Friday, March 23, 2012

Beer Bar Review #2: Delaney's Taproom and Restaurant, New Haven


Beer Selection: 60 Taps / 70 Bottles or Cans
Beer Prices: $4-$9

Beer: 3.5 Mugs (More Taps than any other CT bar I know of and the bottle list is second to none)

Food: 2.5 Plates (for wings and fries...yet to venture into the rest of the menu)
Happy Hour/ Beer Specials: YES!!!.  Awesome Happy hour here.  Monday - Friday 3-6PM select drinks, including some beers are Buy one get one.  The coolest part is when you buy a beer you get a sweet token to hold onto to redeem for your next beer.  They also offer free wings during happy hour.  Now I know what you are thinking.  The wings are plopped by the hundreds unto some aluminum dish and end up cold in 5 minutes, right?  NOPE!!!  They make your wings to order even during happy hour!  Not only does this ensure better quality wings but it is way less wasteful.  Great job Delaney's!!
Will I go Back: In a heartbeat, instant favorite
Scene: Awesome, This is not a touristy New Haven establishment.   This is a "feel like you are part of the family" kind of place.

Ahh Delaney's Tap Room.  Where o' where to begin.   For starters let me just say that this place is beyond awesome.  One of my favorite places in all of Connecticut.  I came across Delaney's a few years ago at the recommendation of a bartender at Christopher Martin's Restaurant in New Haven.  I do not have a ton of eating experience at Delaney's so lets skip right to the beer.  There is soooo much beer.  60 Taps and more than 70 different bottle selections.  The beer is always fresh and always cold.  On top at Delaney's you can find Lagers, Wheat Beers, Pale Ales, Stouts, Porters, India Pale Ales!!!, Brown Ales, Black Ales, Tripels, Blondes and more.  Like any awesome Beer Bar, the beer list changes faster than you can say Sea Hag IPA.

Current CT beers on tap are:  Naught Nurse (City Steam Brewery), New England Gold Stock German IPA...which I have never tried but sounds AMAZINGGG.

Delaney's has a great flow to the place itself.  The place takes up the whole side of a very small street, which gets closed in July for their Beer and Chili Festival (more details on this great event as we get a little closer).  Outside there are a number of Patio Tables for warm weather dining and drinking.  There are two main bar areas with the dining room sandwiched in between.  There is the restaurant bar with a smaller selection of draft beers and then there is the tap room.  The Tap Room features the huge selection of draft beer, tables for dining and a few dart boards as well.  There are TVs in both areas to watch Soccer and anything else (Thank god for the TVs, it was at Delaney's last July during the Beer/Chili Fest where I saw Derek Jeter's 3000th hit!!!)

This place has a great vibe to it.  While I have yet to have a meal here, I have had the wings and the fries on several occasions.  Both are biggity-boom-banging (very damn good)!

Delaney's also holds many many events from beer dinners to their very own beer and chili festival.  I will be spotlighting these as they approach.

For more on Delaney's:

Website: http://delaneystaproom.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/delaneystaproom

Twitter:  @DelaneysTapRoom

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