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 [...]
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 [...]
Short’s Brewing Company produces some of the most sought after beers in the spectrum of beer nerddom and it took me quite a while to get my hands on some. They don’t distribute outside of Michigan, they don’t bottle very much beer, and the beer they do bottle is pricey, hard to track down, and [...]
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 [...]
San Diego’s Beer Mecca status is well established. Ask anyone who has been there or has spent more than a couple hours there, and they will tell you: “The weather is perfect” and “The Beer is amazing.” Scientists are now trying to bottle San Diego sunshine and export it around the world, for more [...]
Reading my last post, you might think that I was a pretty pessimistic guy. In fact, that’s not the case — I know how lucky I am and I’m often looking forward to some event, some new knowledge, some new interactions. So living in Brooklyn, I’m lucky to have friends who encourage me to go [...]
Back from 3 weeks in Europe where I experienced a healthy mix of amazing and totally pitiful beer. More on that eventually – I was so excited to drink American Beer when I got home that I ran to the beer shop as soon as I could to catch up on anything I’ve missed. Mercifully [...]
Getting out of the city for the weekend is an essential aspect of staying sane in New York City. Stinky, myself, and our better halves made the short trip up to Taconic State Park to hang out, drink brews, cook over a fire for a few days, and swim and bask in the oddly named [...]
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 [...]
On a trip out to the west coast a few months back, I firmly and finally fell in love with the insanity of American IPA and DIPA styles. Green Flash’s “West Coast IPA” was my first love, and since then, I’ve tried to sample as many examples of the style as possible. Two of these [...]
