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Draught Board 15: Stone Brewery Visits the Club

Draught Board 15: Stone Brewery Visits the Club

Sunday June 28th, 2009 was the monthly meeting for the Drought Board 15 at the Gaslight. The meeting was billed as Dennis Flynn’s, representative of the famed Stone Brewery, only beer club presentation in NJ this year. Stone Brewing is known for the aggressive Arrogant Bastard Ale and they usually get decent ratings from beer [...]

Drought Board 15 meeting for 5-17-09 The Brooklyn Brewery visit

Drought Board 15 meeting for 5-17-09 The Brooklyn Brewery visit

The last meeting of the Draught Board 15 at the Gaslight was a very good one. It was a little different this month due to Mothers Day. The DB15 regularly meets on the second Sunday of the month. It was a nice relaxed session on a pleasant Sunday Afternoon and a great day for a [...]

A Geek Drinking Stone Levitation Ale

A Geek Drinking Stone Levitation Ale

I am not going to talk about this beer like I tasted it for a review. I won’t talk about the great reddish amber color ale that was placed in front of me at the Gaslight Brewery in a regular pint glass. I won’t talk about the immense aroma that came off the glass as [...]

A GeekTasting: Guinness’s 250th Anniversary Stout @ The CloverLeaf

The Guinness’s 250th Anniversary Stout was released in the US, Australia and Singapore on 24 April 2009. I got my first good bit of information on Guinness 250th Anniversary Stout from the NPR show All Things Considered, April 25, 2009 (Listen Now) Therein, Jacki Lyden discussed the New Recipe, while it was also mentioned that [...]

A Geek Tasting Colonel Blides Cask Ale Part 1

A Geek Tasting Colonel Blides Cask Ale  Part 1

Cricket Hill is one of the newer microbreweries in New Jersey. They have been around since 2002. Colonel Blides Cask Ale is one of their flagship beers. It’s as the name says, cask-conditioned beer which was bottled from a cask without extra nitrogen or carbonation. I first ran across this brewer at the 12th Annual [...]

A Geek Tasting: Black Hawk Stout from Mendocino Brewing Company

Brewed by Mendocino Brewing Company , Style | ABV, American Stout |  5.20% ABV Serving type had: growler poured into an SA Boston Lager Glass Recently, a friend/coworker of mine did a brewery tour at the Olde Saratoga Brewing Co. located in historical Saratoga Springs. It’s a brewery where they make 30 different types of beer [...]

Uno Chicago Grill’s Second Ever Cask Event

Uno Chicago Grill in Metuchen, NJ had their second ever cask event on Saturday, March 28th, 2009. It was a pay as you go event hosted by Brew Master Mike Sella and staff . The event was a good one. The beers I had from the list were pretty decent. Smaller scale events like are [...]

A Geek Tasting: Simpler Times Lager brewed by Minhas Craft Brewery

Simpler Times Lager from Trader Joes, brewed by Minhas Craft Brewery, was basically a craft beer Budweiser that did not taste like soap. It is a corn flaked beer or beer with really cheap ingredients that was 6.20 abv% . It was weird to drink after drinking so many well done craft brews. But what [...]

A Geek Tasting: Crème Brûlée Imperial Milk Stout

I first heard about Southern Tiers Crème Brûlée Imperial Milk Stout on Twitter, many moons ago. The name alone intrigued me. But then it slipped my mind. Soon it popped up on slashfood and not too long after I tripped on it when trying out a new store. This was basically the ultimate desert beer, [...]

A Geek tasting Ginga-Kogen Beer:Silver Bottle

A friend, iZathere (on twitter) and I took a trip one day in January to Mitsuwa Marketplace. It was a trip to prepare for New York Comic Con. While there I ran in to this bottle that just captured my attention, Ginga Kogen Beer:Silver Bottle. The packaging was just right. Silver Bottle is a fruity [...]

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