The Latest and Greatest, Week of 5.25.15

Wine:

Chateau Bellevue la Randee - Bourdeauc AOC (Excellent value Bordeaux)

Domaine Eloy - Bourgogne Aligote

Louis Max - Pouilly Fuisse

Mont Tauch - "Chasse Gardee" - Fitou

Cider:

Bantam - Americain (Spiced farmhouse cider)

Beer:

Dieu du Ciel! - Aphrodite (Stout with cocoa and vanilla)

Goose Island - Juliet (American wild ale aged in wine barrels w/ blackberries)

Gritty's - Black Fly Stout

Heavy Seas - Double Cannon Double IPA

Innis & Gunn - Highland Ale (Scotch ale aged with Scotch whisky soaked oak chips)

Lexington - Kentucky Old Fashioned Barrel Ale (Based on the Old Fashioned cocktail)

Mystic - Day of Doom (Quad)

Newburyport - Melt Away Session IPA

Revival - Burnsider Pale Ale

Submitted for Your Memorial Day Weekend Approval, Week of 5.18.15

Wine:

Cadence - "Coda" - Red Mountain (WA)

Dom. des Guyons - "Cuvee Murmure" - Saumur Rouge

For a Song - Riesling - Columbia Valley

Beer:

Avery - Raspberry Sour (Barrel aged raspberry sour)

Brewmaster Jack - Hop Essence: Simcoe IPA

Cambridge Brewing - Sgt. Pepper (Peppercorn saison, back in!)

Cascade - Blackberry (Barrel aged blackberry sour)

Clown Shoes - Breakfast Exorcism (Rye barrel aged with espresso)

Dark Horse - Smells Like a Safety Meeting IPA

Down the Road - Rasenmaher Kolsch

Evil Genius - Purple Monkey DIshwasher (Chocolate peanut butter porter)

Great Divide - Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti

Humboldt - 500BC (Double IPA)

Left Hand - Introvert (Session IPA)

Pretty Things - Fumapapa (Smoked imperial stout)

Rising Tide - Maine Island Trail Ale (Hoppy session pale)

Singlecut - Mo'Shuggie Soulbender IPA (Hop heads, do not miss this)

Smuttynose - Homunculus (Hoppy Belgian)

Stiegl - Radler .5l Cans

Transmitter - G4 Sour Golden Ale

Transmitter - S4 Saison

Victory - Sour Monkey (Victory's Golden Monkey Tripel w/ Brettanomyces)

Fresh Out the Box, Week of 5/11/15

Beeeeer:

Ballast Point - Grunion (really hoppy pale ale)

Boulevard - Saison Brett 2015

Coronado - Sock Knocker IPA

Dark Horse - Thirsty Trout Porter

Evil Twin - Joey Pepper (spiced Belgian blonde)

Evil Twin - Ryan and the Beaster Bunny (back in, saison lovers take note)

Ithaca - Cayuga Cruiser (Berliner weisse)

Sierra Nevada - Hoptimum (double IPA)

Small Town Brewery - Not Your Father's Root Beer (back by popular demand!)

Uinta - Birthday Suit 22 (sour plum abbey ale)

Victory - Golden Monkey (strangly enough, first time here)

Weyerbacher - Tarte Nouveau (session sour)

White Birch - Berliner Weisse 6pk Cans

White Birch - Blueberry Berliner

White Birch - Raspberry Berliner

New Drinks!, week of 5/4/15

Mead:

Dansk Mjod - Viking Blod (Made with hops, hibiscus and ginger)

Wine:

Henri Bonnaud - Terre Promise - Rose - Cotes Provence Sainte Victoire

Hugh Hamilton - Black Ops - Mclaren Vale (Back in stock!)

Vavasour - Pinot Noir - Marlborough

Beer:

Ballast Point - Black Marlin Porter (Hopped up porter)

Cisco - Brewers Island Reserve: Russian Imperial Stout

Green Flash - Road Warrior (Rye Double IPA)

Harpoon - Ghost King (Imperial White IPA)

Moa - Imperial Stout (Aged in Pinot Noir Barrels)

Ommegang - Cooperstown Ale (Belgian blonde)

Ommegang - Fleur de Houblon (Hoppy Belgian pale ale)

Ommegang - Joemmegang (Belgian Dark w/ coffee and Cocoa nibs)

Pretty Things - Flower Land (Double IPA)

Rogue - Mom (Hefeweizen w/ rose petals)

Rogue - Fresh Roast (Brown Ale)

Smuttynose - Kindest Find (Hoppy Imperial Red)

Southern Tier - Mokah (Back in! Stout brewed w/ coffee and chocolate)

Wostyntje (Belgian pale ale brewed w/ mustard seed)

Geek out with me over these, week of 4/27/15

Wine:

Boudary Breaks - Ovid Line North - Riesling - Finger Lakes

Beer:

Ballast Point - Grapefruit Sculpin CANS (you wanted it, now you've got it)

Cascade Brewing - Apricot (Sour blonde ale aged in oak on Apricots, 15mo.)

Freigeist - Abraxxxas (Lichtenhainer Weisse [basically a smoked Berliner])

Freigeist - Kopenickiade (Berliner Weisse)

MIkkeller - Wit Fit 4pk Cans (White IPA)

Stone - Pale Ale 2.0 (Rebooted for hoppiness)

Stone - Ruination 2.0 (Rebooted into a more modern DIPA)

Trois Mousquetaires - Baltic Porter (Back and beautiful as ever)