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Three popular Brooklyn beer bars are celebrating the joy of sour beer all month long with the first-ever Brooklyn Sour Beer Fest. Sister bars Mission Dolores (249 4th Ave., at Carroll St., Park Slope), The Owl Farm (297 9th St., at 5th Ave., Park Slope), and Bar Great Harry (280 Smith St., at Sackett St., Carroll Gardens) will dish out lots of sours during September, and for ten days each, the bars will keep six interesting sour beers on tap at all times.
As the weather cools off (hopefully) and we head into Fall, the beer festival scene is heating up in New York City with a slew of festivals in the next couple of months. From outdoor fests to slip in a few last days in the great doors to indoor fests where you can celebrate craft beer without that pesky sun getting in the way, there’s something for you in September and October in and around the city. Here’s a rundown of what’s coming up:
Two more NYC-based brewers are jumping on the canned beer craze this month. Radiant Pig debuted their first canned beer last week, and Finback Brewery will release cans for the first time this weekend with the first in a new series of IPAs.
Queens’ Long Island City neighborhood has become a hotbed of brewing in the past two years, with four breweries popping up in a mile-and-a-half radius, all easily walkable to each other. That makes a crawl between all four convenient, and they’re encouraging just that starting on Friday, August 14th with their weeklong Summer Brewery Crawl.
Two breweries in Queens are releasing more bottles, allowing their fans to take more of the beer home for safe keeping. Finback will debut new bottles this weekend at their brewery, and Singlecut is amping up their bottling with new equipment that should be online soon.
The share of craft beer volume by style (Source: Brewers Association)
It’s IPA Day, a made-up beer holiday now in its fourth year as a day to promote the hoppy beer style. But let’s posit this: IPA Day isn’t necessary. Sure, maybe a decade or more ago, an IPA Day might have been helpful to build awareness of the style, when hop-forward beers were not yet dominating the beer market. But today, IPAs are practically synonymous with craft beer. And despite already being the top-selling beer style in the nation, IPA sales are still growing at a rapid clip. Is there really a need for a day to promote a perennial champion?
