Living in Buffalo and being a craft beer fan is an embarrassment of riches. Each week, seeming each day, I’m blessed with an overabundance of great options each time I open my fridge and reach for a beer. Through the Buffalo Beer League, I am always looking for new ways to promote all of the delicious liquid being created right here in Western New York, so consider this column, The Best Thing I Drank This Week, just another vehicle to help spread the word of great local craft beer.
In this column, each week I will highlight the best beer I had the pleasure of imbibing the previous week, and will ask my BBL cohorts to submit their selections as well. So, not only will you get the best thing I drank this week, you will also be presented with further options and opinions from the rest of the guys as well. That way, if you’re looking for some new stuff to stock your beer fridge with (and you always should be), then you’ll have more than one item to add to your shopping list.
The Best Thing I Drank This Week: Community Beer Works Spruce Hornsby Double IPA
First off, I’d like to give a shoutout to the bottle of 2014 Ithaca Beer Luminous Golden Wild Ale and The Veil x Mikkeller Sketch Transfer Belgian Framboise we shared for New Year’s, but I cannot stop thinking about Community Beer Works Spruce Hornsby Double IPA with Spruce Tips. This beer features notes of fresh pine, grapefruit, citrus, and hops. If you liked their Spruce Vilanch DIPA with Spruce Tips, you will love this beer.
- Mark – Fifth Frame Draped In Jam Imperial Brown Ale with Banana, Peanut Butter and Raspberry
- Scott – Thin Man Eradicator Doppelbock
- Jesse – Pressure Drop Deep Search IPA
For more information, visit www.communitybeerworks.com.
To catch up on all of our past The Best Thing I Drank This Week beers, click here.
***Featured photo courtesy of Community Beer Works
Brian Campbell is co-founder and Brand Manager of the Buffalo Beer League, and writes the weekly Buffalo Beer Buzz column. If you have beer news that should be included in the Beer Buzz, Brian can be reached at brian@buffalobeerleague.com, on Twitter (@buffbeerleague), Instagram (@buffalobeerleague), and Facebook (@thebuffalobeerleague).