Fermented Fridays

Let Coney Island Come to You


Sometimes there is nothing better than an ice-cold beer on a hot summer day.  What better way to quench your thirst than with Shmaltz Brewing Company’s Coney Island Craft Lager line of beers?  (Oh how I love a good microbrew.) Read more »


Fermented Fridays

Sail Away with an Italian Picnic (Merlot Included)


And what goes best with an italian picnic you may ask? Why a delicious Merlot of course.


Fermented Fridays

A Polish Affair


Contrary to popular belief and much to my Ukranian dismay, vodka was actually not created in Russia.


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Take Me to the Cabana


By Natasha Senko
You feel the glow of the sun warming your skin. The soft breeze blowing against you just so with the scent of salty air as you lie in your beach chair daydreaming.  Sounds almost perfect but what’s missing?  An amazing cocktail, duh!!  And what cocktail is more perfect than a refreshing caipirinha.  Where’s [...]


Fermented Fridays

A Grape Grows in the City


Well not exactly but City Winery is the first fully operational winery in New York City. Yes you heard right. There is an actual winery right in the heart of Manhattan.


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Salmon Run Pinot Noir, A NY Savior


Safe to say that the generalization that all New York wines are grouped in the class of suckdom is now just that: a generalization.


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Cline Cellars, A Green Gem


A winery with a self-sufficient energy source?? It was s sign from Bacchus himself. I had to investigate further….


Fermented Fridays

Glass of Green


With everything from cars to toothpaste jumping on the green bandwagon, why should wine be left out of the loop?