Our friends at D’Artagnan have put together some prideful and delectable Super Bowl meal suggestions. Check it out here.

In a beer-and-sports related wager entirely unrelated to our bets with Anchor and Harpoon, NY State Senator Charles E. Schumer swung by Brewers Row this morning to don a Manning jersey and boast his local beer.

Chuck has a Super Bowl bet going with the senators from Massachusetts where the “loser” will provide all the other senators a six-pack of beer from the winner’s state.

UPDATE // JAN 31 The Hill reports: According to Schumer’s office, if the Giants beat the Patriots, Shaheen will purchase beer from six of New York’s craft brew companies from around the state, including New York’s Brooklyn Brewery, Blue Point Brewing Company, Saranac Matt Brewing Company, Captain Lawrence Brewing Company, Ithaca Beer Company, and Brown’s Brewing Company. Schumer plans to supply beer from New Hampshire’s Smuttynose Brewery to the entire Senate if he loses the bet. 

“I can’t wait for Senator Shaheen to participate in the ‘I Love New York Brew’ Campaign by buying the best craft brews in New York and supplying them to every member of the United States Senate,” Schumer said in a statement released by his office. “When Big Blue brings Tom Brady and Bill Belichick to their knees, the entire U.S. Senate will understand why we love New York brew. Go Giants!”

Today’s edition of 7 Minutes In Heaven is good. It features SNL’s head writer Seth Myers and contains the series’ usual ingredients of charm, awkwardness, sillyness and a smidge of honesty. It also features ONE SHINING MOMENT. Can you guess what it is?

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Thursday, August 18, 7-9pm
Swifty’s Pub
371 Delaware Avenue
Delmar, NY 12054
(518) 475-1111

Celebrate the arrival of autumn at Swifty’s Pub with Brooklyn Brewery representative Rich Jarvis.  Imperial pints of Brooklyn Lager and bottles of Oktoberfest will be on special at $3.50 a piece. You might win some sweet swag too.

From TheLMagazine.com

As with every component of Northside, we’re aiming to showcase the most exciting, most creative endeavors being developed in Brooklyn — which isn’t just limited to art, it turns out. For every band or artist creating a new work, there seems to be an entrepreneur building a new business. Whether a “Creator” (band, artist) or an “Innovator” (developer, entrepreneur), the goal is the same: take an idea, turn it in to a brand, develop a community, and engage with your community.

New to Northside this year, the Ideas Festival will feature panels throughout Thursday and Sunday afternoon geared toward the “Creators” and “Innovators” defining what’s next in their social space and how the two groups intersect in doing so. Tickets are available for Northside Ideas at Ticketfly.

Thursday, June 16 and Sunday, June 19
7:30pm
The Brooklyn Brewery
79 N. 11th St

Thursday

8:05-8:35 Institutions: Record Labels, Venture Capital and Their Place in a New Era of Creativity

8:40-9:10pm An Overnight Success Years in the Making

Sunday

7:30-8:00 Building a Creative Community

8:05-8:35 Social Good as a Platform

8:40-9:10pm Evangelizing Your Creation

Friday, June 24, 7-9pm
Boozgeois Saloon
720 S. US Hwy 1, Ft. Pierce, Fl. 34950

Florida, the land of endless summer, is getting in on our hot, hot, Summer CANibalization action with their very own party. Summer Ale cans will be $3.25 each, with a free can koozie, while supplies last. @RicoInMiami will be on hand to giving out marvelous handshakes the whole time.

Buy yours today.

Wednesday, March 30, 8-11pm
The Brooklyn Brewery
79 N11 Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211

From Brooklyn Based:

April 15 is around the corner. Have you dealt with your taxes yet? Want to get in better financial shape this year? Join us Wednesday March 30 at Brooklyn Brewery, where “The Singing CPA” Steven Zelin, accountant to artists, creatives, and small businesses, will give sound advice on bookkeeping (like whether you can actually deduct this event and every Brooklyn Lager you down during it) and offer tax-time tips like filing an extension, and Galia Gichon from Down-to-Earth Finance will offer three financial strategies for the self-employed, including planning for retirement, dealing with debt head-on, and creating a budget even when your income is variable. Plus, we’ll be giving away a copy of Gichon’s “My Money Matters Kit” to one lucky guest.

