Astoria’s Singlecut Beersmiths has released their beer in bottles for the first time, just ahead of yet another beer release and their second anniversary.

The Bon Bon 2x TNT IPA is available in 0.5L bottles at the brewery and at retailers around the city, including Whole Foods, Good Beer, Eastern District, and Triboro Beverage. A full list of retailers is on the brewery’s blog. The hopped-up Double IPA already gained a good reputation in keg form, ranking 20th on our list of the top beers brewed in NYC back in October.

The Bon Bon is just the beginning of their bottled offerings.

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The holiday season is upon us! December is a month for gatherings and get-togethers with family and friends… but that doesn’t mean beer is out of the picture! We’ve got a rundown of some of this month’s beer events that you can squeeze between holiday parties this December.

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Thanksgiving is coming up, and a lot of families with gather for dinner with a fine bottle of wine, or perhaps a bit of eggnog. Maybe you’re going to go home and wonder, “where’s the beer?” You’ve discovered craft beer, but Uncle Joe’s knowledge of beer goes no further than the confines of the Anheuser-Busch factory, and Aunt Maude turns her nose at the mere mention of beer as she sips her glass of merlot. Family gatherings like this are a great opportunity to make believers in beer, break down the stereotypes of craft beer, and introduce people to new aromas and flavors that they never associate with beer.

And let’s get to the real point here: beer is far more friendly to food pairings than wine. With all the different styles - some that lend themselves well to pairings with an endless number of types of cuisine, beer shouldn’t even be optional on the Thanksgiving Dinner table, especially when you consider the wide variety of foods that end up on your plate.

Here are some tips and suggestions for beers to put on your Thanksgiving Dinner table:

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Every year, the folks at Blind Tiger Ale House (281 Bleecker St., at Jones St., West Village) cart out some of the beers they’ve been keeping in their cellar all at once, in an event called VSK (or Very Special Keg). They’ll put them all on this Wednesday, November 19th, at 3pm. The event runs until the kegs kick.

Among the highlights this year: a rare appearance of a keg from famed Beglian brewer Cantillon, one of the few remaining kegs of one of Sierra Nevada’s 25th Anniversary Collaborations (aged three years), kegs from farmhouse brewers Hill Farmstead, Logsdon, and Crooked Stave, and much more.

As always, we suggest you get there early for the best selection, because a lot of this stuff will go fast and may never be seen again. But if you can’t get there until later, there’s so much rare stuff that there’s sure to be something you’ve never had before.

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What greater feeling is there as a beer drinker than drinking fresh beer straight from the source? Given the explosion in craft breweries in New York City in the past two years, it’s becoming easier and easier to do. So, for your reference, we’ve put together a list of every single place in the five boroughs where you can drink beer brewed right on the premises. Some places, you can only try a few samples, and at others, you can drink a whole pint (or several). Regardless, these are the places where fresh beer can hit your lips within feet of where it’s brewed… and it’s updated with even more places since we last compiled this over the summer! Our list is sorted by borough. Here we go!

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Some might say that “another one bit the dust” yesterday when Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewing announced they were acquired by beer giant Anheuser-Busch Inbev. It’s the second small craft brewery the company has purchased this year – they announced they would acquired Long Island’s Blue Point back in February. It’s easy to cast off 10 Barrel and Blue Point as sell-outs to a company that craft brewers see as a rival. It’s also easy to understand why craft breweries are doing what they do. When enemies become friends, it’s complicated.

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