PB's World's End "Belgo- American" Style Ale

Peekskill Brewery's World's End, golden ale--  sour, fragrant, and hoppy, not too thin... outstanding! 

Victory Storm King Imperial Stout

Nice, if quickly attenuating froth, albeit in the bottle given the job site setting; strong chocolate aroma, mild bitter hops well balanced to the sweet coffee under toads.  

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate is what I kept thinking as I gluttonously drank 3/4th the bottle before stopping to paint a blog on it. 

That twisted #Portlandia reference notwithstanding, this beer makes me want to stout from the roofhops!

Is it just me or do some of Victory's beers makes you feel like you're standing there with Butch and Sundance Kid at the end of the movie, on the cliff asking: "who are those guys?"

Southhampton Double White 4.5% ABV

Fleeting froth, clear light golden color, delightful banana clove aromas with a thin mouth feel, yet a abiding hoppy flavor that beats back the malt like a red headed lap dancer (what?!).  Exactly.

This is a great beer.  I'll be taking a growler of this one home, unlike that red headed lap dancer. 

Smuttynose IPA at Gleason's in Peekskill

ABV, 6.9%, nice head, more or less clear, light color, not much aroma, wicked hops to the taste.  

I apparently enjoyed this IPA.  It may require a repeated sampling to fill out these tasting notes.  

Captain Lawrence's Brown Bird at Gleason's

Nice head, carmel aroma to match its brown color.  Mild hops, but well balance with the creamy malt, a little sweet... it's a little like a spicy root beer.

Schaefer at Gleason's

Giant head, light pils color, ever so slight rubbing alcohol aromas, thin and trim mouth feel, and that trademark corny Schaefer flavor, just like it was after cutting the lawn with uncle Frank when I was 8.  

It's a great beer, hipster renovation or not. 

However, I'm thinking they hipped up the recipe, if you will, on this classic canned classic like many other brands (PBR) in the late 20th century American portfolio...  you know, the stuff Americans drank with missiles pointed at them during the cold war.

Great taste, less filling?  How about less Sovietz!  Boom!

Peekskill Brewery's Simple Sour

Simple Sour is basically a Saison style light wheat, corn deal, and seems like a barrel of Pils met a mad Beligan farmer who laid a wild yeast on it.  This beer is so clean, mildly hopped, and consistently flavored (mildly sour) that I'm thinking it's done with extracts. 

The PB's new brewing equipment (the tags read Portland), have taken every beer I've sampled there up several levels in terms of quality compared to the old location, where getting served a flat beer, with off flavors was an every 3rd draft event.  Nonetheless, we remained faithful to the spot, like a dutiful husband to a bi-polar wife. 

All that's changed.  PB has turned it all around with the new tanks and lines, which must stay clean as a whistle to produce this quality suds. 

PB's Simple Sour is an outstanding beer-- I'll be buying it in growlers.