Crosby's Kitchen & CocktailBeer

2010 2nd Anniversary Ale. This sturdy beer marks our second year, an incredible year of growth and learning experiences. Together may our supporters, our brewery, and this beer grow in complexity and refinement over the years.

Cigar City Brewing’s Bolita with Chai spices and Coconut tea. Our Bolita is a Double Northern English-style brown ale that has a complex malt forward character with notes of chocolate, toffee and hints of roasted nuts in the finish. Bolita pairs well with Baklava, Big Band Music, Cool Evenings and robust cigars.

Near the end of last year, we began laying down a funky beat. One of four beats, to be precise. And this Friday, the final beat drops with the fourth and final installment in our Elements of Funk series - Elements of Funk: Brettanomyces Lambicus. The Elements of Funk series was designed to showcase the similarities and differences between four strains of Brettanomyces, which the cool kids call “brett”. To accomplish this, we started with a base beer that took inspiration from Saison de Lente, using a fairly simple malt bill, noble hops and familiar house yeast to leave the path to funk as unobstructed as possible. Following the base beer’s fermentation in stainless steel, we then sent one quarter of it to the brite tank at a time. Each quarter was inoculated and separately bottled with a different strain of Brettanomyces: lambicus, drei, claussenii and brux. While all four variants appear similar to the naked eye (and bottles should be chilled and opened with caution,) the nuances are many.

As much as we adore the modern American craft beer movement, we have never been able to shake our youth-induced love for bland mass-produced Lagers. Our goal with Finer Things Mosaic Light Lager was to develop a nose that would quench our need for hops but drink like you'd think it was served in a red Solo cup. Designed to be infinitely refreshing and deliciously pungent, scents of ruby red grapefruit and honeydew melon rain down onto your senses like it's the IPA of your dreams. Hop bitterness and resins are subdued to the point that they can only be described as delicate, leaving this crisp and clean Light Lager drinking as easy as any overly-approachable macro beer that summer typically screams for. With a light and refreshing finish that is blanketed by plumes of hop aroma; Finer Things Mosaic Light Lager is the beer you want when it is simply just too damn hot out for an IPA.

Mishawaka Brewing Company’s "Founder’s Stout" has been brewed since August 1992 and is the winner of multiple awards including the 1996 World Beer Cup’s "Gold Cup", the 1998 World Beer Cup’s "Silver Cup" and the 1995 Silver Medal Winner at the Great American Beer Festival. It is an Irish-style dry stout with seven malts. It has a roasted coffee flavor with a distinctive dry-roasted bitterness in the finish.

The Framboise Mort Subite is brewed according to the ancestral Lambic recipe. This original Belgian beer ferments spontaneously. Enhanced with raspberry juce it matures soft and slowly in oaken casks.

Oak foeder-aged Berliner style with blueberries.

Gorilla Warfare Porter is a silky smooth porter made with 40 lbs of Park Slope’s Gorilla Coffee Ethiopian Yergacheffe blend, a Fair Trade and Organic Certified coffee roasted in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The coffee has winey, spicy notes with hints of baker’s chocolate. Combined with patent malt, the signature of many great English-style porters, this is one silky smooth, coffee-rich porter.

A toast to the changing of the leaves with a cask aged cider from last season’s harvest. A crisp autumnal delight crafted from select vintage apples, infused with a blend of Appalachian wildflower and blueberry honeys.

An oatmeal stout brewed with Intelligentsia coffee. "Richard yet lives, Hell's Black Intelligencer" - Queen Margaret, Richard III 28 IBU

Red Wheat Ale with great Raspberry aromas created by a unique ale yeast. Does not taste like a beer according to to purity law, but yet it adheres to it.

110K+OT Batch #3 aged on cedar.

Part of the Humidor Series beer. The base beer is Chaveta Dark Mild aged on cedar, but with a blend of two other beers. A one time release only available at the brewery in growler.

Drawing inspiration from Belgium’s monastic brewing tradition, Ideaal Tripel is a golden-hued abbey ale with a dense cap of mousse-like foam. Subtly sweet pilsner malt and herbaceous noble hops leave room for expressive Belgian yeast character to shine. In the glass, fruity esters and peppery phenols mingle with a floral-herbal hop aroma, setting the stage for a deceptively dry body. Ideaal Tripel is perfectly suited to accompany a wide range of food, such as Thanksgiving dinner, fruit-based desserts, and soft-ripened cheeses.

Imperial Loakal Red is just what you expect, a bigger, maltier, more intense version of our hoppy, oaky red ale. Coming in at nearly double the abv of regular Loakal Red, this beer retains the essence of the base beer with notes of citrus, vanilla and oak, but brings it all to that next level. Definitely a great one to share with friends.

What you have here is an Imperial Dark Rye Ale. Isn’t that a lot to be going on in just one beer? Well yes, it is. But that is the point. Layers. Flavor elements building on and playing off of preceding elements, like a building wave; a growing crescendum of taste bud temptation; a wall of sound expressed through flavor and channeled toward your mouth. This beer isn’t for everyone. In many ways it is more than just a little weird. It certainly doesn’t fit easily into any category. In the spirit of all great things that are conceived in the moment, but perfected through passionate repetition it started life as an improvisation and grew from there. And it might not be for you. But if the thought of big spicy rye notes, a wallop of a hop punch, multitudinous layers of caramel, sweet malt and a respectable balancing gravity sound intriguing then you might want to wing it and give Improv a try.

This traditional ale was originally brewed in England for the British troops stationed in India. Double dry-hopped,it has intense hop flavors and aromas delicately balanced with a potent, yet delicious, malty sweetness.