T.J. Finley’s Fall Cask Festival Review (11/19)

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T.J. Finley’s hosted a fall-seasonal cask festival on Saturday, 11/19 with 11 breweries (all but 3 are based in New York) and fourteen cask-conditioned ales.

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The three-hour pourridge, Finley’s first cask-themed event since 5/14/10, featured Blue Point Brewing Company First Flight, its White IPA dry-hopped with Falconer’s Flight; Oskar Blues Brewery Witch Doctor, a blend of Dale’s Pale Ale and Ten Fidy, dry-hopped with Centennial; Spider Bite Beer Company Bite The Bulleit, a rye-based (40% of malt profile) ale aged in Bulleit Rye-soaked French oak; and more.

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Beer List

Barrier Brewing Company Mare Undarum Belgian IPA
Blue Point Brewing Company First Flight
Blue Point Brewing Company Uncle Socket’s RastaMan Rye
Captain Lawrence Brewing Company Smoked Porter
Great South Bay Brewery Blonde Ambition Ale
Great South Bay Brewery Sleigh Ryed
Great South Bay Brewery Splashing Pumpkin Ale
Kelso of Brooklyn IPA
Long Ireland Beer Company Breakfast Stout
Oskar Blues Brewery Witch Doctor
River Horse Brewing Company Hipp-O-Lantern
Sly Fox Brewing Company Chester County Bitter
Southern Tier Brewing Company Pumpking
Spider Bite Beer Company Bite The Bulleit

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niko krommydas

Niko Krommydas has written for Tasting Table, BeerAdvocate, Munchies, and First We Feast. He is editor of Craft Beer New York, an app for the iPhone, and a columnist for Yankee Brew News. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.