It’s Monday, November 14th… here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:
Rattle-N-Hum(14 E. 33rd St., at 5th Ave., Midtown) hosts their weekly Poor Man’s Beer Dinner tonight starting at 5pm with pairings available all night from Vanburg & DeWulf Importers, who celebrate their 30th Anniversary tomorrow with a Coast-to-Coast toast. For $25, get four small courses and beer pairings, including honey-glazed spicy chicken with Dupont Avec Les Bons Voeuxpiced cake with Belgian beer sauce and whipped cream with Scaldis Noel.
For those who like their beer paired with buffalo wings and football, Standings(43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) has free wings froom Atomic Wings starting at 8:30pm for your Monday Night Football viewing pleasure. They’ll also be pouring some great beer, like Two Brothers Long Haul Session Ale and Troegs Dead Reckoning Porter.
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The Home of the Islanders becomes the Home of Beer on Saturday as the International Great Beer Expo comes to Nassau Coliseum.
Are you the type that plans out your weekend according to beer? After the jump, everything you need to know about beer events in and around New York this weekend. Enjoy!
The full calendar is after the jump…
FRIDAY
Cafe D’Alsace(1695 2nd Ave., at 88th St., Upper East Side) continues their Firkin Fridays with a tapping of Brauerei Bayer Theinheim Ungespundetes Landbier. That unpronounceable German mouthful is a sessionable Kellerbier from a small town near Bamberg. And it’s on cask starting at 6:30pm.
Two Whole Foods in Manhattan have free sampling tonight. At Whole Foods Union Square(4 Union Sq. S., at University Pl, Union Square), they’ll be offering samples of Duvel and Ommegang from 3-7pm. Meanwhile, at Whole Foods Tribeca(270 Greenwich St., at Warren St., Tribeca), they’ll be pouring beers from Breckenridge from 4-8pm, including 471 IPA and Vanilla Porter.
SATURDAY
If you’re out on Long Island, you might want to check out the International Great Beer Expo at Nassau Coliseum. Tickets are still available ($45 online or $55 at the door), and you’ll have access to a whole bunch of beer from local brewers like Great South Bay and Blue Point and national and international brands like Avery, Long Trail, Widmer, and Weihenstephan. Now, don’t say we didn’t warn you: huge abuses of beer take place at these fests by some people who come to these things just there to get wasted. But if you can tolerate masses of drunken fools, there’s some good beer to be had.
Closer to home, The Gate(321 5th Ave., at 3rd St., Park Slope) takes part in the Brooklyn Beer Summit with their “Up from the Vault” event. They’ll roll out some vintage kegs from their cellar starting at 6pm, including a 2007 Southern Tier Backburner, 2010 Founders Breakfast Stout, 2007 Great Divide Hercules, and many more old and potent beers. They’ll also serve up some special Beer Summit Chili.
Head to GRAB Specialty Foods(438 7th Ave., at 15th St., Park Slope) for a Stone tasting on Saturday afternoon from 3-6pm. They’ll have free samples of the Cali-Belgique, Sublimely Self-Righteous, and Levitation Ale. Who doesn’t like free beer?
SUNDAY
A quiet Sunday on the event front, but since Sundays in the fall mean football, might we suggest a couple of sports bars with good beer menus? Camp out for the afternoon at Mudville 9(126 Chambers St., at W. Broadway, Tribeca),Standings(43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village), or Matt Torrey’s(46 Bushwick Ave., at Ainslie St., Williamsburg)… and stick around for the nightcap between the Jets and Patriots at 8:30.
It’s Thursday, November 10th… here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:
It’s a New York State Tap Takeover tonight at Bierkraft(191 5th Ave., at Berkeley Pl., Park Slope). Starting at 7pm, take your pick from over a dozen New York state-brewed beers, including brews from Roosterfish in Watkins Glen, Defiant in Pearl River, Greenport Harbor on Long Island’s North Fork, and Kelso of Brooklyn just a few blocks away.
At 6pm, head to Amity Hall(80 W. 3rd St., at Thompson St., Greenwich Village) to celebrate the launch of Bronx Brewery in Manhattan. Have the Pale Ale and pair it with some jerky from Slantshack Jerky!
To celebrate the release of Josh Bernstein’s Brewed Awakening, Pacific Standard(82 4th Ave., at St. Marks Pl., Boreum Hill) hosts him for a book signing, as well as beers from Wandering Star. Try the Alpha Pale, Mild at Heart, Bash-Bish-Bock, and more!
Penn Brewing takes over the taps at Barcade(388 Union Ave., at Ainslie St., Williamsburg) starting at 5pm. You may know their flagship Kaiser Pils, but also give their Allegheny Pale Ale, Saint Nikolaus Bock, and Harvest Rye PA a try.
Forget Oktoberfest. It’s time for Novemberfest, as Standings(43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village) presents beers from Dogfish Head tonight starting at 6pm. Enjoy the Punkin Ale, Olde School, and yes - the famous 120 Minute IPA. They’ll also have free pizza at 8pm.
North CoastThe Iron Monkey(97 Greene St., at York St., Jersey City, NJ) tonight at 6pm. They’ll have Red Seal, Pranquster, Old Rasputin Imperial Stout, and more on tap all night long.