RSVP here.

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At a recent Remi/Rough & Steve More joint showing at Blackall Studios in Shoreditch (London), attendees enjoyed both “an exhibition that shapes new thinking and further stretches the boundaries of contemporary art” and beer lovingly provided by The Brooklyn Brewery. Check out some coverage here and here.

Cochon 555 NYC
Sunday, January 23rd, 5pm
The Lighthouse, Hudson River & 23rd

The Great American Pork Tour that is Cochon 555 makes its triumphant return to New York City. We’re sending over some beer and would also like to send a couple of our dear readers.

Email info@brooklynbrewery.com with “Pork!” in the subject line for your chance to win a pair of tickets to this Sunday’s pork competition.

UPDATE 4/13/2011 :: We’re working together with Eno’s to refresh their logo. All is well. No suits necessary.

It appears that Eno’s Pizza Tavern in Dallas, TX exhausted a great amount of energy and resources to develop an original logo for their business. Or perhaps they were drinking a bottle of Brooklyn beer and noticed that reflected in a mirror, a backwards B resembles an E? Either way, those smoke and mirrors don’t fool us!

While we’ve never come right out and said that Brooklyn Local 1 is our version of the Belgian Saison, we’re certainly not going to argue with America’s cocktail expert David Wondrich. And certainly not while he’s saying things like “(Local 1) could be the most elegant beer ever made.”

In this recent run-down for Esquire, Wondrich, who consulted on the creation of the much buzzed-about Brooklyn Manhattan Project, lists his favorite Saisons of the moment.

Check it out the article here: http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-saison-ales-1210#ixzz161wcet1b

Beer Weeks. America love’s ‘em! And as a part of said nation, the Syracuse Beer Week 2010 kicks off this Sunday, with The Brooklyn Brewery bringing four events to the good people of Upstate NY:

Wegmans/Brooklyn Beer Sampling
Tue Nov 9th
4:00–6:00 PM
Wegmans Fairmount
3325 West Genesee St.
Syracuse, NY 13219
(315) 487-1581

Featuring Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout and Winter Ale. Sampling is Free, must be 21: ID required.

Dinosaur Bar-B-Q Cask and Bluegrass
Tue Nov 9th
5:00–9:00 PM
Dinosaur Bar-B-Q
246 W. Willow St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
(315) 476-4937

Featuring Brooklyn Best Bitter and Detonation Ale, both on cask!

Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster’s Reserve Sampling
Tue Nov 9th
9:00–11:00 PM
The Blue Tusk
165 Walton St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
(315) 476-4937

Featuring Brooklyn Cuvée Noire, Detonation Ale, Dark Matter and Winter Ale. Sampling is Free, must be 21: ID required.

Brooklyn Brewery Rep Rich Jarvis will be on hand for sampling Brewmaster’s Reserve draft beers and Brooklyn Seasonal offerings, educational purposes, and good old fashioned Give-A-Ways.

Ernest Hemingway Look- A-Like Contest to Promote Education and Literacy In The World Of Beer
Wed Nov 10th
8:00–10:00 PM
Kitty Hoynes
300 West Fayette St.
Syracuse NY 13202
(315) 424-1974
Free

Featuring Brooklyn Winter Ale, Brooklyn Lager and Post Road Pumpkin Ale.

Brooklyn Brewery Rep Rich Jarvis (pictured, left) as Master of Ceremonies. The contest will be judged by three judges, and the winner gets a VIP tour of The Brooklyn Brewery for four people with Beers and Brooklyn’s Best Pizza Lunch.

Sunday, November 7th, 7:00pm
Four & Twenty Blackbirds
$45

From Birdsblack.com
PIE FOR DINNER

Join us for an evening of savory and sweet pies with chef Nate Smith and Four & Twenty Blackbirds. Complimentary beer pairings provided by Brooklyn Brewery.

