Beer Mail: NCB Krakatau
Right: Export Marketing Coordinator Joe Soriero (Image: Ben Droz) Beer Mail is a series celebrating all of the beers that various members of the Brooklyn Brewery family are sent, swap for, or just...
View ArticleTap That Glass: February 19
New York City Beer Week is here, and we’re jazzed for it. Samples of Improved Old Fashioned and beta test games from the NYU Game Center will keep you busy during our Friday happy hours (while supplies...
View ArticleMountains, Deserts, & Beer: Brooklyn Comes to Arizona
Most people know Arizona for its famous features: the grandeur of the desert, the background of the Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons, snow-capped mountains, what some would argue is Nicolas Cage’s...
View ArticleThis Week in Beer: The News You Can Booze on February 19
Bill Murray Comes to Cooperstown: This year’s Belgium Comes to Cooperstown Festival, thrown annually by Brewery Ommegang, will feature an “anything goes” Bill Murray theme. What does that mean for...
View Article“I’ve Always Believed In Brooklyn”
Noted Brooklynite, director and Knicks fan Spike Lee and his agency SPIKE DDB released a video last week simply titled “SPIKE DDB BROOKLYN MADE.” It shows Brooklyn business owners of all stripes–...
View ArticleTapping Into Germany
Germany is the ancestral home of some of the most respected beer on the planet. If you come with your own beer, it has to be the best you can muster. We’ve been doing a great job so far, but we’ve...
View ArticleCooking with Chef Andrew Gerson: Vietnamese Whole Pig Terrine
From the files of Brooklyn Brewery Chef and Head of Culinary Programming Andrew Gerson, we bring you his latest recipe: Vietnamese Whole Pig Terrine. For our Improved Old Fashioned release party, we...
View ArticleReports Of Our Departure Are Greatly Exaggerated
You may have heard in the past couple days that we’re looking to leave Williamsburg. Let’s be clear: we’re not leaving. It’s true that our lease is up in nine years, but that’s nine years away. Nine...
View ArticleTap That Glass: February 26
New York City Beer Week is winding down, but we still have quite a bit in store. Pop in for Neziah Bliss, our barrel-aged SMaSH beer made exclusively for NYCBW, or some 2007 vintage Black Chocolate...
View ArticleThis Week in Beer: The News You Can Booze on February 26
Party On, Wayne: It’s rare for us to cover our own news here on News You Can Booze, but I have to let you know about our Summer in Winter party this Sunday at Webster Hall. There’s a special run of...
View ArticleDefend Beer at SXSW
Image courtesy Brittany Purlee We love joining in on the spirit of SXSW every spring. This year, the Defender is leading us down to Austin to join the fray of music, food, beer and fun with our own...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes with Chef Andrew Gerson
Chef Andrew throwing Blue Steel with some fellow members of our Marketing Unit. Brooklyn Brewery Chef and Head of Culinary Programming Andrew Gerson is one busy guy. But what exactly is he doing all...
View ArticleA Brewer Goes to Barcelona
That fellow up there in the little Polaroid (we promise he’s bigger in person) is Brooklyn Brewer and Lab Technician Rob Capitelli. We’re sending Rob over to Spain for the Barcelona Beer Festival from...
View ArticleThe Worshipful Company of Brewers, Part XIV: “1,001 Nights” by Ayad Asha
The Worshipful Company of Brewers is once again upon us. The charter of this sanctified league dictates that each member of the Brooklyn Brewery brewing team will design and create a batch of his or...
View ArticleTap That Glass: March 4
March is here, and anyone hoping for some early spring weather to come alongside is clearly very disappointed. Huddle away from the chilly weekend winds with us– we’ve got our latest Worshipful Company...
View ArticleThis Week in Beer: The News You Can Booze on March 4
Beer Friends!: News broke this week that New Belgium Brewing will be available in New York City starting in mid-May. They will be distributed by Manhattan Beer Distributors, with launch slated for May...
View ArticleWatson Analyzes This: Greenmarket Wheat
IBM’s Watson computer system, which you may remember from the decidedly one-sided man vs. machine Jeopardy! series when it was first unveiled, is now trying its hand as a psychoanalyst. Personality...
View ArticleThis Week in Beer: The News You Can Booze on March 11
Nothing Feels Good: In a continual ripple of things that make us sad, Scotch producers have alerted the world to a looming shortage of their delicious product. Whisky’s massive spike in popularity...
View ArticleTap That Glass: March 11
With the weather as nice as it is, it seems like we should be celebrating something. Pick a holiday off of Wikipedia and come ring it in with us this weekend. We have some seriously surprising beers on...
View ArticleThe City of Angels, Burgers, and Beer
Los Angeles is one of the finest burger towns in the world. The mere act of writing that as a native New Yorker feels mildly sacrilegious, but any true burger devotee has to respect the LA burger...
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