Visit Long Island Brewers

Many of you may be heading out to Eastern Long Island for the last long weekend of unofficial summer (we definitely are). If you are, there is good fresh beer available near the beaches and train stations. Here are some with weekend taproom hours worth visiting for a beer or a growler to take back for a barbecue. Montauk Brewing – 62 South Erie Avenue, Montauk Located right off of Montauk Highway the taproom is open from noon to 8 p.m. where you can get growlers of their flagship Driftwood Ale ESs. Southampton Publick House – 40 Bowden Square, Southampton…

Beer Releases Around NYC

It has been a while since we gave you some updates on new beers and old favorites being released in the New York market and there are some exciting brews that will soon be hitting shelves and tap handles around the city. Bronx Brewery Rye Pale Ale – Available August through November Of all the pale ales from The Bronx Brewery, the Rye Pale Ale might be our favorite. The beer uses flaked rye for almost a quarter of the grain bill and has a slight spice character from the rye to go with the breadiness and solid hop character…

Brooklyn Brewery Cuvée La Boîte Release

On Monday the Brooklyn Brewery celebrated the release of a new beer in its Brewmaster’s Reserve series: Brooklyn Brewery Cuvée La Boîte. Inspired by the Belgian Grand Cru style, this beer is a collaboration between Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery, and Lior Lev Sercarz, owner of La Boîte Biscuits and Spices in Manhattan. Sercarz is known as a “spice therapist.” “This is one of more exciting projects for me that we’ve done,” said Garrett Oliver at the event.  “[Lior’s] way of using spices is like writing music; it’s not obvious, it’s impressionistic, it takes you places… the spice blend he…

NYC Hog Days of Summer

Alongside the craft beer boom over the past couple of years, barbecue seems to be getting more and more attention in New York City, but the whole hog barbecues are still a rarity. On Saturday August 17th both will be together when John Brown Smokehouse and Arrogant Swine present a North Carolina Whole Hog barbecue alongside beer from Founders Brewing. The hog comes from Tamarack Hollow Farm in Vermont. There is currently no published beer list but Founders has a line up that would be great with some barbecue on a summer day. There are two sessions at 12 p.m.…

NYC Brewers Guild Block Party

UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. It’s still 2013, but it’s never too early to plan for Beer Week next year. On August 25 from 2 to 5 p.m., the New York City Brewers Guild (NYCBG) will host a fundraiser Block Party for NYC Beer Week 2014 at The Well in Bushwick (which will soon be a bar and public space, right now it is an event venue). Tickets to the event are $50, which gets you access to rare and limited beers, beer slushies from Kelvin Natural Slush Co.,  nail art from Nails & Ales (just look at her…

Sixpoint Craft Beer and Food Crawl

It is a bit of a slow week for beer in the city (the hangover from Belgium Comes to Cooperstown is probably to blame), but you can still get your summer day drinking on, this Saturday with the Sixpoint Craft Beer and Food Crawl from Get Real Presents. The $30 ticket gets you a Sixpoint beer at each of the 11 bars and restaurants on the crawl between 1-7 p.m. The bars are split up between Long Island City in Queens and Greenpoint in Brooklyn. At each location the participants will also have access to $3 tasting items like pulled…

Lager Follies, Part 1

A homebrewer’s journal, by John Kleinchester Homebrewing is an ever-evolving adventure. Sometimes you brew amazingly awesome beer. Sometimes you get stuck in a rut and want to walk away for a while. And sometimes you need to traverse a road that not only have you never been down before, but seems like an uphill battle from the start. The road I decided to embark upon for the first time was the fantastical world of lager brewing. I’ve been wanting to brew a lager for a few years now but it’s only recently that I’ve acquired the chest freezer that would…

Good Beer Month 2013

This marks the fifth year in a row that July has been declared Good Beer Month in New York City. As the craft beer movement has exploded in the city, Good Beer Month and the Good Beer Seal aim to identify the best places to get craft beer, and produce events that celebrate it. This year’s featured events included beer dinners, panel discussions, and the first annual New York State Food and Beer Expo. Here are some highlights from this year’s Good Beer Month. Good Beer Seal Expands to Jersey City and Long Island Each year since its inception, more…