Category: Featured

New York City Women in Beer

 

Please join us on Monday, February 27 for New York City Women in Beer, a social and networking event for all women who work in the New York City beer industry, organized by Emily Garland, co-owner of Tapped Craft Beer Events and Sonya Giacobbe, co-owner of Kelso Beer Co. 

Our goal is to unite women in order foster new business and personal relationships, camaraderie and dialogue, all while drinking some great beers. Our hope is that this will in turn strengthen the local female craft beer community, and the general craft beer community overall. Should this first event prove successful, we ho
pe to hold futuregatherings on a regular basis!

 

 

 

 

 

We highly  encourage ALL women who work or are involved the industry to attend:

 

  • bar & restaurant staff
  • beer store & homebrew store staff
  • brewery & brewpub staff
  • distributor & importer staff
  • writers & bloggers
  • public relations & marketing professionals
  • event planners & social media professionals

 

Goose Island BeerSomm Dinner

Wednesday, November 16th @ Cafe D’Alsace

 

Goose Island & Café D’Alsace

Sofie

Seafood Saffron chowder
mussels, scallops, shrimp and calamari

Matilda

Autumn Salad
Frisee, duck confit, butternut squash and Loire goat cheese

Pepe Nero

Cracked Peppercorn Incrusted Bass
Julienne vegetables and riesling shallot sauce  

or

Steak Au Poive
black angus hanger steak, peppercorn cognac sauce and frites

Madame Rose

Chocolate Tart
fleur de sel and caramel ice cream

$55

German Firkin Friday’s

 “Keepin it Real Alt Schule”
German #FirkinFriday

That’s right Cask Ale returns to Cafe D-Ale-Sace.  This month we are going to host a bunch of cask events. The Germans are coming; Brauerei Bayer Theinheim “Ungespundetes Landbier” Rauhenebrach-Theinheim, Germany 4.7%. Nov 11th

The Bayer Theinheim Landbier is an unfiltered kellerbier, 4.7% abv.  It’s golden in color with bread-like malt flavors and a solid hop bite in the finish.


Mönchsambacher, Unflitered Lagerbier, Burgerbrach, Germany, 5.5%. Nov 18th

Mönchsambacher Lagerbier comes from the Brauerei Zehendner.  It’s a 5.2% unfiltered golden lager with a bready, malty aroma combined with floral, grassy hops.  Solid malt body followed by gentle lingering hop bitterness in the finish.
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November iz German Firkin Friday Month


 



Devin’s Mini Beer Tour of Europe- Part 1. Prague

Part 1. Prague

Top places to try Czech, German, and Belgium beers in nine days.We recently did a mini tour of some of the greatest beer countries in Europe, hitting Czech Republic, Germany, and Belgium in nine days.
Here are some of the highlights…
PRAGUE 

Logically we began our tour in the Czech Republic, the birthplace of pilsner and the biggest beer consuming country (per capita) in the world. We had heard so much about “beer cheese” from our friends at Earls Beer and Cheese that we decided to visit first U Medvidku–the only hotel with a brewery in Prague.

The first thing we ordered was the beer cheese with a Czech Budweiser in the downstairs pub. The bread was buttery and crunchy with a nice kick from the raw garlic.

After we went upstairs where the U Medvidkubrewery is located and sampled. 

We choose the cloudy dark lager. This was one of the most interesting beers we sampled on the entire trip. It had a lively, slightly funky, bready, vanilla flavor with a deliciously creamy head. Many Americans would be surprised that a lager could be so complex.The next highlight was Prague Beer Museum with the country’s biggest selection Czech microbrews. Our favorites were d’Este by Ferdinand, Sedm Kuli by Ferdinand, and Kocour Samuraj IPA. The bartender was friendly and helpful and we got to try a wide variety of styles.

A safe bet for anyone is Portrefena Husa, which is a chain featuring tank Staropramen–our favorite of the bigger breweries. A stellar item on the menu was a Leffe beer spare ribs.Lokal, a traditional Czech cafeteria, also has Urquell from the tank and great Czech food. The same company that owns Lokal has recently opened a higher end restaurant in the Upper East Side in New York called Hospoda

Pivovarsky Klub offers a more subdued atmosphere but a staggering selection of bottles and a solid line up of taps. We asked about the sausage and beans on the menu and got a dry answer, “It’s sausage and beans…” We are glad we went for it. It was one of the most memorable dishes of the Trip

North Fork Craft Beer, BBQ, & Wine Festival


On August 13th, Beersomm and a few friends attended the North Fork Craft Beer, BBQ, & Wine Festival at Martha Clara Vineyards in Riverhead, NY.  When you think of the North Fork of Long Island you usually think of vineyards, farmers markets, pumpkin patches and sod farms.  However, now a days, some very inspiring breweries are producing some great beers.  So when I think of Long Island, I think of great beer.   

Maple Tree BBQ catered the event with a ton of good BBQ food including pulled pork and chicken, grilled corn-on-the-cob, potatoes, coleslaw, and other great dishes.  A whole pig was also roasting on a spit.  Check out the menu to the right.

Nearly 60 craft breweries, many of them local, were in attendance pouring 2, 3 and sometimes 4 of their beer on draft.  Here are some of our favorite breweries who were in attendance:

Blind Bat Brewery

Great South Bay Brewery

Sly Fox Brewing Company

Founders Brewing Company

Greenport Harbor Brewing Company

Blue Point Brewing Company

Innis & Gunn Brewing Company

Avery Brewing Company

Captain Lawrence Brewing Company

Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits

Weyerbacher Brewing Company

Ithaca Beer Company

Empire Brewing Company

Similar to Sonoma and Willamette Valleys out west, this festival might be the first sign of a beer and wine culture appears to be growing together.

Thanks to the weather and the beautiful setting, overall it was a great beer festival.  We usually hate beer festivals because of the crowds but the limited ticket sales also kept the lines low and thus the wait for a beer was not too bad.

We’d like to thank Martha Clara Vineyards for a great setting and to Starfish Junction Productions for putting on a great event.

Here are some pictures of the event: