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Beer and Beard: Brooklyn Brewery Celebrates Great News

Brooklyn Brewery knows how to enjoy a birthday. The Kings County beermakers are celebrating their 25th year in business by releasing a "Silver Anniversary" lager with a tricked-out label designed by four local artists. The brew's release comes on the heels of other exciting news for the company: Bre ... More >>

The Poetry Project’s 39th Annual New Year’s Day benefit

Brooklyn Brewery Finishes Expansion, Expects 100,000 Barrels of Beer

A bright yellow crane stuck out against the Williamsburg waterfront on Tuesday morning as it installed three 25-foot-long fermenters in the Brooklyn Brewery on North 12th Street. This week marks the third and final phase in the Brooklyn beer company's expansion plan that was announced in February 2 ... More >>

Guy Fieri Will Never Be Like Bobby Flay; Batali on Eataly Expansion

Guy Fieri is bringing his "Awesome Pretzel Chicken Tenders" to Times Square and tells the New York Post that he has something to prove to those with misconceptions about TV chefs: "Look, I'm not Mario Batali, I'm not Bobby Flay -- there's only one of those cats. I'm not trying to be something that I ... More >>

Brooklyn Pour Announces First Round of Brewers

[See More Events: BLT Cooking Class, Iron Chef Contestant Menu | Drink the City] Fellow beerheads, take heed! The Village Voice's second annual beer festival Brooklyn Pour has announced 40 of the 100-plus craft brewers at the event, which takes place on Saturday, October 6 at Skylight One Hanson. P ... More >>

TALL TALES

Tom Shillue takes his show to Brooklyn

Welcome to Beer UP: A (New!) Weekly Examination of, Well, Beer

This week: Brooklyn Summer Ale

Swallow Some Nettles at Parish Hall!

The locavoric folks behind Egg open a new Williamsburg spot

What's Happening This Week: World Water Week, Pizza Lessons

Celebrate World Water Week (March 19-25) by participating in the UNICEF Tap Project. Restaurants this week will ask customers to donate $1 or more for the tap water they drink while dining, and donate all proceeds to the program. Here's a list of participating restaurants. Monday: The American Ins ... More >>

Happy Hour at Housing Works: Buckets of Brooklyn Beer for $18

Drink for the good.​ What better reason can you have for drinking on a Friday afternoon than helping those in need? Housing Works Used Bookstore Café does more than just assist homeless New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS. It also throws a pretty mean happy hour.

Four Loko Is Back... With a New Can!; Vodka Marketing Is Out of Control

​If you thought you'd heard the last of Four Loko, were you ever wrong. After removing caffeine from the recipe last year, Four Loko's makers have agreed to change the label to read, "This can has as much alcohol as 4 regular (12 oz. 5 percent alc/vol) beers." That should do the trick. [FOX Ne ... More >>

Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver On The Oxford Companion to Beer

photo by Michael Harlan TurkellGarrett Oliver makes beer a companion.​When an editor at the Oxford University Press first approached Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, about doing The Oxford Companion to Beer, he politely declined. Having already written a book, the prospect of su ... More >>

Craft Beer Week Coming Soon to New York City

Landfelddt / FlickrBottoms up!​While there is no greater craft beer event this autumn than the Village Voice's own Brooklyn Pour, beer geeks should get pumped for New York City's fourth annual Craft Beer Week, occurring from Friday, September 16 to Sunday, September 25. With almost 100 bars a ... More >>

Greetings From the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival

​A table setting awaits the largest of gamblers in this display inside the Showboat casino. This weekend, I had the pleasure of representing the Village Voice for the second year in a row at the Food Network's annual Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival. Here are some snapshots of that event ... More >>

Is Snoop-Endorsed Blast By Colt 45 the New Four Loko?; Why Wódka Is Winning

​Love beer so much you want to lather with it? Brooklyn Brewery has teamed up with a Williamsburg soapsmith to make artisanal beer soap. [Brooklyn Paper] The Cuba Libre is more than just a "rum and Coke." Add bitters, a splash of gin, and Key lime juice or Meyer lemon juice to kick yours up a ... More >>

Mable's Smokehouse—We Meat Again

Williamsburg gets itself another good barbecue joint

Pix from Williamsburg's New Barbecue, Mable's Smokehouse

​This is what spectacular brisket looks like. This week, Counter Culture drives the old Chevy pickup to Williamsburg's new Oklahoma-style barbecue, Mable's Smokehouse. That makes three great bbq's in the neighborhood (the others: Fette Sau and Fatty 'Cue).

Souvlaki GR Is Opening Today, Schnitzel & Things Is Not

Rebecca Marx​A few days after we remarked upon the flowers bedecking its facade, Souvlaki GR has opened to the public.

