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November 27, 2012
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:
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Tags:added value fundraiser, ama, Avery Brewing Company, Barcade, barrier brewing saazsquash, Black Chocolate Stout, Brooklyn Blast, Brooklyn Brewery, brooklyn lager, Brooklyn Radius, brooklyn winter ale, Canadian Breakfast Stout, captain lawrence golden delicious, carton imperial pumkin cream ale, curmudgeon's better half, Dirty Bastard, Dive Bar NYC, duganA DIPA, ellie's brown ale, Founders, Frangelic Mountain Brown, Garret Oliver, India Pale Ale, Mary’s Maple Porter, merry monks tripel, Mike Stevens, monster ale, old jubilation ale, Sixpoint Gorilla Warfare, Sorachi Ace, southern tier pumking, Standings, stoudt's pumpkinfest lager, sunswick 35-35, the companion, The Double Windsor, The Gate, the kaiser imperial marzen, the river, there will be black, Weyerbacher
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September 19, 2011
What a kick-off weekend! The Beer Friends enjoyed quite a bit of craft beer this weekend in honor of the 2011 New York City Craft Beer Week. Rattle n’ Hum threw a great Barrier and Greenport bash Friday night, the Smuttynose pouring at Mudville on Saturday was fantastic (especially that Homunculus) and we’re still not sure which is better – the Concoction or the Penicillin that we tasted on Sunday.
Because there is so much to do this week and weekend, we’re going to be breaking up the Beer Friends event listings for the week. Today we’re throwing at you the events happening from Monday to Thursday. You can then check back on Thursday for the Friday, Saturday and Sunday events – a.k.a. The Grand Finale of NYC Craft Beer Week. We’re hitting the streets, bars and breweries this week with a feverish devotion and we sure hope to see all you NYC Beer Friends out there with us!
Monday, September 19
Got a case of the Monday’s after such a fantastic craft beer fueled weekend? We understand. We also know how to help.
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Tags:2004 Olde School, 2005 World Wide Stout, 2006 120 Min IPA, 2007 Fort, Allagash, Beer From Long Island, Beer From Strong Island, Blind Tiger Ale House, Blue Point, Brooklyn Brewery The Companion, Captain Lawrence, Christian DeBenedetti, Cigar City Throwdown, Dogfish Head, Empire Brewery, Good Beer, Great American Ale Trail, Greenport, Greenport Harbor, Jimmy's No. 43, Mudville, Murray's Cheeses, NY vs. PA, Oskar Blues, rattle N hum, Sam Calagione, Southampton, The Craft Beer Lovers Guids to the Best Watering Holes in the Nation, The Double Windsor, The Ginger Man, The Pony Bar, The Stag's Head, Troegs, Very Old Beer and Extremely Stinky Cheese, Victory
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August 15, 2011
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…)
Tags:Ballast Point, Barrel Aged Cuvee Noire, Beer Adventures, Bierkraft, Biscotti Break, Black Ops Late Bottle Vintage 2007, Brooklyn Blast, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn Brown, Brooklyn Craft Beer, Brooklyn Radius, cask engine, Corchet Rouge Riesling, Crochet Rouge Rose, Dogfish Head 120 Minute, During and After Christmas Beer, Evil Twin, GRAB Specialty Foods, Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, Katz Pis, Life and Limb, Maple Pecan Porter, New Jersey Craft Beer, New York City Craft Beer Events, Oaked Ale, Ovila Saison, Pale Ale, Ryan and the Beaster Bunny, Sam Adam's Beer Lovers Choice, sierra nevada, Sorachi Ace, The Cloverleaf Tavern, The Diamond, The Double Windsor, the Lazy Boy Saloon & Ale House, Torpedo IPA, Tuesday Night Tastings, Tumbler, Westchester Craft Beer, Wet Dream, White Plains, White Plains Craft Beer
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August 2, 2011
We are officially approaching the dog days of August, but it seems like we’ve been there for a couple of weeks already. The rest of the world characterizes the “dog days” as those times in August where the days stretch on for endless hours and are filled with heat and humidity that requires 24/7 air conditioning. Well, after experiencing 2+ weeks of these oppressively hot/humid days and it only now has become the month of August, we are a bit tired of the weather. We’re going to need some help getting through whatever August has to throw at us. And we have the solution: Craft beer.
Actually there’s more than that in this week’s post. In fact, if you keep reading there is a surprise that will make you very, very hoppy, uh, I mean, happy that you did.
