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)
Starting today, the New York Historical Society is set to open what promises to be a spectacular exhibit this summer. “Beer Here: Brewing New York’s History” will run from today through September 2nd and will cover the vast history of brewing in New York.
The recent surge of craft brewing in New York has helped to remind us that there was once a great brewing tradtion in New York. It is no secret that New York has brewed a lot of beer. Prior to prohibition New York had some of the countries largest brewers. This exhibit will finally give us beer lovers in New York a chance to revisit the golden age of New York brewing that we have only ever heard stories about.
The exhibitwill end in at a small beer hall that will feature brews from New York City and State. It’s the best gift shop ever!
The beer hall will be open:
Tuesday-Thursday and Saturdays: 2pm–6pm
Fridays: 2pm–8pm
Sundays: 2pm–5pm
There will also be beer tastings each Saturday throughout the summer. There will be 2 half hour tasitings each Saturday at 2pm and 4pm for a cost of $35($20 for members). A list of the breweries and tickets can be found here.
In the Beer Friends constant effort to drink everything Sixpoint produces – we occasionally video tape ourselves doing it. This week we tried the very sought after Resin, a Double IPA that was just announced as a year round brew from Sixpoint. Sixpoint has always been known for doing killer stuff on draft and last year they started selling their stuff in Nanokegs. This turned back the clock for the Beer Friends and every new can or design was like diving into a new pack of baseball cards. Be sure to check out our other Sixpoint reviews below the video. Sixpoint! Double/Imperial! #Nanokegs!
Over the hump… 101. Feels good. Idle Hands in Alphabet City NYC does some great events – one happened a few weeks ago was one to remember. Empire Brewing came in and swept 3/4 Beer Friends away (1/4 of the Beer Friends couldn’t make it – otherwise they would’ve been batting a thousand). Two staples you can find of Empire Brewing are their Cream Ale and the IPA, but we became resourceful and got our hands on a growler of Strong Ale. The beer is delicious, the events are great and we’ll buy you a pint if you spot us there! Beer Events! 101! Drink Local!
This week the Beer Friends decided to stay in – we didn’t travel to California for Speakeasy, or Florida for Cigar City… instead we stayed local and tried Tundra Brewery Red Ale. Tundra Brewery is super local, only available at a few greenmarkets and local conscious shops around NYC. This up and coming brewer is Mark VanGlad and pretty much IS Tundra Brewery, he owns it, grows the hops, makes the beer, bottles it and outsources his label designs (UPDATE: to his girlfriend). At the time of production Tundra only had two available brews: Red Ale and Ma Pale Ale, but have now added a Brown Ale for the Holiday season. Do yourself a favor and find his stuff, you won’t regret it! Local Brews! One-Man operation! NYTimes friends! Beer!
To follow up last weeks Pumpkin brew review… we did another! This week we featured Southern Tier‘s Pumking, which if you are in the NYC and upstate area and into craft beer – you’ve heard of. This is a intense pumpkin beer with spices and a smell that won’t stop. We also reviewed Southern Tier in honor of the Southern Tier Night Event at The Pony Bar – one of the Beer Friends favorite saloons. Grab some Pumking, hit the Pony Bar Event – and celebrate everything Upstate NY has to offer! Pumpkin! Events! Beer!
Well we reviewed the original Sixpoint four (Bengali Tiger, Righteous Rye, Crisp, Sweet Action) and now we move to the seasonals. First up is Autumnation, a wet-hopped pumpkin spiced ale. We cannot confirm if this uses a similar recipe as last years pumpkin ale from Sixpoint Pumpkin Brewster (best name ever) but we can confirm that they brew with hops, a lot of them. Grab a can and check it out for yourself! Sixpoint! Five Cans! Pumpkin!
This week we had friends! Chris O’Leary (@BrewYorkNY) of the famed Brew York, New York stopped in to enjoy a Founder’s Porter with the Beer Friends. Now we seem legit… like we have actual friends… this is a big day for us. Anyway – we’ve reviewed a few Founders in the past (and this one, and this one, and don’t forget this one) but this one was special… because of friendship. Founders! Grand Rapids! Actual Friends!
Finally – 4 for 4, batting 1.000, we’ve got the shooting touch, hat trick plus one, and out of sports metaphors… Today we tried the final available (for now) Sixpoint Nanokeg – Righteous Ale. What used to be called Righteous Rye, this beer has toned down a bit but certainly is as good in the can as off the draft… Batting 1.000! Nanokeg! Beer-cycle!
Full disclosure – the Beer Friends like beer, a lot, and we like good beer, a lot, and when one of our favorite breweries releases their stuff in cans, we are thrilled. We ran around trying to find them and now that all four are released – we can complete the four-some, wait… that came out wrong. Anyway, here is part three in our series – The Crisp from Sixpoint. Beer! Four-packs! Take Home deliciousness!
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