From Brooklyn Historical Society:

This photo shows Seatrain Shipbuilding workers on break at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1977. This photo was donated by Frank J. Trezza a long-time electrician at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Frank J. Trezza Collection contains several hundred color photographs, black and white photographs, color negatives, and black and white negatives, all photographed by Frank J. Trezza during his tenure at the Seatrain Shipbuilding. Though the dates of the collection span from 1861 to 1988, the bulk of the records are from the period 1973-1978, when Mr. Trezza was an employee of Seatrain Shipbuilding. The images offer an inside view of the Navy Yard during the final years of shipbuilding there. Included are landscapes of the Navy Yard and its surrounding area, portraits of fellow Seatrain employees on the job, and images of the ships that were built or repaired at the Navy Yard during this time. There are also a few copy prints obtained from the National Archives that depict ships built at the Navy Yard from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

Boys at Fort Hamilton, ca.1910, V1981.284.55; Emmanuel House lantern slide collection, v1981.284; Brooklyn Historical Society.

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

This photograph features boys from Emmanuel House on a visit to Fort Hamilton. Fort Hamilton is located in Bay Ridge, in the southwestern corner of Brooklyn. American soldiers had used the site as a garrison since the Revolutionary War, but the structure that stands today was not erected until the nineteenth century. The Army commenced building Fort Hamilton on June 11, 1825, completing it after six years and at a cost of half a million dollars. Fort Hamilton has played numerous roles in both war and peacetime. Its military residents included Robert E. Lee, garrisoned there during the 1840s, decades before he would lead the Confederate Army. During the Civil War, the fort protected New York harbor against potential Confederate invaders and provided troops to police the New York Draft Riots of 1863. In the twentieth century, it served as a major port of embarkation during both World Wars. Fort Hamilton continues to be an actively used military site today. The fort also houses the Harbor Defense Museum, which offers educational tours, exhibits, and access to archival collections related to military history in New York City.

Emmanuel House was located at 13 Steuben Street in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. As a civic center and place of outreach run by the Young Men’s League of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, the Emmanuel House offered Sunday school, Kindergarten and recreational classes to children of the church and neighborhood. Emmanuel House was demolished in the mid-twentienth century during an expansion of the neighboring Pratt Institute, at which time outreach and recreational activities were resumed at the Emmanuel Baptist Church.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

The JakeWalk, part of a foodtastic triumvirate including cheese and artisanal provisions outlet Stinky Brooklyn and wine/liquor outpost Smith & Vine, rolled out a scrumptious 3-course beer dinner earlier this evening including a delightfully odorous cheese finale, all paired with some of Brooklyn’s most illusive imbibables, and each introduced in detail by Brewmaster Oliver:

You’ll find that all the doors are locked, and the windows are barred. There was no escaping the bottle-conditioned, vintage, barrel-aged and funky-yeast beers to come.

Bottle-conditioned Radius, at a highly sessionable 4.8%, stretches its legs.

Arguably the best course of the night, the chicken liver crostini drenched in kabocha squash soup and paired with the original batch of Local 1 was the edible equivalent of running the game-opening kickoff to a touchdown (sorry, football on the brain).

This trio of goat cheese ravioli displayed a mild hint of wasabi, the perfect accompaniment to Sorachi Ace.

Hold on to your butts: this beef sirloin and Brussels sprouts loved to publicly display its affection for Cuvée Elijah, Cuvée Noire aged in Elijah Craig barrels.

And last, but certainly in no way least, we reveled in the raucous, funky, downright stinky flavors of Grayson, paired up with “Wild 1″ — an adaptation of Local 1 aged in the same barrels from which a certain classified imperial stout develops its riotously delicious character, and then refermented with wild yeast.

From Brooklyn Historical Society (click here to enlarge):

This month’s featured map dates from approximately 1776 and shows the routes of American and British troops throughout the New York area before, during, and after the “Engagement on the Heights” of August 27th, 1776. Known alternately as the Battle of Long Island, the Battle of Brooklyn, and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, this event was a significant moment in the Revolutionary War. Some historical sites relevant to the battle can still be visited today, including Battle Pass in Prospect Park, the Prison Ships Martyrs Monument, and the Old Stone House.

[East side of Furman Street.], ca. 1940, v1974.16.228; Edna Huntington papers and photographs, ARC.044, Brooklyn Historical Society.

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

From the desk of Julie May, Photo Archivist: The first noticeable and great thing about this photograph is the cars, I think. While the new Fiat is sweetly round and compact, I personally don’t think it compares to the curvy lines of the cars above. I imagine they were pretty utilitarian, but I find them romantically stylish. This picture depicts Furman Street – a Furman Street that is no longer. It has transformed from a small street with trees and brick-front buildings to the roaring BQE on the east side of the street and the waterfront on the other side with an occasional building or two. In addition, the new Brooklyn Bridge Park in all its manicured and bike-friendly glory is now between the road and the water. That’s quite a change in a mere seventy years, but that’s Brooklyn for you – always changing.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

Horse-drawn carriage on Clinton Avenue at Fulton Street, after the blizzard, ca. 1888, V1974.7.78; Adrian Vanderveer Martense lantern slide collection, ARC.191; Brooklyn Historical Society.

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

 From the desk of Carolina Garcia, project intern: When I first started working on digitizing the Adrian Vanderveer Martense collection of lantern slides, one of the things I was most amused by was the fact that the labels on the slides were stamped “A.V. Martense, Amateur”. Martense hailed from one of Brooklyn’s oldest and wealthiest families and enjoyed the hobby of photography. Although he was not a professional photographer, there are many impressive images in the collection—from portraits to landscapes to architecture.

I chose to share this image because of the sharpness and richness that Martense managed to capture. It is among the images Martense created in the wake of a New York blizzard in March of 1888. The horse and carriage stand in front of a building near the corner of Fulton and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

Sledding in Prospect Park, January 1967, V1990.2.39; Donald Nowlan Brooklyn collection, ARC.120; Brooklyn Historical Society.

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

 This photo shows sledders in Prospect Park, January 1967. Equipped with the wood sleds, plastic discs, and pieces of cardboard, hundreds of winter revelers of all ages flock to the hills of Prospect Park every year. When Prospect Park opened in 1867, it provided a free and accessible public space for Brooklynites to congregate, exercise, and play in the heat of summer and the chill of winter. Today, Prospect Park remains one of the most popular sledding sites in Brooklyn.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

Photographer John D. Morrell was Assistant Librarian of the Long Island Historical Society (today known as Brooklyn Historical Society), and donated more than 2,600 photographs of Brooklyn neighborhoods to the library. Most are photographs documenting Brooklyn storefronts and blocks. The collection is a wonderful resource for researchers due to the detail included with each photograph. This photograph shows a small store called Holiday House, located on the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Carroll Street taken on February 28, 1960 – it’s great to have that much geographic information for so many images!

