One of the announcements that many of us wait for every year is the naming of the F.X. Matt Memorial and Matthew Vassar Brewer’s cup at the TAP New York Festival at Hunter Mountain.
The F.X. Matt Cup goes to the best craft brewery in the state and will be residing in Horseheads, at the Horseheads Brewing Co.
The Matthew Vassar Cup, which spends a lot of time in Lake Placid, comes down the Northway this year to a first-time winner, the Adirondack Pub and Brewery in Lake George, a short drive from the Short Pours home office. Three of the last nine Vassar Cups have gone to Lake Placid Brewing, and another went to Great Adirondack – unrelated to the Lake George facility – also up there.
In terms of individual beers in the statewide F.X. Matt competition, John Harvard’s Brew House of Lake Grove took the gold with its Maibock. The Silver went to Captain’s Reserve Imperial IPA from Captain Lawrence Brewing of Pleasantville, NY, the bronze went to Massive IPA –from Great South Bay Brewery, in Bay Shore, NY.
Oddly enough, Friends of Short Pours went out for a meal at Brown’s Brewing Saturday, and a number of folks had their first (and second and third) tastes of the Whiskey Barrel Aged Porter. They now know it won the Gold Medal in the Vassar Cup competition for Hudson Falls brewers. The Captain’s Reserve Imperial IPA took the silver here as well, and Adirondack Pub and Brewery checked in with a bronze for its Dirty Ale.
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Mmm… the Whiskey Barrel Aged porter was divine. It is possibly the most complex beer, outside a belgian, that I have ever tasted. Truly a religious experience.