NYC Beer Events Calendar: April 25 – May 1
It’s a great week to be a Belgian beer lover in New York. Premier importers Vanberg & DeWulf and 12% Imports both hold tastings this week as well as brewery nights with Allagash and Ommegang. This weekend is also Dark Lord Day, one of the most revered days on a beer-geek’s calendar as well as Tap NY and – one of my favorite events of the year – the Sly Fox Goat Race and Bock Festival!
THE WEEK AHEAD
Rest, Recuperate.
12% Imports Tasting – Bierkraft, Brooklyn – 7:00pm
Brian Ewing’s 12% Imports has a simple goal… to travel the world in search of the finest beer and bring it back to America. In just a few years, 12% has risen as one of America’s premier Belgian beer importers alongside Sheldon Brothers and Vanberg & DeWulf (see Thursday). Tonight, Brian holds a free tasting of some of his newest imports including the much lauded Evil Twin (see last week’s beer calendar) and a new collaboration between Sint Canarus and Bierkraft’s Ben Granger. Seating is limited so arrive early.
ALSO
Oskar Blues Takes over the taps at Pony Bar
Kuhnhenn Brewery invades Rattle N Hum with 44 beers!
Allagash Night – Double Windsor, Brooklyn, NY
Windsor Terrace’s (or South Slope’s if you work in real estate) Double Windsor is quickly rising to the ranks as one of Brooklyn’s better beer bars. Forgoing excessive tap lines, they take a strong, curated approach with a well rounded selection of outstanding beers. Tonight is their second Wednesday night Brewery series with one of my favorite American brewer’s… Allagash. This is a great chance to try some impressive Belgian-inspired beers. Vrienden, an Allagash/New Belgium collaboration beer, is my current obsession and you can snag a glass tonight along with Big Little, their rare, hoppy, session ale.
Tap list
Hugh Malone
Big Little
Grand Cru
Bourbon Black
Vrienden
Odyssey
Confluence
Curieux.
Vanberg & DeWulf Celebrates 30 Years – Jimmy’s No. 43 – 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Craft beer really wasn’t craft beer back in 1981. Ken Grossman was just getting Sierra Nevada off the ground and the new emerging trend was “Microbreweries.” Trying to get a quality, imported beer was near impossible. Enter Vanberg & DeWulf, what can be considered the forefathers of European beer importers. V&D are responsible for importing, among other things, the quintessential Saison Dupont. Tonight they bring a massive portfolio of taps and bottles to Jimmy’s to celebrate 30 years of making drinking in America a better. Congrats!
Tap List:
Hop Ruiter
Saison Dupont
Avril Organic
Foret Organic
Moinette Brune
Scaldis Triple
Peche Mel
Lambrucha (tentative)
Random Bottles
ALSO
Ommegang helps David Copperfields kick off Belgian month
The Gate celebrates this years release of Torpedo with a Sierra Nevada event
Smuttynose takes over the taps at Barcade
Real Alewives of NYC – Jimmy’s No. 43
The Real Alewives are a group of craftbeer focused ladies that gather once a month and discuss their love of ales. Tonight they talk Pale Ales from British to American. Make sure you contact the ladies if you are coming as this is a closed event.
Beer At The Big House – Historic Burlington County Prison Museum Courtyard, NJ
Sometimes the best thing about drinking craft beer is the places it takes you. This afternoon, it takes you to a historic prison in Burlington, NJ. High Street Bar & Grill hosts their third annual Beer at the Big House. Bring a chair or a blanket and sip on beers from Yards, Weyerbacher, Lagunitas, Allagash, Troegs, Founders, Sixpoint and more. Tours of the museum go on throughout the day.
ALSO
Dressler hosts and afternoon of oysters and Sixpoint beers
Hunter Mountain’s annual Tap NY festival kicks off
3Floyds annual Dark Lord Day goes down in Munster, Indiana… Bring me back a bottle!
PICK OF THE WEEK! – Sly Fox Bock Festival & Goat Race – Phoenixville, PA
If you think going to a prison to drink is cool, then how about a giant, strip mall parking lot in Pennsylvania to knock back German style beers and watch goats race! That’s right, thousands head to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania this afternoon for the twelfth annual Sly Fox Bock Festival & Goat Race. Sip on Slacker Bock, Helles Bock, Instigator Doppelbock, two Eisbocks (usually Slacker and Instigator) and a Maibock while you mingle with goats… what more could you want?
