Double Goddess Brewing

How and why the Big Boys of beer are gobbling up craft breweries.
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How craft beer became big business is heart of 'Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out'

Switching over to Instagram at dblgess more posts there next week.

One Way or Another Barrel Aged Sour Triple with Meyer Lemon and Marrionberry 2016, Cascade Brewing and The Bruery
Aroma Up front quick hit of mild aged Funky Meyer Lemon Citrus fruit with a zippy fizzy tingly nose leading to predominant bright mild luscious mouthwatering fresh red berry juiciness with a hints of grassy green notes for balance and a backbone of moderate mineral lactic acid and a faint blush of fresh feta blue cheese as it warms. Flavour is a melange of bracing lactic and funky wet oak Cascade Terroir mild red fruit and hit of red cherry skins and red berry notes, with a burr of tart and lactic acid with a finish that makes the lips coat with mineral salt with dryness. A body of moderately silky fullness and light carbonation clear and bright.

Sang Noir 2012, Barrel aged Sour with Cherries, Cascade Brewing, Deep Thick strong Dark Smokey p***y oak rot wood nose with mild lactic gritty rinded Oka cheese with a thought of sweaty gym sock, blue cheese and strong smooth oak tannin and dark roasted coffee. Flavour Strong Dark coffee with no bitterness roasty toasty notes without any burnt notes with clear fresh crisp icy light moderate mouthfeel with clean cutting lactic throughout breaking up the roast notes and redistributing the flow of roast/ acid tartness and minerality to crushable drinkability. Salt coating mineral finish with a sting of acid freshness.

Enjoying this Grimm Sunshine Pop Dry Hopped Berlinner Weisse Style Ale Brewed with Lemongrasss, Vanilla and Milk Sugar. Brewed Oct 2017 still delicious. Aroma, grapefruit and pine resin with a bare hint of sweetness that balances the resin and leads to a blush of sprightly tangerine. Flavor continues on these notes with a mild acidity with touches of enamel stripping dryness that pop out then meld into the background. Mild to high carbonic bite like a good Berliner Weisse but a moderate to full mouthfeel from the lacto which restrains the high hopping rate bringing the resin to manageable levels. As it warms more bright clear fresh tangerine notes emerge and a hint of vanilla.

Groundhog Day Treat!!! Rubaeus Raspberry Ale by Founders and Cherry Garcia Ice Cream. I left the ice cream at The Only Cafe so have a try. It's so crushable!!!! Thank you to the Founders team who suggested vanilla ice cream, I mixed it up with cherry ice cream and chocolate, when they visited Toronto last year.

Skelaton Key Rum Barrel aged stout with caramelized raisins and
Vanilla with Coffee.

Gentrification complete.

Chefs Fridge Clearing marinade recipe for Tenderloin Roast, 1\8 large bottle of Vermouth, Olive Oil, Sumac, Hungarian Hot Paprika, Paprika, Cayenne Pepper, Cloves, Saigon Cinnamon, Black Pepper and finishing the dregs of that massive bottle of Sriracha because I have 2 other bottles in the fridge. Second Roast has Vermouth, Olive Oil, White Pepper, Sumac, Lemongrass, Rosemary, Cayenne Pepper and Sriracha. What can I say I was lazy with the recipe.

My Snowstorm shopping is so different in Canada compared to NYC. Making pickles if it's a Snow Day.

Magic Hour on the Danforth. Was given 2 different types of macchiatos to tastes test and a Pastery sample. So should be home cooking 2 roasts right now, at least the marinade will have soaked in well. Cooking till midnight now.

I have had double vision for over 2 years now but at least I can still taste things. Beer Hunter NYC Edition. Just released Other Half and KCBC bottles from their breweries.

Ebony G Paterson artist talk at OCAD.

Ebony G Paterson and Nick Cave in Conversation at OCAD.

The line for Nick Cave Artist's Talk at OCAD as Part of the Sunshine Eaters exhibition at Onsite Gallery.

Pagaliacci MET Opera.

Cavalleria, Rusticana the MET Opera.

More Books purchased on food science, at Jackson McNally Books.

Other Half Brewing's New Taproom. I of course went into their old taproom door. Old Habits. beer

DDH Daydream in Green, Citra, Wai-iti, oats Lacto. Creamy Spicy ginger like with a touch of hot bitter finish, very creamy and silky hides ABV. Wangies Extra Spicy Imperial Rye Cream IPA Colab with Burriel, Rye Oats Lacto, 3ple DH Wai-iti, simco, Amarillo, Citra, Motueka, Spicy up front bitter hot ginger like spice mildly burning, mild carb touch hot alcohol 10.5%

After Pho, 11pm showing of The Post, Manhattan.

The Big Orange at Spot, East Village, Manhattan. Waiting for a 11pm Movie and having a desert of Creme caramel, orange chocolate mousse with biscuit fortune cookie and base orange segments.

Could not resist these books on food history for my library and research material. An hour and a half wait for a Resteraunt in bone chilling temperatures meant book browsing and purchasing at Easy Village Books. A great place for used books most used book stores don't have any culinary history books. I had to stop myself from getting more!

An hour and a half wait for a Resteraunt meant book browsing and purchasing at Easy Village Books. A great place for used books. We all purchased many books.

Hanoi House, Manhattan. Exceptional Pho.

Pho with Bone Marrow and Oxtail at Hanoi House. Bone chilling temperatures deserve a good broth.

Lincoln Square in the morning of the Blizzard 2018.

Columbus Circle when the state of emergency was called in the Blizzard 2018.

David Hockney Retrospective, Elderflowers. At the MET Museum.

Coat Check at the MET.

The amazing St. Anselm.

Marble of Doom Blackberry Pomegranate Kettle Soured Sour Beer, Spicy notes in the Aroma. Moderate sour with light mineral carbonation and clean souring, light sweetness and Berry flavors, Into the Machine Dubble aged 11 months in a Red Wine Barrel, Barrel Aged Sour with Cranberries.Aroma is fresh raw cranberry upfront with typical vinegar sourness of Roselair earthy light tannins. Wild Winds Barrel Aged Brett Saison, Sandcastle Lemon Zest Saison in 2nd use wine barrel. Aroma clean fresh mineral and apricot nose. Flavor finishes with a bit of bubblegum that the lemon zest has toned down and creates a refreshing citrus buzz rather than a hard hitting zest. Scissor Kick NEIPA Denali, Simcoe and Long Island Experimental Hops X07, X14, Juicy orange pineapple smooth and luscious mouthfeel with low bitterness. KIngs County Brewers Collective, Bushwick, Brooklyn.

KCBC Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Starting with their dry and fresh and sparking clean and fruity, Spontaneous Fermented Cider (not shown)Next a Full Flight of Mead at Honey's Mead Bar. All Spontaneous Fermentations. Nought Wildflower Honey Red Wine Barrel Aged dry with a pronounced floral flavor touch of sweetness their base Mead, St. Crimson Blackcurrent Mead moderate body very dry like a good dry red with good acidity and Cassis flavor, Night Eyes full bodied sour cherry flavor with funky notes of crushed cherry skin touch of lemon acid from Sumac and a hint of Scrumpy Apple light sparkling carbonation, CAS II a lighter version of Night Eyes less funky notes no Sumac earthiness clean light cherry and apple, Floralia Dry Mead with Juniper, Marjoram and Lavender, The marjoram and juniper rein outness restrains the Lavenders floral nature so it isn't the potpourri that working with lavender often imparts, clean fresh and upliftingly forest like.

Very Swish Very Cool with a Great Bartender. Found It! Honey's New York's only Mead Bar. Late Night Bushwick before the Blizzard.