July 4th is the supreme beer and meat holiday, automatically putting it in the running with my favorite holidays of all time. Add in fireworks, copious sweets, great weather, and a bunch of friends outside of the city that oppresses us all so regularly, and you have a recipe for a hell of a time. [...]
California has gotten serious respect for its production of Belgian styled barrel aged beers. Infused yeasts and bacteria that produce an insane array of aromas and flavors, these beers are truly hand-crafted, with the help of the American scientific mind. There are many excellent versions of these Lambic or Geuze styles of beer, often aged [...]
There’s no shortage of good words on this blog about Captain Lawrence Brewing Company. In fact in terms of breweries that bottle beer, Captain Lawrence is by far my favorite in the state of New York, enough that I’m going to call him a New York City brewer just to make myself feel better. No [...]
Captain Lawrence Brown Bird Ale started out as a seasonal beer, the name inspired, according to the Captain Lawrence website, by the brown birds who come around the brewery looking for spent grain to munch on. After customers suggested that the brewery extend the beer’s season to year-round status, they complied, and now this once [...]
The Belgian style “Tripel” is a tricky one to nail down, and in fact, the more you learn and read about Belgian styles of beer in general, and especially those of the “Trappist” variety, the more you learn that BJCP style guidelines are pretty stupid and useless outside of the hermetic world of Beer Competitions. [...]
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 [...]
After a rough afternoon visiting three different Social Security Administration offices in the metro area, I headed to MRB’s house for a bit. Fortunately for me, the only beer in his fridge were a Heineken, a Stella Artois and a bottle of Captain Lawrence’s Smoke from the Oak: Wine Barrel (batch number 2.) [...]
I admit I have a bit of a burger problem lately. I find myself eating them more and more often as the need to wear a jacket outdoors diminishes. I’ve also sworn a solemn oath (to myself) to take more time to enjoy my lunches, and to enjoy them with wine or beer whenever possible. [...]
