Beer fest NYC

New York City is not a place renowned for it's beers, like many German and Cech cities.  However as most New Yorkers know the city is home to several craft brewers of decent quality.  I'm no beer expert (www.beeradvocate.com/beer/101//topic:Beer), but I like to think my tastes are discerning enough to tell a good beer from a bad.  Well anyway the New York Craft Beer Festival kicked off this week, with 83 participating bars.  Although most of my readership probably cannot enjoy these brews in bars (cindys is a sapporo only joint), you can still get them in six packs and bottles around the city if you ever feel like not drinking piss water in a 40 oz one night.  Ive tried to pick beers which I think you can find in stores.

  

Brooklyn Brewery Monster Ale:  Aged beer? dont you only do that with wine?  Well it turns out that some beers meld flavors as they age.  This beers been aged since 2003 so you know whats good.

Avatar Jasmine IPA:   We know whats good with IPA.  I love finding this brand at peoples houses because I know there not content to drink shit like Budweiser.  The first thing your gonna notice is that this beer smells like a bouquet (leviish), and you can taste the jasmine, which might turn people off put this is pretty good and flavorful for a pale beer. 

Big A IPA: prob good for the 40 oz crowd who wants to upgrade a bit, because according to Jon Ludbaum the New York City Rare Beer Imports president (havnt actually had this one so im going with his word) this beer is 9.6 percent alcohol.  Besides being loaded with alcohol, this beer has a nice fruit taste without being like a bottle of sugar or one of those dumbass hard lemonades.