Get Real New York’s Ultimate Cask & Food Festival

Thursday, 17 March 2011 06:37 Written by beersomm 0 Comments

Join us at New York’s premier cask and food festival.
The line up includes

Casks

Stone, Fullers, Two Brothers, Sierra Nevada, Oscar Blues, Weyerbacher, Dieu de Ciel, Defiant,
Great Divide, Troegs, Harvey’s, Firestone Walker, Lagunitas, Green Flash, Ballast Point, Victory, Geary’s, Thornbridge, Otter Creek and more

NY Breweries
Six Point, Blue Point, Southern Tier, Green Port, Brooklyn, Captain Lawrence, Ommegang and Kelso

Grub
Cafe D’Alsace, 404 Bakery, Luke’s Lobster, Lorely, Jimmy’s 43, Meze Grill, Rattle n Hum,
Petite Abeille, Muray’s Cheeses, Roni-Sue Chocolate, Oysters from Blue Island Shellfish Farms,
First Prize Pies and more

http://www.getrealny.com

Kill the Sasquatch – Great Divide Yeti – Firkin Friday

Monday, 14 March 2011 16:28 Written by beersomm 0 Comments

Last Friday was our last Firkin Friday unfortunately, but what a great beer to close the curtain on this round. We knew the Great Divide Yeti would be a BIG beer to get through that night and we definitely did our best to kill this beast. It was a huge bear of a beer but it’s smooth rounded taste, vanilla sweetness and bitter finish made this beer pretty drinkable and it actually went well with the oxtail and steak frites at Cafe D’Alsace. All my friends showed up that night to close out the event and I appreciated the turnout for sure. Stay tuned for more great events from beersomm.

Firkin Friday 3: Hops vs. Heat

Sunday, 06 March 2011 16:40 Written by beersomm 0 Comments

amon came up with a great idea for this week’s firkin night. Sausages with beer, the timeless pairing/tradition, but what would be our twist? We had a cask of Double Simcoe IPA from Weyerbacher brewery in Pennsylvania. Chef Philippe makes 8 different sausages @ Café D’Alsace including 2 that are uniquely spicy. His duck sausage has green peppercorns that give a sharp fresh pinpointed heat blast to the gamey duck meat. He also makes a seriously spicy Merguze: a lamb sausage that originates in Morocco and gets its heat from the Tunisian Harissa chili. Harissa chill’s have more of an elevating and lingering heat attack. Enter Hops vs. Heat. Hops seem to redirect your palate from heat while injecting a citrus bitterness, but we don’t want to confuse the pairing we want to add to it. Weyerbacher’s Double Simcoe IPA has an excellent tangerine, apricot sweetness profile that really compliments the hops, the heat and briny delicious sauerkraut. This is exactly the cyclical rollercoaster we wanted the pairing to ride.

Firkin Friday – Round 2

Monday, 28 February 2011 18:01 Written by beersomm 1 Comment

ast Friday Gianni and I hosted our 2nd Firkin Friday at Cafe D’Alsace on the Upper East Side. It was definitely not your usual cask night not just because it’s a French restaurant serving real cask ale but because we were lucky enough to have the cask and keg version of the highly sought-after Troegs Nugget Nectar IPA. For $10 a patron could try a glass of each and decide for themselves if they like the CO2 forced keg they’re used to or the real deal in naturally carbonated form. It was a unique opportunity to taste them side by side and really get a good sense of how flavorful and complex a well made beer is in cask form.