When Gino heard about the coffee-kombucha collaboration, he envisioned acidic and tart flavors clashing with dark-roasted notes into a muddled, nauseating mess. But Imbue, a new collaboration between Katboocha and Joe Bean Coffee, is anything but that.
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A hidden gem
For those not in-the-know, one of the best bottle shops in Monroe County, One Stop Brew Shop, is tucked away in Erie Canal Commons on Ridgeway Avenue in Greece, sandwiched between a liquor store and a jeweler.
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Barrels of fun
Bourbon-barrel Blueberry Pancake Ale is a shudder-worthy phrase. But this 9.8 percent brew, released for the New York Beer Project’s first anniversary in Victor, provided a quick kick of humility.
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Brunch brew
Last week Nate Kester released his second sour out of Irondequoit Beer Company’s five-barrel brew house. Dubbed Permanent Waves, it’s a modest 4.5 percent sour brew flanked by 125 pounds of blood orange and 150 pounds of mango puree.
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Unsung subtleties
Ah, the humble, unheralded brown ale — a beer style that is as decidedly unsexy as it is inoffensive. But on Saturday, February 1, Sager Beer Works and Manchester’s Reinvention Brewing Company unveiled a very special brown ale, one of 20 special collaborations released exclusively for The Beer Market.
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For the children
Arts & Crafts from Swiftwater Brewing Company and Arts for All from Three Heads Brewing are two tasty new beers in town, with sales that support summer music and arts courses offered to city students
