Posts Tagged: New York
Big News From Ithaca Beer Co.
Posted by on Thursday, April 13, 2006 in - 2 comments
I like press releases. They give me a strange sense that someone somewhere out there has thought about this blog for the seven seconds it takes to add me to their email circulation list. It's the little things that give joy, you know. • Well, this news has made me think that I may try to make a …
Beer Shop: C's Farm Market, Oswego, New York
Posted by on Monday, February 20, 2006 in - leave a comment
Directions to C's Farm Market • The neat blue building • Good news for me. I found a new store in my general region. Oswego is a small city directly south across Lake Ontario from Kingston...ok, maybe SSW by S from us. We like to go there for the fort and the seafood in summer. In winter we go …
Three US Doubles
Posted by on Saturday, January 28, 2006 in - 2 comments
Art by John Neville • A weekend's worth of work, these three large format Belgian Abbey style doubles brewed in Pennsylvania, California and New York from left to right above. I wrote a bit about four doubles just a little over a year ago, including the Ommegang. I repeat it here as the standard …
Belgium: Three Saisons for Hogmanay
Posted by on Saturday, December 31, 2005 in - 8 comments
What to sip for for the New Year, for Hogmanay, as we wait for the baby in the sash to kick the old bearded guy with the staff out of the room as we wait for the odometer of life to click over one more digit? • What better than saison, one of the great ale styles. One, Hennepin, from Ommegang of …
New York: He'Brew 9, Shmaltz, Saratoga Springs
Posted by on Monday, December 26, 2005 in - 1 comment
Perfect for Chanukah, from the Shmaltz Brewing Company of Saratoga Springs, New York comes this their big holiday ninth anniversary ale brewed from 9000 lbs of malt and 9 hop varieties and comes in at a weighty 9%. The SBC appears to be a one person contract brewing operation from some of the … read more »
New York: Middle Ages Brewing Co., Syracuse
Posted by on Monday, November 21, 2005 in - 6 comments
Thou mayest click on for greater illumination • I have to say that I have really enjoyed everything I have had by the Middle Ages Brewing Co. of Syracuse NY from trips to pubs and the odd beer I have brought back. But last time I was in a central New York beer shop I realized that there is more …
New York: Mendocino Brewing Co., Saratoga Springs
Posted by on Monday, October 17, 2005 in - 3 comments
I picked up these five a while ago from Ithaca's Finger Lake Beverage Center and I thought it was about time to put them on the reviewing stage. I have not visited the brewery which is located just to the south east of the Adirondacks about half way between the state capital of Albany and Lake …
New York: Black Chocolate Stout, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn
Posted by on Monday, October 10, 2005 in - 1 comment
According to Lew Bryson in his book New York Breweries, this is the beer that got Garrett Oliver the job as brewmaster at Brooklyn in 1994: • “He'd been brewing at a brewpub, Manhattan Brewing, since 1989. He could see the writting on the wall there, and one day when no one was in, he brewed up … read more »
New York: Southern Tier Brewing, Lakewood
Posted by on Friday, August 12, 2005 in - 2 comments
I have written about Southern Tier's porter a couple of times and reviewed the IPA. All but the Hop Sun were in a variety twelve along with the porter that I picked up at the beginning of July - again obeying the golden rule of variety twelves (all ales and four styles please). I have enjoyed …
Road Note #1 - Adirondack Pub and Brewery,<br>Lake George, NY
Posted by on Sunday, July 24, 2005 in - 4 comments
I am on summer holidays and the blog is at the mercy of my interest in posting but I have to say that the Adirondack Pub and Brewery in Lake George, New York is pretty good. I had their IPA as well as a decent sampler of blond, hefe, steam, stout, IPA and...umm...another. The food was great and … read more »
