The Brewper Bowl

In case you didn’t know, its Super Bowl weekend. There are a lot of fun “beer-related” things to do on Super Bowl weekend, whether you care about the game or not. And since there can never be enough good ideas in the world, here’s yet another good “beer-related” Super Bowl weekend activity that you can try at home. I call it, “The Brewper Bowl.” It’s a work-in-progress.

The concept is simple. Take three beers from each city in the Super Bowl and pit them against each other in a taste test. Rate them fairly and decide which city’s beers are better and declare them the winner. Too easy.

- Brewper Bowl I -

Anyone else hear the Monday
Night Football theme song?

This year’s Super Bowl is going to pit the New York Giants against the New England Patriots. The first ever Brewper Bowl will feature three crafty beers from New York City, NY versus three crafty beers from Boston, MA. Traditionally, New Yorkers and Bostonians hate each other, so this should be good.

The Match Ups

From New York, the Brooklyn Brewing Co is bringing us their East India Pale Ale, their Lager and their Winter Ale. From Bean Town, we have the Sam Adams Boston Ale, Sam Adams Latitude 48 IPA and Harpoon Brewing Co IPA. A couple things come to mind when looking at this lineup. One, they all sound wonderful. To be honest, there aren’t any real losers in this competition. Two, is Boston pandering by throwing two IPAs into the mix? It’s entirely plausible, as it’s no secret that IPA is my favorite style. We’ll have to see how it pans out.

There are a lot of “to be continued” type themes going on here. Seems like the continuation of this blog post should be something to read… I’m on the edge of my seat over here.

To be continued…

Here’s to craft-brewed happiness… Cheers!