Re: Favorite beer of choice?
My neighbor went to New Jersey for the weekend to visit some friends and I asked him to look for a 4 pack of Carton Regular Coffee for me. It was a long shot, considering the hype this beer has garnered recently, but he actually came through and found some! Apparently, the brewery itself ran out yesterday, so it was a lucky find indeed!
Got to pop a can open last night and WOW, this is a unique beer! It's a 12 percent abv coffee cream ale, designed to taste like a "regular coffee", which is a apparently a Jersey thing where if you ask for a "regular coffee", you get a coffee with one sugar and two creams if I remember correctly. There was definitely an explosion of coffee and cream up front, with a boozy finish, although it didn't necessarily drink like a 12% beer (I would've guessed 7-8% abv). Anyone else in the Jersey area get to try this (Roose13?). Sorry, I can't provide a link to beeradvocate (blocked at work), but I believe it has a 96 rating over there which is well deserved in my opinion.
Always good to have friends/neighbors that travel! Carton also makes an ipa called 077X, which I hope to get from him the next time he takes a trip to Jersey. There is also another brewery in NJ called Kane, which is supposed to be making some great beer. Again, I hope that Roose13 or another poster from the NJ/NY area can chime in with more info, as I am definitely interested in trying more beer from the NJ scene.
Cheers,
Scott
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