For some reason the beer gods have decided to grace this week with an extensively excellent selection of beer events to check out. We picked the best six and are throwing them your way. Try to make them all? Sounds crazy, but you’re not a light hearted craft beer fan, you take this seriously. So do we. Afraid of the magnitude of it all? Us too.
Good thing beer helps with courage.
One more thing, read this one all the way through. We saved the best for last.
Wednesday, November 28 – Brooklyn Brewery Tap Attack with Garret Oliver @ Dive Bar NYC, Manhattan:
Remember the good ol’ days when you could just bump into Garret Oliver at a beer event as he poured you a cask aged Brooklyn Blast while you discussed the ins and outs of craft brewing in America? Well, we do. Brooklyn in recent times has reached super-stardom in the craft beer community, expanding their brewery and upstate brewing capacities in order to meet the demands of expanding to other cities, states, countries…and planets? (the Mars rover totally digs Mary’s Maple Porter) We’re proud of Brooklyn but we still have fond memories of those face to face times. If you do to, then you happen to be in luck. This Wednesday head on up to Dive Bar NYC and meet with Garret Oliver and the Brooklyn Brand Manager Brian Duprey as they serve up an impressive selection of that delicious Brooklyn brew we’re still in love with.
Blanche de Brooklyn
2009 Black Chocolate Stout
2009 Monster Ale
Mary’s Maple Porter
Brooklyn Radius
Brooklyn Blast
Sorachi Ace
There Will Be Black
Brooklyn Lager
Ama
Brooklyn Winter Ale
Black Chocolate Stout
The Companion
The River
Dive Bar NYC is located at 732 Amsterdam Avenue at 96th Street in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
Wednesday, November 28 – Avery Brewing Co. Night @ Sunswick 35-35, Queens:
In the spirit of competition, Beer Friends would like to invite everyone to our second season of NFL 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, 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. Support your team, support your beer, drink local and hashtag battle!
Week Four – San Francisco 49ers at New York Jets (#21stamendment vs #brooklynbrewery)
We know why you’ve come here today, just sit back and let us plan your week of beer swigging events…
Monday August 20th -
Murray’s Cheese is a locals favorite of most New Yorkers – legendary on Bleecker, I recently had a true New Yorker get so excited that “Murray’s now sells beer!” As if the craft beer revolution was now official in his mind. Well, those of us who’ve been following for quite some time welcome Murray’s Cheese to the table and let’s see what they got! On Monday, August 20th, Murray’s Cheese pairs with the Shelton Brothers to present “Belgian Beers and Cheese” – the problem is (with Murray’s being new to the craft beer scene – we’re very cheap) it’s $75 to get in and availability is limited (10 seats for this class).
It happened today – you looked at your calendar and started to get depressed. We’ve all noticed that as of today it is the mid-point of August. Summer is almost over – and that is a depressing thought. We’re already starting to feel it slipping away. It’s been an especially hard summer for Manhattanites – street temperatures in the heart of the city hitting well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, air-conditioners keeping everyone inside cool but pumping out waves of hot air for the rest of us, concrete hot enough to cook an entire turkey and that beautiful skyline blocking any sort of breeze from giving any respite. So this week the Beer Friends are giving Manhattan a break.
That’s right – this week every NYC Craft Beer Event is happening outside the center of New York City. From Brooklyn, to Jersey, to Westchester (first ever I believe!) we’ve got beer events for everyone else in the Tri-State, multi-boroughed area. Check em’ out! And watch out for the Manhattan yuppies!
Monday, August 15 – Brooklyn Brewery “Ghost” Night @ The Diamond, Brooklyn:
Talk about black ops – this event might not even exist. It’s the kind of thing that gets blacked out in government documents. That shady characters with dozens of names and passports engage in only to disappear into the fold. Some people may or may not have found some brew that may or may not exist and it may or may not be served TONIGHT at a bar that may or may not be real. Actually, it’s all very real – there are four bottles of incredibly rare and specialized brews that sound, to be honest, made up. Which makes them all the more desirable. Here’s what we’re looking at:
Crochet Rouge Rose – Local 1 aged on chardonnay and pinot noir lees. (more…)
It is the unofficial half way point of Good Beer Month 2011!
