Beer looks good. Location looks nice.Last Friday, New England Brewing Company officially opened at their new Branford location. The former Stony Creek Brewery. This beer is the first pour!! A Double Fuzzy Baby Ducks!!
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On my priority list to get there before the weather turns cold. The last time I sipped beers on that deck overlooking Stony Creek, I almost gagged from the beer produced by NEBCOs predecessor at that site.Last Friday, New England Brewing Company officially opened at their new Branford location. The former Stony Creek Brewery. This beer is the first pour!! A Double Fuzzy Baby Ducks!!
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"Beer Expert! We're lost and adrift without beer reviews heading into the first NFL games of the year? Why have you forsooked us!"
When you look back over your life and you see only one set of footprints in the sand, that is when I carried you. And carry you I am....
I bought a bunch of Schilling beer way over what retail is supposed to be. Only thing I can say is that you should get out and get some - it's ALL good. This is great and it's not even near my favorite. TotalWine carries some of them at normal prices...jump on that.
I still maintain that if you cannot sit and enjoy a Red Stripe or a Narragansett, you don't actually like beer, you like the thought of beer. But if you want to step up a bit and not have to pretend to like pine cone jizz in a can, this is where you gotta look.
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The location is what kept Stony Creek afloat for quite a while longer than expected. It wasn't their beer, unfortunately.Beer looks good. Location looks nice.
I’ll look for it.
The Austrian bit brings back some memories for me. When we had the house in Rochester VT, we were friends with a family a bit further up the mountains. The Ottens. They escaped Austria at the same time and knew the Von Trapps. Erna was rather old when I knew her but played a grand piano they had, same piano Mozart used she said. Lovely people and a bit of a trip into history to talk to them, a gift really, to get those stories first hand.“Beer Expert! Where have you been? I have been looking for a beer that is a collaboration between a Vermont brewery and an Austrian brewery and I am losing hope!”
If I had a dollar for every time someone has asked me that question, I would be a rich man.
So here it is….a Von Trappe Brewing collaboration with an Austrian brewery called Hoffelwhiffenpoofer or whatever. Liked it quite a bit. Lots going on in there and I suspect a lot of you would really enjoy this one. A lil more hoppy than is my preference, but still, worth a pick up.
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The last sip of the Stout Trooper pictured above yielded a small lump on my tongue. I figured it was a yeast clump. Spit it into the glass...nope.
Ray Ramano: "IT WAS A FLY!!!!!"
Legs still moving.
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The last sip of the Stout Trooper pictured above yielded a small lump on my tongue. I figured it was a yeast clump. Spit it into the glass...nope.
Ray Ramano: "IT WAS A FLY!!!!!"
Legs still moving.
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“Beer expert! I am looking for a beer from a Vermont brewery, but I really hate Austrians! Help!”
Understood. Austrians are weird.
Anyway, Burlington Beer Co.
Meh. We used to go to Burlington Beer after the Vermont City Marathon and I always enjoyed it - am starting to think I was just delirious because the beers I’ve had this summer are just average. Perhaps it’s just for the tourist trade.
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