Eric: A leisurely stroll to deposit checks at the bank become a spontaneous beer buying frenzy. I don’t remember most of it since I blacked out from the excitement, but two stores and $120 later, I have this: Professor Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse x 3 Maine Beer Company MO Maine Beer Company Zoe Firestone…
Eric: If you’re like me, you’re illiterate, but slowly grasping how to read. I’ve gotten most words down, but when they are put together in sentences and paragraphs, my head starts to hurt and I give up and drink beer. This is why lists are great.. who needs all those unnecessary sentence words?! But lists,…
Eric: Science can be pretty science-ey sometimes. That’s evident by the heat wave NYC has been experiencing. As I type this, it’s 96 with a heat index of 105. It’s so hot that it’s caused trees to shed bark almost as fast as I’ve shed clothes. I’m sure you’ve heard that beer makes you dehydrated.…
Eric: Hide your daughters and padlock your refrigerator, there is a beer thief causing havoc in NYC. When we went on our Vermont trip, my two friends nicely watched Nikki, the BrewDogz. She loves them, and is best friends with their dog, Prima. And what’s better than a puppy sleepover party?! To thank them, I…
Eric: After the Elantra kicked up some dust on the dirt roads leaving Hill Farmstead, we drove the 45 minutes on horribly slow rural roads to The Alchemist Brewery, home of Heady Topper, maybe my favorite beer ever. The first thing we noticed in the parking lot was the crazy (good) smell. To me it…
Eric: You like beer, live in NYC, and have a Hyundai Elantra. What to do? Drive 6 hours to Vermont on a random Thursday, of course! That’s what we did, leaving early Thursday morning, making some epic anti-traffic maneuvers, and arriving at 3pm. Our trip included stops at: 1. tasting and purchases at Hill Farmstead…
Eric: In an effort to continue weaning myself off my IPA addiction, I’ve been tasting more and more of Andrew’s precious gross sour beers. But they are actually pretty good! I even drank a whole glass all by myself, like a big boy! This happened on July 4th, at Torst, which is an amazing beer…
Eric: It’s hard to be a BrewBoyz. There are just so many good beers to have, and so many good friends to enjoy them with. Also, many of the best beers come in 22 ounce bombers or 750 ml (25.4 ounce) champagne-style bottles. These sizes of course dwarf the standard 12 ounce bottle. So what’s…
Eric: As a real estate appraiser, I go into stranger’s homes daily. This is both good (nice people, offers of homemade cookies), and bad (hoarders, more hoarders). Today, I was lucky to enter the home of my new friend and honorary BrewBoyz Carl. As I was inspecting his apartment, I noticed this: Cold beer. 4…
Eric: We love the fact that good beer is good. But due to some sort of mathematical sorcery, this must also mean that bad beer is bad. And the BrewBoyz agree. We avoid bad beer like I avoid manual labor, but just like I sometimes have to change a light bulb or carry my laundry…
Eric: Living in New York City (Brooklyn for me, Manhattan for Andrew), kitchens are barely kitchens. That’s expected. But MY kitchen is barely a barely kitchen. I can’t cook, so I can deal with the two square feet of counter space and smaller than normal appliances. But what hurts is the lack of cabinet/storage space. …
Eric: Whenever I would finish a beer and see the inside of the glass covered in a foamy film, I’d think “ew”. But recently I learned this is not in fact ew, it is the opposite of ew, or “good”. It’s called lacing. In a well cleaned beer glass, foam should cling to the sides…
we like Ninkasi stickers, apparently
Andrew and Eric. Two friends who love craft beer and kind of love each other (platonically). Andrew has a wife and a baby on the way. Eric has a dog and a food baby on the way. Andrew talks about beer using words like “hops, matliness, drinkability and flavor profile.” Eric talks about beer using…
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