Monthly Archives: June 2010

Awesome Bacon & Beer Event With Zingerman's @ Back Forty

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Guys check out this press release written by a real live publicist!

Back Forty Hosts
Bacon and Beer Walk-Around Tasting
with Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman’s and
Christopher Basso of Brooklyn Brewery
Copy of “Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon”
or Growler of Brooklyn Beer Included with Ticket Price
On Monday, June 28th, Back Forty will host a bacon and beer walk-around tasting to honor guest Ari Weinzweig, the co-owner of legendary Midwest culinary mecca, Zingerman’s, and the author of “Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon.” Ari will be joined by Brooklyn Brewery brewer Christopher Basso, who will pair five of his beers with five bacon-y dishes from Ari and Back Forty Chef de Cuisine Shanna Pacifico.
The dishes and brews will be served at stations throughout the restaurant. Bacons to be incorporated into the dishes include: Heritage, Benton’s, Edward’s, Real Canadian Bacon Co. Peameal, Arkansas Long Pepper, and Back Forty’s Own Maple-Glazed House Cure. To view the complete menu, click here, or see below. As a take-home gift, attendees can choose between a Back Forty growler filled with Brooklyn Brewery beer or a copy of Ari’s book.
Date: Monday, June 28th
Time and Reservations: Reservations, which must be made through Brown Paper Tickets, are available between 6:30 PM and 9 PM. Please note: while this is a walk-around event, entry reservation times are in place to ensure an even distribution of attendees throughout the evening.
Location: 190 Ave. B (at 12th St.)
Cost: $94 (includes five bacon dishes, five draft beers, all tax and gratuity, plus a growler of Brooklyn Brewery beer or a copy of Ari’s book,)
Walk-Around Tasting Menu Crostini
Heritage Bacon, Beer Steamed Clams
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Bacon Side by Side
Benton’s and Edward’s Bacon,
Cherry Tomatoes, Salvatore’s Ricotta,
Herb Salad
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Bacon and Egg Sliders
Real Canadian Bacon Co. Peameal Bacon
Quail Egg, Green Olives, Parsley
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Pilau
Arkansas Long Pepper Bacon,
English Peas, Tokyo Turnips
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Pork Belly
Maple Glazed Back Forty Bacon,
Beluga Lentil Salad

Back Forty Hosts Bacon and Beer Walk-Around Tasting with Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman’s and Christopher Basso of Brooklyn Brewery

Copy of “Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon”or Growler of Brooklyn Beer Included with Ticket Price

On Monday, June 28th, Back Forty will host a bacon and beer walk-around tasting to honor guest Ari Weinzweig, the co-owner of legendary Midwest culinary mecca, Zingerman’s, and the author of “Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon.” Ari will be joined by Brooklyn Brewery brewer Christopher Basso, who will pair five of his beers with five bacon-y dishes from Ari and Back Forty Chef de Cuisine Shanna Pacifico.

The dishes and brews will be served at stations throughout the restaurant. Bacons to be incorporated into the dishes include: Heritage, Benton’s, Edward’s, Real Canadian Bacon Co. Peameal, Arkansas Long Pepper, and Back Forty’s Own Maple-Glazed House Cure. To view the complete menu, click here, or see below. As a take-home gift, attendees can choose between a Back Forty growler filled with Brooklyn Brewery beer or a copy of Ari’s book.

Date: Monday, June 28th

Time and Reservations: Reservations, which must be made through Brown Paper Tickets, are available between 6:30 PM and 9 PM. Please note: while this is a walk-around event, entry reservation times are in place to ensure an even distribution of attendees throughout the evening.

Location: 190 Ave. B (at 12th St.)

Cost: $94 (includes five bacon dishes, five draft beers, all tax and gratuity, plus a growler of Brooklyn Brewery beer or a copy of Ari’s book,) get tickets right here.

Walk-Around Tasting Menu Crostini

Heritage Bacon, Beer Steamed Clams

*******************

Bacon Side by Side

Benton’s and Edward’s Bacon,

Cherry Tomatoes, Salvatore’s Ricotta,

Herb Salad

*******************

Bacon and Egg Sliders

Real Canadian Bacon Co. Peameal Bacon

Quail Egg, Green Olives, Parsley

*******************

Pilau

Arkansas Long Pepper Bacon,

English Peas, Tokyo Turnips

*******************

Pork Belly

Maple Glazed Back Forty Bacon,

Beluga Lentil Salad

Start the summer concert season by winning vip tickets to a summer concert

summer in the city

Listen, Band of Horses and Grizzly Bear and a woman are playing a concert in East River Park which is right around the corner from the brewery. It’s the first show of many that will occur during the warm months of the year that we refer to as SUMMER. And Brooklyn Brewery will be pouring beer at all of the shows during the SUMMER. We’ ve also been given tickets to these SUMMER shows that we can do whatever we want with. Right now we want to give some of them to you, dear reader. SUMMER. Email info@brooklynbrewery.com right now with “SUMMER” in the subject line for your chance to win a pair of VIP tickets to Sunday’s SUMMER show.

Do it.

UPSTATE: Cole's Beer Bar Presents An Evening with Brooklyn Brewmaster Garrett Oliver

Cole’s Beer Bar will be featuring 15 Brooklyn beers on tap w/several archived Brewmaster’s Reserves like Savoir Faire, Intensified Coffee Stout & Dark Matter. Big bottles too of Black Ops, Local 1 & 2, Sorachi Ace. Garrett Oliver will be on hand for the evening to answer questions and entertain customers with his vast knowledge on the subject of World Class beers and their affinity with food.
Cole’s Restaurant & Beer Bar
1104 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo NY
Website: colesbuffalo.com

UPSTATE: Shango Restaurant Beer Dinner w/Garrett

Tonight, June 22nd, for a cool $65 (including tax and gratuity!) Brewmaster Garrett Oliver and Chef/owner James Guarino are putting on an exceptional menu with some of Brooklyn Brewery’s more esoteric offerings. Not to be missed if you happen to be thinking of dining on Buffalo’s Main Street.

