But where will these shiny new tanks go? Why next door, of course.  Click here for construction documentation from The Beer Friends.

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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

From FindYourCraving.com

Serendipity. Just two days after my recent move to Brooklyn, I happened to meet the publicist for Brooklyn Brewery while walking home one night. Two weeks later, I scored an interview with famed brewmaster, Garrett Oliver, at the brewery’s headquarters, only one block away from my new pad in Williamsburg.

Our meeting started on the right note, when Oliver thoughtfully chose three bottles of beer for me to taste — all in 750-ml bottles, made in a process similar to the second-bottle fermentation in champagne making. Oliver explained that, in beer jargon, this method is called “full-bottle conditioning.” Just as with champagne, refermentation in larger bottles is often superior. Plus, it makes for good presentation and encourages sharing. Oliver added playfully, “Why should champagne get all the fun?”

I proceeded to tell Oliver I had recently brought a bottle of Fantôme’s farmhouse ale to a Twitter wine dinner. He became very animated. “That beer is totally outside of its style. It bears little resemblance to other Saisons, and is therefore fairly unique. It’s like saying you had a rosé by Lopez,” he explained. I couldn’t believe it: that’s exactly what we had that night — the Fantôme and a 98 Lopez rosé! Wow, I thought, the beer man knows his wine.

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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.

From The A.P.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Divers who found what’s believed to be the world’s oldest drinkable champagne say they have also discovered two-centuries-old bottles of beer at a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. Bjorn Haggblom, a spokesman for the researchers, says they found a handful of beer bottles this week while salvaging champagne discovered near the Aland Islands in July. He said researchers who tried drops of the dark, foamy liquid liked the taste of it. Swedish beer expert Goran Winbergh questioned whether it would still be drinkable because beer is perishable. The shipwreck is believed to be from the early 19th century. Haggblom said the oldest drinkable beer previously recorded dates from 1869.

Associated Press

If it was at the bottom of the sea the odds are it’s been kept pretty cold. It’s probably pretty dark down there too. And certainly no air is getting in those bottles. Could it be drinkable?

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.