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

In 2007, real estate blog The Real Deal called Columbia Heights “Brooklyn’s most expensive street” because of the limited number of properties and the stunning views of Manhattan from buildings on the west side of the street. Columbia Heights has long been one of Brooklyn’s most-coveted addresses, and over the centuries many of the mansions and brownstones along the street housed the borough’s most prominent families. Residents of Columbia Heights have included members of the Pierrepont family, the Roebling Family, Henry Ward Beecher, and more recently, Norman Mailer.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[Photos by Eric Schwortz]

Eliza J. Lefferts, circa 1850s-1860s; Lefferts family papers, ARC.145, box 5, folder 8; Brooklyn Historical Society.

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

This portrait depicts Eliza J. Lefferts (1831-1867), a member of one of Kings County’s oldest and most powerful families. Eliza was born in Bedford Corners (part of present-day Bedford Stuyvesant). At the age of twenty, she moved a mile south to Flatbush when she married her cousin John Lefferts (1826-1895), heir to the Lefferts family homestead. Eliza spent much of her adult life pregnant: she gave birth to six children between 1852 and 1860. In 1867, after a short illness, Eliza passed away. Her death was particularly difficult for her sister-in-law, Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt, who lived across the street and who had lost her mother only two years earlier. In a family history she composed for Eliza’s children, Gertrude wrote, “Every effort to renew her strength proved unavailing, and she died in 1867, greatly beloved and lamented.”

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

This month’s featured map depicts the New York City subway system in 1955. Published by the Union Dime Savings Bank, the map shows various subway lines, stations, and sites of free transfer. Another interesting feature of the map is that it advertises banking by mail, calling it “the quickest and easiest way to open an account.”

You can view the BHS map collection anytime during the library’s open hours, Wed.-Fri., from 1-5 p.m. No appointment is necessary to view most maps.

[Photo by Gustav Hoiland]

Photographer Gustav Hoiland writes:

Some photographic exploration this afternoon involved shooting breaking bottles and a water-filled Brooklyn Brown made it into the mix. Just thought you’d like to see. Forthcoming bottle sessions to be much more refined and legit.

[Abraham & Straus, ca.1895, v1972.1.611; Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection, ARC.201; Brooklyn Historical Society.]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

The end of November also marks the beginning of the holiday window displays in New York. This photograph captures an elaborate window display, which appears to be made entirely out of handkerchiefs, at Abraham & Straus department store. The ornate building, located at 422 Fulton Street, became the flagship location of A&S in 1885, and is now a Macy’s store. The three-story arch that once formed the entrance to the building has since been filled in, but other original art deco details are still visible.

In addition to this photograph, BHS has an archival collection about Abraham & Straus from 1865 to 1995. The majority of the items date from 1964 and 1965 and were compiled by Abraham & Straus employee Juli Daves in preparation for the store’s centennial celebration. These items include newsletters, a history of Abraham & Straus, news clippings, and correspondence between Juli Daves and Mrs. Kenn Stryker-Rodda, Archivist at the Long Island Historical Society (later the Brooklyn Historical Society), regarding research for the centennial. Other materials in the collection include store directories, souvenir shopping bags, employee newsletters, various printed ephemera, and a catalog dating from 1886, when the store was known as Wechsler & Abraham.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[Sunday School Thanksgiving, ca. 1910, v1981.284.20; Emmanuel House lantern slide collection, v1981.284; Brooklyn Historical Society.]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

This image showing a Thanksgiving spread at Emmanuel House is one of eighty-seven lantern slides in BHS’s Emmanuel House lantern slide collection, circa 1910-1914. Emmanuel House was located at 131 Steuben Street, near Pratt Institute in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. According to the 1897 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac, “it was maintained by the Young Men’s League of Emmanuel Baptist Church [and] has reading rooms, game rooms, a gymnasium, and bowling alleys for boys; and free sewing school and kindergarten classes for girls.”

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[Text and photographs by Casey Kelbaugh]

FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN, THEN WE TAKE BERLIN.

“I did not expect Brooklyn to have so nice beer,” said Saskia Bosch, the gorgeous blonde sitting beside me, IPA in hand. It’s true, I thought, bringing beer to Germany makes about as much sense as bringing sand to the beach. But yet, somehow, Marc Rauschmann of Die Internationale Brau-Manufacturen importers managed to bring a dimpled smile to Saskia and about 200 other Berliner’s faces last Thursday evening with generous helpings of India Pale Ale and Local 1 & 2.

The occasion for all of this beer-drinking was Slideluck Potshow’s fourth installment in Berlin. The show was produced by photographer Britney Anne Majure and it took place at .HBC which was the former Hungarian Cultural Center and sits across the street from Alexanderplatz and the iconic TV tower.

Rather than trying to get Berliners to understand potlucking (not sure they’ll ever get it), we opted to bring in Tacos Berlin to provide some slammin’ poblano dinners and Elke Wardlaw’s homemade cupcakes. DJ Magnus Bjerk complimented the candle-lit-sit-down dinner perfectly with velvety smooth Latin-inspired tracks.

Berlin’s population has about as similar a profile to Williamsburg as can be found anywhere on Earth. So not only are all the girls rocking bowl-cuts, but there is an extremely high concentration of young, creative people from all over. Nowhere was this embarrassment of riches more clearly displayed than in our slideshow of 30 local artists, including: Jan von Holleben, Barbara Wagner, Andrea Diefenbach, Jen Osborne, Lindsay Amelie Isola and Mirjam Siefert. Having been to this particular rodeo before, I was completely amazed to see so much fresh and interesting work. Apparently so was Peaches, who I’m told also came for the slideshow.

What also made the show special was having a number of Slideluck directors in town for our European Director’s meeting the following night. Maria Teresa Salvati came in from London, Siri Warren from Oslo, Benedicte Gerbier flew in from Paris, Britney Anne Majure from Berlin, and of course the SLPS Global Producer, Carly Planker from New York.

Towards the end of the party, I met a young American guy who was on a Fulbright scholarship, teaching English in Berlin. He had an armload of IPA’s and I asked what was up. He said when he heard Brooklyn Brewery was having their launch party that night in Berlin – so he came specifically for that, as he was tiring of German lagers. Well, on that particular night, he struck jackpot. Those Fulbrights sure are smart.

[John Jay Pierrepont Home, 1879], v1986.66.70; John Jay Pierrepont photograph collection, ARC.197, Brooklyn Historical Society. ]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

The next time you drive on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) through Brooklyn Heights, imagine what it looked like before there was a BQE. This photograph was taken by John Jay Pierrepont, son of Henry Evelyn and Anna Maria Pierrepont. John and his brother (Henry Evelyn II) lived in Brooklyn Heights and took over Pierrepont Stores, the family’s shipping storage business along the Brooklyn waterfront. In 1879 when this photograph was taken, it would have been very convenient for the brothers to descend the stairs from the backyard of 1 Pierrepont Place, where John resided, toward the offices of the Pierrepont Stores.

