Brooklyn Summer Ale:
Hello fellow beer drinkers and welcome back to the summer of the beer (well at least this month).  Today we leave the comfy confines of the Lone Star State and head north to the Empire State and Jay-Z’s stomping grounds.  Now I’m pretty confident Mr. Z doesn’t drink Brooklyn Beer but really I doubt that beer is part of the heritage of hip-hop (at least anything outside a 40 oz) but shouldn’t it be?  It’s a good beer company that should get more press than it does and today’s beer is a good example of a brew that not many know about, Brooklyn Summer Ale.  The ale is a British Summer Ale which means it is a modern interpretation of “Light Dinner Ales” that were made from the 1800’s to the 1940’s and were favored because of there light nature and flavor profile.  The beer itself is brewed with English barley malts which gives this beer its main flavor backbone.  The beer pours well with a nice even head that is half a finger in thickness and sticks around for about half the consumption and there is a nose of dry citrus hops and bread notes.  The initial sip gives you a taste similar to the nose but that quickly gives into a biscuit flavor that remains throughout the rest of the sip of beer with hop notes that are just noticeable to give the beer a nice complex flavor.  Not too heavy for a summer beer (most beers that are heavy in the malt department tend to be heavy and not quiet as light as you’d want them to be) and at just 5% ABV, this is a beer that could be drunk without being to filling.  A good summer beer, another one that would easily find it’s way into a make a custom six-pack in the future.