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…
Andrew: I’ve been taking as many beercations and going to as many beer events as I can this summer before the baby comes (in only a couple months!). It started in mid-June with Savor, then The Festival, a beer share for my birthday and now the BBz conquered the greatest beer state on the East…
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…
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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…
Andrew: A good friend of mine is visiting for the holiday. Big surprise—we drank beer when he came to visit yesterday! He was looking in my fridge and noticed that I had some beers he’s never heard of and I explained that they are sour beers. He was like, “Whaaaaaaa’?” And I was like, “yuh,…
Andrew: Saturday’s birthday beer share was a success! Everyone got to try a ton of great beer (the highlights are in the lineup above). My guests brought way too much beer, which is hardly a bad thing, but I don’t have much space in my NYC apartment to store the leftovers. I actually had to…
Andrew: It’s my birthday. I’m now 46 mins into a new year. Why the hell am I posting on this blog you ask? Well, my pregnant wife is asleep after returning from 11 Madison Park tonight for probably the greatest meal I have ever had. So I’m bored, my tum tum is full, and I’m…
Andrew: Yesterday I picked up two bottles of the new Widmer/Cigar City collaboration, Gentlemen’s Club. I bought the Bourbon and Rye Whiskey aged variations. These are very special beers (i.e., cost a lot), so I decided to save them for a special occasion. I was especially excited to get Cigar City beers, because everything they…
Ok, so I left off with my review of THE Festival, but I want to include a couple updates: 1) You’re probably wondering what that epic looking food is up there. Well, it’s poutine (Eric would call it poutineeny). But it’s no ordinary poutine. It’s from Duckfat in Portland, where they fry their fries in…
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…
Andrew: Sooooo . . . this weekend was such an insane beer weekend that it’s hard for me to decide what and what not to include. I’ll start with Thursday night (still in NYC): Enjoyed a Russian River Blind Pig IPA this evening before heading off to Portland. (Side note: I had this shipped to…
Andrew: At LGA and noticed that they have a great new bar, called Biergarten. Brooklyn Sorachi Ace on tap! Lots of other goodies. If it weren’t 10:30am and I wasn’t on my way to The festival to drink a ton of beer, I would have loved to grab a beer here. Eric: I…
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…
Andrew: I’ll be attending THE Festival in Portland, ME in a couple days. I can’t wait to try some of the most famed international beers in the world, especially Cantillon lambics. They will be be premiering a new beer at THE Festival. I was lucky to try one of their beers Rosé De Gambrinus a…
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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