The world famous Gathering Of The Santas, aka SantaCon, descended on The Brewery, this Saturday. Of course, mirth and merriment were in high supply (as were some stocking stuffer-sized contraband.) Here’s a few shots taken by our intrepid Office Manager/photog, Sherwin Chang.
They managed to make it inside without the aid of a chimney.
Here in New York City, Hot Bread Kitchen is a non-profit 501c3 social enterprise that enhances the future for immigrant women and preserves baking traditions. Brooklyn Brewery was happy to support their latest fundraiser with plenty of beer.
photo credit AteMrYeats’
An intrepid journalist over at beernews.org did a little stealthy recon and unearthed some insider information on this year’s batch of Black Ops.
[12/9 Update: Garrett Oliver has updated the case count estimate to 1,200 and says that some beer should start to ship this week]
(Brooklyn, NY) – The first batch of Brooklyn Black Ops was easily one of the most talked about beers of the past year. It earned a 4.3 average on Beer Advocate, another beer that appears to be just outside of the top 100.
According to a post from Brewmaster, Garrett Oliver, mid-last month, the beer “There’s slightly more than there was last year, about 1100 cases. The recipe is the same, but the ABV is slightly higher at 11.7%.”
Here is the info I just got from a brewery sales rep: “Brooklyn Black Ops will be ready to ship on December 16th. We will be producing around 1000 cases of Black Ops. This will be available in limited quantities in territories where both Brooklyn Local 1 and Local 2 are distributed. Brooklyn Black Ops is 100% bottle re-fermented.”
Sounds like a slight difference in cases but they’re both in the same ballpark.
I got a little blast from the past in my Google Alerts this morning. A review of a 2007 beer called Alliance from hopzine.com.
Since I’d never heard of this barleywine I had to ask Garrett what it was all about. He said, “Alliance is a barley wine that I brewed with the folks at The Thornbridge Brewery in Derbyshire, England in 2007. It was a collaboration between us, Thornbridge, and the Kelham Island brewery of Sheffield, using each of our breweries’ yeasts. Brewing took almost 12 hours and we all signed the kettle afterwards – it was great fun! Later, Thornbridge released the beer in various versions, including a few wood-aged renditions. We made only about 15 barrels, so bottles are pretty rare, but it’s nice to see how much people are enjoying the beer.”
And there you have it. Mystery solved.
Check out photos of the afterparty, some upside right and some not so much.
Comedian and friend of the brewery, Liam McEneaney has gathered some heavy hitting comics for a benefit to fight cancer, tonight. We liked the idea and therefore donated some beer for the afterparty. See more below.
From NYTimes.com
Liam McEneaney, the floppy-haired Comedy Central and VH1 regular, will host “We’ll Kick Cancer’s Butt!” tonight at Comix. The fund-raising event, sponsored by The Onion, will help raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. It will feature sets by John Oliver of “The Daily Show,” Kristen Schaal from “Flight of the Conchords,” Caroline Rhea of “The Tonight Show,” Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and others. A nerdy raffle is also on the lineup featuring such special prizes as a new iPod Touch courtesy of TekServe and an autographed script of Fox’s “The Family Guy.” Stay for the free beer afterparty sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery.
If you want, you can buy tickets here.
We love spreading beer love around the creative borough of Brooklyn. Lord knows there’s ample opportunity to do so. For example, The Brooklyn Brewery was happy to provide suds for the Degenerate Craft Fair launch party on Sunday.
A sort of anti-art-fair, the Degenerate Craft Fair features over 20 artists, designers and their work. Just in time for holiday shopping, most of the items offered will cost less than $50.
Taking place in three separate locations over three weeks in December, the DCF will bring the artists and their work to very different audiences: a DIY performance space, a storefront, and a Chelsea art gallery. Go here for more information, including dates and venues.
Maybe it’s natural. Afterall, most of us grew up making wishlists for old St Nick around Christmas time. That’s why adult journalists find it so easy to whip up a top 10 list for just about anything the closer we come to January. The Village Voice recently came up with several lists to showcase their taste in beer. Brooklyn brand beers pop up a couple times on lists that range from “Plebeian” to “Connoisseur”. Check out all the lists here.
Light, oxygen and temperature. All enemies of beer. So it would make sense that our tomodachis over at Sapporo would go to that cold, dark, airless place called Space to conjure up their latest brew. Sapporo have just announced the landing of Space Barley.
More from JESUS DIAZ over at Gizmodo
At last, the long awaited Space Barley—the beer made with barley grown in space—is here to take you where everyone has been before: Drunk. Fortunately, nobody can hear you shouting in space, which is good for my hangovers.
What’s so special about the Space Barley?
The “space barley” used to make this beer is the fourth generation descendant of the Haruna Nijo malting barley that was developed by Sapporo Breweries and kept in space for five months during 2006 as part of our collaborative research with the Russian Academy of Sciences and Okayama University with the purpose of achieving self-sufficiency in food in the space environment. Since Sapporo Breweries was founded, we have continued to create excellent varieties for raw materials, and we are the only company in the world that operates breeding/research organizations for both barley and hops. This, the world’s first sale of this “space beer,” is the result of our extended nurturing/development of the required technologies.
Sounds good to me, Sr. Sapporo. The only bad thing is that there are only 250 boxes available, each with six 330ml bottles. I’d gladly pay the $113 to get one of these, but you have to first get into a lottery at the Space Barley page. Which is like hoping to win a ticket to get into the space shuttle’s last flight. [Sapporo Beer via Pink Tentacle]
Craftbeer.com gives us the documentary treatment.
CraftBeer.com Brew Stories – Brooklyn from Brewers Association on Vimeo.
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