George Keeley

Just around the corner from our room on the UWS of Manhattan was the George Keeley. This place is especially for the beer geeks among us where proper real keg and cask ale can live side by side. Besides the pseudo-Irish feel, this place is pretty cool with friendly regulars and bar staff. I managed to sneak in for an hour why SWMBO was getting her nails done across the street. First off the mark I ordered a beer that I had been looking forward to sampling for years. Dogfish head 90 Minute IPA (9% abv) is a syrup of hop juice and alcohol. It tastes like pinecones, but also has a strong malt flavour shining through and a balance is formed somewhere within the intensity of flavours. It's extreme and bizarre, but I liked it. BTW it's also cloudy due to too much hop oil throwing up a haze....nice.

The next beer I had was rather tasteless in comparison to the DFH90 but was still pretty good. Avery Redpoint IPA (5.5% abv) is another cascade/chinook/centennial hop bomb, but a lot more subtle. I have to admit though that after the stronger beer, I had too much mouth pucker present from the earlier beer to really appreciate it. I'm just being honest, but thems the breaks.

By this time my wife had come to round me up so we could grab a feed, so I bid my farewell to the fellow beer geeks that I had befriended for the hour and made my way back out to the real world.

http://www.georgekeeley.com/