»Brooklyn and beer

I have always enjoyed visits to Brooklyn, but have never quite felt at home in this, New York's most populous borough. This week, I had several bottles of the environmentally-minded Brooklyn Brewery's Lager, Pilsener, and Pale Ale. All reasonably tasty beers, but none of the subtlety that I have come to enjoy in craft-made beers. I have found that bottled beer really does taste less excellent than the same beer from a tap or cask; sometimes beer bottled in small batches, or purposely bottle-aged, will have characteristics that elevate it past other bottles, but generally bottled beer has become less exciting.

Brooklyn, however, remains intriguing. There are several good places to have beer, as well, although Spuyten Duyvil (Williamsburg, not Inwood) stands out amongst them.