#peekskill brewery

Sloop Green Islands and Peekskill Tryed and True - Made a trip to Food & Fire for the first time in a while. I’d been watching their BeerMenus page looking for Sloop IPAs to show up and once there was a Peekskill beer too we couldn’t pass it up.  Both beers were good, above average for sure, but would not justify a special trip on their own in the future.  They did highlight the need to explore the Hudson Valley beer scene more in 2017.

Pig Roast at the Peekskill Brewery

PB PIG OUT- SUNDAY, JUNE 28TH * 2PM – 7PM One of the Peekskill Brewery’s most anticipated events of the year. The pig roast is right around the corner! Buy your tickets today! Bring the whole family for music, food and beer (for folks over 21). Music this year by The Brighton Beat! VIP Table of 6: Reserved Seating, Suckling Pig at the Table, Fixin’s and Beers- no lines!! $275 General Admission…

Peekskill is the New Nyack

Remember how Andre and I rode to Peekskill last fall along both the South and North County Trails in Westchester?

We did itagain this past Saturday. The two of us had a free day because we’re both kind of over softball, and I insisted that we ride because I needed a break from life. My new counselor agreed that it would be best that I get out and do fun stuff, such as play softball and ride my…

When we went to Peekskill on Sunday, I had another white lager at the Peekskill Brewery that was made with the same hops that “power” their sour beers, most notably their Simple Sour and The Aristocrats.

As you can tell, it’s white! Or at least it’s pretty light. The Styriana was a pretty solid beer, which scores really high with Beer Advocate reviewers.

This reminded me of a beer I had on the other side of the country at the Angel City Brewery in Los Angeles. It was the White Nite stout. Again, as the name implies, it’s a white stout.

Most white beers, or witbiers are made with wheat, which makes for a light yet tart flavor found in a lot of summer beers. But the Angel City stout does not taste like a wheat beer, it tastes like a stout. Beer drinkers more knowledgeable than I note flavors ordinarily found in stouts: coffee, chocolate, and earth.

Casual beer drinkers will certainly note flavor first and associate color with that flavor. How many times have you heard someone ask a bartender for a “light beer?” What’s different about these beers is that despite their light color, their flavor is quite strong.

Unless this goes to the logical extreme of brewers producing clear beer, I’m all for watching these independent breweries producing some novel brews.