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36 Yankee Brew <strong>News</strong> December 2012/January 2013<br />
<strong>By</strong> Amy Blair<br />
The holiday season is here and with it<br />
the cold weather. If the past few weeks have<br />
been any indication of what is to come, the<br />
upcoming weather will probably be in line<br />
with the first signs of the apocalypse: snow,<br />
hail, ice and frogs. Since there’s not much<br />
you or I can do about it, thank goodness<br />
for winter beers and all their dark spicy<br />
goodness. And if we can’t stop this weatherpocalypse,<br />
at least I hear that with a little<br />
salt, frog’s legs taste just like chicken and<br />
pair nicely with a winter ale.<br />
Queens is <strong>Brewing</strong><br />
SingleCut Beersmiths, Queens’ first<br />
brewery to open in over 50 years, is operational,<br />
and the Tasting Room is open for<br />
business. The first beers from this newcomer<br />
include 19-33 Lagrrr!, a pilsner-style<br />
beer, Dean Pacific Northwest Mahogany<br />
Ale, a hoppy red ale, Billy Full-Stack IPA<br />
(8.6%), an imperial IPA and John Michael<br />
Dark Lyric Lagrrr!, a black lager. SingleCut<br />
is also brewing Jan Olympic White Lagrrr!<br />
in collaboration with Queens Kickshaw, a<br />
local pub. It’s brewed with matzoh in the<br />
mash and Szechuan peppercorns. The beer<br />
is meant to highlight the tradition of Jewish<br />
people ordering Chinese food on Christmas<br />
Eve, and it will be served with a Chinese<br />
menu at Queens Kickshaw. (But will Jan<br />
also go to the movies and pointedly not talk<br />
about Santa Claus?) The brewery has also<br />
just received 30 rare rum barrels imported<br />
from Jamaica, which previously held rum<br />
aged for 20 years. SingleCut plans to brew<br />
Rudy Double-ümlaut Lagrrr! (7.4%) to age<br />
in those barrels for a late winter release.<br />
Big Winter Beers, and<br />
a Shout-Out to Rudolph<br />
With the arrival of winter, Heartland<br />
Brewery in Manhattan rolls out a lineup<br />
of dark, strong, wintery seasonal beers.<br />
Old Red Nose is a deep<br />
mahogany ale with fragrant<br />
tones of orange and<br />
ginger and, of course,<br />
roasted chestnut flavor.<br />
It’s available throughout<br />
the month of December<br />
only. Old Red Nose Ale<br />
Special Edition (8.0%) is<br />
a small-batch strong ale<br />
version of the above and<br />
is served only in a goblet.<br />
Barrel Aged Quad Bock<br />
(12%) is brewed with<br />
12 malts, 12 hops and<br />
celebrates Brewmaster<br />
Kelly Taylors’ 12 years at<br />
Heartland. It aged in <strong>Jack</strong> Daniel oak barrels<br />
and has a rummy flavor with notes of vanilla<br />
and bourbon (also served in goblets). Full<br />
Moon Barley Wine (10%) is a tawny barleywine<br />
packed with English malt for a rich<br />
toffee sweetness and hopped with American<br />
hops. Not Tonight Honey Porter (6.5%) is<br />
an American porter with a rich chocolate<br />
malt flavor highlighted by notes of fresh<br />
clover honey and blackstrap molasses.<br />
New York Governor<br />
Andrew Cuomo<br />
announced $1 million<br />
in state support plus<br />
$2 million in matching<br />
funds for a new<br />
marketing campaign<br />
for New York’s breweries,<br />
distilleries, wineries<br />
and cideries.<br />
Celebrating American Craft Beer<br />
and Classic Arcade Games<br />
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Bronx Black Pale Ale is available from<br />
Bronx Brewery on draft in New York City<br />
and Westchester only. This black ale has flavors<br />
of dark chocolate and roasted malt with<br />
tropical guava, mango and pear hop flavors<br />
and aromas. It’s brewed with three different<br />
American malts, generous amounts of West<br />
Coast El Dorado and Citra hops and bottled<br />
unfiltered and unpasteurized. The brewery’s<br />
flagship beer, Bronx Pale Ale, won “Best<br />
Beer” at the 2012 InterBev awards in early<br />
October, was named one of the “Best Drinks<br />
in NYC in 2012” by Time Out NY, and<br />
received the bronze medal for the beer category<br />
by Beverage World Magazine. In July,<br />
the brewery was given the Entrepreneur<br />
Award by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and<br />
Small Business Services Commissioner<br />
Robert Walsh at the Neighborhood<br />
Achievement Awards. In August, the brewery<br />
brought on a new partner, Sean McCain,<br />
as Sales Director. Sean was the former<br />
Victory <strong>Brewing</strong> Sales Manager for New<br />
York City and Connecticut.<br />
Breakfast in a Glass<br />
Port Jeff <strong>Brewing</strong> in Port Jefferson created<br />
a house-only beer, Birra DeNicola, an<br />
IPA, for five DeNicola-owned restaurants<br />
on Long Island. DeNicola debuted at Port<br />
Jeff’s five-course dinner<br />
on November 1 and<br />
will permanently remain<br />
within all five brotherowned<br />
restaurants. A<br />
percentage of each sale<br />
will be donated to charity.<br />
Port Jeff has expanded<br />
distribution to Queens<br />
(the first keg to Alewife<br />
NYC in late October)<br />
and Westchester, and the<br />
beers should be available<br />
in New York City.<br />
Starboard Oatmeal<br />
Stout (9.2%) has rolled<br />
out for the season,<br />
brewed with flaked oats, brown sugar<br />
and raisins, it’s described as “breakfast in<br />
a glass.” At such a high ABV, breakfast<br />
should probably not be followed by much<br />
work (or much of anything, for that matter).<br />
There Will Be … Beer<br />
Brooklyn Brewery has introduced the<br />
newest beer in the Brewmaster’s Reserve<br />
series — There Will be Black (7.5%) — as
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