Friday Beer Post: Gameday Beer-o-the-week - Kansas State Edition

Each week throughout the football season I'm going to suggest a good beer for the ubiquitous pre-game tailgate. Let's be honest, with tailgates it's not always top quality that you're looking for. To steal a phrase from the heinous beer terrorists at Budweiser, you want "drinkability." (or what a real beer connoisseur calls "a session beer") So, be warned, these may not be "the best" beers around. But, in the words of Dave Chappelle as Samuel L. Jackson "IT'LL GET YOU DRUNK!" 

This will be my final gameday beer-o-the-week post of the year.  Next week, the game is on a Friday, and I won't have time to post.  It's Nebraska next week, anyways.  All you should be drinking is pure, unadulterated hate!  Btw, if you're expecting coherent, unbiased analysis of that game, you clearly don't know who you're dealing with....

This week the "little apple" pussies come to town.  That someone had the gumption to name some random shithole in the middle-of-nowhere Kansas after one of the best cities in the world has always amused me.  Manhattan, KS shares nothing but a name with it's East Coast namesake, but it does give me the opportunity to turn to NYC for beer inspiration.  Across the East River from the real Manhattan is a little hamlet called Brooklyn; you may have heard of it.  Brooklyn so happens to be home of one of my favorite breweries in the world: Brooklyn Brewery.

Brew-master Garrett Oliver is a wonderful ambassador to the brewing world.  He creates some of the best brews in the nation, and is heavily involved in brewing culture in America.  I strongly encourage you to try anything of his you come across.  However, since I have to pick only one, I'm going to name their staple Brooklyn Lager as this week's tailgate beer-o-the-week.

Brewed since the late '80s, and based on a pre-prohibition recipe, Brooklyn Lager is a good version of an easy to drink style.  Dry-hopped and well malted, this beer makes for a great session beer.  It's not going to challenge your palette too much, but it'll make for a great tailgate brew.  If you can find this beer west of the Mississippi River you'd do well to buy a 6-pack or two. 

Happy Friday!  Go Buffs, Beat JuCo State!