My Beer Glasses Don’t Suck Anymore

Eric:  Approximately once a year, I have a birthday.  This year, my BrewParentz got me two sets of beer glasses.  My beer glasses used to suck, but they don’t anymore! The set is made by Libbey (you can get them at Bed Bath and Beyond for $19.99 here), and includes 6 different glasses: 15 1/4-ounce…

Biscotti Break Natale Review

Andrew: In my last post, I wrote about International Stout Day and how I celebrated it with Evil Twin’s Imperial Biscotti Break. Well, this post is about another Evil Twin imperial stout called … hold on I need to take a deep breath … Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break Natale Pretty Please with A Cherry…

Pie Beer Night at Mission Delores

Eric:  Pie and Beer.  A classic pairing.  They go together like goat cheese and crack.  Lucky for me, a great Brooklyn beer bar, Mission Dolores, had a Pie Beer Night!  There were six different pies, made locally by Four and Twenty Blackbirds, with recommended beer pairings. The bar is in Park Slope/Gowanus on 4th Ave…

International Stout Day

Andrew: It’s been awhile since I’ve posted because my life has been more focused on baby than beer, which is a good thing … except that I’m very tired all the time and never get to drink all the beer I buy! Anyway, I found some time to drink a beer and post … I’ve…

Learn about beer!

Eric:  If you’re like me, you don’t like to learn or read or listen to things.  But I came across this podcast, and who knew…learning can be fun! This is an interview from The Leonard Lopate Show.  “Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster of The Brooklyn Brewery, editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer and author of The Brewmaster’s…

Goose Island Takeover at Top Hops Redux

Eric:  It was a typical Wednesday night in BrewBoyz land.  We went to Top Hops for a Goose Island sour ales release party. They had brand new bottles called Halia and Gillian, as well as a great tap lineup inlcuding Lolita, Sofie Paradisi, Bourbon County Stout, Bourbon County Coffee Stout, Bourbon County Cherry Rye, and…

Bells’ Two Hearted Ale

Eric:  I finally got to have a Bell’s Two Hearted Ale, and it lived up to the hype.  Bell’s is in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and never distributed anything around here before.  On October 1st, they started shipping to certain areas in western and upstate New York. You can read about it here.  Unfortunately for us, not…

Review Timez!

Eric:  Last night I was lucky enough to have some really rare and incredible Hair of the Dog beers.  But first, some other stuff I’ve had recently: Friday night was IPA night (with a sour break)- Stone 17th Anniversary Götterdämmerung IPA is made with German and German-inspired hops and malts.  Maybe because of that, it…

It’s a Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer World

Eric:  Oh, hello.  This weekend was a pretty great one… this was mine: Friday night I FINALLY drank my (very old) Stone Enjoy By 9.13.13.  It was still great. Saturday the BrewBoyz went to The Jeffery, a new bar on the lower Upper East Side.  It was their official opening celebration (even though it had…

Bar Reviewz of the Day: Spitzer’s Corner

Eric:  Usually my Tuesday nights consist of gently sobbing in a dark corner of my bedroom, but last night I went to a bar!  Spitzer’s Corner is on the Lower East Side, and turned out to be more of a restaurant than a bar.  They had 40 taps and a few cool bottles/big bottles.  I…

I <3 NYC for these reasons

Andrew: On Saturday I went for a walk with the family in our neighborhood and tried out a new bar called The Jeffrey. It’s a great new bar—awesome beer selection and a nice, big outdoor area in the back. My old boss used to bring his dogs there when it was a dog care place.…

Beer + Grapefruit Soda = Beer?

Eric:  Apparently it’s pretty popular, but I just had my first Stiegl Radler (Grapefruit) today.  They claim it’s half Stiegl Goldbrau, and half fruit soda.  It tasted exactly like Grapefruit Pelligrino, which I love, but I have trouble considering this a beer.  Especially at only 2.5%.  If I drank 10 of these, I’d be more…

Home Improvement

Eric:  Living in New York City is great.  The constant noise, traffic, crowds, tourists, rats, pigeons, garbage, and cripplingly high cost of living all contribute to a very stress-free life.  The one bad thing about living here is the lack of space and storage.  My apartment pretty much looks like this: Andrew is lucky.  He…

Lunch Fight

Eric:  Brewboyz drink beer together, but sometimes Brewboyz drink beer seperately (my spell check wanted to change ‘separately’ to ‘desperately’.  There’s some truth to that).     Last night, Andrew thought he was so cool drinking a Maine Beer Co. Lunch (one of our favorite beers ever).  But little did he know that I was EVEN…

Moon Beer

Andrew: Yeah, this beer by Dogfish Head, called Celest-jewel-ale is kinda gimmicky. It’s sorta funny, but you’re selling this beer and making money and it’s a gimmick. I guess it has salts in the dust that impart flavor, so I won’t totally write it off: Celest-jewel-ale is made with lunar meteorites that have been crushed…

Trip To Portland, OR

By Eric Sturniolo Simply put, Portland is beer heaven. Tons of breweries, great bars and bottle shops, local and inventive food, and mountains, hiking, parks, and hot springs. If you head west, use this as a guide to squeeze every last drop of beer from the city. I went straight from the airport to Apex,…

Brewboyz Alcholic Playlist of the Day

Eric:  Lots of blogs make ‘top ten ____’ lists.  But we’re not most blogs, mostly because we can’t count to ten.  So here are an unknown number of old-timey and new-timey songs that mention alcohol that you might enjoy. Or hate.  Whatever, it’s a free country. Add yours in the comments!

