This weeks SPotW is part of the seasonal series from Sixpoint Craft Ales in Redhook, Brooklyn. It’s no secret that the Beer Friends love Sixpoint and love what they are doing with their cans. The art, the size (tallboys) and the quality is a great look in to a craft brewery growing and improving their brand daily. In honor of the recent Olympics – SPOILER ALERT: This is a Bavarian style wheat beer with Belgian roots – guess who’s gonna hate it? Sixpoint! Nanokegs! Sun God!
It was a dark and story night. Two intrepid beer drinkers braved the elements, the sheeting rain and slow busses to bring you a night of one of our favorite breweries out of Colorado. Wetsocks and all we are always excited for a little Great Divide and a Cowboys From Hell burger with crab seasoned tater tots from That Burger. Read on for the goodness…
Tuesday, August 14 – Tuesday Night Tasting: Sierra Nevada Beer Camp @ Bierkraft, Brooklyn:
Every craft beer lovers dream is to go to a summer camp for brewers and beer lovers alike. Well, a little over a year ago the good brewers at Sierra Nevada made that possible – giving both professional brewers and homebrewers a chance to work together to create delicious new craft beer. If you’re lucky then you’ve stumbled upon a spot serving these camp brews. If you haven’t been lucky, then tonight is your night. Head over to Bierkraft to have Brian from Sierra Nevada educate you on the program as well as tap four new offerings for your drinking pleasure.
Floral IPA
Imperial Pilsner
Oatmeal Stout
Imperial Red
Bierkraft is located at 191 5th Avenue between Berkeley and Union Streets in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Tuesday, August 14 – Belgian Beer Night @ Rattle n’ Hum, Manhattan:
Hello Beer Friends Nation!!! You may have noticed our fancy new logo AND you may have noticed we are up on iTunes now(so you can take us everywhere with you) BUT here’s our brand new feature: Beer Friends Nation Reviews! That’s right! Have we missed your favorite beer? let us know by writing up a review and sending it to phil@thebeerfriends.com or brad@thebeerfriends.com and we’ll get it up on the site! Spread the love and Spread the word!
For our first BFN Review we have Michael from San Diego telling us his thoughts on Stone’s Ruination 10th Anniversay. Click through for Michael’s review…
It’s Live Bloggerin’ time!!!! (Phil’s kinda excited for The Avengers). Hello Beer Friends Nation! Here we are again for our current favorite live blogging beer event at Idle Hands Bar in New York City welcoming Sierra Nevada to the stage.
For now were are chilling with a couple of pre-gamers:
“I’d like to thank my friends and family, those that supported me in low times, thank you Gigi, my little girls watching at home and most of all the academy, thank you!” It needs a little work, but we had barely any time to work on it (or about 100 weeks…) We made it. 100 reviews. 100 videos of a “bunch of boring dudes drinking beer on camera.” This week we return to one of our favorite breweries – Sixpoint from Redhook, Brooklyn. The Beer Friends have always been huge fans of Sixpoint and it was like Christmas when we could get their stuff in cans. We quickly ran out and reviewed our favorites, our new favorites, newer beers to Sixpoint, old standby’s, and their first seasonal. Now this Black IPA/Stout mix - Diesel comes along and confuses some people on it’s exact style and admittingly the Beer Friends were confused as well – until we went to the source and sought out the truth. Thanks to all the viewers out there who caught us for the first 100, and keep watching for the second 100!
Phil here tonight we are live logging from the awesome basement bar Idle Hands in New York City for Empire Brewing’s tasting night. The brewery is joined by Finger Lakes Distillery for a little compare and contrast. Paul and Graham will do the comparing and I will probably be the contrasting opinion……so sit tight, we’re gonna grab an intro beer and a burger and when the party gets started we’ll let you in on the fun!
Phil’s First: we have started off the evening with the Finger Lakes Distillery White Pike Whiskey. I am definitely the farthest thing from a whiskey fan here at The Beer Friends, but I have to say that this one out of all of the times I have had whiskeys in the past, this is the ONLY time I have not been completely turned off and can finish the one shot taster. I actually could have a full serving of this, which coming from me, says a lot.
Today we return to Great Lakes Brewing for their Burning River Pale Ale. This is a true to form Pale Ale, not like the overly hopped pale ales that we usually gravitate towards. Great Lakes Brewing is a fantastic brewery and we look forward to each chance we can try their beers so find one yourself, crack it open and play everyone favorite home game… Beer Reviews with the Beer Friends! Ohio River Valley! Pale Ale! Home Game!
This week the Beer Friends decided to stay in – we didn’t travel to California for Speakeasy, or Florida for Cigar City… instead we stayed local and tried Tundra Brewery Red Ale. Tundra Brewery is super local, only available at a few greenmarkets and local conscious shops around NYC. This up and coming brewer is Mark VanGlad and pretty much IS Tundra Brewery, he owns it, grows the hops, makes the beer, bottles it and outsources his label designs (UPDATE: to his girlfriend). At the time of production Tundra only had two available brews: Red Ale and Ma Pale Ale, but have now added a Brown Ale for the Holiday season. Do yourself a favor and find his stuff, you won’t regret it! Local Brews! One-Man operation! NYTimes friends! Beer!
Happy (Belated) Halloween from the Beer Friends! This week our SPotW was the perfect Halloween hangover in Cape Ann Brewing Pumpkin Stout. After you’ve dressed up and hit the houses in your neighborhood (yes I understand that our readership should be at least 21 – but I had a huge haul this year – even got a full size Snickers!) kick back and crack open this Pumpkin Stout to wash down all the Sweet Tarts and multi-colored Tootsie rolls (that I most likely gave you from my bag/pillowcase). This is the third Pumpkin brew in a row and we couldn’t help ourselves but to review the latest trend on the market. Warning: this will not save you from the stomach ache (or possible diabetic coma) you will have from eating all your candy in one night – but it will make you go to sleep faster… Beer! Candy! Pumpkin!
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Brad
Corporate Kerouac
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