HOW IT WORKS
Arrive at Four & Twenty Blackbirds shop at 439 3rd Avenue after 7pm. Start with a complimentary glass of locally brewed beer and grab a seat at one of our candle lit communal tables. Dinner will be served at 7:30pm.

Each evening will feature a seasonal vegetable dish and a savory pie followed by a sweet pie. Complimentary beer pairings will accompany each pie.

Warm Cabbage with Wild Mushrooms
Rabbit and Root Vegetable Pie
Salty Nut Chess Pie with Maple Cream

Get your tickets here.

Four & Twenty Blackbirds
439 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn NY

Look at this video of it if you don’t believe me:

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

Hat tip goes to FreeWilliamsburg.com

South 4th Bar & Grill hosts its 4th Annual “BELGETOBERFEST” this Thursday, October 14. The festivities will feature a tasty roster of American-brewed Belgian ales (all for just $5 per glass, and complete with free grilled bratwursts and sausages from 7:00-9:00 PM!), among which will be the latest concoction from The Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster’s Reserve series: Brooklyn Cuvée Noire. Be the first to try it! The bragging rights are all yours.

Here’s the full lineup from South 4th:

Allagash Black – A Strong Dark Ale full of toasty chocolate flavor (7.5% ABV)
Green Flash Le Freak – A delightful convergence of a Belgian Trippel and American IPA (9.5% ABV)
Sly Fox Saison Vos – A delicious dry, spicy Farmhouse Ale (6.9% ABV)
Harpoon Belgian Pale Ale – A spicy, aromatic, hoppy pale ale (5.8% ABV)
Ithaca White Gold – A Belgo-American ale with an herby aroma and zesty mouthfeel (8% ABV)
Captain Lawrence Xtra Gold – An all star marriage of hop and fruity flavors (10% ABV)
Ommegang Rare Vos – A Belgian Amber full of fruity, malty goodness (6.5% ABV)
Brooklyn Cuvée Noire -  A dark and roasty Belgian Stout. (8.7% ABV)
NEW THIS YEAR ON CASK: Blue Point Belgian Pale Ale – Light , crisp and fruity pale ale (6% ABV)

BELGETOBERFEST
Thursday, October 14: 7:00 PM
South 4th Bar & Grill
90 S 4th St
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 218-7478

In just two short days, the citywide celebration of good beer known as New York Craft Beer Week will commence. And along with it, we here at The Brooklyn Brewery will feature our delectables at a number of the city’s best beer bars (and in one instance, a boat).

For your chance to win a NYC Beer Passport, email info@brooklynbrewery.com.

Read below to learn where you can find Brooklyn Brewery during the week:

Friday, September 24: 6PM – 8PM
Amity Hall
80 W. 3rd Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 677-2290

Sampling of seasonals Oktoberfest and Post Road Pumpkin Ale as well as our current Brewmaster’s Reserve, Brooklyn Detonation Ale. Brooklyn Brewery staff will be in attendance.

Monday, September 27: 6PM – 8PM
Swift
34 E. 4th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 260-3600

Taste the 2010 Brewmaster’s Reserve lines (Dark Matter, Cookie Jar Porter, Buzz Bomb and Detonation Ale) plus a keg of some vintage 2007 Monster Ale barleywine.

Thursday, September 30: 6PM – 8PM
Pony Bar
637 10th Ave
New York, NY 10036
(212) 586-2707

Brewmaster Garrett Oliver and the Brooklyn brewing staff will enjoy over 8 Brewmaster’s Reserve lines, vintage Black Chocolate Stout and Monster Ale and probably some Big Bottles too. There’ll be over 18 Brooklyn beers all together.

Saturday, October 2: 4:30PM – 6:30PM
Voyage of the IPA
$65/person
For tickets: email reservations@manhattanbysail.com or call (212) 619-0907

Join Garrett Oliver and the brewing team of The Brooklyn Brewery aboard the sailing ship “Clipper City” for a hoppy journey into our brewing past. India Pale Ale, one of the world’s great beer styles, was specifically developed to survive a sea voyage from England to India. Garrett, editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Oxford Companion To Beer, will deliver insight on the matter in a way that only he can. We’ll be pouring Brooklyn East India Pale Ale, BLAST! and Detonation Ale. Also joining the crew will be brewers and beers from some of our favorite brewers: Captain Lawrence, Goose Island and Greenport Harbor Brewing Co.

