Posts Tagged ‘Cave Mountain’

I haven’t really done much of a restock lately to the cellar. We’ve been a bit too busy around OAB HQ drinking various foamybeers – our own line of brews. A recent trip to pick up more brewing supplies lead us to drop by Oliver’s discount Beverage in Albany. so, the latest beerventory…

Growlers
Cave Mountain Hefeweizen (bought at the brewery on $8 browler Sundays)

6 packs
Widmer Drop Top Amber Ale
Widmer Drifter Pale Ale
Saranac Summer Brew
Wolaver Ben Gleason’s White Ale
Sherwood forest Friar’s Belgian White ale
Boulder Brewing Hazed & Infused
Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA

12 Pack
Smutty Nose Sampler featuring Shoals Pale Ale, Old Brown Dog, IPA and Robust Porter

Bombers
Long Trail Brewmasters Series Double IPA
Jolly Pumpkin Bam Biere
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja Amber Ale
Arcadia Ales Cocoa Loco
Arcadia Ales Cereal Killer
Southern Tier Jah-Va Imperial Coffee Stout
Southern Tier Iniquity Black Ale
Smuttynose Really Old Brown Dog Ale
Smuttynose Gravitation Belgian Quad
Ommegang Biere de Mars
He’Brew Jewbelation 12
Elysian Bifrost Winter Ale
Flying Dog Wild Dog Weizenbock

Brewery: Cave Mountain Brewing Co.
Location: Windham, NY
Style: Ales – Java Cream & Nut Brown

A Saturday afternoon double header featuring two from my friends over at Cave Mountain. It’s great to have an excellent brewpub semi-close (well if you consider a 40 minute drive close). The added bonus is they brew pretty great beer

First up is what I have described as a “beer latte”. I am definitely not a cream ale fan. Usually they are way too cloyingly sweet for my tastes. Cave Mountain solves that problem by adding coffee to the mix. The result – Cave Mountain Java Cream Ale – is a nice medium brown ale with a creamy head. You get a quick hit of cream sweetness in the scent but that gets mixed with the coffee for the perfect beer latte smell. The taste carries on the coffee with cream theme by downplaying the usual sweetness with a rich coffee bitterness. The play between these two elements makes for a great balanced ale perfect for an evening by the fire or at breakfast in the morning.

The Cave Mountain Nut Brown Ale is what I call a utility ale. It is the perfect drinking beer for when you simply want a good quality beer with anything extreme, major or otherwise distracting going on. Great creamy head and a deep nut brown color. It’s a little on the thin side body-wise but has a great malty nutty taste. Just an all around excellent simple ale for an afternoon of drinking and watching the telly.

I’m a bit late on this. Got too busy around the holidays. We actually restocked the celler for NYE and made the trip to the Half Time in Poughkeepsie (the temple of craft beer in upstate NY).

Here’s what was in the Oh…a beer cellar over the holidays:

GROWLERS
Cave Mountain Nut Brown Ale
Cave Mountain Spiced Winter Ale

SPECIALS
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout 2008 [12oz/13%]
Fort Collins Double Chocolate Stout [650ml/8.1%]
Cisco Brewers Moor Porter [650ml]
Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Stout [12oz/7.8%]
Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock [650ml/5.5%]
Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence [750ml/7%]
Sly Fox Raspberry Reserve (bottle conditioned) [750ml]
Rogue MoM Hefeweizen [650ml]

BOTTLES
Blue Point Toasted Lager
Mad River Steelhead Scotch Style Ale [6%]
Heavy Seas Winter Storm “Category 5″ Ale [7.5%]
Anchor Porter
Stoudts Fat Dog Imperial Oatmeal Stout
Dundee Festive Ale
Troegs Dead Reckoning Porter
Ithaca Nut Brown Ale
Guinness Extra Stout
Wolaver’s Oatmeal Stout
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
Troegs Rugged Trail Nut Brown Ale [4.4%]
Left Hand Black Jack Porter
Samuel Adams Cream Stout
Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Samuel Adams Holiday Porter
Goose Island Nut Brown Ale
Lagunitas Brown Shugga [9.5%]
Flying Dog Road Dog Porter [6%]
Dragon Stout [7.5%]

Kicking off the first regular feature: What’s in the beer cellar. Sadly, I did not have a chance to go to Half Time in Poughkeepsie (the temple of craft beer in upstate NY), so I had to make do with the selection at Brice’s in Kingston.

Currently in the Oh…a beer cellar:

GROWLERS
Cave Mountain Spiced Winter Ale (Windham, NY)
Cave Mountain English Nut Brown Ale (Windham, NY)
Keegan’s Joe Mama (Mother’s Milk Stout brewed with Muddy Cup coffee) (Kingston, NY)

SPECIALS
Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence (750 mls/7% abv) [brewed with Belgian chocolate]
Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout (12oz/135 abv) [casked brewed in bourbon barrels]
Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter
Lagunitas Brown Shugga’

BOTTLES
Heavy Seas Winter Ale
Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout
Flying Dog Road Dog Porter
Anchor Porter
Dundee Festive Ale
Troegs Dead Reckoning Porter
Wolaver’s Oatmeal Stout
Ithaca Nut Brown Ale
Dragon Stout (Kingston Jamaica)
Guinness Extra Stout

VARIETY PACK
Sam Adams Winter Classics (12 pack)