Beer Lover's New York: The Empire State's Best Breweries, Brewpubs & Beer Bars PDF
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A n n e S e B E E R The Complete Regional Guide to Craft Beer L O With quality beer producers popping up all over the nation, you don’t have to V travel very far to taste great beer; some of the best stuff is brewing right in your home state. Beer Lover’s New York features breweries, brewpubs, and E beer bars geared toward brew enthusiasts looking to seek out the best beers R New York has to offer, from bitter seasonal IPAs to rich, dark stouts. ’ S Written by local beer experts, Beer Lover’s New York covers the entire beer experience for the proud, local enthusiast and the traveling visitor alike, including: N • Brewery and beer profiles with • Clone beer recipes for homebrewers tasting notes and hobbyists E • Must-visit brewpubs and beer bars • Food recipes made with local craft beer W • Top annual beer festivals, tastings, • Walkable city pub crawl itineraries and events with maps Sarah anneSe & Y Sarah Annese and Giancarlo Annese are native New Yorkers who grew Giancarlo anneSe O up on Long Island. The husband and wife team became immersed in craft beer culture after moving to New York City in 2008. Together they founded R and run the NYC-centric website BeerUnion.com. K Cover design by Bret Kerr | Cover photographs licensed by Shutterstock.com ® Globe Pequot Press Guilford, Connecticut ® .GlobePequot.com BeerLovers_NewYork.indd 1 12/31/13 3:34 PM ® Globe Pequot Press Guilford, Connecticut GlobePequot.com Beer Lover’s New York First Edition Sarah Annese & Giancarlo Annese ® BL_NY_4pp_i-312.indd 1 12/16/13 2:33 PM All the information in this guidebook is subject to change. We recommend that you call ahead to obtain current information before traveling. ® Copyright © 2014 Morris Book Publishing, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechani- cal, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permit- ted in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Globe Pequot Press, Attn: Rights and Permissions Department, PO Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437. All photos by Sarah Annese except photos on pages 20, 35, and 187 by Giancarlo Annese and photo on page 21 courtesy SingleCut Beersmiths. Editor: Kevin Sirois and Amy Lyons Project Editor: Staci Zacharski Layout Artist: Casey Shain Text Design: Sheryl P. Kober Maps: Alena Joy Pearce © Morris Book Publishing, LLC ISBN 978-0-7627-9199-6 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BL_NY_4pp_i-312.indd 2 12/16/13 2:33 PM Contents The Bronx Ale House 35 Introduction x Burp Castle 36 Cafe D’Alsace 37 How to Use This Guide xii The Diamond 38 Dive Bar 39 New York City 1 Earl’s Beer and Cheese 39 Breweries 4th Avenue Pub 40 Big Alice Brewing 2 Idle Hands Bar 42 Bridge and Tunnel Brewery 3 Jacob’s Pickles 43 The Bronx Brewery 5 Jimmy’s No. 43 44 Brooklyn Brewery 6 Killmeyer’s Old Bavaria Inn 45 Chelsea Brewing Company 9 McSorley’s Old Ale House 47 City Island Beer Company 10 124 Rabbit Club 47 Harlem Brewing Company 12 Pine Box Rock Shop 48 Jonas Bronck’s Beer Company 13 The Pony Bar 49 KelSo of Brooklyn 15 Proletariat 50 Radiant Pig Craft Beers 16 The Queens Kickshaw 50 Rockaway Brewing Company 17 Rattle N Hum 51 SingleCut Beersmiths 19 Spuyten Duyvil 52 Sixpoint 21 Taproom 307 52 Third Avenue Ale House 53 Brewpubs Tørst 53 508 Gastrobrewery 24 Heartland Brewery 24 Pub Crawls La Birreria 26 East Village, Manhattan 55 Upper East Side, Manhattan 57 Beer Bars Park Slope, Brooklyn 59 Adobe Blues 28 Williamsburg, Brooklyn 