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Over the weekend, we drank a collaboration kellerbier called Prior Restraint from Brooklyn’s Threes Brewing and Rockland County’s Industrial Arts Brewing Company. Turns out, there’s more to that partnership than just a beer or two. Threes announced today that they will brew a portion of their beer outside the city for the first time — and they’ll do that at Industrial Arts. What does that mean for you?
On Saturday, NYC Beer Week holds its annual Opening Bash at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint. The event expanded last year to include brewers from around New York State and around the country in addition to a lineup of nearly every New York City brewery. This year, 75 breweries will pour at the festival (there’s a handy floor plan to help guide you to the ones you’re looking for). You might know a lot of the names on the list, but there are plenty of breweries featured at the event that rarely (or never) pour their beer in New York attending the fest. Here are a few we’re looking forward to drinking.
Fifth Hammer Brewing Company in Long Island City, Queens is one of several breweries about to celebrate their first NYC Beer Week. They’re ready. Are you?
NYC Beer Week starts Friday! Here’s the rundown of everything you need to know — the events, the happenings, the beers, and more — to get you ready for the citywide ten-day celebration of everything beer! There are still tickets for the biggest events of Beer Week, so mark these on your calendar!
Photo courtesy Five Boroughs Brewing Co.
Nine breweries opened in New York City last year. It was a banner year for the city’s beer scene, and yet another reason for beer drinkers to celebrate during New York City Beer Week, which kicks off this weekend. Those nine breweries are debuting a beer called Class of 2017 New York City Pale Ale in a launch event Thursday in the taproom of the brewery where the beer was made, Five Boroughs Brewing.
Another Denver brewery is setting in sights on New York City, and their beer launches here today. TRVE Brewing kicks off events this week with a Brooklyn Bar Crawl that includes events at Brouwerij Lane, Tørst, Spuyten Duyvil, and The Well tonight. The celebrations move to Queens and Manhattan on Thursday and Friday.
We stumbled upon this video on a YouTube binge recently, and it’s quite a trip to see the beginnings of New York City’s craft beer scene. It’s a piece from MTV’s The Week in Rock from 1989 (hosted by Kurt Loder, of course) about the growing homebrewing scene in New York City. In it, you’ll see a cameo from future Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver, who was at the time was involved in the New York City Homebrewers Guild and had yet to begin his professional brewing career. Also featured is longtime beer writer Peter LaFrance, and Sal Pennacchio, who went on to open Staten Island’s first modern-day craft brewery, Old World Brewing, in 2000 (it closed in 2003). Oddly, much of the fashion and facial hair of the 1989 homebrewing scene doesn’t look different from today.
