New York Craft Beer Week is a ripe moment to visit all of the city’s many stellar beer bars – and we encourage you to do so. But for two hours on Saturday, October 2nd, we invite you to experience beer on a less stable platform. Join brewmaster Garrett Oliver and the brewing team of The Brooklyn Brewery aboard the sailing ship “Clipper City” for a hoppy journey into our brewing past. India Pale Ale, one of the world’s great beer styles, was specifically developed to survive a sea voyage from England to India. Garrett, editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Oxford Companion To Beer, will deliver insight on the matter in a way that only he can.

Oh and we’ll be pouring Brooklyn East India Pale Ale, BLAST! and Detonation Ale. Also joining the crew will be brewers and beers from Captain Lawrence, Goose Island and Greenport Harbor Brewing Co.

Don’t make the worst decision of your life.

Email reservations@manhattanbysail.com or call 212 619 0907 now.

That way you can sail a magnificent 158-foot schooner around New York harbor, taste several delicious IPAs and hear tales of the beverage’s original heyday. All at the exact same time.

Voyage  of  the  IPA
4:30PM to 6:30PM
$65  per  Person

We’re thrilled to be pouring Big Bottles of Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse, Local 1 and Local 2 at this celebration of urban farming.

Farm City Tour
September 18 & 19, at 10am & 2pm
Red Hook Community Farm, Bed Stuy Farm, BK Farmyards, Eagle St. Rooftop Farm, East NY Farms!, and Secret Garden Farm

Part of the series Farm City: Where Are You Growing?

Explore bold agricultural projects in contemporary Brooklyn through this special tour, offering a view of current practices in urban farming, ranging from beekeeping and composting to caring for laying hens, and rainwater harvesting. A 28-seat bus running on compressed natural gas (CNG), the cleanest fuel available, will shuttle guests to each site. The Tour will conclude at Old Stone House in Brooklyn, one of the last surviving structures from the borough’s impressive agricultural past. There, guests will view a display of provocative, small-scale urban farming projects, and enjoy foods made by Communal Table with ingredients from the farms.
Farms include:

Red Hook Community Farm (A project of Added Value) features the largest and most varied compost operation in Brooklyn. Beekeeping. Chicken keeping. Youth farmers on its 3-acre site grow 12 tons of produce each year for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and weekly Farmer’s Market.

Bed Stuy Farm supplies fresh produce to adjacent food pantry, serving 1,000 people per week.

BK Farmyards, a scattered site farming enterprise, features Egg CSA at Imani Gardens and an innovative chicken coop design.

Eagle Street Rooftop Farm features a beehive, a chicken coop, raised beds, special light soil mix, CSA, restaurant supply, youth programs, cooking classes, compost from restaurants and a pickle plant.

East New York Farms! engages youth and community farmers in composting, rainwater harvest system, culturally-appropriate planting and running a Farmer’s Market.
Secret Garden Farm has a unique mushroom farm, an extensive compost facility, teaching programs and hosts the Bushwick Farmers Market.
Artists Include:

Communal Table–brings art, ideas, activism and food right to the table. nycommunaltable.blogspot.com

Ian Cheney & Curt Ellis–Truck Farm is a Wicked Delicate film and food project: a mobile community farm, a documentary about urban agriculture and a public art and education project–from the team that created the acclaimed documentary King Corn.

Bryony Romer–“nanofarming” demonstration projects, including miniature container farms and associated interpretive materials, serve to underscore nanofarming’s real potential to grow food while transforming public awareness of urban space

Hernani Dias–Re:Farming the City builds bridges between software and hardware to link urban farmers through special technology highlighting local gastronomy, and concluding in a transformative meal that forges new communities.

Brooklyn Utopias–Guests may visit the related exhibition opening September 17 in the Second Floor Gallery of Old Stone House investigating utopian agrarian visions for the

Borough of Kings, featuring artists WORK.AC (New Ark), Mary Mattingly (Waterpod), Eric Sanderson (Mannahatta), Hugh Hayden, Kim Holleman, and several others.

Our Brewmaster takes his unparalleled beer knowledge and formidable cooking skills to school at the French Culinary Institute. In this class, Garrett, author of the award-winning book The Brewmaster’s Table, will guide an evening of beer exploration. To start the night, Garrett will lead you through an interactive tasting session where you’ll learn to identify key beer styles and flavor components. Next, you’ll head to FCI’s kitchen to prepare a few seasonal dishes. You’ll then sit down to taste and discuss how your delicious creations pair with an assortment of craft brews. You’ll have a new appreciation for the flavor complexities of beer and its special affinity for food.

Go here or call 888 90 TASTE to register for class.

Every year we get invited to stylish fashion events here in New York City. Why? ‘Cause we’ve got the beer that’s why. Read on for a particularly cool party below.

