2016 Hops & Props Festival
Feb26

2016 Hops & Props Festival

Words cannot express how excited I am to pour a gluten-free beer for this year’s Hops & Props festival (*Evening Session*), which takes place tomorrow Feb. 27 at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City. Hops & Props is a draft only festival and located at truly unique and historic venue. Since I’ve been told that the festival is one of the best festivals to attend on Long Island, I immediately wanted to brew a...

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Tørst Named Best American Beer Bar in New York
Feb25

Tørst Named Best American Beer Bar in New York

CraftBeer.com recently announced the results of the 2016 “Great American Beer Bars.” A special congratulations to Tørst in Brooklyn to being listed as one of the 51 best beer bars in the country. Tørst was founded in 2013 by Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, Denmark’s Evil Twin brewer, and Daniel Burnswho of Noma and Momofuku Labs. The Brooklyn bar currently has over 200 bottles and cans, and 21 beers on tap (draft list).  According...

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News on Tap – January 22, 2016
Jan22

News on Tap – January 22, 2016

It’s easy to let time pass by when you’re schlepping to your job that you love too much, but then Friday comes and you grab that ice cold beer (or in my case, cider), and everything is forgotten. All of the times you got pinged at work, the nagging supervisors, and dumb coworkers who you don’t even know how they even got hired. Maybe you’re heading home by train, bus, subway…or maybe you’re stuck in traffic (hopefully not texting and...

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Traveling Down to Hood’s Up Brewery
Nov10

Traveling Down to Hood’s Up Brewery

Although my favorite season has officially begun, I can’t help to miss summer: the beaches, barbeques, and light summer beers. I decided to take a mental vacation down to sunny Florida to visit Hood’s Up Brewery, which has been on my list of breweries to visit for some time. Founded by brewer Tim Goodman, who has been brewing since the 1990s, the soon to be Downtown Sanford brewery specializes in sours, saisons, barrel aged beers...

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Great South Bay’s Greatest Season of the Year
Oct26

Great South Bay’s Greatest Season of the Year

  Great South Bay Brewery has a lot to celebrate this season: their five year anniversary, wining two gold medals at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), and closing out the Oktoberfest season with punk music and brews at their annual Punktoberfest. Each year, local punk bands and micro breweries (with their unique combination of brews) participate in this festival. While the breweries continue to present the beers that have...

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