Tag Archive 'Barrel-aged beer'

The Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout Ice Cream Float

Posted in Beer, Food on Mar 8th, 2012

Soda is out, people.  Just ask any New Yorker who’s seen the city’s latest ads against obesity from soft drinks and they’ll tell you: “it’s the devil’s urine, by Jove!” But rest assured, lovers of the Root Beer Float, you have an alternative.  The Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout Ice Cream Float.  Now I can’t remotely claim credit […]

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What I Drank for Thanksgiving

Posted in Beer, Wine on Nov 25th, 2011

St. Nicholas de Bourgueil (100% Cabernet Franc), La Mine, Yannick Amarault, 2008, Loire Valley Southampton Publick House, Vic (antique porter aged in oak), New York Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge (100% Pinot Noir), Phillipe Colin, 2008, Côte de Beaune

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Bourbon Beer Barrels in Brooklyn

Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2011

There’s nothing like beer straight out of the barrel. This past Monday, I found myself back at Kelso Brewing Company, shooting some video with Kelly Taylor, Brooklyn’s beer maestro. After we shorted-out our camera by sticking it in a steaming brew tank while I was inside power-washing grain like I was actually helping, we retired […]

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Jolly Pumpkin: Masters of the Funk

Posted in Beer, Reviews on Jun 1st, 2010

There’s some funky shit going on in the US craft beer scene, and one brewery is leading the charge.  Located far from the usual suspects on the West coast, the East Coast and the Colorado beer belt, one must travel to the tiny town of Dexter, Michigan (population of around 3,000), to find Jolly Pumpkin […]

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Roll Out the Barrel, We’ll Have a Barrel of Brew

Posted in Beer, Reviews on Dec 5th, 2009

What’s life without the barrel? It seems that everywhere I look these days, my favorite breweries are releasing tricked-out, new barrel-aged beers. Port barrels, whisky barrels, sherry casks, madeira casks, wine barrels.  Its kind of dizzying. What’s next?  Monkey barrels?  Fish barrels?  Oil drums?  (Who knows, perhaps an Exxon Light Crude Porter would pair beautifully with my […]

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My top 5 favorite breweries: Number 3

Posted in Beer on Jan 14th, 2009

3.  Odell Brewing Company, Fort Collins, Colorado Founded:  1989 Production:  approx 60,000 barrels (website) It’s gotta go back to home for me.  Doesn’t it always?  Something about those early years of ANYTHING.  Your first stumbling in the dark with a girl’s brassier.  Your first, horrible taste of coffee leading to that next, almost palatable, strangely […]

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