by Rajan | January 13th, 2010
Last month, Sixpoint Craft Ales had a special event at Daniel Boulud’s DBGB, highlighting two of their rare limited edition beers in rare bottle form. Since I love Sixpoint and I have a healthy appreciation of DBGB, I had no choice but to stop by.
The bartenders were pouring a lot of the two beers from the look of it. And since they were both potent, I sat down and sampled a bit of their delicious sausage to help prevent myself from floating away.
The first up was the Sixpoint Grand Crue. It had very Belgian flavors and was fruity and bready – like the soft nutty interior of a good crusty French bread. Aroma was of raisins and dried fruit. A bit of welcome hops up front, but very complex and malty. The Belgian notes increased as it warmed and more dried fruit flavors came out. I drank it with DBGB’s Viennoise Emmenthaler sausage which brought out the fruitiness even more. But the levels of both matched very well. The smoothness of the sauerkraut and the cheese matched the smoothness of the beer. I actually had two glasses of this – one when I first came into the bar, and another when I sat down to eat since it was listed alongside the sausage.
After eating, I moved on to the Bolshoi, a Russian Imperial Stout. Very smooth and dry with a nice foamy head. Chocolatey with lots of roasted flavors. Did I mention it was very smooth and very dry? A hint of coffee flavors came out as well.
It seems like these are both hard to find and that DBGB gobbled up a lot of the remaining stock of both. I doubt there’s any remaining, but I suppose it’s worth a look.