さてさて、今回のテーマは、Financial District (ファイナンシャル・ディストリクト) & Staten Island (スタテンアイランド) 周辺です。
Wall Street (ウォールストリート) や New York Stock Exchange (ニューヨーク証券取引所)、Charging Bull (チャージング・ブル)、Statue of Liberty (自由の女神像)、Battery Park (バッテリーパーク) があるエリアですね。
自由の女神見物でスタテンアイランドフェリーに乗った後ですが、残念ながらスタテンアイランドにはこれといった観光スポットはないんです。が、フェリー乗り場の近くに素敵なブリューリーがありますよ！
私たちのお勧めはIPA！ニューヨークの美味しいローカルビールランキングNo.10に選ばれたMetropolitan Lager (メトロポリタン・ラガー) も要チェックです！
(New York City's Top 10 Best Beers of 2015 | Village Voice)
Lately, there is a small trend among American brewers to brew food inspired beers, such as beers that taste like doughnuts or other pastries. How would you feel if there was a beer which mimics the flavors of American carrot cake? (Carrot cake is a popular cake in America known for its sweet and spicy flavor from the use of brown sugar, carrot, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice. It is usually covered with a sweet white sugar frosting.) Tonight, we have a carrot cake inspired beer from Stone brewery. Alright, we’ll see how close the beer to the carrot cake.
This beer won the American Homebrewers Association-sanctioned Stone Home Brew Competition. Juli Goldenberg , the brewer was the first woman to win the competition. Shortly afterwards Stone worked together with Juli to mass produce this victory beer!
Golden orange with a thin white head. Bubbles slowly rise to a light head.
ゴールデンオレンジのボディに白の薄いヘッド。炭酸の気泡は緩やかに登っていきます。
Aroma/香り
Alcohol and subtle yeasty sour aroma with a little sweetness.
アルコールやイーストの酸味のある香りの中に、甘い香りが微かにします。
Flavor/味
Light malt, lactose, and vanilla flavors comes out up front. Cinnamon, carrot, raisins and alcohol are more prominent in the back. While drinking this beer we enjoyed the multiple layers of flavor present in each sip. This beer is a little heavier on the carrot, cinnamon, and raisins than the lactose and vanilla, but it really does taste like a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!
This beer fits nicely within a new genre of food inspired beers. Juli Goldenberg, who created the original recipe to replicate the flavors of carrot cake with beer, and Stone brewery, who brewed this complicated beer for distribution, did a great job. After allowing the beer to breath and warm a little in the glass, we were able to identify many of the ingredients of the beer and were surprised how close to carrot cake this beer manages to get. Of course this is still an ale so the malt and belgian yeast flavoring is still present along with an alcohol kick at the very end of each sip, but still this is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!
Letting this one sit and breath for a little while allows the the bitter agents to become more mild while the sweeter flavors become more apparent in the warmer beer. With this type of food inspired beer it is fun to compare the beer to the real thing. Find yourself a carrot cake with thick cream cheese frosting to go with this beer. Let us know what you think.
The weather is cold, so we’re staying inside to drink some beer. Winter is still here, that means that stout season continues! So stay warm, open a bottle of your favorite stout, and drink with us as we try, Firestone Walker’s Velvet Merlin!
Deep dark brown with a milk chocolate head, that dissipates gradually.
ボディはダークブラウン、ヘッドはミルクチョコレート色でゆっくりと消えていきます。
Aroma/香り
We noticed a huge amount of malt with a warm roasted aroma, coffee notes, and a cocoa sweetness.
結構強めのモルトの香りの他に、温かみのある香ばしさ、コーヒーや甘いココアの香りもします。
Flavor/味
This stout presents pleasant roasted malt flavors and a chocolate sweetness complemented by a subtle coffee flavor. There is very little hop flavoring or bitterness.
This excellent example of an oatmeal stout is anchored by a velvety mouthfeel and rich textured roasty malt flavor. Additionally, coffee flavoring and chocolate sweetness add to the complexity of this beer and make it memorable.
Since 5.5% ABV of this beer isn’t high, this beer is perfect for an everyday beer during winter. Treat yourself with this beer and a red velvet cupcake after a long day of work!
Among beer lovers, winter is known as a Stout season. Lately, we have had many opportunities to try limited release beers from Stone brewery, and every time we’ve tried their beer, we have been really impressed by the range of flavors and the interesting ingredients they have use in the beers! It’s always fun to drink the beers that challenge our expectations and our notions of what a beer should be! Tonight’s beer is also a limited release holiday stout from them! Let’s see how Stone will blow our minds again!
This beer won the American Homebrewers Association-sanctioned Stone Home Brew Competition and after the competition, it was selected by Stone to be brewed in their brewery and released for sale. However, the reaction to this beer by fans was so great, this beer became Stone’s annual winter beer!
Very dark brown body with a thin hot cocoa colored head. Bubbles continue to rise after the pour.
極深いダークブラウンのボディで、ヘッドは薄く、ココア色です。気泡は絶えず立ち上がっています。
Aroma/香り
Very warming winterish aroma of caramel malt and cacao with subtle cinnamon, vanilla, and nutmeg.
カラメルモルトとカカオ、そしてシナモンやバニラ、ナツメグ等、とても温かみのある冬らしい香りです。
Flavor/味
This beer has a lot going on. Starting with a great malt flavor, then a distinctive dark cacao flavor. Additionally, notes of cinnamon, vanilla, chili peppers, and nutmeg make this sweet stout more complex and interesting, All the flavors layer very nicely together.
Just drinking this bold flavorful mocha stout, we can say that Stone has raised the bar for complex stouts. They have delicately balanced the sweet, bitter, and the spicy flavor against a backdrop of heavy, satisfying malt.
