Over the weekend, I went to Brooklyn to the “D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge” festival, DUMBO, being the cute, and self-depreciating acronym for “Down Underneath Manhattan Bridge Overpass”, a former waterfront industrial area located in between the Brooklyn, and Manhattan bridges.
It is here that hundreds of starving artists live and work out of dilapidated brick warehouses reconverted into useable loft space. With the Manhattan Bridge towering over the neighborhood as a gorgeous backdrop, and with views of Manhattan and the East River, as well as convenience of the F train stop at York Street, DUMBO is also a fat elephant in the eyes of greedy developers hoping to turn it into the next TriBeCa. Just don’t mention the worse power plant in the city, an oil burning facility, located right next door.
As I made my way around to several studios that weekend, I picked up a bottle of Stella Artois from one artist hosting a reception. She had paintings featuring cows intertwined with stylized pink elephant icons. I sheepishly took home the beer for review, as I did not have time to linger around.
Stella Artois is a Belgian Pilsner style lager elegantly packaged in 12 oz green bottles with white paper wrapped around the top. This beer is made from pale malted barley -- some say corn mixed in as well -- and hopped with Saaz hops. When poured, the golden champaign-colored liquid produces a moderate amount of foam that dissipates quickly in a matter of minutes. The beer is mild tasting, almost unremarkable, but with a slightly bitter finish that lingers seconds afterwards. A pronounced, but not cloying, sweetness can be tasted long after all the bitterness disappears. The beer is quite refreshing when drunk cold, and mildly acceptable when warm. It has a 5.2% alcohol content.
Backed by the marketing muscle of Interbrew, the mega-brewing conglomerate, Stella Artois is being positioned as their premier European offering here in the USA. Stella Artois is not bad, but nothing special. Hey! It certainly is useful if you hold a bottle of Stella Artois, rather than Miller Lite, while viewing art (or pretending to view art), people just might think you are an art critic.
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