Posted in Beer on Mar 26th, 2012
At 1:00 pm, with the wee lad strapped in and the diaper bag filled with the tools of the trade, we left the house. We vowed that no amount of shitstorms or wet-nappy assaults would knock us off our journey, and we jumped on the M60 bus in Astoria to make our way to 125th street in […]
Posted in Beer on Jan 30th, 2012
Every couple of months or so, a new brewery’s name starts to dot about the NYC beer community and cause a kerfluffle. Emails start flying, tweets start chirping and one literally feels the buzz turn into a hum. One such brewery that sparked a fire of interest is Nebraska Brewing Company. Nebraska, I first thought? […]
There are certain sign posts that mark the passage of the seasons. The first smoke billowing forth from the chimneys, the first leaf you see falling from the trees, the first flower you see resiliently climbing forth from the sidewalk cracks on 12th street, or the first snowflake you see falling from the sky, silhouetted […]
Posted in Beer, NYC Events on Jan 26th, 2011
You better hydrate. You best have a gang of food in your belly. Your mind must be focused and your palate on-point. Cause you’re going to get slaughtered…with a smile on your face. Hold on to your hats, craft beer geeks, because the hurricane-force winds have finally died down, and BrewYork #7 has gone down […]
Posted in Beer on Sep 4th, 2010
“Don’t do it, man. It’s not worth it”. The advice was succinct and deadening to my soul. Enough to take the wind out of anyone’s sails. But we decided to push on. Last month, the idea hit my wife and I to trick out our Saison homebrew recipe and do something a little different, something […]
Posted in Beer, G&G Videos, NYC Events on Feb 24th, 2010
They say that any day brewing is a good day. I couldn’t agree more (well, except for all that pesky sanitizing—that can be a real bitch). However, a good day brewing can go sour. And for us this weekend, it did. Dead yeast? Nope. A broken carboy smashed all over our apartment? Nope. A boil-over […]
Posted in Beer on Jul 18th, 2009
Homebrewing is sort of like parenting… Watching the little tyke evolve from the ornery days of vicious fermentation may just be akin to the terrible two’s where your kid would rather nash at your arm than peacefully eat his or her porridge. And like a good parent, a brewer must give the beer proper temperatures to […]