Many of the properties along Pierrepont Place enjoyed this aesthetically pleasing and direct route to the water until the BQE was built at the proposal of Robert Moses. After a grueling, public debate, the twentieth-century residents of Brooklyn Heights were able to strike a compromise that eliminated the backyards on Pierrepont Place and installed the Brooklyn Heights Promenade to accommodate the BQE running below instead of criss-crossing the historic neighborhood.

Incidentally, John Jay was also an amateur photographer who chronicled the progress being made on the Brooklyn Bridge and many other waterfront scenes. He was the treasurer for the Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society) and a member of the Committee on Brooklyn History.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[John Jay Pierrepont Home, 1879], v1986.66.70; John Jay Pierrepont photograph collection, ARC.197, Brooklyn Historical Society. ]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

The next time you drive on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) through Brooklyn Heights, imagine what it looked like before there was a BQE. This photograph was taken by John Jay Pierrepont, son of Henry Evelyn and Anna Maria Pierrepont. John and his brother (Henry Evelyn II) lived in Brooklyn Heights and took over Pierrepont Stores, the family’s shipping storage business along the Brooklyn waterfront. In 1879 when this photograph was taken, it would have been very convenient for the brothers to descend the stairs from the backyard of 1 Pierrepont Place, where John resided, toward the offices of the Pierrepont Stores.

Many of the properties along Pierrepont Place enjoyed this aesthetically pleasing and direct route to the water until the BQE was built at the proposal of Robert Moses. After a grueling, public debate, the twentieth-century residents of Brooklyn Heights were able to strike a compromise that eliminated the backyards on Pierrepont Place and installed the Brooklyn Heights Promenade to accommodate the BQE running below instead of criss-crossing the historic neighborhood.

Incidentally, John Jay was also an amateur photographer who chronicled the progress being made on the Brooklyn Bridge and many other waterfront scenes. He was the treasurer for the Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society) and a member of the Committee on Brooklyn History.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[Images by John Mazlish]
[Text by Dan Teran]

Slideluck Potshow put its best foot forward Wednesday night with the 2nd Annual SLIDELUCK Fundraiser & Auction.  Monday last we returned to Chinatown after a great success at FotoWeek DC, and in a few short days and near-sleepless nights, the NYC Slideluck Team rallied to transform Sandbox Studios into a compelling gallery space, and was prepared to put DC back in its place as a cultural runner-up.

For the second year in a row, Ryan Jones worked tirelessly to produce the fundraiser.  After all the labor she put into Slideluck, Ryan went into another kind of labor last Friday – this year, Ryan not only produced SLIDELUCK, but also, a human being.  Five days before the auction (and more than a week early) Ryan brought Scarlet Jones Ouvaroff into the world – we were personally hoping she’d name her firstborn Slideluck, but we’ll settle for her hard work and dedication.  Like a true partner, Ryan’s husband, Caspar Ouvaroff, stepped up to curate and install all 60 pieces in the show with yours truly, and with his massive, 6’7” frame, made an appearance at the event large enough for both his lovely bride and newborn child.  A huge thank you and congratulations goes out to the growing Ouvaroff clan.

Guests arrived for the VIP reception and sipped on some of Brooklyn’s finest brews – the Local 1 and 2 – while having a first taste of Co-Host Rikrit Tiravanija’s Thai curry pizza – a preview of the curry lunches he will be serving at MoMA as part of an installation beginning next week.   Morton, the WhistlePig Rye Whiskey brand ambassador, a house-trained potbelly pig, stole the first part of the show.  He demonstrated the virtues that earn potbelly pigs a top-five slot in animal intelligence.  As I sat at my desk on Thursday morning, preparing to make an argument for purchasing a floor pig for my office, I learned some fun facts, namely: that pigs can have their feelings hurt.  This confirmed my suspicion that only Morton truly grasped the irony of partygoers tossing him dog treats, while munching on crostini with braised Mini Mac Farm pork shoulder, Alstede Farms Winesap apple and local shallot chutney.

Early in the evening, I had the delight of meeting the Co-Host, Jessica Craig-Martin, an esteemed events-turned-art photographer.  When prompted by the event’s producer and her former student, Carly Planker, to comment on my attempted mustache, Ms. Craig-Martin replied, “I am a person who generally has a complaint about everything, and I have no complaint about that moustache.”  Take that, Mom.

Ms. Craig-Martin used the silent auction as an opportunity to collect some beautiful work.  One piece, a photograph by Dolly Faibyshev, featured a detail of a woman and her hound from their least flattering angle, as though Ms. Craig Martin had been asked to cover the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show herself.  The second piece she purchased was a photograph by Ruben Natal-San Miguel featuring a woman of questionable employ on the street in Harlem with bedazzled “$” earrings – no less ostentatious than her usual upper-crust subjects.

As the evening progressed, a powerful speech from SLPS Founder and Director Casey Kelbaugh, followed by an uplifting video, brought everyone back to the roots of Slideluck Potshow – an idea idea that began in Casey’s Seattle backyard 11 years ago.  A short film about the Slideluck Youth Initiative, one of evening’s primary beneficiaries, concluded with Casey issuing a challenge for the organization to “change the world through photography”.  The candor in Casey’s voice gave the audience the impression that they were either with him or against him, and I knew where I fell if I expected another sweet, sweet Brooklyn Lager.

Following an exhilarating live auction of works by Spencer Tunick, Ines Esnal, Barton Lidice Benes and others presented by Sotheby’s Courtney Booth, attendees cautiously guarded their favorite pieces by artists such as Shepard Fairey, Joseph La Piana, Jen Davis and Julie Blackmon in the ongoing silent auction – providing no shortage of micro-narratives fueled by bidding wars.  I watched on as two such silent showdowns unfold on pieces book-ending a wall of larger works.  The pieces happened to compliment each other quite well, both in watercolor, one a mustache, the other a series of, well, upskirts.  Artist John Gordon Gauld contributed the mustache piece from a collection of work done for Bergdorf’s, the upskirts were done by Rosalie Stone Morris – both of whom left arm-in-arm before bidding closed, weary of the melodrama, for some late night karaoke.  Thanks guys.

With no shortage of chocolate bark covered in inventive toppings to munch on, prepared by Dave Gould at the Highlands Supper Club, the silent auction wrapped.  Men in suits left with art in boxes.  Women in cocktail dresses left with men in suits.  And the rest of us?  Well, we stayed and swilled the remaining Pennant Ale in true Slideluck fashion, until Carly kicked us out.  Next stop?  Berlin.  Dare we bring some Chocolate Stout to the land of Bier?  I hope so.

“I just wanted to share this picture of a wedding cake I created with Brooklyn Brewery beer labels. Some of my friends are huge fans of your beer and they encouraged me (I own a wedding cake business) to do a DIY wedding cake that involved Brooklyn Brewery beer for my blog. There’s also a video tutorial for the cake on my blog.”

