The Pour | Week of 1/9
Craft Beer Releases and Brewery Events Around NYC
Cheers friends. It’s poppin’ in the Bronx this weekend! I myself am overdue for a visit to both Gun Hill and BxB. Other Half is coming up on their 9th anniversary and are celebrating with weeklong events leading up to the big day. Stay tuned for updates! I hope you have a fruitful week with a toast at the end!
Brewery Events
Saturday 1/14
Gun Hill - Up in the Bronx, Gun Hill is hosting their 3rd annual Barrel Aged Beer Festival. 20+ breweries from all over will join together in the celebration of Barrel Aged beer on Saturday from 1-5pm. GA Tickets include unlimited beer samples, souvenir sample glass and a 4 pack of Gun Hill Beer. There are also VIP tickets available. Get yours here.
Bronx Brewery - Join the release party Friday for the January Y-Series: Bodega Brew, an 8% ABV Imperial Pilsner. Mural Artist Zane created this one and will be onsite with an exhibit, as well as music and celebrations! Bronx location. Free to attend.
Monday 1/16
Other Half - Other Half is celebrating their 9th anniversary with two weeks of events leading up to the big day. The week of January 16th is "Freak Week" - where every day is Freaky Friday! That's when OH borrows some notable recipes from great brewers and brews 'em themselves! It's always fun and you're gonna love the line up this year. Stop by a taproom all week to get freaky!
This Week’s Releases
Friday 1/13
Other Half - DDH BAGEL AND SCHMEAR (7.5%) // IPA with Everything Citra/Nelson Sauvin/El Dorado bagel with an extra schmear. No lactose.
-TRIPLE MOSAIC DAYDREAM (10.5%) // Triple Oat Cream India Pale Ale triple dry hopped with delicious Mosaic and Mosaic Lupulin powder. This beer contains hints of milk sugar with a boatload of oats.
-DDH BROCCOLI (7.9%) // Imperial India Pale Ale brewed with lots of wheat, oats, Cascade, Hallertau Blanc, Mosaic and Simcoe. Then hit with a second dose of all those hops plus Simcoe and Mosaic lupulin powder.
Evil Twin - GREENHOUSE KVEIK PILS (5%) // Pilsner brewed with Kviek yeast and conditioned on American oak with a flavor profile of subtle orange and citrus.
- COFFEE CREAM ALE (6%) // Cream ale conditioned on single origina Nicaraguan coffee beans. Collab with BKG Coffee.
- WE WILL MEET AGAIN AND EAT PIZZA (10%) // TIPA double dry-hopped with Citra, Motueka and El Dorado hops for flavors of citrus juice, ripe mango and passionfruit. Collab with Root + Branch.
- EVEN MORE DAILY SERVINGS (7%) // Sour Ale with your daily serving of fresh raspberries and marshmallows for notes of sweet red fruit snacks. Collab with Trillium.
- OH, YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS WINE? (10%) // Barleywine with mild sweetness and back-end flavors of subtle stone fruit and roasted malts.
Saturday 1/14
Grimm - DREAMWEAPON (6.4%) // IPA brewed with Columbus and El Dorado, for complex layers of intensely dank northwest woods in a crisp and refreshing format adding a hint of candy orange on the nose, but Columbus delivers the whole forest—resinous pine, warm cedar, anise hyssop and crabapple.
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KCBC - 4AM PILS (4.0%) // Pilsner made for crushing with Tettnang, Herkules & Styrian Celeia hops, and a base of American-grown barley & rice.
- MIDDLING EARTH (4.8%) // ESB with subtle aromas of orange marmalade + tea & toast up front from a blend of high-oil Cascade & East Kent Golding hops, along with biscuity English malt.
- ZOMBIE IN A BARREL: GUAVA (6.6%) // Barrel Aged Fruited Sour bleded from several ZOMBIE base beers, blended and aged in French Oak barrels for many moons and conditioned on an insane amount of ripe guava. Tropical sweetness, medium body, a touch of oak ‘n’ funk, and a lightly puckering finish.
- INDIANA BONES & THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST BARK (7.2%) // DDH IPA w/ Tangelo & Orange Zest crushed with Citra, Galaxy and Centennial hops for peachy-lemony deliciousness, with Tangelo & Orange zest for extra citrus freshness.
Finback - SOMETHING CITRA (6.5%) // IPA dry-hopped with Citra.
- I SEE YOU (8%) // Double IPA with cantaloupe. Dry-hopped with Mosaic, Belma, & Hallertau Blanc.
Threes - NOTHING IS FOREVER (11%) // Imperial Stout aged in Wild Turkey Bourbon barrels.
Wild East - MORAL DILEMMA 2020 (8.5%) // Imperial Stout aged in maple bourbon barrels for notes of smooth & nutty bourbon, decadent chocolate, American oak, pecans and spicy hops with tinges of amber maple syrup.
- SHADOWBOXER (NA) //Non-alcoholic Pale Ale brewed with Cashmere hops. Light malty base, low bitterness and juicy hop-forward notes of lemon-lime, melon and fruity pebbles.
- NONCOMPLIANCE (10%) // Imperial Stout with decadent chocolate notes, spicy hop accents and dark cherry aroma.
Singlecut - FREE FORM JAZZ ODYSSEY (5.6%) // Schwarzbier with Coconut and Chocolate - deep, dark, rich, malty richness improvises into a lusciously enjoyable and easy drinking jam with a heavy coconut and chocolate infusion and a dry finish.
- SURF! (7.7%) // West Coast IIPA styled twist on the beloved Genre base. Bright and pithy tangerines and clementines gives way to a drier, crisper, more intense palate than the normal SC IIPA. Bright and juicy orange/grapefruit, fresh cut fir, a touch of apricot and blackberry in the finish, and a clean grassy bitterness that takes you back to the beach bars of San Diego.
- TELL SHAKY AND BOXCAR JOE (9%) // DDH IIPA with new era PNW buds for a dank hop aroma with notes of fresh ground cannabis, mango jelly, cut pineapple, squeezed OJ, pepper and papaya.
Torch and Crown - ROUNDING ERROR (5.4%) // Pale Ale has with a touch of fresh berry, pine, and grapefruit on the nose with a spritzy, squeaky clean finish
- B-ROLL (5.7%) // German-Style Pilsner with a floral, earthy, fresh-mown grass hop character with some bready malt undertones and a spicy, firm hop bitterness.
Sixpoint - COLD SEAL (8.2%) // Cold DIPA with LOADS of Citra & Centennial Hops for a pleasingly bitter brew that's irrefutably packed with fruity, citrusy aromas. Those citrus notes are backed by adding GRAPEFRUIT and dry-hopping with even MORE Citra for a brew that's certified FRESH.
Five Boroughs Brewing - MALT OVERBOARD (5.2%) // Dark Lager. Simple. To the point.
Always drink responsibly and tip your bartenders!