My Hoppy Place gifted Real Food Fans with a bottle of sorghum beer originally recommended by the Beermudgeon. While selecting the beers for our tasting (the write up is in the queue), we asked the Beermudgeon if he’d ever had any good gluten-free beers and he happily recommended St. Peters Sorghum Beer from the UK. [...]
Filed under: Beer, Food, Tasting notes on May 13th, 2010 | No Comments »
This was the second beer I had at the lovely River City Brewing Company restaurant in picturesque Jacksonville, Florida (what a view, see my review of the Kentucky Bourbon Triple Ale to see a pic). It was very mellow like a typical pale ale. I found it a bit light on the hops, but then [...]
Filed under: Beer, Food on March 21st, 2010 | No Comments »
Here’s the second beer from the Flying Dog Bitch Session at Policy.This followed the Brooklyn Lager and the snifter of Dog Schwartz Tons of floral and citrus notes. Lovely amber color. Belgian flavor comes through on tasting but doesn’t linger long. A nice, hoppy beer that satisfies. At 8.3 percent, maybe not the best choice [...]
Filed under: Beer, Drink local, Food, Tasting notes on March 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
I have to begin this post by telling you that I am a native of New England – the New Hampshire seacoast area to be exact. And one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone outside of New England tries to serve one of our traditional dishes with their own flourish and say it [...]
Filed under: Food, Not beer on March 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I recently had the privilege of the most awesome and relaxing vacation in the Jacksonville, Florida area. I was watching my sister’s home and pets while she and her entire brood were off to the wilds of NH to see other family. It was awesome! I had the whole house to myself and access to [...]
Filed under: Beer, Food on March 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
My first reaction to this beer is not “extraordinary.” Unless they meant “extra ordinary.” It was decent but nothing to write home about (though apparently enough to write here about!). The amazing pumpkin & goat cheese filled ravioli served with wild mushrooms in a butter-cream-nutmeg sauce (awesome! I highly recommend the restaurant, Scion, in Dupont [...]
Filed under: Beer, Food, Tasting notes on January 26th, 2010 | No Comments »
I have been waiting for this beer! I heard about it a couple of months ago (along with Dogfish Head’s Limb & Life) and have not been so excited for a beer ever. These 2 amazing breweries got together for the first time and created 2 amazing beers. First, Dogfish Head created Life & Limb [...]
Filed under: Beer, Food, Tasting notes on January 25th, 2010 | No Comments »
We here at My Hoppy Place believe that part of our mission is to spread the good word about good beer. To further this mission, we’ve offered a custom beer tasting in this year’s Menu for Hope 6. What’s the Menu for Hope? It’s a fundraising event organized by Pim of Chez Pim. Food bloggers [...]
Filed under: Beer, Food on December 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
My Swedish uncle gave me a book of Things Swedish which includes a recipe for gravlax and mustard sauce. It’s the easiest thing in the world. Seriously, I make tea that’s more complicated. It’s fabulous on bagels, crisp bread, rye, crackers, or on its own. Take a nice piece of salmon filet: more than a [...]
Filed under: Food, Not beer, Recipe on December 9th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I buy fresh ginger at the supermarket. It comes in nice big pieces. Unless you cook a lot of asian or indian food, you don’t use more than an inch or two at a time. Once it’s cut, it tends to dry out. After I peel and chop my tablespoon or two, here’s what I [...]
Filed under: Food, Not beer on August 5th, 2009 | 3 Comments »