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There’s never a dull moment on the city’s beer scene lately, so we’ve got a wrap-up of the latest bits and bites of New York beer news in this summary. Among them, a Bushwick duo’s brewing dream is soon to become reality, a small, renown Oregon brewery launches in NYC, and two new ways to learn more about the beverage you love.
The massive beer bar at Crown Heights beer hall Berg'n (Photo: Chris O'Leary)
Because the city can’t seem to go a week without a new beer spot opening, First Look is our roundup of the latest places to open that specialize in craft beer - bars, restaurants, and stores. This week, we take a look at five new spots, including an homage to an historic New York brewery, and a beer shop that’s been reborn as a craft beer bar.
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The annual Great American Beer Festival kicks off Thursday in Denver, and several local brewers will help to put the New York beer scene on the map for a crowd of 50,000 beer drinkers that attend the nation’s largest beer festival. Among the whopping 710 breweries pouring at booths in the festival this year, 17 will be from New York state this year, down slightly from 18 last year. Three of New York City’s breweries will be pouring this year (including two for the first time), and another five from Long Island and Westchester will be serving beer to the thirsty masses this weekend.
We’re turning five this week and we’d love to celebrate with you. So swing by One Mile House (10 Delancey St., at Bowery, Lower East Side) on Saturday from 3pm to midnight as we toast five years of covering the city’s craft beer scene. Meet our editor (okay, fine, the one guy who runs this site and writes pretty much everything), hang out with other beer geeks, and enjoy a tap list of special brews and some of our favorite local beers:
Founders Breakfast Stout 2012
Founders Breakfast Stout 2013
Bruery Autumn Maple 2013
Bruery Autumn Maple 2014
Allagash Victor
Allagash Victoria
Widmer / Cigar City Bourbon Barrel Gentlemens Club
Smuttynose Homunculus 2013
Bell’s Oarsman
Brooklyn Weizenhammer
Captain Lawrence Imperial Pumpkin
Barrier Money IPA
Ithaca Flower Power
Peekskill Simple Sour
Other Half Green Diamonds
There are also some surprises in store beer-wise that you won’t want to miss!
We’ll also be cracking open some bottles from our cellar on the early side on Saturday for those who aren’t getting their fill of beer from Brooklyn Pour.
Admission is free, just pay as you go! More details and a totally unnecessary way to RSVP are on our Facebook Page.
All this week, we’re celebrating our fifth anniversary by sharing some of our favorite and most-read articles on the site. This one is a favorite of ours from 2013, though we’ve added a few new truths after another year of growth and changes in our city’s beer scene.
You always complain about how crowded Blind Tiger is, but you’ll keep going back again and again, and it will be just as crowded as the time before.
You’ve only been to Heartland Brewery when family or friends are visiting from out of town.
You’ve run – or at least walked briskly – to get to a bar that tapped something rare.
You know of a random, dirty bodega with an inexplicably good beer selection.
There’s an amazing beer bar somewhere in the city that you’ve been to once, but is just a bit too far away on the subway to justify going to again.
You’ve spent a ridiculous amount of money on a beer at a bar, only because you didn’t bother to ask how much it was when you ordered it.
And you’ve sworn this will be the last time you shovel out $12 for an 8-ounce pour of some rare beer.