61 Alewife NYC 28 Alphabet Beer Co. 30 Long Island 65 Barcade 30 Breweries Beer Authority 31 Barrier Brewing Company 66 Bierkraft 32 The Blind Bat Brewery 68 Blind Tiger 34 BL_NY_4pp_i-312.indd 3 12/16/13 2:33 PM Blue Point Brewing Company 69 Pub Crawl Fire Island Beer Company 71 Patchogue 105 Great South Bay Brewery 72 Greenport Harbor Brewing Hudson Valley 109 Company 75 Breweries Long Ireland Beer Company 77 Captain Lawrence Brewing Montauk Brewing Company 80 Company 110 Oyster Bay Brewing Company 81 Chatham Brewing 112 Port Jeff Brewing Company 83 Crossroads Brewing Company 113 Rocky Point Artisan Brewers 85 The Defiant Brewing Company 114 Southampton Publick House 87 Keegan Ales 116 Spider Bite Beer Company 89 Newburgh Brewing Company 118 Peekskill Brewery 120 Brewpubs Rushing Duck Brewing Company 122 Black Forest Brew Haus 91 Sloop Brewing Company 123 BrickHouse Brewery and Yonkers Brewing Company 125 Restaurant 92 John Harvard’s Brewery and Ale Brewpubs House 93 Cave Mountain Brewing Company 127 The Gilded Otter Brewing Beer Bars Company 128 The Black Sheep Ale House 95 BOBBiQUE 95 Beer Bars The Cortland 96 Birdsall House 130 Croxley’s Ale House 98 The Grand Cru Beer and Cheese The Good Life 98 Market 130 Hoptron Brewtique 100 The Hop 131 The Lark Pub and Grub 101 Tap and Barrel 101 Capital Region 133 The Tap Room 103 Breweries T.J. Finley’s Public House 104 Brown’s Brewing Company 134 Shmaltz Brewing Company 136 Steadfast Beer Company 137 [ iv ] Contents BL_NY_4pp_i-312.indd 4 12/16/13 2:33 PM Brewpubs Central New York C.H. Evans Brewing Company at the & the Finger Lakes Region 165 Albany Pump Station 139 Breweries Mad Jack’s Brewing Company Bacchus Brewing Company 166 at the Van Dyck Restaurant and Birdland Brewing Company 168 Lounge 140 Brewery Ommegang 170 Butternuts Beer & Ale 172 Beer Bars Cooperstown Brewing Company 174 The Bier Abbey 142 Cortland Beer Company 175 The City Beer Hall 142 Empire Brewing Company 177 Mahar’s 144 Finger Lakes Beer Company 178 The Ruck 144 Good Nature Brewing 180 Wolff‘s Biergarten 145 Hopshire Farm & Brewery 182 Horseheads Brewing, Inc. 183 Northern New York & Ithaca Beer Company 185 Adirondacks Region 149 Matt Brewing Company 187 Breweries Middle Ages Brewing Company 189 Adirondack Pub and Brewery 150 Naked Dove Brewing Company 191 Blue Line Brewery 152 Rooster Fish Brewing 193 Davidson Brothers Brewing Upstate Brewing Company 195 Company 153 Wagner Valley Brewing Company 197 Lake Placid Pub & Brewery 156 Olde Saratoga Brewing Company 158 Brewpubs Sackets Harbor Brewing Bandwagon Brewpub 200 Company 159 Council Rock Brewery 200 G.C. Starkey Beer Company 202 Brewpubs Market Street Brewing Company and Druthers Brewing Company 161 Restaurant 203 Great Adirondack Brewing Miles Craft Ales 204 Company 162 Nail Creek Pub & Brewery 205 Rogues Harbor Brewing Company 206 Contents [ v ] BL_NY_4pp_i-312.indd 5 12/16/13 2:33 PM Scale House Brewpub 208 Woodcock Brothers Brewing Seneca Lodge 208 Company 241 Two Goats Brewing 209 War Horse Brewing Company 210 Brewpubs Water Street Brewing Company 212 Becker Brewing Company 244 Pearl Street Grill and Brewery 245 Beer Bars The Blue Tusk 213 Beer Bars The Chapter House 214 Aurora Brew Works 247 The Green Onion 215 Blue Monk 248 The Ithaca Ale House Grill and Coles 250 Taproom 215 Donnelly’s Public House 251 Red Brick Pub 216 Ebenezer Ale House 252 The Lewiston Village Pub 252 Pub Crawl Lovin’cup 253 Syracuse 218 MacGregors’ Grill and Tap Room 254 Mr. Goodbar 254 Western New York 221 The Old Toad 255 Breweries The Owl House 256 CB Craft Brewers 222 