[The junction of Flatbush and Church Avenues, ca. 1918, v1973.6.385; Brooklyn photograph and illustration collection. ARC.202; Brooklyn Historical Society.]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

This image of Flatbush and Church Avenues, taken by F. A. Walter for Brooklyn Life magazine, looks away from the Old Dutch Reformed Church toward the Bank of Flatbush and the Flatbush Theater ca. 1918. Brooklyn Life was a weekly magazine in publication from 1890 to 1931. The magazine featured poetry, book reviews, art and theater columns, coverage of club life, and gossip about local notables. When the magazine began its run in 1890, Brooklyn was still an independent city, with the editor announcing on March 8, 1890, “Remember you are to work for Brooklyn first, last and always…” At the magazine’s conclusion in 1931, Brooklyn had become a borough of New York City. The entire run of Brooklyn Life and its index is available in bound volumes at the BHS library.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[The junction of Flatbush and Church Avenues, ca. 1918, v1973.6.385; Brooklyn photograph and illustration collection. ARC.202; Brooklyn Historical Society.]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

This image of Flatbush and Church Avenues, taken by F. A. Walter for Brooklyn Life magazine, looks away from the Old Dutch Reformed Church toward the Bank of Flatbush and the Flatbush Theater ca. 1918. Brooklyn Life was a weekly magazine in publication from 1890 to 1931. The magazine featured poetry, book reviews, art and theater columns, coverage of club life, and gossip about local notables. When the magazine began its run in 1890, Brooklyn was still an independent city, with the editor announcing on March 8, 1890, “Remember you are to work for Brooklyn first, last and always…” At the magazine’s conclusion in 1931, Brooklyn had become a borough of New York City. The entire run of Brooklyn Life and its index is available in bound volumes at the BHS library.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[Images by Casey Kelbaugh]
[Text by Dan Teran]

We emerged from the Chinatown metro station in downtown DC after a fun-filled four-hour bus ride down from New York City.  Arriving at the residence of Francis Kim, one of the local Slideluck Potshow directors, we encountered a young lady with two Tupperware containers full of chocolate chip cookies.

We asked if she was going to a potluck, thinking that everyone in DC must be en route to Slideluck Potshow DC VI, and was surprised to find out that she was just going one at “Maria’s apartment”.  Who knew DC was such a potlucky town?  Hoping to maybe get a freshly-baked cookie out of the exchange, we inquired further, only to find out that she had bought the cookies at Costco and then transferred them to Tupperware to give the appearance of home-cooking.  Wow, that’s clever, we exclaimed.  And lame.  We shared the elevator for another couple floors and an awkward guilty silence hung in the elevator like an egg fart.  Wow, DC, we knew you were dirty, but not that dirty.

Cookie Monster was getting off the elevator and we said, “Hey have a good potluck.”
And she responded, “Thanks, you too.”

We ignored some of our NYC friend’s suggestions to “check out Starbuck’s” while were down there and focus on some of Washington’s cultural wonders.  For the 4th year in a row, we collaborated with FotoWeek DC to bring our unique mix of a multimedia slideshow and potluck dinner to the good people of DC.  We curated a show of about 30 artists, primarily DC-based, and rolled into town with no less than 30 cases of Brooklyn Lager, Brooklyn Brown Ale and IPA.

There were no shortage of Dockers or earnest political opinions, but among the 250 or more folks that attended, was a lively and diverse mix of people.  And no more was that more accurately reflected than in the potluck dinner – sesame bok choy, cauliflower and cashew salad, mac n’cheese cups, an olive and orange salad, chocolate pumpkin bread – too name a few dishes.

The slide show was comic at times, sexy at others, and of course, challenging and hard-hitting in many cases.  Our DC peeps don’t care for fluff.  Nor do they care for Costco cookies packaged in Tupperware.

One of the benefits of teaming up with FotoWeek was that they had a number of exhibitions mounted in the space – including the finalists for Pictures of the Year International and the World Press Photos of the Year.  The afforded the opportunity for Slideluckers to wander the cavernous and carpeted ex-Borders Bookstore, cold beers in hand, to check out some mind-blowing work.  One particularly investigative couple – who looked like they may ridden on their fixies all the way from Williamsburg – were delighted to unearth the repetition of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote captioning two different works, practically right next to each other.  Awkward!

After the slides had stopped and the last drop of Brooklyn Brown had found a belly, a spontaneous Sunday night after party coalesced around the corner at the 18th Street Lounge.  Yet another pleasant surprise, this place was packed, with multiple floors eliciting fierce dance moves and a large deck for 50 or more Slideluckers to recount and discuss the evening’s program into the wee hours of the night.

Once again, Washington, DC, you made us proud to be American.

Brooklyn Lager and East India Pale Ale were lovingly provided to riders at the recent Red Hook Criterium bike race in Milan. Turns out cyclists take some pretty good photos, too.

[Below: RHC display at Sardi Cicli in Monza.]

[Brooklyn’s Continuation School, ca. 1922, v1973.6.430; Photography Collection; Brooklyn Historical Society.]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

Ca. 1922. This image shows students at the Brooklyn Continuation School. In the early twentieth century, many boys and girls who could no longer attend school because they needed to help their families earn income went to continuation schools, like the one pictured here, in order to learn various vocational skills, which would help them find work. Young people would often work at a job in the morning and then take classes at a continuation school in the evening.

Factory owners wrote hundreds of letters praising continuation school programs as they promised to create more highly skilled workers. Boys and girls enrolled in separate programs, based on gender, in the same building. They studied woodworking, electrical wiring, type-writing, salesmanship, and tailoring. Students from Brooklyn Continuation School (BCS) were in particularly high demand as workers. BCS’s students were 97% employed in industries throughout the city and the school had the highest percentage of employed students in New York.

BCS was located near the corner of Ryerson Street and Myrtle Avenue, within walking distance of numerous elevated train lines. Each day hundreds of students would attend classes. Today, BCS continues to operate with a new name and location. Renamed George Westinghouse High School and located in Downtown Brooklyn, the school continues to offer hands-on learning in addition to the standard school curriculum of math, language arts, science, and history. Mirroring the development of Brooklyn industry, the school teaches classes on technology management, eyeglass design and production, website design, and robotics.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[Brooklyn’s Continuation School, ca. 1922, v1973.6.430; Photography Collection; Brooklyn Historical Society.]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

Ca. 1922. This image shows students at the Brooklyn Continuation School. In the early twentieth century, many boys and girls who could no longer attend school because they needed to help their families earn income went to continuation schools, like the one pictured here, in order to learn various vocational skills, which would help them find work. Young people would often work at a job in the morning and then take classes at a continuation school in the evening.

Factory owners wrote hundreds of letters praising continuation school programs as they promised to create more highly skilled workers. Boys and girls enrolled in separate programs, based on gender, in the same building. They studied woodworking, electrical wiring, type-writing, salesmanship, and tailoring. Students from Brooklyn Continuation School (BCS) were in particularly high demand as workers. BCS’s students were 97% employed in industries throughout the city and the school had the highest percentage of employed students in New York.

