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Gun Hill Brewing Company in the Bronx has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help support their plans to can their beer for the first time. The effort, which is on beer-centric crowdfunding site CrowdBrewed, aims to raise $42,500 for an added fermentation tank that will allow the brewery to can without taking away from their current production schedule. The campaign to raise the funds runs through August 24th.
The beer selection at Clinton Hill’s new bar-and-shop hybrid, Mekelburg’s.
There seems to be a new craft beer bar opening every week in New York City. It’s our job to let you know about them, so let’s do that in our latest edition of First Look. Of course, with all these new places, you can’t possibly visit them all in just your weekend time. So perhaps it’s time to play hooky and check some of these new spots off your to-do list. This time, we check out two new spots in Brooklyn, a brewery tasting room officially open in Queens, and a new respite from the madness of Midtown.
There’s been a lot of talk about how breweries, brewers, and members of the beer industry have engaged in sexism against hard-working women in the industry. Between beer names with rape connotations, condescending male members of the industry talking down to knowledgable female beer experts and drinkers, and a general lack of respect of women who work hard to promote craft beer, it’s hard to grasp how we can overcome the problem of sexism in craft beer.
It’s not easy to defeat sexism, but here’s a list of the simplest ways that you can help prevent sexism in the craft beer industry:
- Treat everyone you talk to like a goddamn human being. Is this really that fucking hard?
End list. Cheers!
A Brooklyn bar called out a locally-based brewer on Facebook yesterday, claiming they were making donations to a Colorado-based group called The Society for Constitutional Education. Pine Box Rock Shop stated that they would be donating sales of their last keg of War Flag Pilsner to an LGBTQ youth group to counter what they said was the brewery’s funding of “a conservative group with values that differ greatly from ours.” War Flag, a Brooklyn-based brand that currently brews in Massachusetts, indeed had stated on their site that they would donate to the group, but says they haven’t made any donations, and will not, stating that the group’s anti-gay ties are “unfortunate” and that they “don’t agree with discrimination of any kind.”
Brooklyn Homebrew (164 20th St., at 4th Ave, South Slope), the only retailer entirely dedicated to homebrewing supplies and equipment, announced today that it will close later this month. The shop has been open at three different locations (including the founders’ own living room) since 2009. This is the latest in a string of beer-related retailers to close in New York City, and as the shop owners Danielle Cefaro and Benjamin Stutz note in their announcement (posted below), the cost of doing business here has simply become too high for the shop to stay afloat.
Photo courtesy The Brew Mile
If you’ve ever been in a brewery or beer bar on an afternoon or during happy hour, there’s a chance you’ve seen a person or two show up in their running clothes for a post-run beer. Some people think they’re crazy, but beer provides a great energy source (and rewarding relaxation) after a run.
The reality is that beer and running go hand-in-hand. There’s a long history of running to drink beer, from the Hash House Harriers to the more recent tradition of the Beer Mile. In fact, I personally ran further than I ever have in my life – 7.2 miles, to be exact – in a running club that finished with a tall pint of Brooklyn Lager in 2008.
In and around New York, opportunities abound to put your feet on the pavement and finish a run with a beer. Here are a few events coming up soon to burn your beer calories.
