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!
Wow, so that just happened. The Beer Friends hope everyone is safe (to drink craft beer) and has power (enough to watch our videos). While people are getting power back and lives together, this week we’ll feature something to do every night in effort to get you out of the house. Some of these events are weekly happenings so if you like it, come again next week!
Monday – 25 Cent Wings and Daily Double at Lansdowne Road
It happened today – you looked at your calendar and started to get depressed. We’ve all noticed that as of today it is the mid-point of August. Summer is almost over – and that is a depressing thought. We’re already starting to feel it slipping away. It’s been an especially hard summer for Manhattanites – street temperatures in the heart of the city hitting well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, air-conditioners keeping everyone inside cool but pumping out waves of hot air for the rest of us, concrete hot enough to cook an entire turkey and that beautiful skyline blocking any sort of breeze from giving any respite. So this week the Beer Friends are giving Manhattan a break.
That’s right – this week every NYC Craft Beer Event is happening outside the center of New York City. From Brooklyn, to Jersey, to Westchester (first ever I believe!) we’ve got beer events for everyone else in the Tri-State, multi-boroughed area. Check em’ out! And watch out for the Manhattan yuppies!
Monday, August 15 – Brooklyn Brewery “Ghost” Night @ The Diamond, Brooklyn:
Talk about black ops – this event might not even exist. It’s the kind of thing that gets blacked out in government documents. That shady characters with dozens of names and passports engage in only to disappear into the fold. Some people may or may not have found some brew that may or may not exist and it may or may not be served TONIGHT at a bar that may or may not be real. Actually, it’s all very real – there are four bottles of incredibly rare and specialized brews that sound, to be honest, made up. Which makes them all the more desirable. Here’s what we’re looking at:
Crochet Rouge Rose – Local 1 aged on chardonnay and pinot noir lees. (more…)
Hello all you Beer Friends out there! I’m sure by now you have all heard that Nebraska Brunette Nut Brown is the 2011 Beer Friends Final Four Champion! Congratulations Nebraska! It was an amazing tournament this year but if you’re anything like me then you’ve been wandering around aimlessly, trying to find something to fill the void now that it’s over. I have just the thing for you: Sours, Kegs n Eggs, Evil Twins, Breakfast Stouts from Kentucky and a Cask Beer Festival in Brooklyn.
April Sours bring May Flowers? I think so, but you won’t have to wait until may to get those flowers. Jimmy’s No. 43 is offering a selection of sours to sample this Tuesday night as part of their weekly $10 Tuesday Tastings series. Sours are (more…)
What’s up everyone time to get the Western Bracket for the 2011 Beer Friends Final 4 up and running!
This year Phil’s bracket has contenders from Oregon(of course), California, Hawaii, and a surprise showing from Mexico! Make sure your vote counts, check back often and get your friends to support your favorite beers in all four brackets all the way to the Final Round!
The first match up is our 1 vs 16 with Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo going head to head with Kona Brewery’s Fire Rock Pale Ale. A good showing from both, but I’d have to side with the Torpedo, alot more flavor even with the Hops kick has enough in my opinion to unseat the standard flavored Fire Rock. But who am I to tell you that? Click on through to the rest of the article and get all 8 of your votes in!
When it comes to the Beer Friends, we love America. It’s most important ideals are represented everywhere in the craft beer world: liberty, industriousness, creativity and pursuit of happiness. It’s no surprise that the people who penned these ideals, our Founding Fathers, were craft brewers themselves. Not only were they forming the world’s most famous democracy they were doing it while enjoying a pint of their own home brewed porters, stouts and pale ales. Let’s celebrate their ingenuity by drinking the most prized of their creations: craft beer.
Imperial doesn’t quite go well with the Founding Fathers and early America. It does however go well with, well, everything else. Expect Imperial IPA’s, Souts, Porters, Pilsners and more. Imperial might not be good for democracy, but it goes great with about every style of brew.
Jimmy’s No. 43 is located at 43 East 7th Street in between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, East Village, Manhattan.
Today we review a brew brought to us by a fan and we knew nothing else better to do with it than drink it! On screen! And review it! Beer! Friends! Here’s our opinions on Old Dominion Hop Mountain Pale Ale… Happy New Year! (This is the first we filmed this new year…)
The Beer Friends lucked out big-time yesterday. The Good Beer Seal, who are the beloved organizers of NYC Good Beer Month, reported that Rattle n’ Hum would be having an Allagash event on Tuesday, July 20th. However, they were mistaken, and what a great mistake it was. They were actually having a Southern Tier night! Not that we don’t like Allagash (we very much like Allagash) but we LOVE Southern Tier and their hopheaded creations. That being said, here’s a recap of the (several) brews we enjoyed! (more…)
Yesterday two of The Beer Friends headed out to Patchogue, Long Island to visit the Blue Point Brewery. We sampled all their craft brews in the Brewery Tasting Room with their incredibly friendly bar staff. The Tasting Room quickly built up a constant crowd, as Blue Point is a South Shore Long Island favorite.
The Beer Friends lucked out big-time yesterday. The Good Beer Seal, who are the beloved organizers of NYC Good Beer Month, reported that Rattle n’ Hum would be having an Allagash event on Tuesday, July 20th. However, they were mistaken, and what a great mistake it was. They were actually having a Southern Tier night! Not that we don’t like Allagash (we very much like Allagash) but we LOVE Southern Tier and their hopheaded creations. That being said, here’s a recap of the (several) brews we enjoyed! (more…)
Yesterday two of The Beer Friends headed out to Patchogue, Long Island to visit the Blue Point Brewery. We sampled all their craft brews in the Brewery Tasting Room with their incredibly friendly bar staff. The Tasting Room quickly built up a constant crowd, as Blue Point is a South Shore Long Island favorite.
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