Tag: Tasting
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, Vol. 60
Hit the Links While Enjoying Your Drinks The strange object appeared to have fallen from space, hurtling through the air before thrusting its staff into the earth like a Gold Rush speculator. It had chains and a basket and a silver pole, and someone had affixed a bunch of Captain… Read More → The post [...]
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, Vol. 59
Reimagining the Grapefruit Diet They came from far away, on bicycles, and they came from so close they could walk. They sipped a new beer that makes clever use of a fat, round, semi-sweet fruit, and they sampled some tried and true brews as well. While Captain Lawrence’s digs will… Read More → The post [...]
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, No. 57
An Appreciation For Great Beer, and ‘Dirty Water’ People always look forward to unwinding over locally brewed craft beers on the weekend at Captain Lawrence, but after last week’s horrors, visitors seemed a little more eager to kick back and relax with friends. And while it won’t last long, it’s… Read More → The post [...]
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, Vol. 55
In a ‘Sour’ Mood The announcement was a quiet one, just four quick lines. But it sparked an outsize amount of activity. The post hit Facebook at 1 p.m.: The Rosso E Marrone, Captain Lawrence’s brown ale fermented with grapes and aged in oak barrels, was available in the tasting… Read More → The post [...]
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, Vol. 54
Marching Into April The calendar has been insisting it’s spring, and finally there was another indicator of the season on the last weekend of March—people hanging out on the back patio at Captain Lawrence Brewing, sampling craft beer, tossing the bocce balls, and thinking about the warm months ahead. For… Read More → The post [...]
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, Vol. 50
Taking Back Sunday It was a historic day in the Captain Lawrence tasting room—the first Sunday in brewery history in which the tasting room is open for business. In other words, whatever your Sunday routine involves—be it sleeping in, brunch, worship, cleaning, lamenting the pending work week, or all of the above—you can now add [...]
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, Vol. 49
The Captain’s Log What happens when extreme weather meets extreme beer? Sadly, the weather wins. At least it did this time. Captain Lawrence had planned to make the schlep up I-95 to be represented at the Extreme Beer Fest in Boston this past weekend, but 2 1/2 feet of snow gave the Big Dig a [...]
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, Vol. 47
The Feiner Things In Life For Paul Feiner, longtime town supervisor of Greenburgh, home of Captain Lawrence, it is hardly beer-drinking weather. Paul prefers a beer in the heat of summer, preferably after a long bike ride or run. “On a hot day, there’s nothing like a good beer to quench your thirst,” he says. [...]
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, Vol. 45
The Captain’s Log While the sun failed to make its rumored cameo over the weekend, the warm temps were enough to make one’s thoughts wander to spring. Springtime is definitely on the brain at Captain Lawrence these days, where Scott Vaccaro and the boys are brewing up a batch of the beloved spring-summer seasonal beer [...]
Notes From the Captain Lawrence Tasting Room, Vol. 44
Hoppy New Year! It was, simply put, the greatest assembly of exquisite hops since the NBA’s Slam-Dunk contest. New to the Captain Lawrence lineup was the Re-Intro NJ IPA, a classic American-style concoction dry hopped with cascade and palisade hops, made special for the Garden State. There was the small-batch Belgian IPA, made of Belgian [...]