From Paper Mag

Fashion’s Night Out goodies keep coming out of the woodwork! Design duo Sam Shipley andJeff Halmos of Shipley & Halmos collaborated with Guerilla Ice Cream to create a flavor that will be sold exclusively on September 10th at Odin New York. Their concoction, called Amalgamated, mixes malty Brown Ale from Brooklyn Brewery with local honey and sweet cream. Sounds delicious, right? That’s not even the sweetest part: all of the proceeds from the evening’s ice cream sales will benefit the Street Vendor Project, which works to protect the rights of the 10,000+ street vendors in New York City, and there’s also talk of a surprise in store performance. If tasty treats, cold beer, and a pair of dreamy designers are in store, count us in.

Known for having the best brunch in the known universe, Egg has been holding Farm Dinners for the past couple months. Farm Dinner = Several Course Meal Culled Mostly From Their Upstate Farm. And they let us pair our beers with each course. It’s always a super good, informal tasty time. After the jump see the “tentative” menu for Wed, August 25th at 7:30pm.

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When Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria wanted to celebrate his wedding engagement in 1810, he did what any good Bavarian prince would — he threw a beer festival. Both the festival and the special beer served there became known as Oktoberfest.

Ulysses, located on the anomalously car-free Stone Street in the Financial District, will be hosting a rambunctious Oktoberfest of its own on October 2nd from 3pm to 8pm. Complete with an Oompa Band and large stein-like pours, the bar will be featuring Brooklyn Oktoberfest along with standard German brews Paulaner, Spaten and Erdinger. Grab your liederhosen and brutalist design aesthetic and have some fun for a change. At Ulysses.

Farm City Fair
September 12, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
The Invisible Dog Art Center and on Bergen Street, Brooklyn
The fair is a wild, new take on the traditional county fair, a daylong celebration of art and food grown in Brooklyn! Festivities engage all the senses: hear live music performed by local Bang on a Can marching band Asphalt Orchestra; taste delicacies prepared by local chefs inspired by ingredients from Brooklyn farms; view specially commissioned work exploring the culture of agriculture by local artists; get a feel for materials needed to produce your own food in workshops by Brooklyn Food Coalition; participate in a blue ribbon competition hosted by GreenThumb; and browse a marketplace with some of Brooklyn’s small-batch artisanal food purveyors, curated by Greenpoint Food Market. Cap it off with The Food Experiments’ live cooking competition — Brooklyn Roots — featuring savory samples and refreshing drinks from Brooklyn Brewery, Six Points Brewery, Red Hook Wines, Brooklyn Oenology, Kings County Distillery, and others.

Participants include:

Asphalt Orchestra, Brooklyn-based, 12-piece, next-generation, avant-garde marching band, will open the event on Bergen Street and in the neighborhood between 11 a.m. and noon.
Andrew Casner, compost painter, demonstrates his acclaimed, agrarian work — the community process of developing a viable compost with an acid-etched canvas underneath created as a natural by-product.
Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy, a Brooklyn-based artist, presents Ça pousse! (It’s growing!), human-form sculptures made from material such as wheatgrass that change as they grow.
Miwa Koizumi, Brooklyn-based ice cream maker of “NY Flavors,” will create a geographically inspired new ice cream flavor based on Bergen Street and the festival.
Tattfoo Tan, the vibrant urban farming visionary artist, launches his new bike-based S.O.S Mobile Classroom as the next installment in his two-year-long public art project titled S.O.S. (Sustainable. Organic. Stewardship.).
Wylie Dufresne, renowned chef of wd-50, creates a new downloadable recipe based on reimagining local ingredients, to be sampled at the fair.
Christina Kelly, Brooklyn-based artist meditates on loss and possibility, growing blue corn in monumental street planters in a public art project called Maize Field, located where Lenape Indians planted in the 1600s.

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In a normal world, New Yorkers go to Miami during the winter. Or once they’ve turned 65. Never one to conform, Garrett has decided to put on a beer dinner at Maitardi on Wednesday, August 25. Late August!

Chef Riccardo Tognozzi has conjured a delightful menu, with Garrett providing perfect pairings as always.

Menu
Maitardi Ceviche w/Brooklyn Sorachi Ace

Polpette di Bisonte w/ Brooklyn Lager

Risotto Asparagi e Gorgonzola w/Brooklyn Local 1

Stinco di Agnello w/Brooklyn Brown Ale

Pere Alla Birra w/Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

$65/person
For ressies call 305 572 1400
maitardimiami.com

Maitardi
163 NE 30th St Miami, FL 33137

*A limited amount of tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Online ticketing has been halted, though.

ALSO, don’t even worry about the rain. The boathouse has ample indoor space for everyone to enjoy Detonation, Sorachi Ace, Local 1 & 2 and other tasty things. There are also giant chipmunks and a human-sized bird’s nest to hang out in. So it’s really a no-brainer.

Celebrate the arrival of our newest beer, Detonation Ale, in style at The Boathouse in Prospect Park. Here’s what you need to know. Tickets are $20 and include a first taste of Detonation plus some other Brewery favorites, real good food from Ovenly, meatstuffs from The Meathook and dumplings from The Dump School. All ticket proceeds benefit The Prospect Park Alliance.

Click here for a map of Prospect Park.