Saturday, October 2: 3PM – 8PM
Ulysses
95 Pearl Street / 58 Stone Street
New York, NY 10004
(212) 482-0400

Ulysses hosts an Oktoberfest complete with an Oompa Band and large stein-like pours. The bar will feature Brooklyn Oktoberfest along with standard German brews Paulaner, Spaten and Erdinger.

Sunday, October 3: 3PM – 7PM
The First Annual Brewer’s Bash
Eleven Madison Park
11 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10010
(212) 889-0905
$125 per person
For tickets: email beer@elevenmadisonpark.com

NY Craft Beer Week closing party at Danny Meyer’s highly decorated Eleven Madison Park. The event will include six brewmasters, two live bands, specialty beer cocktails, and Chef Daniel’s take on beer-friendly bites. The Bash features craft ales from The Brooklyn Brewery, Allagash, Captain Lawrence, Goose Island, Ommegang and Victory. From 3:45 to 4:30 PM, we’ll have a cask beer tasting on the mezzanine level with Brooklyn’s Garrett Oliver.

photo by Tom Callan

Our favorite borough periodical, The Brooklyn Paper, offers news and opinion on Brooklyn Brewery’s expansion, Hindy’s place in New York’s craft beer legacy and the looming NY Craft Beer Week.

From The Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Brewery expansion keeps a-‘head’ of the borough’s beer scene

by Kristen V. Brown

Brooklyn Brewery’s Steve Hindy may not be the father of craft beer in New York City, but he is certainly the cool uncle.

And now, after 23 years in brewing, the former foreign correspondent is about to expand his Williamsburg brewing complex — an announcement that couldn’t be timed more perfectly, what with New York Craft Beer Week about to pop the cork next Friday.

When Hindy’s space becomes operational in December, the brewery will be 14 times larger — able to accommodate more experimental blends as well as produce more of Hindy’s beer in Brooklyn (most is currently produced upstate).

Just as when he worked for the Associated Press, Steve Hindy knows what he’s doing. The rest of the country may be experiencing a downturn — hell, even beer sales were down two percent last year — but Hindy, and the craft beer movement of which he is at the vanguard, is certainly experiencing a boom. Craft beer sales rose seven percent last year, and Hindy’s sales were up 20 percent, he said, riding a wave of growing appreciate for fuller-flavored suds.

So Brooklyn Brewery is the ultimate 15-year overnight success — and perfectly located in a borough that has had a long history with brewing.

In the 19th century, German immigrants brought a taste for good beer to New York — and from 1870 until the 1950s, Brooklyn was one of the largest producers of beer in the country. The borough was once home to 48 breweries, but by the time Hindy and partner Tom Potter founded Brooklyn Brewery in 1987, there wasn’t a single successful commercial brewery left.

It seems odd today, but Hindy and Potter struggled in their quest to bring “good beer” to New York, as bar owners were skeptical of the full-flavored lager.

(read more)

The James Clay gang, our importers in the U.K., were in town this week. Of course there was lots to talk about and good beer to taste. Coincidentally, this article in The Independent touting Clay’s success in distributing our beer also surfaced this week. Brooklyn Brewery is being recognized as a player in the reemergence of the beer scene in Great Britain.

From The Independent (UK)

by Will Hawkes

British beer is enjoying a remarkable renaissance. There are now 767 breweries in the UK, more than at any time since the Second World War. According to Camra, 78 new breweries have opened in the past 12 months (and although a fair few have closed, too, there are still 56 more now than this time last year). Last month’s Great British Beer Festival was bursting at the seams with interesting ales and happy drinkers. Beer lovers in this country have never had it so good.

Maybe, maybe not. The growing popularity of American beers in the UK suggests that things are not quite so rosy. The innovative, hop-heavy character of Yank beers is clearly filling a gap in the market, a gap that British brewers have failed to fill.

