Join Brooklyn Brewery rep extraordinaire, Patrick Paulick, at the following venues for some year-end Brooklyn tastiness.

12/9 – Beer Tasting @ Winchester W&S 6-8 pm
632 Main St
Winchester MA

Sampling BCS, Monster, Winter, Sorachi Ace, Lager and Brown Ale.

12/10 – Beer Tasting @ Upper Falls Liquors 1-4 pm
150 Needham St
Newton MA

This is the store’s Grand Winter Beer Tasting. Sampling BCS, Winter, Brown Ale and Local 2.

12/15 – Beer Tasting @ Muckey’s 5-8 pm
13 Harding St (Rte 44)
Lakeville MA

Sampling Sorachi Ace, BCS, Monster, Winter and Variety 12 packs will be on sale for $12.99.

12/16 – Beer Tasting @ Hampton Falls Village Market 5-7 pm
82 Lafayette Road (Route 1)
Hampton Falls NH

Sampling BCS, Monster Ale, Winter Ale, Sorachi Ace and a bottle of Black Ops!

12/17 – Beer Tasting @ Beer & Wine at The Andovers 12-3 pm
342 Winthrop Ave (Rte 114)
North Andover MA

Sampling BCS, Monster Ale, Lager, Local 1 and Brown Ale.

12/19 – Gank your Glass @ Doherty’s East Ave Irish Pub 8-10 pm
342 East Ave
Pawtucket RI

BCS, Companion Ale and Lager on draught. You get to keep your pint glass, in addition to 25 cent wings and swag giveaways.

12/28 – Tap Attack @ Redbones 5-7 pm
55 Chester Street
Somerville MA

Pouring BCS, Monster Ale, Companion Ale, BLAST! and The Concoction along with a cask of Bitter.

The time has come once again to partake in the preeminent beer festival in these states united: the Great American Beer Festival. Oh yes, we’ll be there. And oh yes, we’ve got a challenge for you:

+ Take a photo of an Oxford Companion to Beer contributor (list of those in attendance at GABF 2011 below).
+ Tag the photo @BrooklynBrewery on Twitter.
+ Collect the most contributor photos and be contacted via Twitter on Monday to win your very own Brooklyn Box Set:

This deluxe edition of the most comprehensive book on beer ever written comes lovingly packaged with a one-time only bottling of The Companion Ale. Like the book The Oxford Companion To Beer itself, The Companion is a true collaboration. It was designed and brewed by the book’s Editor-In-Chief Garrett Oliver, Associate Editor Horst Dornbusch and contributor Thomas Weyermann.

Oxford Companion GABF 2011 Contributor List (after the break)

Peter Bouckaert
Jay Brooks
Pete Brown
Matthew Brynildson
Dick Cantwell
Vinnie Cilurzo
Lorenzo Dabove
Ray Daniels
Geoff Deman
Dan D’Ippolito
Horst Dornbusch
Roland Folz
Terry Foster
Abram Goldman-Armstrong
Ken Grossman
John Haggerty
Stephen Hindy
Kim Jordan
Ben Keene
Ray Klimovitz
Thomas Kraus-Weyermann
Daniel J. Kvitek
Mike Laur
Anda Lincoln
Phil Markowski
Jacob McKean
Will Meyers
Randy Mosher
Jeff Nickel
Garrett Oliver
Steve Parkes
Glenn Payne
Dan Rabin
Tony Simmons
Gary Spedding
Mitch Steele
David Thomas
Bob Townsend
Sylvie Van Zandycke
Keith Villa
Ben Vinken
Tim Webb
Chris White
Chad Michael Yakobson

As highly sophisticated Brooklynites, we’re big fans of The New Yorker’s Caption Contest. Since imitation is the best form of flattery, we’ve decided to run one of our own. The first Thursday of each month, we’ll be posting a photo from the Brewhouse on Facebook, and it’ll be up to you to submit and pick the best caption. Winners will be selected based on how many “likes” their submission gets by the next Friday, so get ready to rally your friends.

The winner will receive this unbelievably spectacular gift pack, including:

+ Brooklyn Brewery Cram Tote
+ Brewhouse T-Shirt
+ Brooklyn Cycling Cap
+ Brooklyn Rubber Longneck Bottle Opener
+ Brooklyn Brewery Can Koozie

Now have at it!

These are not just wooden cylindrical vessels. No. They have been used to make one of our favorite beers, the name of which we’ve taken oaths to never speak. It’s that special.

But the fact is we don’t have the space to hang on to these stout fellows, unless we stop making new beer altogether, which is downright preposterous. So we’re giving barrels away to anyone who will put them to good use (and who can come to Williamsburg to pick them up).