Unofficial because I mostly just made it up… But forget all that. It’s time to talk about good beer, and here are some great events you should keep your eye on this week.
We definitely have a reason to celebrate this weekend. Actually, two reasons.
First, we celebrate the great country we live in. A country, that sense its beginning has encouraged ingenuity and creativity among its citizens. It’s that common instinct that inspires that brewers of the craft beer that we love to do what they do. It’s why the craft beer industry has continued to be successful and grow by leaps and bounds every year. Craft Beer is as natural to America as fireworks and cookouts on the 4th of July.
We also get to celebrate craft beer itself. As deemed by the brewers and craft beer bar owners behind The Good Beer Seal, July is Good Beer Month. Now here at the Beer Friends believe every month should be Good Beer Month. But we’re pretty okay with picking one out and giving it a name. So tomorrow, while your cooking out and watching the fireworks, raise your glass of your favorite brew in a toast to craft beer and to America, the country that not only allows craft beer to exist, but inspires it’s incredible and delicious diversity.
Enjoy the events:
Tuesday, July 5 – The Big Le-Brewski Event: Part 2 @ Rattle n’ Hum, Manhattan:
Sit down. If you’re sitting – get closer to the ground. I’m about to unload every craft beer lovers dream on you. Imagine (more…)
When it comes to the Beer Friends, we love America. It’s most important ideals are represented everywhere in the craft beer world: liberty, industriousness, creativity and pursuit of happiness. It’s no surprise that the people who penned these ideals, our Founding Fathers, were craft brewers themselves. Not only were they forming the world’s most famous democracy they were doing it while enjoying a pint of their own home brewed porters, stouts and pale ales. Let’s celebrate their ingenuity by drinking the most prized of their creations: craft beer.
Imperial doesn’t quite go well with the Founding Fathers and early America. It does however go well with, well, everything else. Expect Imperial IPA’s, Souts, Porters, Pilsners and more. Imperial might not be good for democracy, but it goes great with about every style of brew.
Jimmy’s No. 43 is located at 43 East 7th Street in between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, East Village, Manhattan.
After a week off for the holidays, the Beer Friends are back at it with Brooklyn Brewery’s Black Ops. Black Ops is somewhat of a mystery and sometimes a very hard to find beer, the Beer Friends tend to hoard up every bottle we find. Beer! Mystery! Black Ops!
Hey all you Beer Friends out there! Let’s see what’s happening beer wise in this great metropolis of ours throughout this upcoming week.
Monday, October 11 – Troeg’s Tasting Event @ Amity Hall, Manhattan: Amity Hall is the place you go to when your nosing around Washington Square Park with your friends that are visiting the city and wanted to see Washington Square Park and then want beer. You know it’s there, you might not head to an NYU neighborhood regularly, but today you know that you will not take your friends to a light beer bar on Bleecker, but you will take them to a good craft beer bar on West 3rd. If all this happens to be happening tonight, Monday, October 11, then you will be in for a treat: Troeg’s Tasting Event. Troeg’s is a fantastic brewery from outside of Philadelphia. So after your friends have taken their respective pictures in front of the newly aligned fountain in Washington Square, bring them to Amity Hall, head upstairs and drink Troeg’s. They’ll thank you for saving them from tourist dogma.
Tuesday, October 12 – I Love NY Beer Week: Captain Lawrence Night @ The Spring Lounge, Manhattan: The Spring Lounge is a great beer bar that borders the entrance to Little Italy, a.k.a. many New Yorkers Tourist Nightmare (seems to be a theme today actually). However, you are not in Little Italy, nobody is throwing pasta at you and I promise you only have to choose 3 different flavors of gelato if you want to. The Spring Lounge is spending the week appreciating New York Breweries, from all over the state, starting with Captain Lawrence out of Kingston, NY. Come on by and grab some Westchester Pale Ale, Brown Bird Brown and Liquid Gold. And if you want, you can head over to Little Italy and get some gelato on your way out. You can even choose 3 flavors for the same price. If you want to.
The first part of any construction project is to lay a proper foundation. The Brooklyn Brewery expansion is no different. The warehouse has a concrete floor foundation; however, the floor had no drainage system in place and lacked the structure needed to hold the massive amounts of brewing equipment being brought in.
So, there was only one thing to do. Tear up the floor… (more…)
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