The Libations Librarian

Empty Pint showed Dover, NH, its brews in a grand opening celebration on September 29.  As readers can see from the link above…..the Web site is “under construction”.  Therefore, I will redirect my numerous nano brew lovers to the Empty Pint Facebook page.  Logic dictates listing information here to be a logical/free/easy choice for new businesses, but a complete Web page holds much more in-depth intel about the brewers, beers, and brewing paradigms than Facebook.

Empty Pint held a soft opening last weekend during OkDoverfest, a pub crawl through downtown Dover, New Hampshire’s numerous and delightful establishments (with the exception of The 603 bar…I’m too old for sticky bars & floors).   The nano-brewery is located at 17 Second Street, a small side street directly across from Garrison City Beerworks, home of the delicious stout, Moral Sweatshirt.  With luck, roaming connoisseurs will put Empty Pint on their Dover lists of excellent breweries!

The Beeristas (a person colloquialism) had four beers on tap Saturday, two IPAs (Liquid Therapy & Aftermath), Vicious & Delicious (pale ale), and Kennedy’s Castle (porter).  While I got a flight of all the offerings, I prefer to step outside the IPA arena; IPAs are “been there, done that” for me.  The porter had a huge drinkability – porters have a reputation for a thick, chewy consistency, but not Kennedy’s Castle.  This beer has porch pounder written all over it.  A short Facebook post describes the brewing process as using roasted malts to give it a chocolate taste with coffee overtones.  I definitely got the coffee flavor, but tasted more molasses than chocolate, which I found delightful.  The consistency was thinner than other porters I’ve had, making this a great after dinner beer, something to match with a coffee ice cream, perhaps?

If only the beer float would become a “thing”……

The pub portion of Empty Pint is finished enough to have tasters hang out, but I have info more refinement is upcoming.  I heard more tables are under construction (they ran out of wood) and a foosball table is on its way!  The wall-mounted TVs had college football, so the cable guys helped get the ball rolling!