Beer Brawl™ 30 was the brain child of Kevin Malavarca from the Liquor Outlet in Boonton NJ. Since we are right around the corner from the Super Bowl, what better way to prepare then to figure out what is the best session beer. The Session Beer Challenge, each of us brought our two favorite session beers to the table for a winner take all (bragging rights) challenge.
As I’ve said before I love drinking beer with other beer geeks and when Kevin Malavrca from the Liquor Outlet in Boonton NJ threw down this challenge I was all for it! Beer Brawl™ 30 is going to change each of to bring our 2 favorite session beers to the table. If you don’t know what a session beer is, we are defining it, for this challenge, as a beer less then 5.5% abv, any style goes.
I love doing these Beer Brawls™; where else am I going to sit down with a bunch of beer geeks and drink 9 different beers feremented with brettanomyces yeast. This beer brawl brings us back out to the Liquor Outlet in Boonton New Jersey where we met up with Kevin and Russ to explore some wild beers.
You’ve been waiting for the next Beer Brawl™, here it is Beer Brawl™ 29 Battle of the Funk! After having Brooklyn brewery’s unrelease Wild 1 (an oak aged, Brettanomyces spiked Local 1) I wanted to do the next Beer Brawl™ with beer that had been fermented with Brettanomyces. Surprisingly, there are a lot of beers on the market that are “funky”. So, for Beer Brawl™ 29 we are going to be sampling the following funky to almost sour beers:
After a month long hiatus with the Beer Brawl™ we are back in full swing. This time ’round we are pulled out the Big Boys and sampled nine Belgian (style) Quadruples. Of the Belgian Trappist beers, the Quads are biggest in terms of ABV and also some the more interesting flavor profiles. As we found with the nine quads we tried, they varied quite a bit in flavors and we all over 9% abv.
Our first ever blind Beer Brawl. We decided to test as many Oktoberfest beers as we could easily get our hands on without going over board. We ended up with 12 that we wanted to try and decided it would be fun to see what Fest beer we truly liked the best without any influence from the brand name. Since there were 12 beers we decide to split it up into two batches. We knew what was in each 6 block trial, but we didn’t know the order they would be served and the results we quite stunning!
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