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Jeff “Chief” O'Neil delivers the keynote speech at last year’s NYC Brewers Choice
Jeff O'Neil, brewer at Peekskill Brewery for the past three years, is leaving the brewery in March to pursue a new project: his own production brewery. The yet-to-be-named brewery will be located somewhere in the Hudson Valley, and will also be canning beer to deliver the freshest beer possible to the area. He hopes to be able to announce a location soon, and plans to open the brewery by the summer of 2016.
Time for another edition of New Brews, where we tell you about the new beers arriving on draft lines and beer store shelves around the city. In this edition, we’ll tell you about some new bottles, cans, and draft beers from six of the city’s brewers.
Late last year, tiny Southern California outlet Alpine Beer Company announced that it would be acquired by Green Flash Brewing Company. The benefits of the deal would mean more Alpine Beer produced in Green Flash’s brewing facility and better distribution through their much larger network. When we visited San Diego in December, we were already reaping the benefits by getting to sample the Alpine Duet in Green Flash’s tasting room. Now, those benefits will be reaped by New York beer drinkers – Alpine is coming to the East Coast.
If you’re a fan of Other Half Brewing, your plans for Sunday might change when you hear this news: cans of their Superfun! Pale Ale will be on sale this Sunday at noon at their taproom (195 Centre St., at Smith St., Gowanus). The beer is a sessionable 4.2% ABV American Pale Ale with Simcoe, Galaxy, and El Dorado hops, and it’s the brewery’s first can release, in cooperation with Iron Heart Canning, a mobile canning line operator.
The 16-ounce cans will be $4 each, $14 for a four-pack, or $84 for a case, with a limit of one case per person. Happy shopping!
Virtually every major American city and town in the nation has a least a handful of breweries these days. With well over three thousand breweries in operation, it’s likely that some of these will end up settling in the same area. The pioneering craft brewers set up shop in neighborhoods, bringing people and new businesses in and, in some cases, gentrifying them. Some of those new businesses, naturally, are more breweries, who feed off the streams of beer geeks coming to visit the neighborhood’s anchor breweries.
Here are just four of the nation’s noteworthy neighborhood clusters of beer bars and breweries.
“Shots fired.” That’s how some beer geeks reacted to the $9 million, 60-second Budweiser TV ad that ran during the third quarter of the Super Bowl last night. But the truth is, shots have been fired for years. They’ve come for decades in the form of insult-hurtling at Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors from craft brewers – more like the buzz of gnats to the beer giants. But these days, the shots at big beer are coming in the form of declining sales – a threat facing brands like Budweiser that has become too big to ignore. Now, they’re hurtling insults right back in a very public place.