BCS was located near the corner of Ryerson Street and Myrtle Avenue, within walking distance of numerous elevated train lines. Each day hundreds of students would attend classes. Today, BCS continues to operate with a new name and location. Renamed George Westinghouse High School and located in Downtown Brooklyn, the school continues to offer hands-on learning in addition to the standard school curriculum of math, language arts, science, and history. Mirroring the development of Brooklyn industry, the school teaches classes on technology management, eyeglass design and production, website design, and robotics.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

We hopped a train Wednesday morning to visit Utica, NY where our partners from the F.X. Matt Brewery have been producing beers including Brooklyn Lager and Black Chocolate Stout for almost 25 years. A family owned outfit having brewed continuously in New York since the late nineteenth century, this extraordinary facility is one of the most important places in the history of American brewing. Our bodies could barely stand the gravity of this hallowed ground. Not only did the brewery weather the fascism of prohibition — and release the very first beer to market after its repeal — but they have successfully resisted the juggernaut of corporate consolidation for over a hundred years. This landmark destination is a must see for beer fans.

The brewery tour houses a historically rich display of Matt family portraits, a desk once owned by P.T. Barnum, a million-dollar grandfather clock, a prohibition-era chandelier from an authentic speak easy recreation, and some seriously awesome steins. The city itself offers delicious signature dishes: Utica Greens, Chicken Riggies and pizza-box looking receptacle housing Utica Half Moons, protected here from a bear by Operations Assistant Justin Lloyd.

["THE COWKAT -- ABOUT TO ENJOY AN OKTOBERFEST! (PHOTO #1)]

["PHOTO #2: THE COWKAT, HALF IN THE BAG!!!"]

[Halloween in Flatbush, ca. 1905, v1992.21.1; Thelma E. Smith collection on the William Matthews family genealogy, ARC.091; Brooklyn Historical Society.]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

Pictured here are members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Women’s clubs and organizations often organized fairs and festivals to support their churches and engage parishioners. St. Paul’s Church mirrored the rapid growth of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century. When the Reverend T. G. Jackson became preacher in the 1880s, the church had fewer than 100 members. Thirty years later, the congregation had tripled in size. The church became a cornerstone of the community: embracing residents from neighborhoods ranging from Astoria to Washington Heights to Brighton Beach.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[Halloween in Flatbush, ca. 1905, v1992.21.1; Thelma E. Smith collection on the William Matthews family genealogy, ARC.091; Brooklyn Historical Society.]

From Brooklyn Historical Society:

Pictured here are members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Women’s clubs and organizations often organized fairs and festivals to support their churches and engage parishioners. St. Paul’s Church mirrored the rapid growth of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century. When the Reverend T. G. Jackson became preacher in the 1880s, the church had fewer than 100 members. Thirty years later, the congregation had tripled in size. The church became a cornerstone of the community: embracing residents from neighborhoods ranging from Astoria to Washington Heights to Brighton Beach.

To see more photos from BHS’s collection, visit their online image gallery.

[Brooklyn on the horizon at Fort San Felipe del Morro.]

We are excited to announce that Brooklyn Brewery is now available in Puerto Rico. With the help of V. Suarez & Co. distributing (pictured below), we’re shipping pallets of Brooklyn Lager, Brown Ale and Pennant Ale ’55 down to the rich port. Click “Read More” to view more pictures of Brooklyn’s arrival to the commonwealth.

Stalwart Brooklyn Brewery fan Ed Salvatore sports the Lager beer can hat that his (awesome) Aunt knitted for him. It is safe to say we’ve never seen a hat of this caliber before.

While visiting Seattle on his recent tour in support of The Oxford Companion to Beer, Brewmaster Oliver (pictured above giving props to to the east coast) ran into a few familiar faces, namely the family of Brooklyn Brewery Operations Manager Karl Knoop. And although Karl’s father is wearing a shirt, his son has been seen in Williamsburg on at least one occasion wearing a barrel:

[photos by Heather Gallagher]

Last night at The Brooklyn Brewery, we welcomed AMA Bionda to the U.S. market with Italian flare and fare (the former provided by the Amarcord Brewery; the latter by Betto). AMA Bionda is brewed in Italy specifically to be paired with the culinary delights of its motherland — we look forward to enjoying this new beer with our friends and favorite dishes.

See more photos of the party from Beertography here.

Brooklyn Brewery recently provided beer to the opening party of the Red Hook Criterium cycling road race in Milan, taking place October 15. The event organizer sent us some great photos, and endearing words:

The party was a great success… The feedback on the beer was great. The entire night Italians were coming up to me saying how strong it is haha.* Everyone really liked the beer and I had to stop people from stealing six packs on multiple occasions.**

* Brooklyn Lager is 5.2%
** Stealing is bad, but loving Brooklyn Lager is good

[© All rights reserved by Wallace Chane.]

Thank you to Flickr user Wallace Chane for tagging us in the awesome picture above. Of the photo, Chane writes: “Thank you for forever enhancing my life.”

Cheers to all the great friends and fellow brewers we had the pleasure of sharing a beer with in Denver. We’ll see you next year!

[Rep. Maraghy Posing with Randy finch from Food Network's Ice Brigade]

[What Ice Was Always Meant For]

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!

We recently gave away some barrels not used to age a certain Imperial Stout. Many emails did we receive, and this one stood out quite a bit:

“What would I do with a barrel not used to age a classified stout? Well I dont know what I would do with it, but I do know what I would not do. First off I would probably not use it to store bottles of my favorite beer. A beer that I definitely did not start collecting and cellaring since the winter of ’08, a beer that definitely did not start my love for craft brewing, and a beer that definitely did not make me realize how much I loved my liquids bourbon barrel aged. I will not make it so the top comes off and there will not be a small shelf for safely ageing and storing my favorite beer. The barrel will not be the centerpiece of my small but respectable beer cellar / entertainment space and it will not be used as as a place to put down drinks and will not be a spot to chat around with good friends and fellow beer lovers. It will also not be used as a leaning post for my favorite guitar in a pinch that definitely does not put my favorite brewery front and center. (a pic of the guitar). If men in black suits aks you were I found that bottom label tell them in the Brooklyn gutters near 79 north 11th street) It would not make a beer nerds home a little more complete and will not remind me why I love the local breweries. (I am indeed local and I havnt tried many NY beers I have not enjoyed, either at the brewery itself or else where) but,… It will be used to store my beanie babies and maybe if you hear about a man going over the falls in the barrel, well… maybe it will be used for that.”

The Brewery is proud to support many non-profit and arts organizations each year by providing beer to fundraisers and exhibitions. In July, Brooklyn Lager was served at an art performance and installation presented by the San Francisco Art Institute at the James Cohan Gallery as part of a celebration of the institute’s 140th anniversary. Presenting social engagement activities as art, the show recreated The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, first performed in 1970 by San Francisco based conceptual artist Tom Marioni.

We’ve always known good beer is art, with or without the frame.

