ooooh, Jeremy Cowan. His beers are so good. My friend Jeremy is the proprietor of SHMALTZ brewing, quickly moving way up in the ranks of my favorite breweries. I have yet to taste any of their beers that I do not love -- and by love, I mean I want to take them to all my beer-lovin' friends and say, "DRINK THIS!!" Tonight, I am enjoying a BITTERSWEET LENNY'S R.I.P.A. -- a double IPA brewed with rye malts. It's got kind of a sweet hoppy nose, with a spicy rye middle and a powerful hop finish. It comes in 22 ounce bottles, which as we all learned yesterday, I believe is the perfect portion size. And I share with Jeremy not only a love of fantastic original delicious beer, but also a passion for the English language and all the magic it can impart. PLEASE go buy this beer -- it's at all the Binny's, Lush on South Halsted and West Roscoe, and most of your better beer emporiums. And then -- and this can be said of ANY Shmaltz beer -- READ THE LABEL! The labels are chock-full of history, inspiration and fun facts about the liquid inside. Oh -- I should talk a bit about the inspiration for this beer, the great Lenny Bruce. Long before this world in which being irreverent, un-PC, and having a general fuck-you attitude became the epitome of cool, Lenny was doing it all. And he really did not give a damn what anyone said or thought. Get this beer, look for some Lenny Bruce on YouTube or rent a boxed set -- and toast the men whose names are on the label. Lenny and Jeremy, brothers from different times.
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