Shango Restaurant
3260 Main St, Buffalo NY

shangorestaurant .com

UPSTATE: TASTE SOME BEER WITH GARRETT

To all of those craft beer fans living in and or near Amherst, New York, check out this event. Our own Garrett Oliver will be on hand for an informative tasting at Consumer’s Beverages
He’ll be serving Local 1 & 2 and Summer Ale. Don’t let down your community. Go to the event.

www.consumersbeverages.com

Consumers Beverages
8580 Transit Road, Amherst NY 14051

There is literally so much going on: Bicycle Film Festival Edition

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Holy smokes is there a lot going on. Tomorrow the annual Bicycle Film Festival begins here in New York City and yes it’s their 10th one. We were the first beer sponsor of BFF’s inaugural event and we’re happy, once again, to be their beer sponsor for a bevy of events and afterparties celebrating bicycles and bike culture. Because they’re so much fun. So much fun that Brooklyn Brewery is giving away two all-access passes for the duration of the fest (June 16 – 20).

For your chance to win that thing I just mentioned email info@brooklynbrewery.com with “BFF is 10″ in the subject field.

For your chance to learn more about BFF click here.

Also, BAMCinemaFEST Begins Tomorrow

Marisa and John act like they are interested in each other
(above) Marisa and John act like they are interested in each other

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We are film fanatics. We are the beer sponsor. We are excited for BAM’s annual film festival, beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, June 9th. If you get Opening Night tickets you’ll be treated to a buzzy film AND an important-feeling afterparty featuring oodles of Brooklyn Brand beer, John C Reilly and Marisa Tomei.

Another option is emailing info@brooklynbrewery.com for a chance to win a pair of VIP passes to the 12-day festival.

Trust BrooklynBased.net to give you the scoop on this year’s BAMCinemaFEST below:

The second installment of BAMcinemaFEST returns this week with an amazing slate of shorts and features, director appearances, live music, and 16 New York premieres, even more than last year.

The Duplass Brothers’ hilarious film Cyrus, a hit at Sundance, opens the festival this Wednesday in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. It stars Marisa Tomei and John C. Reilly (who will both be at the screening) as an unlikely couple whose only stumbling block is Tomei’s son Cyrus, played bySuperbad star Jonah Hill. A free after party follows, fueled by Brooklyn Brewery beer, Macallan scotch, and ton of food, all free.

That’s just one of the hot tickets in the eclectic 12-day festival. The 20 features and 16 short films emphasize up-and-coming voices like emerging director Matt Porterfield, whose acclaimed debut Hamilton was called one of the decade’s top films by The New Yorker. His follow-up, Putty Hill, which screens this Sunday June 13, is about the family and friends of a young Baltimore man who OD’s on heroin.

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Good Beer Month Approaches

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We’re teaming up with foodie magazine Edible for a couple of great events in July: The 2nd annual Good Beer at BAM and Edible Pursuit.

From EdibleManhattan.com

Last week we mentioned that Mayor Bloomberg, in his infinite wisdom, has once again declared July to be Good Beer Month in honor of the great work of The Good Beer Seal during that month to promote the best local, independently owned beer bars that sell the good stuff.

And we are especially relieved by that very official proclamation, seeing as how we’d planned two of our best events of the year around the concept. In fact, tickets are now available to both: Edible Pursuit at Brooklyn Brewery on July 8th and Good Beer at BAM on the 28th. (For both, if you buy tickets before June 15th, it’s buy two get one free!)

The first is the second installment in our Edible trivia nights, except this one is themed to alcohol. We’ll be taking over the tasting room of Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg to pose questions on potables provided by a panel of Brooklyn’s own liquid assets, like Garrett Oliver, the BB brewmaster. You can compete for prizes like limited-edition beers, cookbooks, restaurant gift certificates and other Edible desirables. It’s just $20 to play, and that buys you a Brooklyn Brewery brew made right on the premises, your own pint glass and a sausage sandwich grilled up by the butchers from The Meat Hook on the sidewalk outside.

The second is our second annual craft brew fest, which is co-hosted by The Good Beer Seal, Brooklyn Brewery and Stella Artois. What more can we say other than two full floors of the beautiful BAM opera house in downtown Brooklyn are filled with the country’s best craft brews and beer-friendly snacks from the city’s best restaurants. (Oh yeah, we just heard chopped liver from Sammy’s Roumanian will be in the house, as will beer bread from Orwasher’s.) Last year’s was insanity in a good way, and this year’s will be all that time’s two.  In fact we might have to take it easy for the next 21 days…..

American Craft Beer Fest LIneup Is Announced

This June 18 & 19 in Boston, MA, The American Craft Beer Fest will once again play host to over 80 craft breweries from the US of A. We’ll be hanging out at the beautiful Booth #516. And this is what we’ll be pouring:

BLAST! (Double IPA / 8.2%)
Dark Matter (Whiskey Barrel-aged Strong Brown Ale / 7.5%)
Summer Ale (Golden Ale / 5%)
Local 1 (Belgian Strong Golden Ale / 9%)
Brooklyn Buzz Bomb (Braggot / 8%)
Brooklyn Sorachi Ace (Dry-hopped Saison / 7.4%)

For those so inclined, check out the complete list of over 400 beers right here.