Tuesday, August 2nd – Smuttynose Tap Takeover @ Rattle n’ Hum, Manhattan:
No Smutty, No Beer. Know Smutty, Know Beer. They don’t need to say a word more, it’s literally as simple as that. New Hampshire’s premier brewery will be hitting up Rattle n’ Hum and owning their tap’s this Tuesday night. They have an (more…)
Tags:2010 Baltic Porter, 2010 S’Muttonator Doppelbock, 2010 Wheat Wine, 2011 Barleywine, 2011 Hommunculus, 2011 Imperial Stout, 2011 SSB#13 Noonan, American IPA, “Finestkind” IPA, Barrier Ruthless Rye, Beer Events, Beer Friends Final Four, Big A IPA, Brooklyn, Cafe D'Alsace, Captain Lawrence Brewery, Captain’s Reserve Imperial IPA, Craft Beer, Craft Beer Events, Dunegrass, European IPA, Evil Twin Cat Piss, Freshchester Pale Ale, Ginger Man Ale, Hop Wars, International IPA Day, International IPA Day Event, IPA Class, IPA Day, IPA Day Hop Wars, Jimmy's No. 43, Kaptain’s Kolsch, Liquid Gold, Manhattan, Meantime IPA, Mikkeller Willamette Single Hop, New York City, Nogne-O IPA, Oil City & Medula, Old Brown Dog, rattle N hum, Robust Porter, Shoal’s Pale Ale, Smuttynose Big A, Smuttynose Brewery, Smuttynose Tap Takeover, St. Vincents Dubbel, Star Island Single, Stone Ruination, The Double Windsor, the Iron Monkey, Thornbridge Jaipur, Traditional IPA Class, Two Brothers Hop Juice, Undarum, Xtra Gold
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July 27, 2011
Hello all you Beer Friends out there! We’d like to apologize for releasing the craft brew events a bit late this week. We promise it’s not because we drank too much craft brew. Actually we’ve been so caught up with our different regional brewery tours – the South, Southern California (Day one, two, three and Stone) and Boston/Cape Cod – that we were late for the boat this week. Although, I suppose that’s from drinking too much craft brew during our brewery tours.
Anywho’s – we got a great (half) week of events for ya! Enjoy! (more…)
Tags:Autobahn IPA, Barrier Dunegrass Double IPA, Beer Camp California Common, Beer Camp Double IPA, Beer Camp Juniper Black Ale, Beer Camp Weizenbock, Bengali Tiger Cans, Bierkraft, Boston Brewery Tour, Bowery Beer Room, Brevity Wit, Brooklyn, Captain Lawrence Brewing Company, Captain Lawrence Captain's Reserve IPA, Captain Lawrence Captain's Reserve IPA Cask, Craft Beer, Gemini IPA, growlers, IPA Night, Ithaca Brewing Company, Kelso of Brooklyn, Manhattan, Micro-Keg, New York City, New York City Craft Beer Events, Ovila Saison, Righteous Ale, sierra nevada, Sierra Nevada Beer Camp, Signal, sixpoint, Southampton Brewery, Southern California (mini) Brewery Tour, Summerfest, Sweet Action, The Belgian Room, The Crisp, The Double Windsor, The Hop Devil Grill, The Whole Foods Bowery Beer Room, Torpedo IPA
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June 13, 2011
I had a feeling. And not just the usual feelings, but the awesome feelings. The sort of feelings that let you know this is going to be a big week. A HUGE week. Seriously though, the closest example I would give for the events happening this week would be a planetary alignment with the center of the galaxy. It wasn’t organized by anything beyond cosmic happenstance but despite it’s coincidental nature, it’s pretty damn awesome. Well, this week you can thank The Beer Friends for taking the random alignment of super-awesome craft beer events and organizing them into a coherent list of what you should drink and where you should drink it. Let’s see what we’ve got…
Tuesday, June 14 – The Good Beer Seal 2011 Awards Party @ Barcade, Brooklyn:
Ever had the urge to share your opinion regarding all things craft beer in the New York City metro area? But didn’t feel like being as verbose as creating a blog on the internet? Now here at The Beer Friends we don’t really know about such things. However, we do know about a more concise method of expressing your expert craft beer opinions. And it’s happening this week.
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Tags:Abita, Barcade, Barnacle Brown Ale, Barrier Brewery, bear republic, Belgian Beer Festival, Blues Brothers, Bulkhead Red, Cigar City, Cycle Saison, Founders, Gemini, Good Beer Seal, Green Room Pale Ale, Harbinger Saison, Harpoon, Mare Undarum, Mudville 9, Mugs Alehouse, New York City Craft Beer, Oil City IPA, Oskar Blues, Purple Haze, RipRap, Riverhorse, Save-Our-Shores, Sixpoint Craft Ales, speakeasy, Standings, Stone, Sunswick 35/35, Tap Room 307, TapRoom 307, The Double Windsor, Triple Sweet Action, Turbodog, Two Brothers
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May 23, 2011
Hallelujah! The Apocalypse/Judgement Day/Coolest Party Ever has been averted! Well, maybe it wasn’t ever going to happen in the first place, or maybe somebody out there prayed really hard…or the Big Guy upstairs didn’t want to end the ingenuity of American Craft Brewing just yet. You know, just when it was starting to get good. (more…)
Tags:Backwoods Bastard, Bear Republic Brewery, Bear Republic Heritage, Bear Republic Mai Bock, Bengali Tiger Cans, Black Biscuit, Breakfast Stout, Brooklyn Craft Beer, Canadian Breakfast Stout, Captain Lawrence, Carburetor, Centennial IPA, Cerise, Cher Ami, Deers and Beers, Dirty Bastard, El Oso, End 10, FC Barcelona, Founders Brewery, Founders Double Trouble, Founders Pale Ale, Founders Porter, GRAB Specialty Foods, Hop-Rod Rye, Imperial Stout, Jeremy Kosmicki, Jimmy's No. 43, Kaiser Curmudgeon, Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Manchester United, Nemesis, New York City Craft Beer Events, Old Curmudgeon, Oysters, Racer #5, rattle N hum, red rocket, Reds Rye, Ryevalry, Sixpoint Bengali Tiger, Sixpoint Cans, Stick Ball Alt, TapRoom 307, The Blind Tiger Ale House, The Double Windsor, UEFA Champions League Final, Venison, Volks Bier
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May 16, 2011
I woke up this morning with great expectations. The sun was shining, a warm summer breeze blowing through the air, the smell of blossoming plants and then I opened my eyes. Rain. Thunder. Fog. And it was cold. And it will be happening all week long. Then I looked at the list of craft beer events happening this week. The clouds parted, the sun came back out and the annoying spitting from the dense fog that engulfed the city transformed into a soft mist reminiscent of the Irish countryside. Yea, craft beer has that affect on me.
