Monthly Archives: April 2010

Brooklyn Day At Hopcat

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One of the best beer bars in the country, Hopcat of Grand Rapids, MI, is hosting Brooklyn Brewery Day, starting in just minutes. Here’s what’s on tap:

  • 2pm – 3:30pm – Round Table hosted by Steve Smith with guests Garrett Oliver and Robin Ottaway.
  • 3:30pm – 5pm – Meet and greet
  • 6pm – Beer dinner – 5 courses $45 6pm.

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    Friday Freebie Opportunity: Young@Heart

    Do you guys remember that movie about the old people singing rock ‘n roll songs? Well now they’re on their very first American tour and they’re coming to the Brooklyn’s venerable St Ann’s Warehouse. Because we’re in good with St Ann’s, they’ve given us a couple of free passes that come with a Brooklyn Brewery sponsored after party.

    Email info@brooklynbrewery.com with “Young@Heart” in the subject line for your chance to win passes to the 3pm performance on Sunday, April 25th.

    To learn more about Young@Heart and buy tickets like a normal person go here.

    BA Beer News: Steve Gets An Award, Top 50 Craft Brewery List Released

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    Steve Hindy, Brooklyn Brewery’s co-founder and president, received a special honor at last week’s Craft Brewers Conference in Chicago. He was celebrated with the F.X. Matt Defense of the Small Brewing Industry Award for 2010, as presented by the Brewer’s Association. That’s right. Steve’s a defender! Read all about it below.

    Also from the BA, comes the 2010 list of top 50 Craft Breweries. Brooklyn clocks in at number 17. See the whole list here.

    Brewers Association honors Brooklyn Brewery’s Steve Hindy at World Beer Cup 2010 in Chicago

    From Examiner.com

    By William Loob

    The Brewers Association, the trade group that represents the interests of craft brewers, honored Steve Hindy, co-founder and president of Brooklyn Brewery with the F.X. Matt Defense of the Small Brewing Industry Award for 2010. Hindy accepted the award last week at the Craft Brewers Conference, in Chicago. The F.X. Matt Award recognizes people distinguished service to the craft beer industry. Hindy has played an active role in regulatory issues throughout his career atBrooklyn Brewery. Among his efforts to benefit the industry, the association noted his testimony before Congress on the effect of state franchise laws on small brewers. 
    At the end of the conference, Hindy also got to see one of the Brooklyn Brewery entries, Local 2, win the bronze medal in its category in the World Beer Cup competition. He took a moment to share his thoughts with Examiner.com about this year’s conference and the state of the craft beer business today. 
    Conference attendance was an indicator of the overall health of the craft beer business, he says. “It was the most exciting conference to date. We had 3,400 attending, last year it was about 2,200, and the keynote speaker was a member of Congress,” he says. (That Congressman is Peter DeFazio (D-OR), who was a co-founder of the House Small Brewers Caucus in 2007.) “The enthusiasm for craft beer is starting to take hold in America.”

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    Hookup Alert!

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    A nice perk that comes with working at a brewery, besides easy access to delicious beer, is that for some reason other cool companies want to give you things. For example, the current Broadway production of A Behanding In Spokane has offered our loyal blog readers (all 9 of you) a discount on tickets for the next month or so. The dark comedy stars brewery favorite Christopher Walken and beloved Safe Man Sam Rockwell. It looks pretty good. That great go-to for comedy critiques, The Wall Street Journal, says it’s really funny. Anyway, for deep discounts go to broadwayoffers.com and use code BSMUG38.

    Garrett's Beer Pairing for KFC's Daring Double Down

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    This afternoon, Brooklyn Brewery Receptionist Brian Dochney and Brewmaster Garrett Oliver sat down to discuss chicken purveyor KFC’s newest lab experiment The Double Down, which contains two pieces of bacon and two melted slices of cheese, slathered in mayonnaise and sandwiched between two slices of deep fried boneless chicken breasts.

    Receptionist Brian Dochney: The double down is all the kids are talking about these days, have you tried it? Why or why not?

    Brewmaster Garrett Oliver: Didn’t happen, isn’t going to happen. I’ve known Sam Sifton for more than 15 years, and he’s a better man than I am.

    RBD: If this year’s Brewery Holiday party is held in a KFC (as we all wish it was) would you try it even then?

    BGO: Ummm….no. The point, we hope, of the holidays, is for us to be happy and healthy. As opposed to unhealthy and suicidal. The Double Down reminds of that routine by Patton Oswalt where he describes a fast food dish as “a sadness pile in a failure bowl.” Only with the Double Down, you don’t even get to eat the failure bowl. It’s replaced by depression paper.

    RBD: We’re going to a fine dining establishment, they have a specialty of the day, a Double Down is placed on your plate. Do you leave? Facebook about it? Re-examine your life choices?

    BGO: I go talk to the chef, asking him plaintively “is this some ghastly new form of sous vide”?

    RBD: The big one — What do we pair beer wise, with such a behemoth of taste and proportions?

    BGO: Colt 45 with a dissolved Pepcid AC. It works every time.

    RBD: Answer that last one wisely, oh sage of beerdom, if you knock it out of the park we’ll print it on a poster and mail it to the Beard Foundation.

    BGO: Well, although I’d like my Susan Lucci-esque relationship with the James Beard Foundation to move in a different direction, “straight into the ground” was not the direction I’d had in mind.

    RBD: Also of note, “Beard Foundation”, quite the misnomer if you leave off the “James”…

    BGO: I’m not touching that with your breadstick.