A Toast to Phife Dawg
We lift our glasses this week in memory of Phife Dawg, Queens native and rap icon as a member of A Tribe Called Quest. Phife’s music was a formative influence on many of us here at the Brooklyn...
View ArticleTap That Glass: March 25
Good news: we’re open on Easter Sunday! Once you’re done with your egg hunt (or you’re not celebrating, or it’s Friday, and so on), come join us for a few beers in the Tasting Room. The taps will flow....
View ArticleThe Weekly Sixer: March 25
Woah, what happened to News You Can Booze? Well, we liked the name The Weekly Sixer better. Still all the booze news you need, just in time to wile away your Friday before happy hour starts. Happy...
View ArticleSeasonally Creeping
Let’s clear up my bias immediately: I love summer, and I hate winter. Summer is full of long, fun-filled days, beaches, and grilling weather. Winter has short, nasty days, brutal nights, and requires...
View ArticleTap That Glass: April 1
Stay alert, folks: April Fool’s Day is a tricky time for anyone on the Internet, or attempting to adjust to a medieval calendar shift (and here we all are complaining about Daylight Savings.) We...
View ArticleThe Weekly Sixer: April 1
Your Prescribed April Fool’s Humor Dose: April Fool’s Day is a tough day to be on the Internet, or be near your one prank-happy friend. Get some classical humor with a collection of “Walked Into A...
View ArticleA Pairing Guide to American Ale
Brooklyn American Ale has been a brewery favorite for some time now, and it’s finally coming to the rest of our friends across the country and around the world. Whether you’re drinking it from the tap...
View ArticleWatson Analyzes This: American Ale
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 ArticleTap That Glass: April 8
Happy Weekend-After-National-Beer-Day! We’re celebrating in the common manner with plenty of beer, good music, and loud tour guides. Stop by and see what’s happening– some of these beers are entering...
View ArticleThe Weekly Sixer: April 8
Featured image courtesy Robert Chamorro. Find him @robertochamorro Champagne Machine Gun is a Necessary Waste: Let’s be honest, this thing is pretty dumb. It’s just a way of holding a bottle of...
View ArticleFive Parties, Nine Cities, One Mash Tour
The 2016 Mash Tour is bringing five distinct parties to nine cities all across the world. Now that the Mash is in its fourth year, we wanted to really get down and create the greatest festival we...
View ArticleIn Class At The CIA: Bock It Up
Class is in session at Brooklyn Brewery at the CIA, our brewhouse and teaching facility at the Culinary Institute of America. Each month, we’ll take you inside the classroom to learn alongside the...
View ArticleTap That Glass: April 15
For the longest time the other day, I couldn’t remember the name of that one guy on Saturday Night Live. It was just killing me. I mean, we were watching some of his old videos, he’s right there in...
View ArticleThe Weekly Sixer: April 15
Another One Bites The Dust, Again: Anheuser-Busch snapped up another craft brewery this week, purchasing Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company in an undisclosed deal. Unsubstantiated rumors put the deal at...
View ArticleGet In The Game At Bello’s
There’s the football that’s played with a bunch of armor-clad behemoths, only one of whom ever actually gets to put foot and ball together. Then there’s football, the world’s fastest and most popular...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s New Look
You’re going to start seeing something a little different when you pick up your next pack of Brooklyn Brewery beer. A lot different, to be totally honest. After 28 years of iconic design, we’re...
View ArticleIt’s Immersion Season
Now that the weather is finally warming up, it’s time to shake off your layers of takeout menus and blankets and get back to one of the biggest perks of living in New York City: exploring new...
View ArticleTap That Glass: April 22
In lieu of our usual jokes, here’s a bunch of people trying to explain Prince. Come have a beer with us this weekend and try to guess which of our bartenders downloaded Tidal to access Prince’s catalog...
View ArticleThe Weekly Sixer: April 22
Farewell, Prince: All of us at the Brooklyn Brewery are upset by Prince’s untimely passing. Many of us finally caved and downloaded Tidal. The man was as much an icon as an iconoclast, and we’ll...
View ArticleHej, Stockholm: The Mash is Coming
Get ready, Stockholm: The 2016 Mash Tour is heading your way May 26-29, packing your weekend with music, beer, food, beer, exploration, some wild surprises, and yes…even more beer! Tickets are on sale...
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