Over at the great blogBelgium Beer & Travel they’ve got a piece on an exceptionally rare bottle of geuze, in fact, he makes a strong case that it may be the rarest. Bottled by the folks who run In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst, just outside of Brussels, only 24 of these bottles ever [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
World’s Rarest Geuze?
Posted in Beer Tagged Belgian Beer & Travel, Boon, Brussels, Geuze, Girardin, In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst, Lambic Leave a comment
Hungry Hound’s Top 5 Burgers In Chicago
I may have come on too strong last time when I accused Chicago’s own Hungry Hound of dining too long on his own urine, there’s just something about the throngs of lemurs panting outside of the Bongo Room every weekend that drives me up a wall. Oh yes, and he did besmirch my precious Pequod’s. [...]
Posted in Grilling, Review Tagged Bongo Room, Chicago, Hungry Hound, pequod's, Steve Dolinsky, Top Notch Beefburger, Vocalo 4 Comments
Zombie Meat Head for Halloween
I usually don’t like to repost stuff from BoingBoing since everybody already reads that, but I thought this Meat Head from the Make site was worth doubling up on. Maybe I’ll make this to go with the pumpkin chili I’m going to make as soon as I have some freaking time.
Outside In New York Pt. 2 – Fette Sau
It’s true that Chicago has, in the past few years, seen a relative spike in BBQ joints, but going from nothing to some is only slightly encouraging and, while the numbers have increased, the bar for quality has remained pretty modestly median. I still haven’t made it over to Smoque for their brisket yet which [...]
Posted in Beer, Grilling, Review, Smoking Tagged Brand BBQ Market, Brooklyn, Fat Willie's, Fette Sau, New York, Pork, Revol, Revolution Brewery, Rocking Horse, Smoque 1 Comment
Half Acre Blowout at Hopleaf
I’m hitting the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie show at Ronny’s the night before, but if I’m not too torn up from high mountain revelry than I’m going to drag my dying corpse over to the Hopleaf to help those over achieving yeast fiends from Half Acre clean out their closets for the winter. Check this out: [...]
Outside in New York Pt. 1
As mentioned in my post about the Bavarian Lodge’s Oktoberfest kick off party, myself, AJ and Matt spent a long weekend in Brooklyn, ostensibly to go to the Ween SummerStage show at Central Park, though we did manage to find several other distractions along the way. In prepping for the trip I hit up the [...]
Posted in Event, Instructional, Review Tagged Brooklyn, Brooklyn Vegan, Brown Sour, Cask Ale, Cigar City Guava Grove Saison, Fette Sau, Spuytin Duyvil, T'Gaverhopke, Ween, Williamsburg 1 Comment
Pumpkin Ale In a Pumpkin Fermenter
Here’s a great idea that I’m scrubbing from BYO.com, using a pumpkin as the fermenter for your pumpkin ale. I haven’t tried it yet, but this Halloween season may be the perfect time. Old Pumpculiar (Pumpkin-spiced old ale) (10 gallons, all-grain) OG = 1.059 FG = 1.013 IBU = 20 SRM = 25 ABV = [...]
The Dark Side of the Lens
From surfer and filmmaker Mickey Smith. Pretty wonderful.
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