On the heels of the release of his new book, The Craft Beer Revolution: How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World’s Favorite Drink, Brooklyn Brewery co-found Steve Hindy is on a bit of a press junket lately. Earlier this week, he participated in a Reddit IAmA, and tonight at 7pm, he’ll be at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue for a panel discussion with Kim Jordan of New Belgium and Charlie Papazian, president of the Brewers Association. Tickets are still available if you’re one of those types who waits until the last minute.

Here are some choice quotes from his IAmA on Wednesday.

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With over 2,800 breweries in the United States, there’s seemingly one around every corner these days. But where, we wondered, is that not the case? After all, a lot of them are clustered in hotbeds of activity - there’s over 100 each in the Denver and Portland metro areas, and over 80 in the San Diego area. There’s even a few dozen here in the Tri-State area. So clearly, there must be some places where there’s one lone brewery, out in the middle of nowhere, that’s making craft beer with no one else around.

So, we pose the question: what American craft brewery is furthest from the next nearest brewery? In other words, where is there a brewery with no other brewery nearby?

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Walking up to the second-floor office at the Bronx Brewery this week would make someone think they entered the wrong building. A disheveled office the staff had used since moving into their new space last year was completely gutted, refinished, and empty. It’s one of many improvements brewer Damian Brown highlighted when we visited recently.

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Spring kind of crept up on us, and while it seems like just yesterday we were still skiing in the Catskills, it’s time for New York State’s biggest craft beer event of the year: TAP New York at Hunter Mountain is this Saturday and Sunday, and tickets are still available.

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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 stay all-local with the official Queens Beer Week beer, and new offerings from brewers in Brooklyn and The Bronx.

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More than half of the new breweries to open in New York City in the past three years have opened in Queens. So it’s not surprising that the borough that now boasts the most breweries is hosting its own beer week. Queens Beer Week will run today through 27th, and the event lineup is chock full of great beers and surprises.

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