![]() The route from Columbus to Burlington includes a stop in New York City that requires a transfer on the metro system. ![]() Not the lower middle class luxury of a Greyhound mind you, but a more economical option whose agents are more fluent in Chinese than English. Spencer’s mode of transportation for the journey was the bus. I would be remiss if I didn’t give a big shout out to my friend Spencer Porter who recently returned from Vermont and agreed to ferry back 4-packs of Heady Topper and Sip of Sunshine. Like Heady Topper you have to go to the right store on the right day of the week at the right time of the day to score a 4-pack of Lawson’s (see my post on Hunting Double IPAs in the Wilds of Vermont for details). Just for fun we are going to throw a third white whale of a beer into the mix, another Vermont brewed DIPA that comes in 16 ounce tall boy cans-Sip of Sunshine by Lawson’s Finest Liquids. For this tasting I’m joined by none other than Cheryl Harrison, creator and editor of Drink Up Columbus, and organizer of the Beers and Board Games Club of Columbus, and Nicholas Dekker, who writes about beer and food for various local publications (Columbus Alive, Crave, Dispatch and Columbus Monthly), leads tours for Columbus Brew Adventures, and is the man behind the blog (and the book) Breakfast with Nick.įor the launch of this series what could be better than a showdown between local favorite Bodhi, a Double IPA (I’m sticking to that classification in spite of its bronze medal winning performance in the American IPA category at last year’s GABF) that many consider to be the best Ohio-brewed beer, and Heady Topper, the legendary DIPA from Vermont that is the highest rated beer, bar none, on the BeerAdvocate website. The comparisons will of course be done via blind taste test, and because the results are only as good as the palates of the tasters I’ll be recruiting judges who know their beer inside and out – beer bloggers, writers, tour guides, and brewers. the World, where local favorites square off against beers whose mere mention in a company of beer geeks triggers a Pavlovian urge to form a line and break out a credit card. ![]() So starting today I’m rolling out a new series that I call Ohio vs. Connecticut beer means beer brewed in Connecticut (does not include beer made outside of Connecticut).ĬT Breweries 2nd Bridge, Manchester 30 Mile, Old Saybrook Alvarium, New Britain Armada, East Haven Aspetuck Brew Lab, Bridgeport Athletic Brewing, Stratford Back East, Bloomfield Bad Dream Brewing, New Milford BAD SONS Beer, Derby Barley Head, Stonington Beaver Beer, Westport + Beer'd, Stonington AMA Black Hog, Oxford Black Pond Brews, Danielson Boondoggle, Hartford + Brass Works, Waterbury Brewery Legitimus, New Hartford Broad Brook, East WindsorĬarriage House Brewery, Canton + Charter Oak, Danbury Cliffside, Wallingford Cold Creek, Ellington Connecticut Valley (Pioneer Beer), S.Do you ever wonder how your favorite local beer stacks up against the most sought after beers in the land? Is Massive Malt Assault by Local Boyz Brewing really as good as Founders Breakfast Stout? It’s hard to know for sure because on the one extreme we can all be guilty of a little nepotism when evaluating our local favorites, while at the other end of the spectrum it’s hard not to take that which is always available for granted. ![]()
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