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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, from the big to the nano.
Throngs of “hipsters” stream into the Great American Beer Festival, apparently.
In a well-reasoned and otherwise smart article about beer on Deadspin last week, The Sporkful host Dan Pashman slipped into using a phrase to describe craft beer drinkers that really grinds my gears:
Indeed, there are few more objectionable varieties of hipster than the craft beer enthusiast who claims the mantle of the commoner while displaying the affectation of the snob.
Boiling down passionate craft beer drinkers into a “hipster” stereotype makes my blood boil, because it’s simply not the case. Yes, while Pashman is making a larger point about beer snobbery – a bad habit of craft beer drinkers that I’ve harped on before – portraying the über-est of beer drinkers as “hipsters” is lazy. Worse, it alienates potential craft beer drinkers who see a negative connotation with the term. And the reality is that the demographics just don’t jive with craft beer consumers being anything resembling “hipster.”
With Bronx Brewery’s new facility in Port Morris coming on line this month and its tasting room set to open next week, New York City now has 20 breweries – a number not seen in generations. The number of breweries operating in New York City has doubled just in the past 11 months from 10 breweries, signaling a period of rapid growth for the industry that only begins to catch the city up to a trend occurring nationwide for several years.
It’s got four sessions, over 700 brewers, over 3,500 beers, and 49,000 thirsty attendees across 300,000 square feet. Great American Beer Festival is the nation’s largest beer festival, and it’s a sight to see. Each year, we come to Denver to discover new breweries we love, new trends in brewing, and meet lots of amazing people who are truly passionate advocates for and drinkers of craft beer. Here’s what we discovered this year.
New York state’s breweries celebrated their victories at this weekend’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver, taking home four medals — one gold and four silver — in a competition that featured over 1,300 American craft breweries and over 5,500 beers. Four medals is down from seven last year, but some brewers won in large, notable categories.
We’re headed out to Denver today for our annual excursion to Great American Beer Festival, the largest celebration of craft beer in the country. But you don’t have to go to Colorado to celebrate great beer with a few hundred (or thousand) of your closest friends. Here are three local beer festivals on tap for October you can put on your calendar now!
