Reaching back a bit in my archive of notes to write up two beers in one of my all time favorite “non-styles,” the Saison. One is a very authentic modern take originating far from where the style was born, and another a kind of ancient take from right in the heart of the Senne valley.
Nogne [...]
A strange combination of beers to say the least — each has become a classic commercial example of its style, by very different means, and in very different categories of beer altogether. The beauty of the “Life is Beautiful” tag is that it can apply to a range of things, even those as different as [...]
Living in New York is, put as lightly as I can, a total motherfucker. The stress, the noise, the overcrowding, the long train rides to work, everything attacks you at once sometimes, making it hard to see how beautiful life truly is. Even in the beer world, we’re hardly spared — on the Sunnier Coast, [...]
That’s right, it’s been a long time, and it’s a two-for-one deal. Three Floyd’s brewery from Munster, Indiana doesn’t get as much attention on this blog as it should, and you can probably guess why — it doesn’t make it to New York! Beer trading culture has an interesting effect on small craft breweries in [...]
God damn it was an amazing experience trying this beer for the first time. For those of you who haven’t tried it, congratulations. For those of you who have been drinking this all along — how the hell did you let me not drink this? Orval is one of the very few available authentic Trappist [...]
Honestly, I didn’t think it would happen so soon, but here it is — another pretty much perfect brew that is so incredible and tasty that pretty much all I want to say is “Life is Beautiful.” But since I AM feeling a bit chatty, I’ll give it a shot and try to break [...]
This bottle of goodness travelled all the way from southern Belgium, where it is brewed by one of the only Trappist Breweries in the world. Rochefort makes three Ales — the 6, the 8, and the 10. I recently purchased a 10 at New Beer in Manhattan and aside from having sampled a [...]
