Gravity Brewing

I have been waiting for a brewery to spring up close to home for some time. For a long time the closest 'good' brewery was Avery. And as of last September that has changed with the presence of Gravity in old town Louisville. It's a funky location of shared space with the VFW divided by the  bathrooms and a kitchen. There's plenty of space to belly up to a gigantic bar with some odd shapes here and there. You'll have to see it for yourself. And the beers are VERY good. Leaning more on Belgian styles along with some small batch barrel aged beauties that I always get the info on when they will be coming out. At times they even run out as they are having a bit of struggle with keeping up with demand. A good problem to have. Being a regular and inquisitor of fine ales I have gotten to know the brewers and employees pretty well. It's a super cool group of folks. Julius is part owner and brewer and his father started Boulder Brewing. So it's in the blood. But this beer is light years ahead of anything Boulder Beer has ever put out.

My favorite by far is the Mendacious. An extremely delicious Belgian Blonde redolent with banana and vanilla flavors that makes you just want more and more. It's clean and has a nice crispness to it as well. In fact, that's what I dig about all of their beers. There's a clean aspect to each one that allows all of the flavors to be pronounced. And the Mendacious is probably the best example of that. It's my 'go to' every time I go there. Which says a lot about my love for it considering what else they offer.

The Barrel Aged Mendacious, when available, is as good as the regular Mendacious but more deacdent with flavors of banana nut bread. I find myself staring into the glass and sticking my nose in it in silence when I drink this. It's a treat when it's around.

Next on my list is the Ebb and Flow Red Rye. I don't know how they got so much toffee flavor in there but it marries perfectly with the perfect, crisp rye flavors. They used quite a bit of it along with roasted malts to make a heavy 9.3% brew that is good enough to be an after dinner quaff. It has nutty flavors of hazelnuts and chocolate toffee goodness. A bit of raisin and it's sticky as all hell.

The Barrel Aged IPA in a word is 'smoooooth'. Some of the danker hop flavors mellow out quite a bit and a thickness is created along with subtle barrel flavors that makes this another one of my favorites. It's a big one at about 9.8% I believe but like all of their big beers almost no heat what so ever.

Their IPA, which they call the 'Regular',  is not only good but it's what I would consider a near perfect IPA. The hops are very well balanced with the slightly sweet malt. I put them down pretty fast because it's so damn quaffable. This is a good one for growlers at home.

I could go on and on about their brews. There's a few more that are normally around which are damn good. All of them are. But you should head down there yourself.

cheers

D