Every New Year’s Eve, it’s the same ol’ swill: overpriced bottles of sweet, fizzy wine posing as a drink worthy of celebration.
Three hundred sixty-four days of the year, none but the most pretentious palate touches the stuff. But flip the calendar, and — pop! — we’re shooting corks and slurping the bubbly like we’re Fred and Ginger in “Top Hat.”
Or at least attend their localcentric indie wedding planning convention. We’ll be there pouring samples of our celebration ready Brooklyn Local 1 and Local 2.
We haven’t finished shopping either. That’s okay, though. At the end of the day, it’s the minimal amount of thought that counts. So to complete your holiday shopping here are a few blatantly self promotional Brooklyn Brewery themed gift ideas.
For The Home Brewer In Your Life
Yeast: It’s Wild! Class at Brooklyn Kitchen Labs — Brooklyn Brewery’s Chris Basso will lead this class, focusing on the different kinds of yeast that can be used in homebrewing. Topics will include Ale Yeast, Lager Yeast, Wild Yeast and their uses in brewing. We will discuss some basic yeast handling methods and ways to more effectively control the results of your fermentations. There will include a tasting of various beers that give typical flavor characteristics of each variety of yeast. An additional side by side tasting of beer homebrewed by Chris will be on hand to show how by changing only the yeast strain the resultant beer will be dramatically different. Expect to come away knowing far more about yeast than you thought possible. Sign up here.
For the Beer Geek or Would be Beer Geek In Your Life
Brooklyn Brewhouse T-Shirt: Inspired by our actual brewhouse control panel, this American Apparel t-shirt will instantly mark you as a beer connoisseur and dedicated follower of fashion. Buy it here.
The East Coast got hit pretty hard with snow the last couple of days so I went out and picked up some Brooklyn Pre-Prohibition Lager and “The Hangover” to watch with my wife while my son went to bed. After a while I started staring at the Brooklyn Lager Packaging design for the 6pix travel carton and labels. I was appreciating the good design when I remembered it was designed by Milton Glaser! Thus the inspiration for this post. If you don’t know who Milton Glaser is then just check out this trailer for Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight. He is also the designer who created the iconic I LOVE NY ® identity. This film was produced by Arthouse Films which also has a great collection of documentaries such as the “Beautiful Losers”, REM Koolhas “A Kind of Architect” (all time favorite), photographer Peter Beard, as well as many others. http://arthousefilmsonline.com/
While The Brooklyn Brewery is not affiliated with New York Distilling Company, we’re excited to hear any news of our Co-Founder Tom Potter’s new venture. See Grub Street’s little article here.
Brooklyn Brewery happily supports these and many other charities, community groups and arts organizations. Find out how to get product donations from Brooklyn Brewery here.