What would you do with an empty bourbon barrel that was used to make a certain strong stout? Here are a few ideas to get things started:

+ Have a backyard? Cut the barrels in half and use them to plant veggies.

+ Are you freezing cold? Booze-soaked wood is great for making fire.

+ Need a place to hide your Beanie Babies? You now have a place to hide your shame.

We’ll be posting updates on the giveaways on Facebook, so be sure to click in. Please note that all barrels must be picked up at our warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Saturday, July 16 — Sunday, July 17
+ special tasting on Saturday from 4-7pm
Breukelen Bier Merchants
Twitter @BreukelenBier | Facebook
183 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY

On July 16 and 17 at Breukelen Bier Merchants here in Williamsburg, there will be growlers of The Concoction, Brooklyner Weisse, BLAST! and/or 2009 Black Chocolate Stout* just dying to go home with you. Also available, and just as desiring for your company, are bottles of Sorachi Ace and cans of Summer Ale. Merch giveaways and complimentary Bavarian pretzels will help hold it all together.

On Saturday, July 16 from 4-7pm, join our Brooklyn Rep at the Bier Merchants to sample pints and flights of Brooklyn beer and get yourself some sweet swag.

[*It's summer, we know, but a growler of vintage BCS? Yes, please.]

Wednesday, June 8, 6-8pm
Lansdowne Road
599 10th Ave
New York, NY 10036-3008
(212) 239-8020

Do the right thing and come to Lansdowne Road on Wednesday to enjoy $3 cans of Brooklyn Summer Ale and Brooklyn Lager. We’ll also be giving away some sweet Brooklyn merch to go with the goodness.

Wednesday, April 27, 7-9pm
British Beer Company
412 Main Street
Hyannis, MA

Nope, not that BBC! This is the British Beer Company, and the important news to report is that The Brooklyn Brewery will be featured there on April 27. Participants will enjoy free samples of Brooklyn Summer Ale, Brooklyn Lager, Brooklyn Local 1, Brooklyn East India Pale Ale and Brooklyn Main Engine Start, our current limited release Brewmaster’s Reserve beer. And yep, we’ll be giving away free swag too.

Tuesday, April 19, 7-9pm
Ducali Pizzeria & Bar
289 Causeway Street
Boston, MA

Next up at the Ducali Brewers’ Night is The Brooklyn Brewery. Brooklyn Summer Ale and Brooklyn Brown Ale will be tapped and paired with Ducali’s top rate pizza and Italian fare.

If great beer and food aren’t enough to fully entice you, we’ve added a little bonus: buy a pint, keep the glass. Go ahead, be our guest!

Thursday, April 28, 6-8 pm
Chansky’s Market
161 Sutherland Road
Brighton, MA

Take a chance on Chansky’s Market and join us to enjoy free samples of Brooklyn Lager and Summer Ale on April 28. Come for the free beer, stay for the merch giveaways!

Friday, February 25, 10pm-1:30am
The Otter House
1005 Princess Anne St
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
$5

Join us next Friday at The Otter House in Fredericksburg, VA for live music featuring the band ‘Yarn’ and a chance to enhance your glassware collection. Buy your first Brooklyn beer for $6 and the pint glass comes with it. Refills after that are only $4.

It’s taken 5 years, a search for space that reached hundreds of square miles and an international collaboration unmatched in New York. Co-Founder Steve Hindy, Brewmaster Garrett Oliver and The Brooklyn Brewery are proud to celebrate the unveiling of Expansion Phase 1 with the first brew from our new brewhouse: Brooklyn Main Engine Start.

For your chance to win a pair of tickets to this momentous event, email info@brooklynbrewery.com with the answer to this question:

What former Bushwick brewery building was the first home for the brand new Brooklyn Brewery in 1988?

UPDATE 2/14/2011: Thanks to everyone who submitted an answer! The first home The BB was the Huber-Hittleman brewery on Meserole Street in Bushwick.

You have probably noticed that there’s a new beer on the Brooklyn Brewery block: a dark Belgian ale called Brooklyn Cuvée Noire.

To officially welcome this delectable beverage into the world, we’re having a little gathering here at The Brewery tonight. It’s invite only, but as a sign of our deep love for you, our faithful Reader, we’re giving away two slots to the goings on this evening, which will include food from some of our favorite local producers, and, of course, a big selection of Brooklyn Brewery beers, starring Cuvée Noire.

