![]() ![]() The palate is lightly malty, suitably crisp, with a bittersweet finish. (Hallertauer Mittelfrueh, Vanguard and Cascade in the hop mix.) The bottles I had from a recent variety pack were just past their freshness date with no apparent harm done. It’s a lightly amber beer with a nice sudsy head, an appealingly grainy nose with a touch of lemon zest probably from the (somewhat unusual) dry-hopping during lagering. The Milton Glaser-designed logo harkens back to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Neither will knock your socks off nor will they let you down.īrooklyn Lager harkens back to pre-Prohibition brewing days in the borough, when almost 50 breweries plied their trade, with a Vienna Lager-style recipe formulated by William Moeller, a fourth-generation brewer who went back into the notebooks. As they enter adulthood they’ve more or less settled down into mainstream respectability, considering the wild experimentation going on around them. The two beers in question were mildly radical for the time and place of their introduction. craft brewery sales in 2010 (16 th in overall brewery sales), while Brooklyn was 16 th (25 th overall). From small and none-too-certain beginnings, both companies have come a very long way: Harpoon was ranked ninth in U.S. Brooklyn Lager was that brewery’s first offering in 1988. (See “Related Posts” below for a little more on each brewery’s history and beers.) Harpoon released its first beer, Harpoon Ale, in 1987. Matt Brewery in Utica, New York).Īnd both companies have now been around for a long time, by craft brewery standards. Both are now being canned as well as bottled (both canned at the F.X. But there are some similarities in that both beers are the best-selling flagship brew in each company’s portfolio. To me goes the beer.Īs far as this week’s two beers go, as a lager and an ale they aren’t really competitive it’s apples and oranges. I’ll select one of the specialty beers of whichever brewery wins on Sunday–so to speak–and make it my next TAP Beer of the Week. Anchor president John Dannerbeck not only agreed to pour Brooklyn’s Sorachi Ace beer from this Monday to tomorrow, but outfit tour guides in Giants jerseys:Īt the Anchor Brewing tasting room, pouring Brooklyn's Sorachi Ale while wearing a Giants' jersey Hindy, who obviously has a gambling problem, threw down a similar wager with Anchor Brewing in San Francisco before the Giants-49ers tilt for the NFC title. As this video shows, the bet was paid off, and Hindy made a prescient comment about the two teams meeting again in the playoffs: Gauging by the amount of coverage the wager has already received, the publicity will presumably help salve the wounds of the defeated, and I’m willing enough to lard on some more.įor the two breweries, this is actually Super Bowl Wager II, since the same terms were put forth for Super Bowl XLII in 2008, and even non-fans like me know the Giants dusted off the previously undefeated Patriots 17-14, a stunning upset. Likewise, should the Giants win, Harpoon’s Rich Doyle and Dan Kenary will dispense a keg of Brooklyn Lager in the Boston tasting room. The deal is that should the Patriots win, Steve Hindy will dispense a keg of Harpoon IPA at the Brooklyn brewery. Seems that the old pros at the helm of each brewery are chums and couldn’t pass up the chance to tweak the other should their home team win. Last year we wandered from Pittsburgh to Green Bay by way of the White House (and the homebrewing activities going on there, all mentioned here).īut for Super Bowl XLVI we’re sticking to the east coast, and hitching our star to a wager already in the works, between Brooklyn Brewery and Harpoon Brewery. And since nothing brings out that instinct (it does seem like an instinct, doesn’t it?) more vigorously than the Super Bowl, here we are again. ![]() Despite outing my anti-football stance in this rant, careful readers will have noted I’m pretty much okay with gambling.
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