
COHOES, NEW YORK
Across from the post office at an eloquent lamp-lighted white stone Classical mixed-use building in the heart of Cohoes,
BYE-I BREWING was established in 2019 by local homebrewing proprietors Robert Newberry and George Powley. A pristine Industrial neo-mod pub, Bye-I's tasting room was opened on July 2, 2020.
Reminiscent of a corner cafe with glass-windowed frontage, beautiful lacquered wood floors, several wood-metal seating tables, dual black sofa lounge spot, Edison-pendant lighting and pipe-exposed ceiling, Bye-I provides a certain homey warmth.
Staged to the right are the corrugated aluminum-backed brew tanks and a barn-doored backspace hosts special events.
While visiting Bye-I New Years Eve '2 in late afternoon, I enjoyed all eight available home brews.

Sunny Citra-hopped flagship,
131 Pale Ale, brought lemony orange-peeled grapefruit tanginess to waxy pine lacquer over dry pale malt spicing, retaining a mild citrus bittering.
Utilizing the same pale malt base, a resonant red-peppered habanero burn heated up spicier offshoot,
131 Hab Pale Ale - its intensified ascending pepperiness prickled by spritzy lemon zest.
Summery Mexican-styled
Cohoes Cerveza Lager let mildly sour lemon-dropped herbage reach its meek Tortilla-chipped sourdough base.
Profuse grapefruit and pineapple tanginess lacquered Imperial IPA,
Not Your Breakfast Juice, distancing its gooseberry-guava souring and clean vodka boozing.
Bright tropical fruiting caressed vanilla-creamed NEIPA,
Experimental IPA #6, as peachy grapefruit, orange and mango spicing contrasted salty guava-gooseberry souring.
Minty pumpkin pie spicing elevated
Lumpkin Pumpkin Ale, allowing brown-sugared nutmeg, allspice and cinnamon to season its delicate gingerbread base.
Day-old coffee and black-malted dark chocolate consumed
Taylor Tot Chocolate Coffee Stout, leaving slight Blackstrap molasses bittering on its dry mocha finish.
For an early nightcap,
Midnight Veil Pastry Stout let vanilla-spiced marshmallow fluff and Graham Cracker honeying soak up plentiful dark chocolate syrup.