Pizza Plant 257 Community Beer Works 224 The Revelry 258 Ellicottville Brewing Company 226 Stoneyard Bar and Grill 260 The Fairport Brewing Company 228 Tap & Mallet 261 Flying Bison Brewing Company 230 Tap & Table 261 Genesee Brewing Company 232 Victoire Belgian Beer Bar and Roc Brewing Company 234 Bistro 262 Rohrbach Brewing Company 236 Southern Tier Brewing Company 238 Pub Crawls Three Heads Brewing 240 Buffalo 263 Rochester 265 [ vi ] Contents BL_NY_4pp_i-312.indd 6 12/16/13 2:33 PM Beer Festivals 267 Appendix: Beer Lover’s Pick List 302 BYOB: Brew Your Own Beer 275 Index 306 Home Brew Shops 275 Clone Beer Recipes 278 In the Kitchen 288 Food Recipes 288 Contents [ vii ] BL_NY_4pp_i-312.indd 7 12/16/13 2:33 PM About the Authors Husband-and-wife team Giancarlo and Sarah Annese are native New Yorkers who grew up on Long Island. They became immersed in craft beer culture after moving to New York City in the fall of 2008. Together they founded and run the NYC- centric website www.BeerUnion .com. Sarah Annese began her writing career as a reporter at the historic Brooklyn Eagle newspaper. She and Giancarlo founded BeerUnion .com in 2009, and she is now a freelance writer specializing in beer and spirits. Sarah has contributed to All About Beer magazine, Beverage World magazine, and AlcoholProfessor .com. Giancarlo Annese studied Classics and History at Union College and earned an M.A. in Medieval History at Fordham University. Through BeerUnion. com he and Sarah explore and write about craft beer culture in New York City. He works as the Senior Assistant Director for Student Accounts at Fordham University. [ viii ] BL_NY_4pp_i-312.indd 8 12/16/13 2:33 PM Acknowledgments Researching and writing this book has been the most exciting and challenging project either of us has ever taken on. It would not have been possible without a lot of help and awesome people. First and foremost we want to thank our families. To our parents—Mitch and Pam Tobol, Carlo Annese and Eileen Sheehy—thank you for everything, really. But more specifically, lending us your homes and your cars, your valuable insights and advice, and your unwavering willingness to try any beer we pour for you. To our siblings, Jake, Mary and Robin, for your enthusiasm and love. To our baby niece Audrey, who will not drink beer until 2034. To Grandma Tobol and Nana Rack. To Aunt Amy Tobol. Big thanks and love to our amazing friends, who are always down for a beer. First to Mike Gallagher, for being an invaluable help to us with the homebrew reci- pes in these pages. And (in alphabetical order) Amelia Anderson, Kim Berlowitz, Hanna and Alex Donner, Ashley Gallagher, Emily and Matt Garland, Paul Hamill, Alison Holstein, Rich Leahy, Jessica Machado, Jackie and Mike Mangiolino, Caitlin McNamara, Phoebe Neidl, Arthur Rollin, John and Ally Traver, Jeff Williams, and Charlie and Natalie Wood. Thank you to Mike Steger, who helped us iron out our very first book contract. Thank you John Holl and Jeff Cioletti, the best editors a freelancer could hope for. Thanks to John Kleinchester for helping us keep BeerUnion running throughout this process with your homebrewing columns. To all the brewers we’ve met along the way, thank you for generously sharing your time and stories. To our fellow beer writers, thank you for your suggestions and thoughts. To the members of BrewYork, you’re the most awesome beer geeks we know. Thanks for inviting us into your crew and sharing your beers. And to the readers of BeerUnion .com. We wouldn’t be here without you. 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