When plans to leave the country for a couple days fell through, my wife and I, already having convinced our brains that we were going to be out of the city for the weekend, decided we needed to get out of town anyway. We looked around for some weekend getaway options until remembering that we [...]
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 [...]
2008 will by default always be my best year in beer, being that it was the first year that I fully dove into the madness of craft beer obsession. I sampled an insane amount of amazing beer this year for the first time — making my way through all of the Belgian Trappist beers, sampling [...]
The frequency and awesomeness of Beer Events in Brooklyn is reaching a frightening crescendo. Almost nightly you can cruise to various parts of the five boroughs and drink several lines of fresh brew from one of any of the hundreds of breweries that make it to Gotham — and that’s just the events which focus [...]
Beer Advocate has an amazing events list, which keeps track of beer-related get-downs in various cities. Between that, subscribing to several mailing lists, and having a bit of an inside track with a few beer-employed friends and cohorts, I usually hear about the good events in plenty of time to know what’s coming. For some [...]
Things have been quiet here for about a week and will be quiet for another three weeks as my band goes on the road in Europe. We’ll be missing out on some amazing beer events here in NYC, but that’s okay, as we’ll be in the motherland. Don’t feel bad for us.
Of course I’ve been [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
The Gate’s “Winter” Ale Celebration continued last night with a good selection of beers from Sly Fox in Pennsylvania. The card proclaimed “Meet the beers. Drink the brewer” and I ended up doing only one of those. Oh well. I showed up a few minutes too late to this event, because [...]