A Very BrewBoyz Yom Kippur (at Growler and Gill)

Eric: Ah, Yom Kippur…that magical time of year when a young man’s fancy turns to atoning for sins and getting inscribed into the book of life.  And what better way to get on God’s good side than buying beer! In NYC, the BrewBoyz are spoiled by all the great beer stores with tastings/taps like Top…

4th Anniversary Enjoy By 9/13/13

Andrew: September 13 is our wedding anniversary. When I heard that Stone’s next Enjoy By batch would be 9/13/13, and that it would be distributed in New York, I knew I had to get this beer to enjoy on 9/13/13, our 4th anniversary. (You can find out about the next batch here.) Enjoy By is…

Bad goose! Bad!

Eric:  Sour beers are one thing.  I can even handle beer with spices.  But a sour beer made with spices and salt? No thank you.  What’s that? You enjoy drinking salt water?  But you’d like it even more if it also had the sourness of 10,000 lemons?  Then this beer, a gose is for you!…

Randomz Beerz Reviewz Episodez Twoz

Eric:  There are some important moments in life.  Being born (done),  becoming a man (Bar Mitzvah:done),  having beers on tap for the first time… DONE. My first stop tonight was Strong Place, where I had an Ithaca Flower Power and a Stone Enjoy By 9.13.13.  Both were great hop punches to the face. Then I…

Random Beer Reviewz

Andrew: I checked out Pony Bar’s website last night and saw that they had a beer from Carton called Something Like Sandy wild stout. The brewery was making this beer when the storm hit and it was left fermenting longer than expected because of the storm. Here’s a link to the video the brewery made…

Dinner at Luksus

(note: The menu/beer pairings change often) Andrew:  Eric and I had a lovely dinner at Luksus, a small restaurant hidden in a back room of Torst in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. The food was very good. Don’t go super hungry because they serve very small portions—I didn’t mind because it was all very tasty and the…

Goose Island Takeover at Top Hops

Eric:  It was a typical Thursday night in BrewBoyz land.  We went to Top Hops for a Goose Island takeover. All their taps were Goose Island beer, including some rare stuff.  I’ll talk about my night… Here’s the menu: I started with a glass of Matilda Lambicus, a Belgian Pale Ale fermented with brettanomyces.  The…

Collaboration Follow-upz Part II

Eric: Like Andrew’s 11 Madison Park/Ithaca Brewery collaboration, I had my own less fancy restaurant/brewery beer last night at Habana Outpost.  Spread Love is a collaboration with Kelso, a 6% ABV pale ale.  Kelso made it exclusively for Habana, and their restaurant in Ft Greene, Brooklyn is the only place it’s sold.  It had an…

Collaboration Follow-upz

Andrew:  I tried the Stone Coconut R&R IPA tonight. It is a very solid IPA. Great tropical fruit. I just don’t get any distinguishable coconut taste. I’m sure it adds to the flavor of the beer, but I just don’t taste coconut itself. Next (and currently 🙂 ) is the Maine Beer Company/Nogne-O Collaboration Time…

Beer Frenzy Friday

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…

In the spirit of the BrewBoyz: Collaboration Beers

Andrew: One of the more recent trends in craft brewing is collaboration. That’s when two or more brewers from different breweries work together to create a beer recipe. On rare occasions, brewers actually blend two completely unique beers together to make a new hybrid, mutant beer. I’ve recently picked up a bunch of collaboration beers…

Reading Is Hard, Lists Are Fun, and This List is Wrong

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,…

Pumpkin Beers . . . It’s July

Andrew: I just picked up a bottle of Southern Tier Imperial Pumking—by far my favorite pumpkin beer. I know that pumpkin beers are one of the most popular seasonal styles, but I find it strange that they are becoming available earlier and earlier. It’s seasonal for a reason—you expect to see them in the fall…

It’s Hot, and Other Science Facts

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.…

!!!BrewBoyz Warning!!! !!!!!LOCK UP YOUR BEER!!!!!

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…

A Very BrewBoyz Road Trip – Part I: The Itinerary

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…

Sour Beers: My Take

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…

Sour Beers: Refreshing for Summer

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’s Birthday Beer Share

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…

Barrel Aged Beers: Widmer/Cigar City Gentlemen’s Club

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…