![]() Smooth, easily-drinkable lager character. Usually fairly well-attenuated, often with an adjunct quality. It was at this point I understood the love many have for this classic American beer that the BJCP lists among its examples of International Amber Lager, the description of which reads:Ī well-attenuated malty amber lager with an interesting caramel or toast quality and restrained bitterness. I’d actually tried Yuengling Lager once prior to this trip, and while I enjoyed it just fine, the fresh draught pint I ordered that night in New Jersey was an entirely different experience-clean, crisp, slightly toasty, and insanely crushable. At one point, a group of us went out to a standard American chain restaurant, and on the drink menu I spied a beer that is often talked about though is difficult for us west coasters to come by-Yuengling Lager. After a couple nights in New York City with my dad and stepmom, we took a train to Princeton to meet-up with the wedding party. With two young kids at the time, my wife and I took advantage of the fact we’d have a number of family members around willing to help out and left a week early to do some sightseeing. In August 2012, my younger sister married the dude of her dreams in Philadelphia, PA, which is a skip away from his hometown of Princeton, NJ. Mosaic Of Change IPA by House Of Pendragon.It’s almost unfair to compare Kill Your Darlings to a world classic like Brooklyn, but this examination has demonstrated two things: (1) that Thornbridge have, once again, expanded successful and very enjoyably into a new style with a delicious and complex malty Vienna lager and (2) that Brooklyn Lager has earned its success (as both a gateway beer and as a standard to return to over and over again) due to a perfect balance of hops and malt which come together in a very drinkable beer with hidden depths. By contrast the Brooklyn lets the fresh piney and herbal hops shine throughout, more bitter than sweet but still with a smooth caramel base: a light, invigorating, very tasty beer. There are also hops, with a pine and a light lemon citrus emerging especially on the finish. Taste: The malt continues to dominate the KYD, with the lovely rich, deep, dark, sweet maltiness that you might expect of a US double IPA, but without the heavy stickiness. The KYD is more malt-forward in its aroma with an inviting burnt-sugar smell dominating. ![]() Smell: The Cascade hops really shine in the New Yorker’s aroma, a lovely pine scent mingling with a light but noticeable sugary maltiness. ![]() The heads also reflect a difference in the malt bill, the relatively clean ivory whiteness of the Brooklyn contrasting with the slightly nicotene-stained froth on the KYD. Whereas Brooklyn is an amber, chestnut colour, KYD has the appearance of a much darker wood, mahogany perhaps. Also a Vienna Lager, also from one of my favourite breweries but which one’s best? There’s only one way to decide: a Viennese sandwich!Īppearance: From the moment they’re out of the bottle, you can see that Kill Your Darlings is a different beer to Brooklyn. However the Brooklyn in my fridge found itself elbowing for attention with a chippy novice from Derbyshire, Thornbridge Kill Your Darlings. I’ve been very pleased to see Brooklyn Lager increasingly available in the UK, in keg (North Bar claims to have been there first) and bottle, including in Sainsbury’s. One suspects that Brooklyn (supposedly an reimagining of a pre-Prohibition US style) is something of a style of its own, with the blend of Cascade and more noble hop flavours (Hallertau, Vanguard) reflecting a clever piece of US genre-merging. ![]() Brewers still talk of a “Vienna malt” to indicate a kilning to this amber-red colour, but the beer-style itself is no longer especially associated with the city. This was the style originally produced in Vienna. Style icon Michael Jackson said Vienna is:Īmber-red or only medium-dark, lager. It was certainly my first US craft “wow” and I even visited the Brewery last year, documented in a post no-one read. I said in a recent post that my love for Brooklyn Lager had recently been reawakened. ![]()
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