It's been one of those Brooklyn summers where the sun pounds you like a hammer. Day after day, brutal heat and relentless humidity—it’s the kind of weather that keeps the sweat-gland industry solvent. Lucky for me then, that Brooklyn, it turns out, is a self-regulating organism. Over the past several millenia it has evolved a protective cooling mechanism, in the form of the Six Point Brewery and, its wonderful Sweet Action cream ale.

Served ice cold in a dark corner of one of the borough’s plentiful watering holes, it’s like having your own personal air conditioning angel beating its soothing wings over your head. Appearance-wise the stuff is copper-colored and a bit cloudy, with robust carbonation (enough head to lace the glass, but not so much that you need to wipe your face after each sip). And heed well this beer’s name, they’re just trying to be up front with you.