ON THE HORIZON AND TRAVEL WORTHY
* = new event this week
*05.03 Pretty Things’ Once Upon a Time: December 6th 1855 Release Event – Rye House, NYC
05.07 Big Brew for National Homebrew Day – Nationwide
05.10 WINE ALERT: Uncorked: Edible Brooklyn’s local wine soiree – Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
05.13 Long Island Craft Beer Week – Long Island, NY
05.14 Captain Lawrence 5th Anniversary Pig Roast – Captain Lawrence Brewery, Pleasantville, NY
*05.14 L.I. Craft Beer Week Cask Ale Festival – T.J. Finley’s, Bay Shore, NY
05.16 – 05.20 American Craft Beer Week
*05.15 Brewery Bonding with Southampton and Brooklyn – Effin Gruven, Bellmore, NY (Long Island)
05.21 4th Annual Yardley Beer Fest – Yardley, PA
05.21 IPA Block Party – Hawthorne’s, Philadelphia, PA
05.21 German Maifest – Circle Line at Pier 81, New York, NY
05.28 Hill Farmstead’s First Anniversay Celebration – Hill Farmstead, Greensboro, VT
*05.29 Brewer’s Pic-NYC – Governor’s Island, NYC
06.03 – 06.12 Philadelphia Craft Beer Week – Philadelphia, PA
06.03 American Craft Beer Festival – Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
06.08 Montreal Mondial de la Bière – Montreal, Canada
06.10-06.11 Get Real NY Belgian Beer Festival – New York City, NY
06.11 World Record PBR Pyramid Party – DIY DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
*06.15 Learning to Beer: Tapped, with Peak Organic – Idle Hands, NYC
06.16 – 06.18 AHA National Homebrewer’s Conference – San Diego, CA
06.18 Founders Fest, 2011 – Founders Block Party, Grand Rapids, MI
07.28 Edible Manhattan/Brooklyn’s Good Beer – Brooklyn, NY
07.29 Belgium comes to Cooperstown – Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown, NY
08.06 Mammoth Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza – Mammoth Lakes, CA
09.16 – 09.25 New York Craft Beer Week – New York City, NY
09.29 Great American Beer Festival – Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
10.15 Founders Harvest Event – Founders Taproom, Grand Rapids, MI
11.05 Learn to Homebrew Day – Nationwide
11.12 Breakfast Stout Breakfast – Founders Taproom, Grand Rapids, MI
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Brooklyn Brewery Companion Release Party
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Brew n Chew 4
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Freaktoberfest 2011
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New York Craft Beer Week
The Best Events of NY Craft Beer Week 2011
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Belgium Comes to Cooperstown 2011
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Edible Manhattan’s Good Beer
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Photos and summary of the 2011 Sly Fox Bock Fest and Goat Race where winning goat Peggy overcame two time champion Dax… Prost!
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NYC Beer Events Calendar: April 25 – May 1
New York City Craft Beer Events for the Week of April 25 – May 1st. This week is very Belgian beer focused with Allagash, 12% Imports, Ommegang, Vanburg & DeWulf and more.
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Events
Oyster Shuck and Cask Ale Festival – Bierkraft Backyard
What goes better with oysters than an a few great cask ales. Despite the rain, we had one great afternoon at Bierkraft’s new backyard
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April Sours – Jimmy’s No. 43
Jimmy’s No 43 celebrates sour beers from around the world with Cantillon, BFM, Allagash, Jolly Pumpkin and more.
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NYC Beer Events Calendar: April 18 – 25
New York City Craft Beer Events for the Week of April 18 – 25. Founders, Brooklyn Brewery, Mikkeller, Evil Twin and more!
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The Cider Press
Finn River Farm & Cidery
On this week’s edition of The Cider Press, I talk with Crystie and Keith Kisler of Washington’s Finn River Farm & Cidery
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BrewYork no. 8 – The Ocho
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NYC Beer Events Calendar: April 4 – 10
New York City Craft Beer Events for the Week of April 4 – 10. Hill Farmstead, Captain Lawrence, Blue Point Cask Ale Festival and more!
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The Cider Press
American Ice Ciders Reviewed
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New York City Craft Beer Events for the Week of March 28th – April 3rd
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Video
Tobes got a Drinking Problem
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The Cider Press
Cider Buck Cocktails
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Murray’s Cheese Happy Hour with Kelso of Brooklyn
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Get Real NY Craft Beer and Food Festival
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