Eckhart Beer Company

[AaronS]

this is a relatively new brewery off the jefferson L train stop that specializes in lagers. normally this wouldn't merit a thread of it's own, but the food I had there last night was really excellent. it's a new brooklyn cooking german restaurant, as sneak - who was very much on my mind last night - would have said. I think the chef worked for the franny's people when they ran brooklyn larder, and everything we had was excellent, including the innocuous looking vegetables like the potato salad and sauerkraut that came with the sausages. really nice crackers with the chicken liver, great bacon in the spaetzle, blah blah blah. the room is very nice, and I think they're the first brewery I've been to that has actual tanks above the bar.

how's the beer? my impression of the lagers is that they're very good, not quite as good as what you get from suarez or oec but I preferred them to the wild east stuff, not to mention the lagers you get from places like threes and finback. the only ale they had, a 5.6% abv ipa, was truly excellent and reminded me a lot of the maine beer pales, which is really high praise.