As the official Oktoberfest gets underway starting this Saturday, we’re celebrating with our favorite beers of the fall: Wet hop beers! Wet hop beers are those brews made by directly adding fresh cone hops to the beer making process. As this can only occur during the fall season, many of these beers are labeled “harvest” beers, and they are typically characterized by their exteme freshness.Bar owner Jimmy Carbone has already homed in on his favorite beer of the wet hop season thus far: Barrier Brewing’s Hoplantic, a 5.5% ABV Pale Ale. Jimmy says, “Talk about fresh beer with the super subtle notes of fresh wet hops! This was my beer of the weekend. We have one keg left that we’ll have for the next few days.”
Other beers that Jimmy loved this weekend, included some great sours (still available by the bottle), including The Bruery’s Sour in the Rye, a very limited barrel- aged sour rye beer that we’ll be pouring tomorrow night at $12/glass (from the 750 ml bottle) in honor of his weekly show, Beer Sessions Radio on the Heritage Radio Network (the show airs here at 5 p.m.), where Jimmy will be interviewing the brewery’s (or Bruery’s!) founder Patrick Rue. Having just been to San Diego and getting the opportunity to sample Sour in the Rye (fresh from the growler!), I can attest you don’t want to miss out on trying this beer! Come and get your glass (while supplies last).
And our foray into fall beers continues with next Monday’s Smoked+Smoked beer and food prix fixe dinner. Special guest Jon Lundbom of B. United will be bringing beers from their smoked German portfolio (subject to change):
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*Schlenkerla Helles
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*Schlenkerla Maerzen
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*Carrobiollo (2013)
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*De Dues Toccata
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*Schlenkerla Oak Smoke
Get your Smoked+Smoked beer dinner tickets here.
Finally, we’re very excited to be part of a new pop-up venture, OktoberfeAst, which will take place in Lower Manhattan (Front and Fulton) on Saturday, October 11th. We’ll be bringing out our BBQ Rig to pair food with an amazing lineup of German and German-style NY State beers. It’s an outdoor biergarden just right for the beautiful fall days! Find out more about OktoberfeAst here.
So, come out and celebrate the colors of beer with us. It’s fest season!