To win the passes, be the first to email info@brooklynbrewery.com with the names of the two actors shown below and the film from which this shot was taken:

Brooklyn Brewery Presents: Local X Local celebrates the Best In locally-brewed Music, Arts, Media… And Beer, of course. Once a month for the rest of the year we’ll be presenting a free show at our next door neighbor’s, Brooklyn Bowl.

Maluca is the latest addition to the New York dance scene. Maluca, which means “crazy girl” in Portuguese, is the moniker for 27 year-old Natalie Yepez, born and raised in New York City. Yepez, who was discovered by Diplo while performing karaokee, is the latest addition to the famed DJ’s label Mad Decent, where she joins the ranks of fellow genre-benders M.I.A. and Santigold. What distinguishes Maluca, though, is her own latin-influenced “ghettotech” and fashion flare.

Blue Ribbon MS Charity Bike Benefit

Riding on the coattails of September’s LXL is a worthy cause — the Blue Ribbon MS Charity Bike Benefit. Bromberg Brothers’ Blue Ribbon Restaurants, a restaurant group headquartered in New York City, will donate to its employees 160 new Cannondale Quick recreational bicycles on September 19, 2010. The new bikes will be ridden by Blue Ribbon employees as part of the company’s 200 plus member “Blue Ribbon Restaurants/Naked Nuggets Charity Bike Team” participating as a “Top-Tier Team” in the upcoming National MS Society’s “Bike MS NYC” Event on October 3rd, 2010. The new bikes are part of the company’s efforts to encourage health and wellness, greener business practices, and raise money for charity at the same time.
The bike donation event will include helmets and associated gear, safety instructions, helmet fittings and other assistance to Blue Ribbon employees provided by various sponsors including Cannondale, the NYC DOT, Bike New York, NYC Transportation Alternatives, the NYC – Southern Chapter of the National MS Society, Cycling Sports Group and The Bike Express/52 Division. The bike distribution will be followed by a fundraiser party at Brooklyn Bowl, NYC’s top Zagat-rated music venue, at 7-11 PM on September 19, 2010, at Brooklyn Bowl, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, including Local x Local, a Brooklyn based business organization.

“The Annual MS NYC charity ride was a major impetus in our decision to provide bikes to our employees,” said Eric Bromberg, chef and co-founder with brother Bruce of Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon. “Last year, many employees told us they could not ride with us in the 2009 MS ride because they did not have bikes. This year, we decided to solve that problem. We are working with Cannondale to provide each employee who needs one, a limited edition Blue Ribbon Cannondale “Quick” allowing them to not only participate in the ride, but keep the bike and commute and ride in comfort and style, and hopefully get outdoors and lead a more active lifestyle after the MS ride.”

Ruth Brenner, president of the NYC – Southern NY Chapter of the National MS Society said, “We’re excited Team Blue Ribbon/Naked Nuggets has joined the movement toward a world free of MS by participating in Bike MS NYC, and is providing this amazing opportunity for their employees. As one of our top fundraising teams, we’re grateful for Blue Ribbon’s commitment to our cause, and are thrilled they’re back for a second year!

We’re pouring beer at the Williamsburg Waterfront concerts all summer long. On Friday, July 2nd Faith No More will play their first East Coast show in a long, long time. Also, we got our mitts on some VIP tickets.

Email info@brooklynbrewery.com with “FNM Part 1″ in the subject line for your chance to win a pair to Friday’s 5pm show.

Thankfully, Brooklyn Brewery got roped into sponsoring the Friar’s Club Improv & Sketch Competition this weekend. It’s being held at Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater. Fine, we’ll call it UCB from now on. Happy? You’d be happier if you won a pair of tickets to Saturday’s show and after party at The Actual Friar’s Club Where Weird Stuff Probably Happens All The Time.

For your chance to win a pair of tickets, email info@brooklynbrewery.com with “Friar’s Club” in the subject field. And try to be funny about it.

To learn more about the Competition go here.

To purchase tickets go here.

FrISC Sketch Competition
Friday, June 25th and Saturday, June 26th
7:30pm
UCB Theatre – 307 w 26 St.

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.

But FIRST, let’s do some giveaways. The first handful of loyal Brooklyn Brewery Blog readers to email “Sorachi Ace In The Place” to info@brooklynbrewery.com will win a pair of spots on the guestlist for tonight’s party at The Brewery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. To email you go!

