Posts Tagged: New York
West End Brewing Company As Seen In Utica
Posted by on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 in - leave a comment
Reader and prize-winner Chad forwarded me some pictures from a visit to F.X. Matt in Utica to check out the place and give the brewery some support after their near calamitous fire in late May. I like this one the best. The brewery was called the West End Brewing Company in 1888 and appears to be …
New York: Black Diamond Bock, Saranac, Utica
Posted by on Thursday, June 12, 2008 in - 1 comment
The news from Utica is good. F.X. Matt, makers of the Saranac brand, will live on after the fire that took out the canning building two weeks ago and in fact beer is still being brewed now. • The news is also good about this beer. I picked up a six at the Alex Bay Mart the other week for a …
Fire At Central New York's F.X. Matt Brewery At Utica
Posted by on Thursday, May 29, 2008 in - 1 comment
Our pal CNY blogger NYCO has broken the story in the comments: the F.X. Matter Brewery in Utica caught fire late this afternoon. WSYR TV, the source of the photo, reports: • “Fire crews in Utica are battling a fire at the F.X. Matt Brewery, also known as the Saranac Brewery. It reportedly …
Meta-Beer-Blogging...Or Watching Troy Watch Phin And Paul
Posted by on Sunday, April 27, 2008 in - 6 comments
BeerBistro! after all the people go to bed. • I had a great time Friday night. It was fun to meet the Southern Tier guys as well as the very dapper Liliana and Vlado, those great folk behind hosts Roland + Russell (who, by the way, I am starting to think were either two dusty Victorian-era …
By The Beer Cooler of Wegmans I Laid Myself Down And Cried
Posted by on Sunday, March 30, 2008 in - 3 comments
A fantastically bad shot of the actual Wegmans from GooglePlex • Not really but there was a moment of near tears - of joy and frustration, that is. What else, after a sensible visit to Fort Stanwix, could make me feel this way other than a beer cooler room in a not particularly recently …
Stouts: Choklat, Imperial Stout, Southern Tier, New York
Posted by on Friday, February 15, 2008 in - leave a comment
Chok-o-la-da. That is how we say it in our house because we met in Poland back in 1991. Gdansk was a hot bed of decent chocolate that was sold for pennies a bar around the Baltic shore towns like the one where we lived. Other than that, I am fairly indifferent to the stuff. • On the nose, is/are …
Travis Suffers Growler Tragedy Followed By Ubu Uber-Triumph
Posted by on Saturday, January 5, 2008 in - leave a comment
So, calling the loss of two brown glass growlers is hardly tragedy, it's still cool to come out on top! It all started after a raucous party a month ago, where I brought two growlers of Old Balls Ale that I had brewed. After the party I forgot the growlers at Tom's house and promptly told him to …
Travis Tries Out Landmark Brewing's India Pale Ale
Posted by on Friday, December 21, 2007 in - leave a comment
So this is my first guest post to A Good Beer Blog from here in Central New York. With Syracuse University basketball in full effect and the football season a long way away - thank God - we in Central New York are hunkering down for another white winter. • For this post I decided to write about …
Porter Season: Raspberry Porter, Southern Tier, NY, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 in - leave a comment
All things have to come to an end and the season of porter is no different. The deep freeze has come here at the east end of Lake Ontario and autumns turning leave and harvest are long gone. Tripels, Christmas ales, imperial stouts and barley wine will be everything until the snow banks begin to …
Porter Season: Four US Porters Side-By-Side-By-Side-By-Side
Posted by on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 in - 2 comments
...Colorado, Maine, New York, Massachusetts... • This porter season thing is a little overwhelming - sure it's a whole season but there's supposed to be snow by Friday and I gotta get on to the imperial stouts, old ales and barleywines...and winter beers...and Christmas ales. You know I want to …
