In the spirit of competition, Beer Friends would like to invite everyone to our second season of NFL hashtag battles! Using hashtagbattle.com we will pit two breweries against each other when their NFL counterparts are facing off on the gridiron. Are you ready for some football? And drinking? And #hashtag battle?!?!?!
What’s a hashtag battle? When you’re drinking a beer of a brewery competing in the battle, throw a #hashtag of the brewery and tweet it (or setup your foursquare or untappd to push to tweet and include the #hashtag) and we’ll use hashtagbattle.com to declare a winner after the Monday Night football game on ESPN. Support your team, support your beer, drink local and hashtag battle!
Week Six – Oakland Raiders at Atlanta Falcons (#sierranevada vs #terrapinbeer)
This video takes us back to our roots in a different way, when apparently we couldn’t frame a shot… Imagine that Graham is talking when you hear his voice (because you don’t see him often) and check out this review from Sierra Nevada. Sierra Nevada made the news this week by announcing a East Coast Brewery Site so we decided to toss up a review of their new seasonal, Ruthless Rye. Ruthless joins the recent rye brews (Founders, Sixpoint) but with a interesting twist – watch to find out! Be sure to check out our ever growing collection of Sierra Nevada reviews – Torpedo – Southern Harvest – Ken and Fritz 30th
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
For this weeks Six Pack of the Week we go down under… to New Zealand! This week we tried the Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest 2011. The world on the street (and Sierra Nevada’s website) is that this is the first American craft beer to use hops grown in the southern hemisphere, hand picked, dried and flown back to Chico, California and used in this Harvest brew. The three hop varieties are Pacific Hallertau, New Zealand Motueka and New Zealand Southern Cross Hops – none of which these Beer Friends have heard of or tasted! Southern Hemisphere! New Hops! G-Day Mate! Beer!
Finally it has returned: The Sierra Nevada Blind Tiger Extravaganza! One of The Beer Friends favorte breweries has come back to take over almost all of the Blind Tigers taps. This night started as just one Beer Friend headed down to one of his favorite NYC beer bars to sample some of Sierra Nevada’s finest offerings. It quickly turned into something bigger. How could one man attempt to tackle so many fine offerings…by himself? The choices were tough, but they were made. Here’s the best attempt by one man at recapping a truly epic event.
Numero One – Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale 6.7%. – One of the rumors surrounding this event was that this will be one of the places that Sierra will unveil this years Harvest Ale. A fall brew from start to finish, this pour offers up hearty malts, seasonal spices reminiscent of October and a big hop character. I could definitely see myself drinking this one or the usual Harvest that comes to us New Yorkers throughout the fall season. It warms you, without taking away the drinkability or versatile flavors. (more…)
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