With MikNic Lounge, Red Hook Gets A New Neighborhood Bar

The name says it all.​Columbia Waterfront is home to a new venue for beer and, eventually, live music. MikNic Lounge, as the name suggests, is the brainchild of Miki Mosman, the manager at Barramundi, and Nicki Humphrey, a veteran bartender at Milano's Bar. The two soft opened the bar in Decem ... More >>

New Yorkers Rally to Save 76-Year-Old Coney Island Bar, Ruby's

​You've probably heard that a number of Coney Island boardwalk businesses -- including iconic spots like Ruby's bar -- have lost their licenses. And this probably, if you're anything like us, makes you sad. Thor Equities has apparently given Ruby's just two weeks to vacate, according to Patell ... More >>

Why Did the New York Times Scrub Sudsy Story on a Brooklyn Beer Brouhaha?

​Why are people protesting Williamsburg's famed Brooklyn Brewery for contributing to the death of Coney Island when they have nothing to do with it? Because of the New York Times being totally wrong, is why!

What's Happening This Week: A Beery Dinner; A Sherry Reveal

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Brooklyn Brewery Dinner Austin's Steak & Ale House Tuesday, October 12 at 7 p.m Join Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster, Garrett Oliver, for the eighth edition of this ann ... More >>

STRANGE BREW

Take one down, pass it around

Goods Trailer Restaurant Is Now Open in Williamsburg

​About a month ago, Rebecca interviewed 3rd Ward co-owner Jason Goodman about Goods, the vintage trailer kitchen/outdoor cafe that he was planning for a Williamsburg vacant lot. Now word has come that Goods is open for business.

Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint This Sunday

Robert SietsemaPies 'n' Thighs will represent this Sunday.​Williamsburg and Greenpoint will promote neighborhood culinary pride and try to raise money for a local community center this Sunday, May 16, with Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint, a grazing event featuring many of the neighborhoods' rest ... More >>

Battle of the Brooklyn IPAs

​ India pale ales evolved from British pale ales in the early 1800s -- merchants needed a beer that would not spoil on the long journey from England to India. A brewer named George Hodgson figured out that if you made a stronger beer, with more alcohol, hops, and malt, the beer would not only ... More >>

Our 10 Best Beers

​ When we got the idea to do Our 10 Best Beers, little did we realize what a shark tank we were jumping into. While wine drinkers, cocktail swillers, and those that drink their spirits neat are a very vocal and cantankerous bunch, the vast majority of beer fanciers just sit back, foamy quaff i ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Good Beer & Chocolate Camp

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Summer Blow-out BBQ Hope Lounge July 29, 7-11 p.m. Join Sam Mason of Tailor for a Summer Blow-out BBQ this Wednesday at Hope Lounge. There'll be $5 plates of me ... More >>

Shows This Weekend: TV on the Radio in Central Park, Hangover-Obliterating Techno, and Alcoholic-Chef Competitions

Friday Noted Björk collaborators the Dirty Projectors join 2008 Pazz & Jop winners TV on the Radio in Central Park Friday night to benefit this year's free Central Park SummerStage slate. Beware of projectile vomiting at Webster Hall; Chromeo's Dave 1 is DJing tonight. Trumpet virtuoso Ralph Ale ... More >>

BROOKLYN (MODERN) LOVE

Sometimes the only way to get to love is through a tragedy

POUR SOME BEER ON ME

Amateur cook-offs escalate to alcohol

Booze News--Bakon Vodka Is Here; $10K A Month to Wine Twitter

A new Dutch study says that drinking up to half a glass of wine per day can help you live up to five years longer--if you're a man. More than half a glass and life expectancy starts to drop off again. [AP via Google] Murphy-Goode Winery in Sonoma County is offering a $10,000-per-month gig to a wine ... More >>

HOP HEAVEN

Drink up with 52 award-winning breweries

Well Regulated

Lido Bar's stoner-pal familiarity

Cheap and Outside

Bars with inexpensive drinks and a backyard

Tarts await at this Brazilian bar in Williamsburg

Hop State Pride

A roundup of New York's great microbreweries

Hopped Up

Hardcore brewing dudes make peanut butter beer in an NYC tenement apartment

Willy Wonka Goes Sideways: A Decadent Bar Sets the Standard

A Case for the Thrifty

The party planner: Where to find booze on a budget

A Swanky New Lounge on Bedford Avenue? Say It Is So.

Lap of Luxury: Where Cheap Brew and Oysters à la Carte Rule

Unslick Dick

Girl pornographers just want to have fun, and do, in Sweet Action

Unslick Dick

See you later: Folks swamp a Williamsburg watering hole

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Urban Oases

Do The Strokes

England Discovers New York Again

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