In this roundup of new beers available in New York, we introduce you to a brand-new brewery with its roots in the city, plus new offerings from brewers just outside the city limits.
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It’s Wednesday, March 20th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:
- Brooklyn Brewery rolls out their Local x Local Concert Series at Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave., at N. 11th St., Williamsburg) tonight at 8pm. Enjoy a performance with Brooklyn band Beach Fossils, $4 Lagers, and their 25th Anniversary Lager on tap! Admission is $5 at the door.
- California (and soon Virginia) brewer Green Flash and Idle Hands Bar (25 Avenue B, at 2nd St., East Village), team up for the bar’s weekly $10 Bourbon and Beer Tasting Series. Tonight from 7-10pm, $10 gets beers in a 3-beer tasting flight, 2 full pours, a taste of whisky, and an order of tater tots!
- Enjoy some smoked beers until 10pm tonight at Sycamore (1118 Cortelyou Rd., at Westminster Rd., Ditmas Park). They’ll be offering an $8 four-beer flight with brews like Ballast Point Abandon Ship, Sixpoint Signal, and more, so you can dabble in a few different ones for one nice price!
- Taproom 307 (307 3rd Ave., at 24th St., Murray Hill) hosts Founders tonight at 7pm. Say goodbye to winter with beers like the Backwoods Bastard and Breakfast Stout, and hello to Spring with the Cerise, All Day IPA, and more!
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Samuel Adams tweeted this picture on Friday, March 8th, in the midst of a snowstorm when Boston proper received over a foot of snow. Yes, that’s a picture of a bottle of their Summer Ale in the snow. In case you can’t tell, we’re not dancing for joy over this, even though the beer is our favorite seasonal beer in their rotation. But we are smiling and laughing a little bit over this “jump the shark” moment for the craft beer industry. Yes, absurd as it is, the seasonal beer release schedules have become so accelerated that seasonal beers are being released two seasons ahead of their namesake.
Now that you’ve recovered from Beer Week and St. Patrick’s Day, it’s time to focus on the next major going-on on New York’s beer scene. The NYC Craft Beer Festival is making its seasonal return for their “Spring Seasonals Edition” on Saturday, March 30th. On that day, Manhattan’s Lexington Armory (68 Lexington Ave., at 25th St., Rose Hill) will be invaded by beers from dozens of American craft breweries, along with artisanal foods for purchase, live music, seminars, and some access to special brews.
It’s Tuesday, March 19th. Here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:
- Bierkraft (191 Fifth Ave., at President St., Park Slope) hosts 12% Imports tonight at 7pm for their free Tuesday Tasting. Join 12% Imports’ Maggie Fuller as she guides you through a tasting of their portfolio of fine imported beers!
- The Tenement Museum (103 Orchard St., at Delancey St., Lower East Side) hosts The New Little Germany: New York Revisits the German Table, a discussion on the rebirth of German beer and food culture in New York, tonight at 6:30. Tickets are $30 and available online.
- Birreria at Eataly (200 Fifth Ave., at 23rd St., Flatiron) hosts a tasting with the brewers from La Niretta, a Rome-based brewery, today from 4-6pm.
- This week’s Tuesday Tasting at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) celebrates American Porters and Stouts! $20 gets you six tastings of brews like Greenport Harbor Black Duck Porter, Anderson Valley Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout, and Green Flash Double Stout, and more! Things get underway at 7:30pm.
- Rattle-N-Hum (14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) hosts Bear Republic today starting at 4pm. They’ll have a lineup of beers from the California-based brewery on tap all night long!
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This was the line in front of McSorley’s in 2011. At 7:45am. When St. Patrick’s Day was on a Thursday. Beware.
A couple years back, just before St. Patrick’s Day, I was at Good Beer having a pint when someone walked in and asked the owner, “do you guys carry green beer? Like, for St. Patrick’s Day?”
He laughed. I hung my head in shame and shook it in disapproval.
Friends, tomorrow is the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Sunday is the real St. Patrick’s Day, and yes, you’re probably going to drink. But a true beer geek - one who respects and appreciates beer on the other 364 days of the year - is one who follows these commandments, which are guaranteed to make your drinking holiday far more tolerable:
