With their Red Chair IPA, Deschutes promises extreme hop presence without the bracing bitterness that sometimes precludes my enjoyment of otherwise hoptastic Imperial and Double IPAs. I snagged a few from Joey in our last South Bay Drugs order and downed one a couple nights ago and another last night, just to be sure I [...]
Hopfenstark is a brewery 30 miles outside of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, which has built up a nice reputation amongst beer nerds for offering a wide selection of distinctive beers and sticking to their guns when it comes to style and flavor — basically, the brewer Fred does what he wants, and that’s just the [...]
Mikkeller, the awesome, nomadic “brewery” from Denmark which is actually one guy who goes from brewery to brewery in Europe and the USA brewing collaborative beers or sneaking in his own, is “available” in New York again. I’ve managed to purchase some bottles in the past year or so since I discovered them, but most [...]
Since I was running late from the Upper West Side to band practice last night, I asked T-Bone to pick up the brews for practice. He lives right near a very competent deli that in the past has supplied us with more than enough good jamming fodder — Lagunitas Hop Stoopid, Stone Ruination, Sierra Nevada [...]
I’ve been a long time gone from the blog but with this inaugural springtime post I hope to hop back on the wagon. We jammed a gig last night and I brought some of my first beer of spring, a Belgian IPA, which has been bumming me out as it seems to have “picked up [...]
Trying to stay on top of my homebrewing game, which has been distracting me a bit from posting too many reviews here. That might seem like a lame excuse, and maybe it is, but, well, what can ya do? I took it upon myself to offer Stinky and his awesome wife Jillian some homebrew for [...]
