Posted in Beer, NYC Events on Sep 28th, 2010
NY Craft Beer Week is afoot, gumshoes. Lurking in every alleyway, creeping around each corner and looking to take you over like a bedbug does your sheets. It’s off and running. Officially beginning last Friday, you’ve got seven days left to attack the streets with a penchant for hops and malt, a hunger for conviviality […]
Posted in Beer, G&G Videos, NYC Events on Sep 24th, 2010
My first feature article for New York Cork Report came out today. I was originally asked by Lenn Thompson, my editor, who I’d like to write about in the NYC beer scene–I chose Kelso of Brooklyn. I’d heard the tales of brewmaster Kelly Taylor; what a great guy he was, how he made the beer […]
Posted in NYC Events, Wine on Sep 19th, 2010
Herr Paul Grieco touted the wines for this tasting as “the greatest Riesling from the greatest Riesling vineyard in all of Germany”. And, I may be mistaken, but I believe he silently wept numerous times throughout (no doubt with at least 5 grams of acid and 10 grams of residual sugar per tear, because that’s […]
Posted in Spirits on Sep 14th, 2010
I guess it was really only a matter of time before I got to my favorite cocktail. After taking this weekly piece around the world via Charles Lindbergh’s plane (the Aviation), or hopping a boat to Cuba (the El Presidente), whirling through the streets of Paris on a motorcycle (the Sidecar) or drifting through New […]
La Lettre à Élise (100% Chenin Blanc), Domaine Mosse, NV, Loire Valley (13.5 % abv) I’m a ridiculously huge fan of the whites from the Loire Valley. Just as Pavlov’s dogs salivate at the sound of his bell, simply saying the words “white” and “Loire” in the same sentence around me will cause feverish sweats […]
Posted in NYC Events, Spirits on Sep 7th, 2010
All the birds sing words and the flowers croon. In the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room. That’s how the song went. And really that’s all I remember of the words, but the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland still sticks with me vividly. Images of singing robotic birds, steamy jungles and Polynesian gods made into […]
Posted in Beer on Sep 4th, 2010
“Don’t do it, man. It’s not worth it”. The advice was succinct and deadening to my soul. Enough to take the wind out of anyone’s sails. But we decided to push on. Last month, the idea hit my wife and I to trick out our Saison homebrew recipe and do something a little different, something […]