Brooklyn Sorachi Ace Ale

Most Brooklyn beers are made with a blend of hop varietals. As a chef does with spices, we look to get the best qualities of each hop and create a harmony of flavors and aromas. However, a few years ago, our brewmaster ran into a hop unique enough to deserve its own moment in the sun. A large Japanese brewery first developed the hop variety “Sorachi Ace” in 1988. A cross between the British “Brewer’s Gold” and the Czech “Saaz” varieties, it exhibited a quality that was unexpected – it smelled really lemony. The unique flavor of Sorachi Ace was bypassed by the big brewers, but we thought it was pretty cool. So we made a special beer with it, and added the beer to our Brewmaster’s Reserve special draft beer program last year. Most Brewmaster’s Reserve beers are only available for a short time, and then they’re gone. But we liked this one so much, we decided to bring it back and give it the star treatment.

Brooklyn Sorachi Ace is a classic saison, a cracklingly dry, hoppy unfiltered golden farmhouse ale, but made entirely with now-rare Sorachi Ace hops grown by a single farm in Oregon. We ferment it with our special Belgian ale strain, and then add more Sorachi Ace hops post-fermentation. After the dry-hopping, the beer emerges with a bright spicy lemongrass/lemon zest aroma backed by a wonderfully clean malt flavor. From here we’ve taken it through 100% bottle re-fermentation with Champagne yeast, giving it fine pin-point carbonation and a beautiful pillowy foam. It tastes like sunshine in a glass, and that suits us just fine, especially with seafood dishes and fresh cheeses. It’ll be just the thing on nice summer days and beyond. We only made 2500 cases, and to tell you the honest truth, we pretty much made it for ourselves. But beer’s no fun if you don’t share, so we do hope you’ll drink some with us.

Brooklyn Buzz Bomb Ale

In medieval Europe, ale graced the tables of everyone from paupers to kings, but honey wine, called mead, was largely reserved for the rich. In the days before table sugar came from the tropical parts of the world, honey was the only intensely sweet thing that many people had access to. Honey was expensive – after all, a man can only keep so many bees. Meads were also expensive, but people often brought ale and mead together in a popular drink called “braggott”. Sometimes these braggotts were simply blends, but the best of them had the grain and honey extracts fermented together, bringing both sets of flavors into a unified whole. To tell the truth, our brewmaster hadn’t spent much time thinking about braggott until last summer, when he ran into Nathaniel and Thatcher Martin at the New Amsterdam Market in New York City. The Martin brothers were pouring small samples of their mead, called Brooklyn Buzz. It was pretty delicious, and they all got talking about honey. It turned out that the Martins source their raw wildflower honey from the same place that Brooklyn Brewery does – Tremblay Farms in upstate New York.

And now, as summer smiles upon us once more, we bring you the result of last summer’s stroll through the market – Brooklyn Buzz Bomb Ale. We’ve used Alan Tremblay’s wildflower honey in a few of our beers, most notably Brooklyn Local 2. In Brooklyn Buzz Bomb, the honey takes center stage, making up a full 25% of the fermentable sugar. We added the honey to the kettle along with a gentle hopping and a lilt of orange peel. Is the beer sweet? Actually, not at all – honey is quite fermentable and our Belgian ale yeast is very hungry. Brooklyn Buzz Bomb has a bright gold color and a spicy floral aroma showing distinctive honey notes. The palate is light, crisp, and very dry, showing a zing of acidity and a quick burst of fruit. Complex floral, honey and spice flavors linger in the bone-dry finish. Brooklyn Buzz Bomb is a perfect match for summer foods – salads, barbecue, shrimp dishes, hummus, grilled salmon, brunch dishes and fresh goat cheese. It’s also very pleasant all by itself, as you smell the flowers, feel the sun dapple through the trees, listen to the birds sing and wonder what it was you really liked about snow anyway.

]]> http://brooklynbrewery.com/blog/events/introductions-re-introductions/feed/ 3 http://brooklynbrewery.com/blog/art/friday-freebie-opportunity-youngheart/ http://brooklynbrewery.com/blog/art/friday-freebie-opportunity-youngheart/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:48:38 +0000 Ben http://brooklynbrewery.com/blog/?p=892 Continue reading →]]> 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.

Big news! Brooklyn Brewery  is co-hosting “Computer Blip Bloop Bullshit!” at Club DeVille in Austin along with our pals Found Footage Festival and Busted Tees. FFF is celebrating the success of the new website and tour. Brooklyn Brewery is celebrating its now-availability in Austin. And Busted Tees, another year as the tits of funny T-shirts.

This is an official SXSW Interactive party, but good news: NO badges or wristbands required. So yeah. Come and bring your friends. Monday night, March 15. It’s a free party. Everyone is invited, but you must be 21+ to attend.

To entertain you:

The Black And White Years (rock)

The Laughing (rock)

Mike & The Moonpies (honky-tonk).

