From September, 2015

Crab Boil at Threes Brewing

Today we ventured over to Threes Brewing, a brewpub in Gowanus, for a crab boil. You read that right. First we got a couple of beers – Mechanical Spring and Vliet Pilsner – and sat down in the backyard patio. The chefs came out. They poured a bucket of crabs on the table, then a…

What’s YOUR Favorite Beer?

I’d like to share an anecdote with you. I recently overheard someone refuse a bottle of beer produced by a well-established, successful New York brewery. “That is the worst beer ever made,” he said to me, when I asked him about it. “No one drinks it.” He chose instead a brand owned by AB-InBev. The beer he didn’t…

September is Brooklyn Sour Beer Fest!

We’ve made it no secret that we LOVE sour beers. We gravitate towards this beer style, like moths to a flame. If sours are on tap, we order them. Berliner Weisse, Gueuze, Gose, Flemish Red… you name it, we drink it. So when we heard that three Brooklyn (Brooklyn!) bars are holding a Sour Beer Fest for the…