2018 New York City Cider Week
This weekend commences New York City Cider Week, a nine-day cider celebration at bars, restaurants and bottle shops in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Cider Week festivals, which launched 2011 in various locations in New York State, connects the public with cideries by offering tastings, cider dinners, festivals, and other educational events. From November 2-11, more than 50 cider events will take place around the city. Here are...
Blue Point Brewery Celebrates 20th Anniversary
More than 3,500 people joined Blue Point Brewery to celebrate its 20th anniversary “Rewind to ’98” on October 13. The sold-out party took place at the brewery’s new location on 225 W Main St in Patchogue. Attendees dressed in 90s attire and danced the night away drinking beers re-released by Blue Point from the last 20 years. “A number of original beers were made available during the 20th Anniversary...
Brewnited During American Craft Beer Week
More than 6,000 small and independent breweries are holding special beer releases, beer and food pairings, tap takeovers to celebrate craft beer during American Craft Beer Week (May 14 – May 20). In addition to celebrating breweries this week, the Brewers Association unveiled a new campaign to encourage independent craft brewers to adopt the independent craft brewer seal. The seal is an educational tool for beer...
LIC Beer Project Celebrates Second Annual Coronation Day
LIC Beer Project (www.licbeerproject.com) is hosting its second annual Coronation Day on Saturday, May 5 to celebrate the anniversary of Pile of Crowns, the brewery’s first Imperial India Pale Ale that was ever released. In addition to Pile of Crowns, LIC Beer Project is dropping two new Imperial IPAs in cans: Interstellar Overdrive and Cosmic Kiss. Pile of Crowns (8.5% ABV) is LIC Beer Project’s most treasured hoppy beer and is...
2018 Craft Brewers Conference
Next week over 13,000 professionals in the brewing industry will gather for the 35th Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® (CBC) in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by the Brewers Association. About 700 exhibitors are expected at BrewExpo America and 70 seminars across 12 different educational tracks will be held at the Conference. CBC 2018 also serves as home to the World Beer Cup℠, often referred to as “the Olympics of Beer.”...
Keep Track of Cider Pressing
33 Books Co., which produces pocket tasting journals for wine, beer, and cider, released its newest logbook, 33 Cider Pressings, at CiderCon. 33 Cider Pressings is one of 16 booklets published by Designer Dave Selden. Selden developed his idea for these books from his interest in homebrewing in 2009. “I had a beer blog, and I started getting invited to tasting events by professional PR [Public Relations] people. The next day I...
It’s CiderCon!
CiderCon, which has taken place in Portland and Chicago in past years, was held for the first time in Baltimore Jan 30-Feb 2. The four-day conference featured workshops, presentations, and tasting events by cider makers, orchardists, and leaders of the cider making industry. In 2011, CiderCon was formed by a small group of cider makers that gathered in Salem, Oregon to focus on tax issues that were a concern to the industry. “We are...
GABF Gluten-Free Picks
Last year was my first time attending the Great American Beer Festival. As a Celiac, I was looking forward to trying many gluten-free [GF] and gluten-reduced [GR] beers at the festival. To my dismay, I found a total of three breweries. There were more breweries at the festival that offered GF/GR beers, however, a majority of them were scattered, not listed, and when they were listed, the volunteers couldn’t tell me which were...
Going Gluten-Free to GABF
In just a few days, I will be on my way to the 36th Great American Beer Festival [GABF] in Denver, Colorado. This will be my second brewventure to GABF! Last year, I planned on visiting gluten-free and gluten-reduced breweries outside of GABF. However, the festival itself was so incredibly overwhelming (even for a New Yorker like myself) that I was only about to taste what was available during festival sessions. With over 3,000 beers...
Celebrating Beer on Long Island During GABF
Tis’ the week for the Great American Beer Festival! While I’ll be in Colorado for the festival, I know many of you will be holding down the fort here on Long Island. I’ve put together a list of events that I would be attending. Hope you enjoy a week celebrating beer! Friday, October 6 Brewers Dinner The Bronx Brewery 856 E 136th St Bronx, New York 10454 The Bronx Brewery and Edible Bronx are bringing a new focus to...
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