Opening their sickeningly gorgeous grounds to hundreds of beer fans and brewers, all were welcome to pitch a tent on the lawn and wander the yards tasting and sharing Belgian-inspired beers. More than beer, there was great food, live music, games and tons of good old fashioned tomfoolery. Brooklyn Brewery represented with big bottles Local 1, Local 2 and Sorachi Ace, and some seriously nice tasting Cuvée Noire on draft. What a time it was. See our photos below for evidence:

Brooklyn Brewery fan Reja writes:

“Just thought I’d share this photo with you guys. It’s from the day my baby daughter came home from the hospital last week. We felt that in order to properly honor the arrival of our baby daughter Brooklyn, it would only be fitting that we celebrate with some of Brooklyn’s finest!”

Thanks for the great picture, Reja! And congratulations on a particularly adorable Brooklyn.

[photo by Cinzia Reale-Castello]

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” – Henry David Thoreau

Whatever, Thoreau. Give me all four and on top of that I’ll take some pork.

Speaking of fame, a few ladies from Time Out NY came by last week to interview me and take my picture for a feature on NYC “Animal Mascots.” (I told them I’d prefer to be called “People Persuader,” but Animal Mascot will suffice.) I had my assistant fetch a new bow tie, and then I simply turned up the charm. Now this “handsome devil” is gracing the first page of the article.

Also of note is that there’s only one dog in the piece, and it’s a Chihuahua. Much easier to take down than some other dogs.

[photo © Nathan Rawlinson]

Aside from simply being delicious, our recent beer dinner at Eleven Madison Park, one of the best restaurants in the world, is a testament to the developing notion that great food and great beer are born for each other. We’re glad to find that we are in growing good company when it comes to this once-radical concept.

Read here for a great write-up on the EMP beer dinner from Food & Wine. Photos from Nathan Rawlinson live on this page, and a video by Christian DeBenedetti is housed here.

Brooklyn Brewery fan Molly M. wrote in with deep disappointment as her latest purchase of East India Pale Ale contained not beer but a full grown male cat. We congratulated her on the addition to the family, but she selfishly insisted she just wants beer. What gives, Molly?!

[UPDATE // Monster did some sleuthing and found the above story to be false. The cat's name is Scrumpy and Molly lovingly devoured the EIPA.]

Bonnaroo 2011 has come and gone, and with it so has another epic excursion to sunny Tennessee in celebration of music, art and beer. We braved the heat — and over 80,000 people — to enjoy the songsmithings of Eminem, Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Buffalo Springfield, My Morning Jacket, Lil Wayne, Bassnectar, Girl Talk, Primus, Dr. John & The Meters, Gogol Bordello, Ratatat, Deerhunter, Devotchka, Best Coast, The Sword, Twin Shadow, The Walkmen, Phosphorescent and many, many more.

And of course there was beer. Under the delicious shade of the “Brooer’s Tent” we poured refreshing cups of Brooklyn Summer Ale and Brooklyner Weisse, gave away merch and made new friends from near and afar. Read more to see some photos (and click here for the Flickr set):

[A mobile pub heads south.]

[Walmart shopping carts are bigger than most European cars.]

[Steve Hindy's long lost brother.]

[Our food being cooked by the heat of the sun alone.]

[The hallowed gates of Sonic Village.]

[Mark gets tatted up.]

[A wonderfully uncanny resemblance is illuminated.]

[Dan and his beloved Frisbee enter a mustache competition.]

[Brooklyner Weisse fought the sun, and won.]

From The Food Experiments

The Philadelphia Story
Nick and I had a great time in Philadelphia. Philly is so much more than a Rocky-worshiping, sandwich-stuffing, sports-loving town. By the way, there is nothing wrong with that stuff. I am still waiting for Rocky VII with a cheesesteak in my hand, while watching baseball (the Mets). In addition to all that, Philadelphia is vibrant town. We ate great food, found cool bars, and felt at home in Philly.
On Friday,we ate as many sandwiches as humanly possible.
On Saturday, we got a chance to see the Mutter Museum.
On Sunday, we celebrated the Philadelphia Cheese Experiment.
And everyday, we drank delicious beer.

When we woke up Sunday morning, we could smell the cheese in the air, or was that our neighbor in the next hotel room? Out early and excited, we arrived at World Cafe Live (a great venue for the event) by 9:30 AM. As I said, cheese was wafting in the thick morning air. We were eager to get things started because “The Concoction” a special small batched beer was waiting for us. Frankly, it has quickly become one of my favorite Brooklyn Brewery Beers. But, let’s get to the Cheese of the matter and talk about the Experiment, where a fierce cheese battled raged.

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A brewer, a salesman and a marketer walk into a museum. What happens? They’re surrounded by 144 craft beers at SAVOR, a first rate beer-and-food pairing experience produced annually by the Brewers Association and held in 2011 at the gorgeous National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

Brooklyn Brewer and Lab Manager Tom Price, Brand Manager Junior Acevedo and Communications Coordinator Dan D’Ippolito (not to mention Steve Hindy) all converged in our nation’s fine capital to pour Local 2 (paired with grilled flank steak) and Sorachi Ace (paired with hot peppered salmon) amidst scores of America’s top breweries similarly sampling their food-paired wares.

Between pouring and popping corks, we managed to snap some photos. And between SAVOR and sleep we paid a visit to Honest Abe, TJ and Obama’s humble residence.

Brooklyn Brewery fan Gina Zammit wrote in recently to say:

“I’m a huge fan of Brooklyn Brewery (and your neighbor!). Recently, I took a cake decorating class at The Brooklyn Kitchen. I had a great time, but was having trouble deciding what to do with my cake. That is, until a friendly gentlemen opened up the fridge, pulled out a case of BK Brews and asked who wanted one. I accepted, of course and my cake inspiration was found. Here are some pics, I hope you like it!”

Well, Gina: we love it.

[Eric Ottaway Shirt Day 2011: A Blinding Success]

At the 2007 Brooklyn Brewery holiday party, our fearless GM Eric Ottaway (third from left) arrived with a tie-dye paisley garment decorating his upper body (not pictured). Not one to be undone by ceaseless jest, a year ago today Eric reported to duty in the office with the same eye popping shirt.

In honor of this unforgettable occasion, April 19 has been officially dubbed Eric Ottaway Shirt Day (more pics here), a self expression soiree for the brave and fashion forward*. Although only six partook this year, internal reports anticipate Eric Ottaway Shirt Day 2011 to more than quadruple in attendance.

[*beauty is in the eye of the beholder]

Below is Steve at The Four Firkins in St. Louis Park, MN (the hometown of our Midwest Brand Manager Mike Maraghy):

Her Porky Deliciousness won our hearts at Howlin’ Wolf in New Orleans, last Sunday. What’s Porky Deliciousness, you ask? It’s simply pepper jelly and steens glazed pork belly with smoky sweet potato grits, cane vinegar salad and praline bacon wrapped shrimp. So Amy won, so what. Wellll, she not only walked away with an all expenses paid trip to Brooklyn for the Food Experiments Championship in September but she also garnered the following prizes:

$150
-$100 Gift Certificate to Emeril’s Restaurant
-Chinatown Gold Medal
-Le Creuset cookware
-BK Slate Beverage Coasters
-Free meal at Curbside Truck

Look for a full write-up soon. To view all the winners and their dishes go here.