Tuesday, May 17 – Empire Brewing Company Night @ Rattle n’ Hum, Manhattan:
Imagine you were taking a boat trip down the Erie Canal (10 points if you know where the Erie Canal is) rafting through the port towns of Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo and you wanted a beer. The obvious choice is Empire Brewing Company. Started in Syracuse and at
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Tags:Allagash, Ballast Point Abandoned Ship, Ballast Point Wahoo Wheat, Ballast Point Yellow Tail Pale Ale, Bierkraft, Black Magic Stout, Braumeister Pils, Brooklyn, Dick's, Donnybrook Stout, Elysian, Empire Amber Ale, Empire Brewing Company, Empire Brown Ale, Empire Cream Ale, Empire Deep Purple, Empire Falconers Flight IPA, Empire Light Lager, Empire Maple Porter, Empire State Pale Ale, Empire Wheat Wine, Fried Oysters, Full Sail, Geary's, George Keeley's, Great Brewer's Beer Testing, Greenport Harbor Ahtamaic IPA, Greenport Harbor Black Duck Porter, Greenport Harbor Canard Noir, Greenport Harbor Harbor Ale, Greenport Harbor Rye Saison Cask, Headwaters Pale Ale, Hitachino Ginger, Hop Devil IPA, Hop Wallop Imperial IPA, La Rulles Triple, Lobster Rolls, Maine, Maine Beer Weekend, rattle N hum, River Horse, Rogue, Scallop Sliders, Schekerla Smoked Lager, Seadog, Shipyard, Sixpoint Brewery, St. Boisterous Hellerbock, St. Victorious Dopplebock, Tacos El Bronco, The Double Windsor, The Pony Bar, The Stag's Head, Whirlwind Wit, White Aphro, Yakima Glory Black IPA
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May 2, 2011
May. What a month. Spring flowers, worker’s rights, Mexican Fives and Memorial Day. May is like a non-stop party. What kind of beer should we drink to start this party? Ithaca Flower Power for the flowers? The Peoples Lager from China for May Day? Negro Modelo for Cinco de Mayo? A Southhampton Double White for Memorial Day? You know, cause we’re all double excited to finally be able to wear white now.
Tuesday, May 3 – Pretty Things “Once Upon A Time” Launch Party @ The Rye House, Manhattan:
Ever wonder what beer tasted like in 1855? The country was just about to be divided by civil
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Tags:Anderson Valley, Ballast Point, Big A IPA, Brooklyn, California Dreaming, Craft Beer, Firestone Walker, GRAB Specialty Foods, Green Flash, Greenport Harbor, Jimmy's No. 43, Lagunitas, Manhattan, New York City, Once Upon A Time, Oysters, Pretty Things, Ron Pattinson, Rye House, Sculpin IPA, sierra nevada, Smuttynose, Stone, The Bruery, The Double Windsor, Torpedo IPA
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October 25, 2010
Hola Beer 
Amigos. As October winds to a close the temperatures will continue to drop and the wind will start to pick up blowing that pre-winter chill right through to our bones. A good remedy for the precursory signs of winter is to step into your local NYC Craft Beer Bar and grab the last of the fall brews or, if you’re lucky, the first of our winter style favorites. (more…)
Tags:100 Barrel Series, Beer Friends Colorado Brewery Tour, Blonde Bombshell, Brooklyn, Craft Beer, ESB, fall beer, Firehouse Amber, GRAB Specialty Foods, Great Divide, Harpoon Brewery, Hibernation, Hoppy Halloween, hops, Jimmy's No. 43, Kelso of Brooklyn, Leviathan Series, Manhattan, McNeill's, McNeill's Lovers Support Group, New York City, New York City Craft Beer Events, NYC Craft Beer, Oyster Stout, Pullman's Porter, Samurai, Single Hop ESB, The Black Swan, The Double Windsor, The Pony Bar, Titan, Warlord Double IPA Sunshine IPA, winter beer, Winter Warmer, Yeti
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