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Well we reviewed the original Sixpoint four (Bengali Tiger, Righteous Rye, Crisp, Sweet Action) and now we move to the seasonals. First up is Autumnation, a wet-hopped pumpkin spiced ale. We cannot confirm if this uses a similar recipe as last years pumpkin ale from Sixpoint Pumpkin Brewster (best name ever) but we can confirm that they brew with hops, a lot of them. Grab a can and check it out for yourself! Sixpoint! Five Cans! Pumpkin!
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Finally – 4 for 4, batting 1.000, we’ve got the shooting touch, hat trick plus one, and out of sports metaphors… Today we tried the final available (for now) Sixpoint Nanokeg – Righteous Ale. What used to be called Righteous Rye, this beer has toned down a bit but certainly is as good in the can as off the draft… Batting 1.000! Nanokeg! Beer-cycle!
***Bengali Tiger*** – ***Sweet Action*** – ***The Crisp***
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Full disclosure – the Beer Friends like beer, a lot, and we like good beer, a lot, and when one of our favorite breweries releases their stuff in cans, we are thrilled. We ran around trying to find them and now that all four are released – we can complete the four-some, wait… that came out wrong. Anyway, here is part three in our series – The Crisp from Sixpoint. Beer! Four-packs! Take Home deliciousness!
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Today was a great day. All day long tweets and Facebook post flew up announcing where people could find Sixpoint Bengali Tiger and Sehr Crisp Pilsner around New York City and the Beer Friends were suckered in… we ran around like tourist trying to find Times Square, and our faces lit up when we did. Today we post a Bonus Beer Review of Bengali Tiger in 16 oz cans, finally a bit of Redhook in our fridge. Beer at Home! 4 packs Tallboys! Sixpoint!
UPDATE! 5/30: You may notice that the Beer Friends may have reacted a bit differently to the Bengali Tiger in Cans than they did to the growler review they had done previously. Come to find out, the beer that made it into the cans is a bit different from the beer that was enjoyed out of the growler. Apparently, about 3 months prior to the release of these cans, Sixpoint tweaked the recipe of Bengali Tiger and changed 1 of the 4 hops they use in this IPA. They replaced the Amarillo hops with Citra hops changing the flavor of the beer slightly. So this became a review that wasn’t just about the cans, but unwittingly a review about the new Bengali Tiger recipe. So with that new information, get yourself a nanokeg and see if you can taste the difference.
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This week is a special beer review – it’s a growler! This week we travel to the mysterious Redhook , Brooklyn to try Sixpoint Brewery. Now it is no secret to faithful Beer Friend followers (thanks Mom!) that the Beer Friends love Sxipoint brews, so this one is a gimme. The SPotW is Bengali Tiger, the readily available I.P.A. from Sixpoint. Check it out at the special Sixpoint Brewery event at The Pony Bar on Tuesday, November 16th! Brooklyn Beer!
This past Tuesday, The Stag’s Head and Sixpoint Craft Ale threw an event help the school teachers of New York City cope with the rapid, inevitable end to their summer. The event, dubbed Sixpoint Back to School Night at The Stag’s Head, offered an impressive selection of Sixpoint’s finest brews as well as a $1 off every beer if you had a NYC DOE ID. This is an event that this Beer Friends was sure not to miss at an interesting bar that we have been heading to more and more often these days.
The Stag’s Head is a neighborhood bar where you wouldn’t expect a neighborhod bar to be. The Upper East Side has been void of these types of places for a long time now right? Apparently not.
This is the kinda bar where the bartenders know every other person that walks in…and their choice of poison. It wasn’t even close to being dark out and they dimmed the lights…hard. Then they turned up the music, which was rockin’, just so you’d know they meant business.
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Hey all you craft beer lovers out there! We here at the Beer Friends as usual are bringing you your weekly beer events. School’s back in session and what a great way to celebrate sending off the kids than with some good ol’ craft brews. Come have a few with us at these great NYC brew events.
Tuesday, September 7 – Back To School Night with Sixpoint Craft Ale @ The Stag’s Head: We got a huge event for you with this one, especially if you’re one of NYC’s Smartest – Public School Teacher’s that is. The Stag’s Head, 51st street between 2nd and 3rd, is throwing a back to school bash for teachers and non-teachers alike. Sixpoint will be taking control of 8 draft lines. 8! If you know how many brews Sixpoint regularly produces, then you know that this is almost all of
their continuous selection. We’re talking Sweet Action, Righteous Rye, Bengali Tiger, Brownstone, Redd, Otis and who knows what else! Maybe you’ll even get a chance to try their new fall brew Pumpkin-brewster. Great name. Also, they are honoring those public school teacher’s with a $1 off everything with a DOE ID. AND if you’re good at poetry then take a chance by writing a poem or haiku about your favorite Sixpoint craft ale for a $50 bar tab. As far as I’m concerned, the only thing you need for Back-To-School is a Sixpoint Craft Ale!
Wednesday, September 8th – IPA Week @ The Double Windsor: The Double Windsor is celebrating their last week before their 1st birthday by declaring it IPA week! You know one Beer Friend who loves IPA’s and this has definitely sparked his interest! They will be featuring mostly American IPA’s but you’ll be lucky enough to find some from across-the-pond as well. They haven’t released a list yet, which is kind of exciting in all it’s mysteriuosness. The only way to shed some light on the issue is to head down to Park Slope and check it out yourself. Did I mention that this week all the beers are $5? This mystery just got good.
The Double Windsor is located at 210 Prospect Park West @ 16th Street. Take the F or the G to 15th street/Prospect Park.
Thursday, September 9 – Abita NFL Kickoff Party @ Standings: Standings comes through again as one of the best craft brew sports bars in the city. The Vikings and the Saints are going head-to-head in the first NFL game of the season and Standings is throwing up a bunch of lines of Louisiana’s favorite craft brew: Abita. Find Satsuma Wit, Andy Gator and Turbodog along with a few others. You can also find free pizza. Standings loves free pizza. So do I. And football. And craft beer. What a good relationship we all have.
Hope to see you all out at the bars! As always, if you’re the first find us then we’ll buy ya a craft brew…or two.
In honor of their heavy involvement in New York City Good Beer Month AND in honor of how much The Beer Friends love what these guys put out, we decided to review one of Brooklyn’s best breweries: Sixpoint Craft Ales. Sixpoint Craft Ales was founded in 2004 by Shane Welch and is located in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Despite their youth, Sixpoint has (more…)
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