Food Adventuring Around NYC
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I saved this beer for Oscar night. I always like to follow a theme and since I didn’t make any ram-don in honor of Parasite, I thought a Golden ale was appropriate for an awards show that gives out a golden trophy. While Brad Pitt and Laura Dern …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City The craft beer world looks different than you might imagine. While there is some truth to the hipster brewer with a curlicue moustache, there are more women behind the bars at tap rooms and in the …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2018… The good news is this beer which I tasted earlier this year is back and available now at the brewery. The bad news is if you wait too long, you may miss it again. And you shouldn’t because Sleep Now in the Fire is …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2016… For Thanksgiving dessert, I popped open a bottle of Big Alice’s ambitious beer that is aged in used gin barrels. Granted this was a lot drier and more savory than I imagined with layers of sweetness and bold balanced acidity. Probably not the best beer …
Not only is Big Alice creating some of the most unique and inventive beer in the city, but you can subscribe to their CSB (Community Supported Brewery). That means every two months you get two half growlers full of their seasonal beer. It’s always a surprise and always unlike anything you’ve ever tasted. If you’re …
One of the most interesting beers I’ve tasted this year, the White Coffee Stout is a bit of a misnomer but it’s certainly exciting. The blonde colored beer releases the same sort of roasty, coffee flavors you expect from a dark stout. Here, it’s both creamy and light while rich and sweet. It’s as exciting …
Each Friday, I get a lesson in the NYC brewery scene in these funny and informative videos promoting Urban Oyster’s NYC Brewery Tour I love the idea of a CSA (community supported agriculture). You sign up with a local farm and then on a regular basis you pick up a bounty of seasonal produce. You …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Everybody by now has heard about microbreweries. They’re the craft beer heroes coming to save us from the corporate commercial breweries in this country that have made our beer flat and bland for too long. But if you thought microbreweries were small, try checking out …