Friday, June 7, 2013

Dogfish Head, Monk's Cafe, and BRU

This covers some of our tastes from yesterday, but I forgot a set of notes from the Vallari Bar in the vehicle, but I don't want to go out while this area gets 6" of rain.  I will get those up tomorrow when we're in Boston.  First up, some tastes from our visit to the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware.
  1. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA - This is a relatively normal beer for Dogfish Head!
  2. Dogfish Head Black and Blue - This is a backberry and blueberry Belgian Wit.
  3. Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu - Based on a recipe discovered by biologists investigating Chinese  earthen jars that are ~9000 years old.  Possibly one of the oldest fermented drinks in history.
  4. Dogfish Head My Antonia - A continuously hopped pilsner.
  5. Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron - Think Guiness, but up the ante with lots more coffee flavor and add some licorice.  
  6. I also had the heirloom Italian sausage sandwich for lunch.  It was fantastic - spiced and served on a delicious roll.  
  7. Megan had the Greek sausage.  It was a chicken sausage with Greek spices and feta and served on the same great roll.  
We then got to Philly, later than we intended due to being at Dogfish far longer than we planned.  We met up with some friends who live there and went to the Monk's Cafe.  Check out their draft and bottle lists - it has some pretty amazing and rare stuff on it.  If you get to Philly, be sure and check it out, but be prepared to wait for a table or a seat at the bar.
  1. De la Senne - Band of Brothers
  2. Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale
  3. Weyerbacher Riserva 
Finally, we went to a bar called BRU.  It was incredibly loud, but had some interesting beers in their list so we stayed.  I will only review one of the beers we tried there.  It was memorable because it was so terrible that we could not finish it.
  1. Carton - Intermezzo - think dirty, moldy sweat sock soaked in urine as an aroma...  It was supposed to be a green apple lambic dry-hopped on wasabi (we didn't know anything about the wasabi till after).  It just got worse as it warmed.  

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