Baseball season begins this weekend, and it summons visions of sitting outside in the summer sun, watching a ballgame and sipping on beer. For years, craft beer fans suffered at the hands of corporate sponsorship and couldn’t drink anything more than mass-produced, flavorless beer. But in recent years, ballparks around the country have stepped up their beer game. Here in New York, most of that improvement has come at Citi Field, who has served craft beer since it opened in 2009. But even Yankee Stadium begrudgingly added craft beer last season after years of missteps. 

Here’s what craft beers you’ll find at both ballparks this season.

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The beloved, hyped Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout makes its annual arrival in New York City this week. The Imperial Stout, which includes generous amounts of coffee and chocolate, is cave-aged in oak bourbon barrels for a year, and weighs in at a hefty, cellar-friendly 12.4% ABV. This year, the rollout will include a week’s worth of release events all over the city.

The kickoff starts this weekend with a handful of events, including a big Founders tap takeover at One Mile House (10 Delancey St., at Bowery, Lower East Side) with both this year’s and last year’s KBS, along with a whole bunch of other goodies and rarities from the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based brewery. That event gets underway at 5pm.

But that’s not all! Here’s a rundown of bars that will be releasing KBS on tap in special events during the month of April.

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The races are heating up in BARch Madness! It’s our annual 64-bar tournament to determine New York City’s favorite beer bar, and we’re now down to the final sixteen bars in what we’re calling “The Bitter Sixteen!”

We’re moving into round three of our seeded tournament format, and we’re now fresh out of #1 seeds. Here’s a roundup of how things went down.

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The races are heating up in BARch Madness! It’s our annual 64-bar tournament to determine New York City’s favorite beer bar. We’re moving into round four of our seeded tournament format, and we’ve got eight remaining bars to narrow down to the final four!

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Are your brackets already busted from March Madness? Then it’s time to play BARch Madness! It’s our annual 64-bar tournament to determine New York City’s favorite beer bar, and we’re now down to 32 bars!

We’re moving into round two of our seeded tournament format, with some surprising upsets in round 1. Here’s a roundup of how things went down.

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You’ve heard about the Pilsner Region, the Saison Region, and the Stout Region… now get to know the IPA Region, the fourth and final region to roll out voting in this year’s edition of BARch Madness, our friendly competition to determine New York City’s best craft beer bar.

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