Posts Tagged: New York
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 …
New York: Custom BrewCrafters Reviewed
Posted by on Sunday, September 16, 2007 in - 7 comments
There's a good article Custom BrewCrafters of Honeoye Falls, New York in Rochester's Democrat and Chronical today describing their unique path to business stability: • “Custom BrewCrafters produces less than 3,000 barrels a year — placing the Honeoye Falls beer maker well under the 15,000-barrel …
New York: Porter, Rohrbach Brewing, Rochester
Posted by on Saturday, August 18, 2007 in - leave a comment
Growlers are not common in Canada. A few micros are now selling them at the brewery but nothing like in NY state where any decent beer store has a few good beers on draft for the customers to fill half-gallon jugs with. • This beer pours deep cola brown under a mocha loose large bubbled rim and …
Beer Shop: Beers of the World, Rochester, New York
Posted by on Friday, August 10, 2007 in - 3 comments
One of the beery treats of the trip was my first stop at Beers of the World on the south side of Rochester. It is actually in the community of Henrietta the question of whose separate legal existence as a separate jurisdiction is beyond the scope of this blog's mandate. Either way, the shop is …
New York: Rohrbach Brewing Company, Rochester
Posted by on Thursday, August 9, 2007 in - 2 comments
One of the other great things about a trip south, other than loading up the stash with brews that are forbidden to Canadians otherwise, is finding a great new brewpub. A few miles to the west of Rochester, on highway 33, we found one more at Rohrbach Brewing. • We sat outside and were treated to …
New York's Beer Gardens
Posted by on Friday, May 11, 2007 in - leave a comment
I have never been to a beer garden. I have a garden in which I have had beer but that is a different thing...and I don't think a Canadian thing given our 7 weeks of summer: • “Between 1820 and 1860, 1.5 million immigrants arrived in America from Germany, bringing with them their own cultural …
Session 3: The Unlikely Quest For Mild
Posted by on Thursday, May 3, 2007 in - 6 comments
What's wrong with our mild!?! • As discussed, Jay has determined that this months edition of "The Session" will be all about mild and there is a panic throughout the globe. Why? Because it is a style that no one makes much anymore. It is a bit of historical dead end, as a lighter maltier beer …
TAP NY 2007: Not My Kitchen
Posted by on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 in - 2 comments
The festival in Hunter Mountain is over for another year and I have to thank the good folks at TAP NY for their sponsorship. Matthew won first prize and sent this report on the event. • +++++++ • My primary reason for wanting to attend TAP NY 2007 was that it is not my kitchen. My kitchen is … read more »
