drank 2 12oz bottles, both of which I [...]
I scored a batch of beers from New Glarus Brewing Company, perhaps Wisconsin’s most notable Brewery, and one who creates beers so rarefied and craft intensive that they’ve chosen to not even try to make enough beer to make it out of Wisconsin. If you want some, you can go to the brewery and buy [...]
Southern Tier is one of my favorite breweries. Pretty much everything they put out (so long as it’s not a Belgian style) is top notch. What they are best at though is their Black Water Series which has been going on for at least three years. It started with the Jah-va which [...]
Found a bottle of this which I assume is pretty old at Eagle Provisions. I had this beer a while back and that time didn’t really have a taste for it, but a bottle of 11% ABV Chocolate Stout from one of my favorite brewers staring at me in the fridge was appealing enough that [...]
God damn it was an amazing experience trying this beer for the first time. For those of you who haven’t tried it, congratulations. For those of you who have been drinking this all along — how the hell did you let me not drink this? Orval is one of the very few available authentic Trappist [...]
I approach catered events with much caution. I’ve found that attention to detail can vanish when overworked culinary school undergrads looking for experience are forced to reheat pre-dried fish fillets for bluehairs night after night during their summer wedding catering gigs. Add to that the fact that most brides and grooms have been too overwrought [...]
Pleasantville, New York’s Captain Lawrence Brewing Company offers a wide variety of beers, from Porters to “Wild Beers” to traditional Belgian styles like this, their go at an Abbey Dubbel. Fans of Belgian beer should perk up when they hear this, as the prototypes of the Dubbel are some of the most revered beers of [...]
