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After 13 years of churning out beer from a buzzing facility in Brooklyn, the brewery where KelSo Beer Company and Heartland Brewery is brewed will open to the public for the first time this weekend, pouring their products in a brand-new taproom (529 Waverly Ave., at Fulton St., Clinton Hill). Starting Thursday, you’ll be able to grab a pint at the brewery or fill a growler to take home.
New York’s July Good Beer Month is here! Each year, July is a month to embrace craft beer culture and all the things that make beer great in New York. Now in its sixth year, the month has become a summertime tradition in the city, with a big shindig, the awarding of the Good Beer Seal, and even its own passport!
Good Beer Month is off and running this year with the release of this year’s NYC Good Beer Passport, which is valid starting today. The passport is just $35 and gives you a free beer from a New York City brewery at over 35 bars throughout the city between now and Labor Day. That’s under a buck per beer! Best of all, proceeds benefit The River Fund New York and the Heritage Radio Network. Buy online and then pick up at the location of your choice in the five boroughs and you’ll be set for some epic summer bar crawls.
As usual, there will be beer events throughout July to celebrate Good Beer Month, including three at WNYC’s Greene Space as part of their annual “Craft Beer Jam.” The event lineup continues straight through until July 31st. Here’s a taste of some of the month’s big events…
Craft beer geeks always seem to be looking for the next new thing: new beers, new styles, and new breweries. And New York is a great place for beer exploration, with countless tap handles to fill and distributors looking to fill that need by partnering with more out-of-town breweries to bring more options than ever to our city. This year has been no exception – so for your reference, here are some of the new options you’ll be seeing around town this summer.
After nearly a decade and a half as a contract brewer, Shmaltz Brewing opened their own massive brewery in Clifton Park, just north of Albany, back in 2013. But despite being 170 miles away, the brewery still true to their New York City roots. So they’re rounding up the troops for a bus trip up to their Second Anniversary Party this Saturday, and you’re invited.
By now, you probably know about the city’s breweries that are open to the public. There are a lot of them these days, many that offer tours and have taprooms that pour the freshest beer imaginable on the weekends. But there’s a whole world of breweries just beyond the five boroughs that are easy to access by commuter rail and make ideal weekend day trips. Here’s four of our favorites, all accessible from our local commuter rail lines.
On the heels of April’s news that New York had the second-most breweries open in the country last year (67, behind Washington’s 83), the growth hasn’t let up in New York State. Only one fewer Farm Brewery, Microbrewery, or Brewery Retail license was applied for in New York State in the first five months of 2015 compared to 2014, which was a record year of growth. And by our analysis of data from the State Liquor Authority, there were actually more new breweries that applied for licenses in January through May of 2015 than the same period last year.
