The Back East Early 2016 Berliners Blackberry and Tart Cherry I’m writing this page in late April 2016, towards the end of a string of Back East reviews. I started “the string” with the teaser, “I’m reviewing a bunch of beers from one brewery for a reason and will be dropping clues in each as to why.” After this … [Read more...]
Six Willibrew Beers
Giant Willimantic Brewing Round-Up Six different beers over the years All purchased at Willibrew, Willimantic This may be my swan song to brewpub beer “reviews.” I don’t know... they have never felt the same to me as the production brewery review pages I write. Or at the very least, I’ll probably be “reviewing” … [Read more...]
Philsamic
Two Roads Philsamic 750 ml bottle, $25, 6.5% Gifted by a Steve During a trip to Italy to factory test the bottling equipment for our brewery, our brewmaster discovered an exquisite, 11-year-old balsamic vinegar in Modena, a region renowned for the world's best balsamic vinegar. Immediately, a plan was … [Read more...]
Dirty Water Sour Series (Batch SMS V2)
Dirty Water Sour Series (Batch #SMS) V2 Gifted by the brewer I could write and even longer than usual review of this stunningly delicious beer. For it is a very personal beer, made by a personal friend, for a very important and personal reason. But alas, I will try my best not to blab too much. As many of … [Read more...]
tiny house
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 Brewing's Lime Zest Gose, 16.9 oz bottle, $7.50, 4.6% ABV Purchased every bottle I found at MaxBev and CBC, West Hartford Originally published October 2015; slightly updated December 2017 [2016 Update: Kent Falls had to change the name of this beer from Shower Beer to the far more mundane Lime Zest … [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...]