Yes, I’m drinking at downtown NYC craft-beer bars. It’s my job! Or just a good excuse.
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My Current Top 5 Beers
1) New Belgium Shift Pale Lager: New Zealand’s Nelson Sauvin hops give this Colorado lager a fruity, tropical profile, with notes of lychee and mango. The crisp, all-day drinker comes in 16-ounce cans.
2) New England Brewing Sea Hag IPA: Recently, I spent a weekend in Connecticut stuffing my little gut with lobster rolls, fried clams and copious, liver-eradicating amounts of Sea Hag IPA. I bought the canned beer on a whim—and its sub-$10 price tag—but the canned brew soon made me swoon with its lovely aromatic punch of flowery Cascade and prickly Noble hops that never make bitterness the star of the show.
3) Funkwerks Saison: My Colorado friend Aaron recently flew halfway across the country to deliver me a bottle of this stellar saison. The brew is a marvel of citrus and black pepper, with plenty of lingering bitterness to appeal to hop heads.
4) Port Brewing Mongo: When I was last in San Diego, I fell asleep in my hotel room while drinking this IPA, spilling the precious nectar onto the carpet. For this I deserve to be flogged: Named after a hardscrabble cat, Mongo is a resinous marvel. The hazy orange ale has a massive head and an all-encompassing aroma of tropical fruits, pine, tangerine, and mango. Oh, my: The bitterness hits like a punch and lingers like a lover’s kiss.
5) Deschutes and Hair of the Dog Collage: A looooong time in the making, this collaboration between Deschutes and Hair of the Dog tastes like a sour Flanders brown after it's made love to a packet of Sweet Tart and brown sugar in an oak shed. Grab it if you can find it.
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