kent falls brewing tiny house 12 oz snifter, 4% abv, $7 purchased at mikro, hamden shh. be very quiet. this is a tiny house. and this will be a tiny review of a tiny beer. you may be unaware of this, but i do a lot of hiking around connecticut and i write about those hikes too. my hiker-crowd readership … [Read more...]
Alternate World
Kent Falls Alternate World Gose 16.9 oz bottle, $9.50, 4.6% ABV Purchased at CBC, West Hartford Whoa, slow down there Baby Wolverine. Or is that Millenial Visions Wolverine? Vampire Wolverine? I could go on and on, for as everyone knows, the Marvel Universe is made up of (seemingly) infinite Alternate Worlds. … [Read more...]
Geyser Gose
Geyser Gose 4-pack of 16 oz cans , $12.49++, 5.5% Purchased at Maximum Beverage, West Hartford If you were to interrogate me about “which style” killed craft beer, I don’t know what I’d say. The Usual Suspects weighed in this year – from the idiotic Thrillist saying it was the humble gose to the dopey Beer … [Read more...]
Shower Beer
Kent Falls Shower Beer Gose (Lime Zest Gose) 16.9 oz bottle, $7.50, 4.6% ABV Purchased every bottle I found at MaxBev and CBC, West Hartford [2016 Update: Kent Falls had to change the name of this beer from Shower Beer to Lime Zest Gose shortly after its release. I've updated this page at the bottom. The beer is … [Read more...]
Salsus Singularis
Salsus Singularis 300 ml bottle, $13, 4.9% ABV Purchased at the brewery, Oxford Tel's kcor! I'ev tog doog swen. Taht mug uoy ekil si gniog ot emoc kcab ni elyts. Let's rock! I've got good news. That gum you like is going to come back in style. Siht si eht gnitiaw moor. Dluow uoy ekil emos eeffoc? Emos fo … [Read more...]
Artista Zynergia: Gosatequin
Artista Zynergia: Gosatequin 750 ml bottle, $12, 5% ABV Purchased at the brewery, Oxford We agree: I write far too many words in these beer reviews. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. When it comes to OEC, however, it’s impossible to keep these things brief. Nothing about OEC can be captured in a … [Read more...]
Pineapple Gose
Pineapple Gose 32 oz Growlette, $8?, 5.5% ABV Purchased at the brewery, Plainville Let’s be honest here. When you first heard that Relic had put out a gose, you probably raised your eyebrows... Right? I did. And while the brewery has begun to slowly move away from that “Relic taste” with its foray into the … [Read more...]
Strawberry Gose
Black Hog Brewing Strawberry Gose 1 pint, $6(?), 3.5% ABV Purchased at Majorca, Hartford 2017 Update: Black Hog, to their credit, doesn't give a crap what I say. Good. So they went and canned this beer. In a weird way, I'm more curious to re-try an 'F' rated beer than an A+ one. So I dropped the $3.29 (!) … [Read more...]
Dirty Water Batch Number 3
Dirty Water Sour Series Batch #3 (Raspberry) Gifted by the brewer, 6% ABV If you know me - or better yet, if you are one of the chosen ones who know Lasting Brass at this point - you know this beer is great. Really, really great. I've written about pretty much every beer Ed Silva has produced out of his … [Read more...]
Dirty Water Batch No. 2
Lasting Brass Dirty Water No. 2 (Chocolate & Strawberries) Gifted by the brewer, 6.3% ABV : ( I’m sad. : ( There are billions of people alive right now, a few hundred million of whom live in this very country... and 3 million of whom live in Connecticut. And of those 3 million, how many got to drink this … [Read more...]