Lusso – Italian Beer Tasting

Sunday night was spent in NYC at a wonderful new Italian restaurant called Lusso in SoHo.  They describe themselves as serving Italian comfort food, and that is a great description.  A bunch of great people running the restaurant too.  We were lucky enough to join a beer tasting with some of the folks who actually [...]

Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock

A friend of mine brought over a couple of bottles of this to a party we hosted on Saturday.  I’m not a big fan of chocolate flavoured beers (I added the extra “u” to be pretentious) so I was a bit hesitant to try it.
But it actually surprised me.  I was expecting an almost overwhelming [...]

Southern Tier Oak Aged Unearthly

That’s a mouthful, eh?
Sometimes I just dive into a beer without really thinking about it.  We watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall tonight (very good, by the way) and I opened a large bottle of this brew to enjoy while watching the flick.  I should have paid a bit more attention to the bottle, because this was [...]

Guinness

Today, there is only one beer.  Enjoy!

Elysian Avatar

Man, I love this beer.
The kooky kids over at Elysian took a normal IPA and jasmined it up (yeah, I went there).   Pretty bottle, too.  This is an extremely floral IPA that tastes like a bowl full of flowers.  In a good way.  A drinkable brew with an ABV of around 5.60%, this big-flavored IPA [...]

Magic Hat hI.P.A.

I’ve never really been a big fan of the beers out of Magic Hat Brewery in Burlington, Vermont.  Their #9 is a seminal brew carried by just about any bar, pub or restaurant that you can find on the East Coast.  It’s an apricot-tinged pale ale.  OK…nothing great.  But some folks absolutely adore it.  Circus [...]

Lagunitas Sirius

I know.  It’s been a while.  But I’ve been going through a whiskey phase and I haven’t been tasting very many new beers.  It’s something that I mean to remedy, and I started last night.  Purchased a couple of new six packs for an Oscar viewing party.  OK…it was more like Gia and I drinking [...]

Smuttynose Winter Ale

First off, I love all the Smuttynose beers I’ve tried thus far.  I think I mostly love saying “Smuttynose”.  Makes me happy.  Almost as happy as the beer itself.
Just look at that woman on the label.  That picture reminds me of shots of my mother taken back in the day.  It’s a very comforting photo.  [...]

Masons Black Wheat

Tried this wonderful beer out of Sixpoints Brewery in Brooklyn, NY the other day and I’m hooked!
I haven’t been able to find out too much about it, but it appears to be a limited one-time only brew according to the kids at BeerAdvocate.  I had it out of a bottle, but it was a generic [...]

Sixpoints

I tried a couple of brand new beers from Sixpoints Brewery this weekend.  They haven’t been officially released (I know a guy) and I don’t have a lot of information on them.  But they were delicious and I will post a bit more on them when more info is available.
How is that for a tease?