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Sixpoint Brewery has announced their first-ever permanent taproom will open later this year at City Point Brooklyn, the development that houses DeKalb Market Hall, Alamo Drafthouse, and Trader Joe’s in Downtown Brooklyn. It’s a step forward for the brewery’s presence in its home market, and comes after a previously-planned taproom and brewery in Gowanus fizzled out during Covid.
Eighteen medals were given to nine New York City breweries in the annual New York State Craft Beer Competition, whose winners were announced last Friday at a ceremony at the New York State Brewers Conference in Albany. Among the biggest winners was Brooklyn’s Grimm Artisanal Ales, which repeated as Brewery of the Year (tied with Rochester’s Strangebird Beer) for the second year in a row and took home six medals — the most of any brewery in the competition.
Two beers out this week from New York City breweries are relevant to two very different current events.
Bars, restaurants, and beverage manufacturers in New York all deal with a massive headache to simply exist: applying for, upgrading, or renewing a license with the State Liquor Authority. Each year, the SLA processes 75,000 applications for various types of liquor licenses, with a team of just thirty employees dedicated to them. It’s not surprising, then, that the average turnaround time for these is six months — half a year just to get a license approved, even if there’s nothing wrong with the application. There’s currently a backlog of 3,700 applications.
New York City Beer Week, the annual celebration of all things beer that the city has to offer, kicks off on Saturday. As I’ve mentioned before, the NYC Beer Week Opening Bash is this Saturday at Building 269 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s arguably the best beer event in the city all year, and it’s well worth going for both the beer and the new venue.
After two years of construction and a pandemic getting in the way, Bronx Brewery opened their new bar and brewery in the East Village last weekend. They’re serving up their lineup of beers from their main brewery, like the World Gone Hazy IPA, Well Earned Pilsner, and City Island Sour IPA. But in addition to those, there will be offerings exclusive to the East Village as part of their “Y-Series” that will be brewed in the brewhouse that’s the focal point of the back room of the new location. One of those beers is already on tap: Rye Or Die, a Rye Amber Ale.