[photo via NY Times]

This is the Happiest Pig in the World. For he is eating (and stepping in) grain at the Queens County Farm Museum which was previously used to brew beer in Brooklyn.

And this is also One Jealous Hen…

…And lived to tell about it in this here video. They were one team amongst 23 Austin amateur chefs that gave it their all at the first of Brooklyn Brewery’s Presented Food Experiment Tour. Nick Suarez and Theo Peck of The Food Experiments pulled off a funtastic party at Club DeVille on Sunday. The Austin chefs really set the bar high, with totally impressive cooking. They wore costumes, they took vows, they brought rubber pig snouts. We had a rambunctious crowd of Brooklyn Lager enjoyers and food devourers. A good time was had by all. Even celebrity judge Abbie Broyles said so.

Also a big thanks goes out to DJ Jester The Filipino Fist. As Theo said, “He’s Filipino and he has a fist.” ‘Nuff said.

From Theo at thefoodexperiments.com:

The Austin chefs brought it! They did not mess around. They had an incredible familiarity with swine. The cooks created dishes that were as diverse as the city of Austin. Thank you to all! (click here to read more at thefoodexperiments.com)

UPDATE Monday, March 21 :: SXSW 2011 has come and gone, and what a time it was. We had a blast at the Pitchork #Offline showcases on Thursday and Friday at East Side Drive In, and TV on The Radio, Okkervil River, The Dodos and OFF! were just a few of the great performances we witnessed across in Austin (not to mention a surprise appearance by LL Cool J); musicians from around the world played dozens of genres from venues including bars, clubs, alleyways, parking lots, backyards, fields and the city’s sidewalks. We ate deep fried bacon wrapped pickles, pulled pork sliders with fried onions, Canadian bacon jalapeño-jelly donuts, and frightening amounts of smoked meat off the bone. We drank and shared a great slew of Brooklyn Lager and EIPA, and were introduced to some fantastic local breweries including the (512) Brewing Company and Real Ale Brewing Company. All of this is to say SxSW 2011 was a great success.

Speaking of winning, Austinite Elizabeth Meador was the winner of a brand new, beautifully crafted Brooklyn Brewery skateboard by Bustin Boards at the Friday Pitchfork #Offline show. Cheers, Liz!

[photo by Dwayne Barnes]

Check out a video of the Friday night madness on East 6th Street here. The crowd at Mohawk for the TV on The Radio show here. And some old fashioned still pics of our logo placed in various Austin locations here:

After the jump is a list, written in English, of all of our SxSW events.

Thursday, March 10
5-7pm: Gingerman Happy Hour w/ Nick & Theo of The Food Experiments

Friday, March 11
7-9pm: Whole Foods – Tech Munch

Sunday, March 13
12pm: Club Deville –Brooklyn Brewery Presents The Food Experiments
8pm: Club Deville – Found Footage Festival “Computer Blip Bloop Bullshit 2″ (see flyer below!)

Thursday, March 17
12-7pm: Hotel Vegas – Brooklyn BBQ
12-7pm: Clive Bar
12-4pm: Highball
12-7pm: East Side Drive In – Pitchfork showcase
12-11pm: Home Slice – Music by the Slice

Friday, March 18
12-7pm: East Side Drive In – Pitchfork showcase
12-11pm: Home Slice – Music by the Slice
12-3pm: Mohawk – MOG

Saturday, March 19
12-11pm: Home Slice – Music by the Slice
12-3pm: Mohawk – MOG
12-3pm: Gingerman – Industry of Music
12-7pm: Clive Bar
12-6pm: Brooklyn Country Cookout
The Grackel

All Week Specials
The Liberty
Shangri La

And on this bright note, in the afternoon Darren Rovell of CNBC interviewed Hindy about the rise of the overall craft beer business. See below for photos (by Heather Gallagher) and video from CNBC:

“It’s a great time to be a craft brewer in America” – Steve Hindy, President, The Brooklyn Brewery

Not only was it the number one lover’s holiday but we celebrated Bloomberg’s and Markowitz’s brithdays. Photos below.

Bloomberg’s birthday, Valentine’s and weird little dogs.

Thanks, Gothamist.

Thanks, Vice.

Brooklyn Brewery fan Jim Allen dropped us a line last week to say: “Congratulations on brewing an outstanding Lager. It is one of my favorites, I most enjoy sipping it on my deck at my Long Lake NY Adirondack cabin. Keep up the good work!”

Mr. Allen attached the above photo of a full glass of Brooklyn Lager, showing an exceptionally orange hue as it sits soaking in sunlight. As we endure a rather snowy winter in NYC, this picture makes us pine for pines… and Brooklyn Lager, of course.

Read more about PopRally HERE.

Pictured: Schuyler Grant

We had a jolly good time at Sunday’s Holiday Experiment at The Bell House. Click here to see the culinary creations, participants, eaters and winners over at Metromix.

After the awards ceremony Nick and Theo announced our partnership. We’re taking the boys on an East Coast Tour in 2011! So tell your friends in Boston, Philly, D.C., Miami and Austin (why not?) that Brooklyn Brewery is bringing the city’s best amateur cooking competition to a neighborhood near them.

Stay tuned for details.

[Photo by Ultrateg]

Seems that people just can’t get enough of pie these days. Which is totally fine by us because we like to eat everything (well, almost everything). And we especially enjoy our savories and sweets when they’re paired with good beer, which is why we’d recommend checking out the monthly “Pie For Dinner” night at Four & Twenty Blackbirds. And we’d also advise you to please your eye with these great pictures of the latest dinner.

For the past few months The Brewery has been abuzz as our expansion to a lovely new space next door rapidly develops. Today from Germany, bits of sparkling brewing equipment arrived on an 18-wheeler, and were tenderly transported to their new home in Brooklyn.

Scary good marketing.

Jason over at Sustainabrew.com did a nice photo diary of the party last night. Click here to view the photos or here to search Google for Chuck Norris.

Dine and Cook also had nice things to say about our newest beer here.

Thanks again to The Meathook, Ovenly, Coach Farm, McClure’s Pickles (we had some awesome whiskey shots and spicy picklebacks after you left) and of course Tom Cat Bakery for your food and service. Delicious.

Thanks, Jr.

Special thanks to Eric Schwortz for the photos.

“I’ve been coming to GABF for nineteen years, and this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, ” said Garrett about the owners of Toronado getting hitched at this year’s beer fest.

Read more here.

Check out his site here.

All photos by Eric Schwortz

We gathered at The Boathouse in Prospect Park with Ovenly and The Meathook to celebrate the arrival of Brooklyn Detonation Ale. Friends, family, the beer bloggeratti, all showed up for mirth and merriment.

