The Kosher Critic: A different kind of beer

I love celebrating the secular New Year and I enjoy partaking in bubbly. New Year’s, above other holidays, tends to demand a more refined beverage for toasting to the years conclusion. That is why there is more champagne purchased in the month of December than any other time of the year. But what if you don’t like champagne? Perhaps you’re not a wine drinker or you just don’t want to shell out the money required to purchase one of the better bottles of kosher champagne. What then? Luckily there is an excellent option that is delicious, affordable and more than refined enough for New Year’s Eve consumption and that option is brought to us from the most unlikely of places: a brewery.

Samuel Adams has long been making their trademark Boston Lager but lately the good people at the Boston Beer Company have been stepping up their game by experimenting with a number of small batch brews. These experiments have lead Sam Adams to begin putting out limited runs of seasonal beers that are each unique, innovative and truly delicious. This year I found myself lucky enough to find a bottle of the limited holiday release, Infinium just in time for New Years.