The 68 Beers Project: Brooklyn Lager
by SteveR
Adventurous beer-drinker SteveR is on a mission to try the 68 out of 100 yet-untried Beers To Try Before You Die before the end of 2010.
“My first ever taste of Brooklyn Lager was in a bar in Manhattan……I thought it was one of the best beers I had ever tasted and nothing since made me change my mind”
- Roger Protz in 300 Beers to Try Before You Die
Praise indeed when you consider how many different beers he must have got through. I’ve never seen this stuff in a supermarket, but The Offie sells it for £2 for a 355ml bottle. It has 5% ABV, and it’s considerably darker in colour than most lagers I’ve seen.
It actually tastes rather good, it is in a different league to most of the stuff you can buy with “lager” on the label. I thought it had a particularly pleasant finish, a finish which Mr Protz describes in some detail in the book. I would be more than happy to try this beer again.
I’d like to point out that I am looking upon this 68 Beers Project as a photography project as well as a beer-tasting one. After all, my dear followers would become bored if I only took straightforward photos of beer bottles every time. In this photo, I have tried to evoke the borough of Brooklyn by including all the essential accoutrements of a hip and groovy Williamsburg lifestyle. As you can see, these accoutrements are a table-cloth shirt, a ukulele, a munny and a Brooklyn Lager. I don’t actually know if Brooklyn Lager is a key feature of the Williamsburg lifestyle, but it should be. I also suspect that the type of shirt in the photo has long had its day as a scenester item (there seem to be far fewer of them in the Vimeo office these days), but at least I’ve made the effort.
65 to go, then.
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