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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 the new offerings available from breweries around the city that’ll help soothe your seasonal affective disorder in the doldrums of the coldest week of the year.
In less than a month, the New York City Brewers Guild will kick off New York City Beer Week, ten days of big beer events throughout the five boroughs. Last night, the guild announced some of the marquee events that have already been scheduled. This year’s week will run February 20th to March 1st, and kicks off a bit differently than last year with an “Opening Tap” at locations all around the city. There’s still a big Opening Bash, but it moves to a new location this year. And there’s even more great beer events already lined up for the week.
Let’s get this out of the way first: my trip to Cleveland was already going to be memorable before I became one of two passengers on my plane home – a story that unexpectedly made international headlines. But this isn’t about me; this is about the Northeast Ohio beer scene. Its oldest craft brewery, Great Lakes, opened in 1988 and paved the way for many more; a relaxing of Ohio’s taproom rules helped the industry expand quickly over the past three years, making all three of Ohio’s largest cities legitimate craft beer destinations.
Like many American cities, Cleveland now boasts a bonafide beer neighborhood: Ohio City. Just to the west of downtown, this area has a strangle-hold on craft beer with four breweries, two noteworthy beer bars, and a lineup of restaurants that have embraced the locally-brewed liquid. If you start anywhere, we’d recommend starting there.
Now, our rundown of Cleveland’s top beer venues.
After nearly two years of brewing elsewhere and working to bring a dream to reality (with a little help from Kickstarter), Yonkers Brewing Co. (92 Main St., at Buena Vista Ave., Yonkers) opened a brewery and taproom over the weekend in downtown Yonkers. The opening celebration on Saturday packed the place to the gills with beer geeks ready to get their hands on some of the first beers to come out of the newly-minted space in the Old Trolley Barn building in downtown.
Meet your new top beer in New York City (Photo via finbackbrewery on Instagram)
Untappd is - pardon the pun - an untapped wealth of knowledge about beer. With millions of beer check-ins and ratings, there’s so much data to peruse. So, each quarter, we provide an update on a pressing question: what are the top rated beers brewed in the five boroughs?
When Brooklyn Brewery’s beloved resident feline, Monster, passed away back in 2012, that ended the brewery’s run of its annual Monster Ale barleywine. But the beer lives on, in keg rooms and beer cellars the world over. And this week at Bar Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave., at Driggs Ave., Greenpoint) its legacy continues with five days full of aged barleywine goodness. It’s called Monster Week.
