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This week we tried the Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale, which is Lagunitas apology for not being able to brew the Brown Sugga Winter Seasonal. We missed a week because our studio had the week off, but this is the second in our holiday beer series. Although late to the table, you’ll be able to find these beers for a while still, so watch and then crack open one for yourself and enjoy!
Happy Holidays from all of us here at the Beer Friends. We hope you had a great weekend, celebrating with family, eating great food and drinking great craft beer. We’re sorry if now that the holiday weekend is over you have to go back to work, however if you have a nice, week-long vacation then you’re in for some excellent craft beer event hunting. Here are a few favorites…
Tuesday, December 27 – Tuesday Night Tastings: Leftovers Edition @ Bierkraft, Brooklyn:
One of the best and worst parts of the holidays – leftovers. Great for the first day, terrible after having eaten them for lunch and dinner 3 days in a row. Bierkraft has solved this problem – invite everyone over for a big leftovers party where you give away all the best stuff you consumed on your holiday. Their cellar manager Matt Barclay has raided Bierkraft’s stockpile of great brew they didn’t sell during the holidays and is serving it up Tuesday. I wouldn’t miss a chance for a peek in Bierkraft’s cellar if I were you… (more…)
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In the spirit of competition, Beer Friends would like to invite everyone to our NFL season hashtag battles! Using hashtagbattle.com we will pit two breweries against each other when their NFL counterparts are facing off on the gridiron. Are you ready for some football? And drinking? And #hashtag battle?!?!?!
What’s a hashtag battle? When you’re drinking a beer of a brewery competing in the battle (#greenflash) vs (#founders), throw a #hashtag of the brewery and tweet it (or setup your foursquare or untappd to push to tweet and include the #hashtag) and we’ll use hashtagbattle.com to declare a winner after the Monday Night football game on ESPN. We’re starting on Saturday morning so drink up – support your team, support your beer, drink local and hashtag battle!
Week Sixteen: San Diego Chargers (#greenflash) vs Detroit Lions(#founders) (more…)
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Traveling through Southwest Color
ado you’ll be amazed with the beautiful surroundings. On our trip to the good old mile high state we heard about these crazy sand dunes and on the way to see them we took a little time to stop off in Alamosa to try the San Luis Valley Brewing Company. (more…)
Tuesday, December 20 – Tuesday Night Tasting with Oskar Blues @ Bierkraft, Brooklyn:
Colorado and Brooklyn were meant to be together. Great beer in a borough that loves great beer. Perfect equation. Bierkraft is hosting Oskar Blues and all their beer glory this Tuesday. Yvon Pasquarello will be bringing an array of canned brew, drafts and a special kegs of HGH – a strong ale brewed with homegrown hops from the Hops and Heifers farm owned by Oskar Blues. Arrive at Bierkraft early to make sure you get a seat at this awesome beer event.
Bierkraft is located at 191 5th Avenue between Berkeley and Union Streets, Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Tuesday, December 20 – Christmas Festival 2011 @ The Burp Castle, Manhattan:
The Burp Castle is a rarity on the NYC Craft Beer event scene. However, a bar that usually stays quiet (in more ways than one) is throwing a special event for the holiday season this year: Christmas Fest 2011. They’ll be pouring three hard to find and extra delicious winter brews: (more…)
Hello Beer Friends Nation!
In the spirit of competition, Beer Friends would like to invite everyone to our NFL season hashtag battles! Using hashtagbattle.com we will pit two breweries against each other when their NFL counterparts are facing off on the gridiron. Are you ready for some football? And drinking? And #hashtag battle?!?!?!
What’s a hashtag battle? When you’re drinking a beer of a brewery competing in the battle (#) vs (#speakeasy), throw a #hashtag of the brewery and tweet it (or setup your foursquare or untappd to push to tweet and include the #hashtag) and we’ll use hashtagbattle.com to declare a winner after the Monday Night football game on ESPN. We’re starting on Saturday morning so drink up – support your team, support your beer, drink local and hashtag battle!
Week Fifteen: Pittsburgh Steelers (#rollingrock) vs San Francisco 49ers (#speakeasy) (more…)
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A special thanks out to the few of you that watched our very first live beer review on our Justin.tv channel. We’re still not used to the live (internet) tv thing and a few of us might have acted unprofessional (sorry I broke the seal too early). Check out our Justin.tv channel for the unedited versions of a few reviews while we were working the kinks out. The beer was from Portland, Maine’s Shipyard Brewery which is probably most famous for their pumpkin brew “Pumpkinhead” and now the Prelude is popping up, labeled as the perfect “winter warmer”. Live Reviews! First Winter Warmer! Portland… Maine!
Tuesday, December 13 – Tuesday Night Tasting with Greenport Harbor @ Bierkraft, Brooklyn:
What do you do when one of Long Islands best new brewery visits one of Brooklyn’s greatest beer bars? Go there and drink (responsibly) as much as you can. They’ll be bringing their finest brews and one of Bierkraft’s own craft brew experts will be on hand to walk you though the unique flavors. Check out the list:
-Chinook’red (Newest offering from their Project Hoppiness Series)
-English IPA
-Black Duck Porter
-Anti-Freeze
-2010 Triton on cask (dry-hopped with Citra hops)
Bierkraft is located at 191 5th Avenue between Berkeley and Union Streets, Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Tuesday, December 13 – Naughty and Nice Night @ Sunswick 35/35, Queens: (more…)
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