Found Footage Fest VHS Favorites

DJ Jester The Filipino Fist

To wet your whistle: Brooklyn Brewery beer, of course.

Sponsored by the Found Footage Festival, Busted Tees, Brooklyn Brewery, A.V. Club, Maria the Date Coach, and The Onion.

From The AV Club Austin

Every day, the human race places more of its trust in computers, and where exactly does that get us? Identity theft, fapping creeps behind every turn of the Chatroulette wheel, and a tangle of government-sponsored wires waiting for the day they can finally unleash the nuclear weapons. Before artificial intelligence can revolt, the VHS revivalists of the Found Footage Film Festival fire a shot at their would-be cybernetic oppressors, hosting a pre-SXSW party with the analog-friendly likes of synth-heads The Black And White Years, red-blooded honky-tonkers Mike And The Moonpies, and The Laughing, whose techno-tribalist triumph Fever has enough future-fret to kill all your iLust. DJ Jester The Filipino Fist makes musical juxtapositions the old fashioned way—on turntables—completing the sense that neither computers nor the Internet have done a lick of good for the evening’s acts. To win tickets to this event, e-mailrsvpaustin@theonion.com.

Cosmologists tell us that the universe was made by a massive explosion called the Big Bang. And in this Big Bang was created a material called “dark matter”, which accounts for 95% of the mass of the universe and actually binds the universe together. Well, that sounds pretty heavy. But it’s theoretical. Here in Brooklyn, our cosmology is a bit different.

In the beginning, there was Black Ops. Or perhaps not. Beer does have its mysteries. Anyhow, they say that back in 2007, a small amount of Dark Matter was created alongside Black Ops, but very few people had an opportunity to taste it. The Brooklyn Brewing Team decided that this shortage was unfortunate – plenty of Dark Matter for themselves, but not enough to share with all their friends. So last autumn they decided to recreate Dark Matter and open up the Brooklyn Barrel Room to a wider world. Brooklyn Dark Matter is a robust brown ale aged for four months in bourbon and rye whiskey barrels. Some barrels previously held Black Ops, some hosted The Manhattan Project, others came straight from the distilleries as soon as the whiskey was decanted. We’ve blended these barrels to create a beer full of caramel and chocolate flavors heightened by vanilla-like oak notes and hints of the barrels’ previous tenants. The result is a smooth, rich beer that really loves food, from fried or roasted chicken to char-grilled steak, barbecue, pork chops and even monkfish. And on some chilly evening in late winter, or perhaps the first warm night of spring, we hope that you may be tempted to believe that Dark Matter really does bind the universe together.

– Garrett Oliver

The first 25 drinkers to email info@brooklynbrewery.com with “Dark Matter Winner” will win passes for two to THIS MONDAY’s party (March 8th, 7:30pm – 10:30pm) at The Brewery. Get to it!

This Sunday, February 21st marks the first Local X Local, a monthly event presented by us & Brooklyn Bowl which celebrates Brooklyn’s local art & music community. This edition of Local X Local features The Phenomenal Handclap Band. The Brewery & The Bowl invite you to a special night of music, art, and food.

7pm – 10pm :: $2 Brewery Draft Special with RSVP on Facebook here :: http://bit.ly/BBLxL1
Brooklyn’s finest graphic design and live t-shirt printing team, Peripheral Media Projects, will be on-hand screening and selling custom shirts. Check them out here: www.peripheralmediaprojects.com

Join Greenhorn’s director Severine v T Fleming + Greenpoint’s own farmer Annie Novak of the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm to plot, plan+ prepare for your summer garden on rooftop, fire escape, backyard or scrap of lot. They’ll bring seed catalogs, minipaks, garden planning materials and supplies– and will be available for free consultations and pep talks. Get your green on!

Information on greenhorns www.thegreenhorns.net/ www.thegreenhorns.wordpress.com Info on food education with growing chefs www.GrowingChefs.org

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.

For the past 10 years or so, Brooklyn Brewery has been supporting Transportation Alternatives in a variety of ways: monetarily, beer-ily, serving on their board-ily. If you don’t already know, Transportation Alternatives is New York City’s leading advocates for bicycling, walking, and public transit. On Tuesday, Nov 17th at 7pm, they’re kicking off their new campaign, Biking Rules, at BAM with a film program comprised of short narratives, animations, and documentaries that promote bicycling in New York City. The evening event will include prizes for jury-selected films and a special reception courtesy of us.

For a chance to win a pair of tickets email info@brooklynbrewery.com with “Biking Rules” in the subject line.

Visit www.bikingrules.org/psa to learn more about Transportation Alternatives and the Biking Rules campaign.