Last weekend Susan visited The Grafton Pub, down the street from the Old Town School of Folk Music in Lincoln Square. It was chosen by a friend from she met from the (previously blogged) Girls Rock! experience, and we opened up the place at 4:00 for Friday happy hour. We sat at the bar and people slowly joined us, singly and in groups, drinking and eating and talking in friendly fashion. Susan tried two new beers from the Lagunitas Brewing Company, based in California. The first one, called Censored, was a "copper ale". Susan figured that was some new marketing term for amber beer, but the bartender insisted that the term's been around for quite some time. She also explained that they called it Censored because it was thought to smell like marijuana when they brewed it (that should qualify as a fun fact.) It didn't smell like it when Susan drank it, but it did taste pretty good.The second beer was also a Lagunitas, but it's name was just plain old pale ale. They were trying to decide which one to stock at the bar. Though Susan liked them both, she voted for Censored. That beer will be a conversation starter at this interesting little bar for years to come!
4 comments:
Susan --
Several Maine beers won awards at some fancy brew festival in California -- apparently it's a big deal in the beer world. Look at what won, though. It's all flavored, fruity beers.
Maine - Shipyard Brewing Company’s Pumpkinhead Ale won 1st place in the Specialty Beer Category at the 13th annual California Brewers Festival in Sacramento, California.
Sea Dog Brewing Company also took home two awards in the fruit beer category: Sea Dog Bluepaw Wild Blueberry Wheat Ale won 1st place followed by Sea Dog Apricot for 2nd place.
YUCK! apricot beer? I'm told it's the fastest growing beer for this brewery -- and the target market is women... disgusting.
Stephanie
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I really don't like fruity beer at all. It's beer not wine, right?
Susan
P.S. I can say for sure that none of the 40 beers on this list will have fruit in them ;^)
I had heard it was called "Censored" because it was originally called "Kronik", with the last K flipped. If you look at the label, the "censored" appears to be over the original label. The story goes that they were not allowed to use the word "Kronik." It's a great beer.
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