All we can say is that Detonation worked. Not for free either. Tickets sold plus tips collected earned the inimitable Prospect Park Alliance $3,262.

Mad Hops over at BeerGoggins had this to say about the party:

Brooklyn Brewery’s Detonation Ale Explodes Onto The Scene

On Monday, August 16, the skies opened up and some heavy rains washed down over New York. Walking toward the Boathouse at the Audubon House in Prospect Park, a park official cut us off. “Can’t go this way,” he said. “It’s flooded down that way.”

The reason? Brooklyn Brewery’s newest creation blew a hole in the sky.

Damp and overlooking a pond rife with fallen leaves and paddling ducks, bloggers and beer lovers gathered under gray clouds to celebrate Garrett Oliver’s newest brewmaster’s reserve, aptly dubbed Detonation Ale.

Taking their BLAST! IPA and upping the ante, Detonation Ale features seven – count ‘em, seven – different kinds of hops. As my sudsy pseudonym suggests, this pleased me very much. This hop-heavy pale ale is a dark copper in color, heavy on the citric aromas and very, very easy to drink.

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More photos here.

As you may or may not know, big things are happening here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Our humble little brewhouse is blowing up. We’re expanding capacity by 12 times and should be enjoying the fruits of our labors by February. To document this once -in-a-lifetime occurrence, we’ve tapped the unflappable Beer Friends. They come by every other week or so, take photos & videos and giddily ask questions of Bob the foreman. Below, check out what they’ve seen so far.

From The Beer Friends

Brooklyn Brewery happily supports the creative writing center, 826NYC. 826NYC happily enjoys BINGO with beer.  If you don’t know 826NYC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around our belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this in mind we provide drop-in tutoring, field trips, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications. All of our free programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice.

Oh, it’s also a superhero supply store. So if you need a cape or a bucket of gravity now you know where to go.

The Rake, Borough Market, London

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It’s another hot one here in The city. The New York Times, meanwhile, continues to do innovative things on the web. See here a terrific reader submitted slideshow, covering all of New York City’s varied waterfront.

Like The Brooklyn Brewery, Slideluck Potshow was born in New York City and now travels freely around the US and throughout the world. And we’re happy to support her as she does so. For those who don’t k now,  Slideluck Potshow is a non-profit organization devoted to building and strengthening community around food and art. Slideluck Potshow sponsors exhibitions of artistic works, each produced in an entertaining slideshow format, designed to showcase works created by novice, undiscovered, and established artists.

Thanks to Edible and Jimmy Carbone for putting on another terrific evening of the finest suds and grub. Go here for an Examiner slideshow by Clay Williams.

Click here for more photos.

Edible came by The Brewery and tested everyone’s alcohol knowledge. The Meathook was there serving up the fanciest cheese dogs we’ve ever seen and assorted pulled meat sammies. It was fun. To visit Edible’s website click here.

Thanks, Florens!

(photo by Gabi Porter)

On Monday, one of our brewers, Chris Basso, paired up some of our finest beers with delectable bacon selections from Zingerman’s. The beer and bacon event went down at Back Forty. Check out Metromix’s coverage and photos here.

Find more photos like this on SLIDELUCK POTSHOW

Brooklyn Brewery is happy to sponsor Slideluck Potshow (SLPS) here at home and around the world. SLPS is a NYC-based arts non-profit, operating in many cities globally, that aims to bring people together around food and art, and to give people an interesting, engaging, and fun platform for sharing art with their community.

Our photographer friend Louis Siegal took some great shots of the party in between various samplings.

Relive the magic here:

Since the early days of 1988, The Brooklyn Brewery has striven to support the myriad of arts in New York City. When the brewery in Williamsburg opened up, we regularly hosted shows for neighborhood artists. Among many others, institutions like BAM, Brooklyn Museum and Dia Arts Foundation all receive financial and beer support from The Brewery. We are proud to support some of our favorite artists as Brooklyn Brewery’s distribution and the borough’s sphere of influence continue to grow throughout the country and the world.

One of our favorite homegrown art phenomenons is Casey Kelbaugh’s Slideluck Potshow. A combination photo exhibition and D.I.Y. feast, SLPS embodies so much of what Brooklyn Brewery values: community, collaboration, local arts and good, locally made food. We are thrilled to provide our beer for these art parties as they continue to grow and pop up around the globe. The most recent SLPS occurred in Washington D.C. to great acclaim. Check out the slideshow.

Find more photos like this on SLIDELUCK POTSHOW

photo by Paul Crispin Quitoriano

Our gal pals (why is this post already starting to sound like The New York Post?) who bout with the best of ‘em over at Gotham Girls Roller Derby had their annual bash last weekend. We helped the non-profit out with some beer and they used it properly.

Check out the slideshow from The Village Voice here.

From BaristaNet.com

Amanti Vino’s wine vs. beer competition dinner on March 23 at the Woman’s Club of Upper Montclair wasn’t the buttoned-up affair I expected. Thankfully. Au contraire, it was casual, friendly, fun and partying on a Tuesday night seemed positively decadent. The five-course dinner was punctuated by friendly and comical sparring between the master wine wonk (Fred Dexheimer) and the master beer brewer (Garrett Oliver). Between the two of them, who were vying for top dog for their wine and beer pairings, they had Amanti Vino staff (Will, Amelia, Thad, Wes and Tim) busy pouring a selection of eight micro-crafted beers and seven wines produced in countries from Greece to Uruguay.

The pairings were going fine, and our table we even got seconds of the fantastic Robert Sinskey Vin Gris (Napa). But we all almost lost it at the cheese course, which featured three cheeses each paired with a brew and a cru! That’s right, the cheese plate brought 6 more glasses. Not that we didn’t enjoy it.

I went to the dinner thinking, I’ll just humor Amanti Vino owner Sharon Sevrens, because really, BEER pairings? To my astonishment, the fine brews provided by Brooklyn Brewery and picked by Oliver were on target complementing the meal. Our table, for the most part, favored the brew pairings over the wine. Several of the beers, complex and spicy, are only available at brewery headquarters in Brooklyn.

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From I Drunk That

Last night, New York received another great opportunity to visit the Brooklyn Brewery for the invite-only release of Dark Matter, their latest in the Brewmaster’s Reserve series. Brewmaster Garrett Oliver was on hand along along with a laundry list of the city’s finest pub owners, food editors and beer bloggers. Once again, the tap room flowed with some of brewery’s best drafts: Cookie Jar Porter, Monster ‘09, Blast, Black Chocolate Stout ‘09, Pilsner and more. The Bedford Cheese Shop and The Meat Hook were on hand to supply a nice meat and cheese compliment Dark Matter’s vanilla-oaked, sweet palate of flavors.

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Finnish photographer, Thomas Backa took time to do some nice styling for this portrait of a beer that doesn’t exist. He’s got a bunch of images of interesting objects, including quite a few featuring vintage cameras. Check out more here.