The Wilky in Bed Stuy is turning one! The Wilkyversary festivities are this weekend, Saturday-Sunday January 14-15, starting a 2PM. Their 18 taps will be filled with rarities, awesomeness, and one-offs- including KCBC Wilkyversary #1, a pomegranate sour brewed with The Wilky team. There will also be free bottle pours and free presents given out hourly…
Hudson Valley Breweries in 6 Easy Steps By Eric Sturniolo We live in the golden age of New York City beer, but don’t forget there’s lot of great stuff being brewed just north of us in the Hudson Valley. Here are 6 easy steps to help you on your Hudson Valley beer adventure: Step 1:…
Best of the Bottle Share By Eric Sturniolo We recently hosted a bottle share at The Wilky, a new (and great) craft beer spot in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. We were lucky to have a lot of cool people bring a lot of amazing bottles. The standouts, whether for pure quality or uniqueness, are below.. happy…
This may be hard to believe, but after 2 years of aging, Hill Farmstead Clara is still… amazing! The brewery describes this beer as a grissette, which is a French style extremely similar to a saison: crisp, low-alcohol, summery, wheaty. Clara hits all the marks and more. Tastes of wheat, lemon, and yeast, with a…
Our second beer share somehow surpassed the first one. We featured some great bonuses too, including a 4 course meal provided by http://www.relevanteventsnyc.com, and a mid-beer vermouth break provided by http://uncouthvermouth.com As for the beer, here’s the final list! Please let us know if you’d like to be included in the next one! Logsdon Peche…
After the unfortunate circumstances of last year’s THE Festival in Portland, nobody was really sure if another organizer would tackle the mess of craziness that is Maine’s antiquated approach to beer regulation. But miracles happen, especially when beer is involved. Sierra Nevada just announced a 7-stop series of festivals they’re calling “The largest craft beer celebration…
This collab has been around for a while but I keep coming back to it because it’s just so darn succulent. Witness: It was gone before I could take a photo of it in the glass: Shaun Hill, the philosophizer genius behind Hill Farmstead – recently profiled in the New York Times – works as Grassroots…
Andrew: The first time I tried a beer by the Swedish brewery Omnipollo was at The Festival this past summer. I actually spoke with Henok, founder and brewer, and he told me about all of the beers they were pouring (while we waited in the long line to try Cantillon’s Zwanze). He was a really…
Eric: Last night I was lucky enough to have some really rare and incredible Hair of the Dog beers. But first, some other stuff I’ve had recently: Friday night was IPA night (with a sour break)- Stone 17th Anniversary Götterdämmerung IPA is made with German and German-inspired hops and malts. Maybe because of that, it…
Andrew: I’m home sick today. It sucks because I want to drink the beer that I bought last weekend on the epic VT trip. Luckily, there are only a few I have yet to try. First I’ll start this post by finishing off the day and night we spent in Waterbury, VT: After visiting The…
Andrew: I’ve been taking as many beercations and going to as many beer events as I can this summer before the baby comes (in only a couple months!). It started in mid-June with Savor, then The Festival, a beer share for my birthday and now the BBz conquered the greatest beer state on the East…
Eric: You like beer, live in NYC, and have a Hyundai Elantra. What to do? Drive 6 hours to Vermont on a random Thursday, of course! That’s what we did, leaving early Thursday morning, making some epic anti-traffic maneuvers, and arriving at 3pm. Our trip included stops at: 1. tasting and purchases at Hill Farmstead…
Andrew: Sooooo . . . this weekend was such an insane beer weekend that it’s hard for me to decide what and what not to include. I’ll start with Thursday night (still in NYC): Enjoyed a Russian River Blind Pig IPA this evening before heading off to Portland. (Side note: I had this shipped to…
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