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A carrot cake and “hard sauce” is paired with Allagash Curieux at last night’s Beer Table/Michael Jordan’s beer dinner at Grand Central (Photo: Chris O'Leary)
Here’s what’s brewing on the beer scene this week in New York and beyond:
Upstate hop farmers are reviving a once-dead industry [NY Times]
… and meanwhile, hop growers are popping up on Brooklyn’s streets [Diner’s Journal]
Brooklyn Brewery’s Garrett Oliver falls in the anti-growler camp [Bon Appetit]
Brooklyn homebrewing class at Bitter & Esters clones Victory Prima Pils [Beer Union]
In Jersey, Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout keg kicks in eight minutes [Idrinkgoodbeer]
Author Josh Bernstein picks his top bars in East Village, Brooklyn [The Local, Metromix]
Newburgh Brewing Co. set to open in Hudson Valley early next year [Times Herald-Record]
Frat boys to get drunker faster with new 6% ABV Bud Light Premium [STL Today]
Yes, this beer label is real. Denmark’s Evil Twin Brewing received Federal label approval last week to export a beer to the US called Williamsburg Hipster Ale. The brewery, which just started distributing on our shores earlier this year, calls the American-style Pale Ale a “tribute to our favorite hipster neighborhoods from across the globe.”
Perhaps brewer Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø truly loves Williamsburg, and his beer pays homage to what’s known globally as our city’s hippest neighborhood… you know, much like how his Katz Pis must pay homage to his love of litter boxes, and Soft DK pays homage to… well, you get the point. We’re skeptical of his motives, but we’re flattered nonetheless to have a beer named after one of our city’s most revered (and reviled) stereotypes.
And let’s face it: while it’s a shameless attempt to capitalize on that stereotype, once cans of PBR became too popular to be hip, the hipster’s fervent embrace of craft beer culture helped make Williamsburg a craft beer mecca. It’s one of the few neighborhoods in New York where you can’t walk more than a block without practically tripping over craft beer. And Williamsburg was drinking craft beer before it was cool. Brooklyn Brewery just celebrated their 15th anniversary brewing beer on North 11th Street, and Mugs Alehouse(125 Bedford Ave., at N. 11th St., Williamsburg) has been serving up fresh draught beer since 1993. So maybe Evil Twin is onto something.
Here’s the brewery’s full description of the beer, as it appears on the bottle:
Perhaps you’ve heard of a single hop beer, where a brewer showcases the qualities of just one hop. Well this is something entirely different - a single hip beer - our tribute to our favorite hipster neighborhoods from across the globe. This super-cool, disheveled little pale ale is dedicated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It’s an homage to skinny jeans, converse, vintage clothing, and all things local. Sent to you lovingly 4,000 miles away from the beautiful island of Fano, Denmark. Cheers, hipsters!
Expect to see it at specialty beer shops by month’s end - like, perhaps, Spuyten Duyvil Grocery, right in that uber-hip mall on Bedford Avenue in the heart of Williamsburg.
For the record, Evil Twin has already brewed one other homage to a hip neighborhood: Istedgade Hipster Ale and Södermalm Hipster Ale - named for hip neighborhoods in Copenhagen and Stockholm - were released earlier this year. Just like Williamsburg, both of those neighborhoods have experienced rapid gentrification recently.
Frankly, we give it three years before Williamsburg Hipster Ale becomes too expensive to brew and Evil Twin releases Bushwick Hipster Ale.
It’s Wednesday, November 9th… here’s our list of recommended beer-related events in and around New York after work tonight:
It’s Allagash Night at Blind Tiger Ale House(281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., West Village) all night long. Enjoy pours of Fluxus, Confluence, the 2008 vintage Curieux, and many more goodies, plus a visit from founding owner and brewer Rob Tod.
Can’t believe it’s been a year! Good Beer(422 E. 9th St., btw. 1st Ave. and Ave. A) celebrates its first anniversary tonight from 5-7pm with open pours. Even if you can’t make it for the free beer, stop by and congratulate them!
Josh Bernstein’s book tour continues tonight at Jimmy’s No. 43(43 E. 7th St., at 2nd Ave., East Village), where he’ll be signing copies of his book Brewed Awakening from 6-8pm.
The Learning to Beer series at Idle Hands Bar(25 Avenue B, at 2nd St., East Village) features Lagunitas tonight at 7pm. This week, sample three different beers, all paired with Faith No More songs. For $10, you’ll get the samples, two full beers, plus an order of tater tots!
Chimay is on tap at Banter(132 Havemeyer St., at S. 1st St., Williamsburg) tonight starting at 8pm. Which one? Beats us, but they had us at “Chimay Beer Cheese” and “local sausage” from Greene Grape Provisions.
As part of this week’s Brooklyn Beer Summit, it’s Sour Beer Night at Mission Dolores(249 4th Ave., at Carroll St., Park Slope). From 7-10pm, enjoy some tasty tart beers like the 2009 Ommegang Zuur and Liefmans Cuvee-Brut.
Heavy Seas comes to The Pony Bar(637 10th Ave. at 45th St., Hell’s Kitchen) tonight starting at 6pm, with their Winter Storm, Greater Pumpkin, and Plank I old ale on tap, and founder Hugh Sisson in the house.
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