Yet another score from State Line Liquors. Grabbed this Southenr Tier gem because I missed the boat on it last time it was aroud (making this bottle pretty old, since it’s ostensibly from the last batch), and because well, it’s one of my favorite styles of beer from one of my favorite breweries. Southern Tier [...]
A few weeks ago Stone, a perennial favorite of mine, did a bit of market testing in New York. They brought kegs of Levitation, a session ale, to ten beer bars in the area and were looking to see if a 4.5% session beer was a viable product in this market. Most breweries [...]
Recently scored a (probably pretty old) bottle of this amazing brew at Eagle Provisions, a somewhat closer to my house beer spot that doesn’t necessitate diving into the depths of Park Slope to hit my other perennial favorite brew spot. Jolly Pumpkin’s web site is not exactly forthcoming on how this beer got its name, [...]
The Brouwerij de Musketiers is a fairly new Belgian brewery, they will be celebrating their tenth anniversary next year. They have two beers available stateside a 7.5% abv “Mild Stout,” called Obscura and the Blonde, a 6.5% sort of abbey single. I found a couple of old bottles of the blonde somewhere and [...]
Now on to the good shit!
I almost missed Ithaca’s Brute, having forgotten about it and skipped it on my first circuit, but thankfully a friend reminded me and I ran back to get a taste. Get psyched for this one, people! The next bottling in Ithaca’s wholly amazing Excelsior series, Ithaca calls it an “American [...]
I took a few chances on bottles I didn’t know much about when I was down at State Line the other day. Among them was Danish brewery Mikkeller’s nicely designed and somewhat understated “Stateside IPA” which comes from the brewer’s self-professed love for American craft beer. I haven’t had much Danish craft beer, and I [...]
It’s been almost 2 weeks since the American Craft Beer Festival up in Boston and I’m finally getting around to my little writeup. I’m going to keep it spare (since I’d never be able to accurately represent the 15-20 brews I got to try) and split up the good and the bad into 2 posts. [...]
Didn’t really mean for “Infected Sessions” to turn into a “series” like “Life is Beautiful” has, but, well, there ya go — not much else is planned around here anyway. Jolly Pumpkin is one of my favorite American Breweries and they have all the characters that a classic, high quality micro-brewery should posess, including a [...]
