Things are ramping up here at Cork’s as we plan our 6th Annual Kick-Off Beer Tasting which is on Saturday September 11th from 2:30 to 5 PM. We have a bunch of Oktoberfest beers in house already, and more arriving daily. We have 2 Tom Petty concerts - tonight and Saturday night….the Pats with pre-season game # 2 tonight in Atlanta….and the Sox still hanging around the playoff hunt despite all their injuries.
We don’t hav
e any tastings lined up for this week as I just got back from my mini-vacation in the Finger Lakes and Cooperstown areas of New York. I did visit some great wineries out there and would highly recommend a visit out there. Let me preface this by saying the reds are on the light side and the whites can be sweet, but that is what you get in cool climate areas like the Finger Lakes. Bully Hill is a real fun winery to visit and they have over 50 wines to try from bone dry to sickening sweet. The owner, Walter Taylor, was an artist and quite eccentric. They even have an art gallery of his work and an excellent restaurant that I highly recommend if you visit. Dr. Konstantin Frank is regarded as the leader in the area for world class wines from delicious Champagnes to an amazing late harvest, botrytis style ice wine, and everything in between. This, too, is a must if you visit the area. If you’re around on Friday night I could be easily convinced to pop open a Dr. Frank Riesling and a Bully Hill wine for you to sample.
Of course, I had to hit some breweries in the area as well. So on our way to the baseball hall of fame, we had a tour at Ommegang Brewery in Cooperstown. This Belgian style brewery has amazing beers and a nice rustic barn/farm style brewery. We had a sub-par tour (hey...they can’t all be gems) and a nice tasting before and after the tour. As a special treat, if you’ve made it this far in the newsletter, after I told you we had no tastings this week, I have a special treat for you. I have 2 growlers of Ommegang (Witte and Hennepin) that come in these really cool steins with handles and flip top canning jar closures. We bought the empty growlers as souvenirs and they were nice enough to fill them for us. So if you come between …lets say 4 and 6 I’d be happy to share a bit with you.
We don’t hav
e any tastings lined up for this week as I just got back from my mini-vacation in the Finger Lakes and Cooperstown areas of New York. I did visit some great wineries out there and would highly recommend a visit out there. Let me preface this by saying the reds are on the light side and the whites can be sweet, but that is what you get in cool climate areas like the Finger Lakes. Bully Hill is a real fun winery to visit and they have over 50 wines to try from bone dry to sickening sweet. The owner, Walter Taylor, was an artist and quite eccentric. They even have an art gallery of his work and an excellent restaurant that I highly recommend if you visit. Dr. Konstantin Frank is regarded as the leader in the area for world class wines from delicious Champagnes to an amazing late harvest, botrytis style ice wine, and everything in between. This, too, is a must if you visit the area. If you’re around on Friday night I could be easily convinced to pop open a Dr. Frank Riesling and a Bully Hill wine for you to sample.Of course, I had to hit some breweries in the area as well. So on our way to the baseball hall of fame, we had a tour at Ommegang Brewery in Cooperstown. This Belgian style brewery has amazing beers and a nice rustic barn/farm style brewery. We had a sub-par tour (hey...they can’t all be gems) and a nice tasting before and after the tour. As a special treat, if you’ve made it this far in the newsletter, after I told you we had no tastings this week, I have a special treat for you. I have 2 growlers of Ommegang (Witte and Hennepin) that come in these really cool steins with handles and flip top canning jar closures. We bought the empty growlers as souvenirs and they were nice enough to fill them for us. So if you come between …lets say 4 and 6 I’d be happy to share a bit with you.
We closed the adventure with a visit to Saranac Brewery in Utica, NY. This brewery is from the 1800’s and smack dab in the middle of a sketchy, rundown neighborhood. Once inside the brewery you will be amazed at how beautiful it is inside, and how huge it is as well. In addition to Saranac, they do Lake Placid beers that we will sample next week, Brooklyn beers, and a ton of other contract brewing. They do concerts out in the parking lot and the people there were amazing and very accommodating. If you’re ever in the upstate NY area I strongly recommend you check these guys out.
Robert
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