August, midweek, and I am happily revving a month-old GTI north as Philadelphia retreats in the rear view. I am pushing to Autobahn speeds, knifing up the Garden State, in blurred pursuit of the Bobcat Café in Bristol, Vermont. I am meeting my cousin (a home brewer and aficionado) and his wife to see how [...]
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White Car Muddy Beer
Posted in GTI, Vermont, beer, bobcat cafe, bristol, drink, drinking, eat, mudpuddle porter, porter, route 17 on August 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Chocolate Parfait, S’il Vous Plaît
Posted in ale, beer, caldera, caldera pilot, calderas rock porter, chocolate, drink, drinking, eat, parfait, pilto rock porter on May 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Caldera’s Pilot Rock Porter transformed me into a curt, cigarette-smoking Frenchman with a penchant for espresso machiatto. The chocolaty ale poured past my lips as “Parfait, s’il vous plaît,” rushed back out. I don’t even speak French.
Caldera’s brewer, like some mystical alchemist, fashioned a way to put the essence of an ice cream parlor into [...]