One American beer that no serious bar in the capital appears able to do without is Brooklyn Lager, which has grown hugely in popularity over the past two or three years. The man who brews it, Garrett Oliver, is a long-term friend of British brewing, having learnt to love beer over here in the early eighties – but he feels the scene on this side of the Atlantic is nothing like as exciting as it should be.

(read more)

From The A.P.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Divers who found what’s believed to be the world’s oldest drinkable champagne say they have also discovered two-centuries-old bottles of beer at a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. Bjorn Haggblom, a spokesman for the researchers, says they found a handful of beer bottles this week while salvaging champagne discovered near the Aland Islands in July. He said researchers who tried drops of the dark, foamy liquid liked the taste of it. Swedish beer expert Goran Winbergh questioned whether it would still be drinkable because beer is perishable. The shipwreck is believed to be from the early 19th century. Haggblom said the oldest drinkable beer previously recorded dates from 1869.

Associated Press

If it was at the bottom of the sea the odds are it’s been kept pretty cold. It’s probably pretty dark down there too. And certainly no air is getting in those bottles. Could it be drinkable?

Our buddies from The Meat Hook are headin’ north for their 2nd Annual Maine Event. Check it out!

“The 2nd Annual Maine Event”: A Week of Butchering, Shucking, Roasting, Smoking, Pickling, Preserving and Distilling on the Coast of Maine

Join chefs Tom Mylan and Brent Young from “The Meat Hook,” Dennis Spina and Millicent Souris from “The Roebling Tea Room” and Annemarie Ahearn and Ladleah Dunn from “Salt Water Farm” for this year’s Maine Event. From an al fresco version of Mylan’s popular pig butchering class to an afternoon of blueberry picking and pie making to a tour of a local dairy farm and cheese making class, as well as an authentic lobster bake, the week will be a riotous celebration of local food and the art of preserving the bounty of summer.

For a full list of classes, activities and ticket purchase go here and scroll down a bit.

(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.

(read more)

The Atlantic’s esteemed National Correspondent, James Fallows, is also the magazine’s resident beer geek. While he was recalling his favorite midwest beers for a recent blog post, nostalgia jockeyed his brain to recall his favorite American beers enjoyed while reporting in China. We agree on at least a couple of them.

It’s becoming clear that British newspapers love breaking stories on reserach that has to do with drinking alcohol. A while back they brought us news that beer made bones stronger. Now comes a piece from The Telegraph about how female college graduates imbibe more booze than their less educated peers.

Read the fascinating story here.

From Draft Magazine

We got a chance to check in with Garrett Oliver, brewmaster and vice president at Brooklyn Brewery, regarding his nomination for Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional from the James Beard Foundation. Oliver is responsible for every aspect of beer production at the brewery, and obviously he’s doing something right: Over the past 20 years, he’s has won countless awards, many internationally, and published several books (including James Beard Award nominated and International Association of Culinary Professional’s Cookbook Award winner, “The Brewmaster’s Table”), serves as editor-in-chief of “The Oxford Companion to Beer,” and hosted over 600 beer tastings and beer dinners in nine countries. He was also a founding member of Slow Food USA and an international counselor to the global, grassroots organization to “counteract fast food and fast life” for five years. And in 2003, Brooklyn Brewery became the first New York company to begin to use 100 percent wind energy to operate their business. In other words, he’s been busy.”

Read the full interview, conducted by Noah Davis, here.

photo by macwagen

BasicallyRead did a nice lil’ review of last night’s festivities.

This gentleman from the famed Appeal-Democrat has a few things to say about choosing beer over champagne this New Year’s Eve.

Raise a toast to the new year with a bubbly brew

By Joe Sixpack/For the Appeal-Democrat

Champagne? More like sham-pagne, if you ask me.

Every New Year’s Eve, it’s the same ol’ swill: overpriced bottles of sweet, fizzy wine posing as a drink worthy of celebration.

Three hundred sixty-four days of the year, none but the most pretentious palate touches the stuff. But flip the calendar, and — pop! — we’re shooting corks and slurping the bubbly like we’re Fred and Ginger in “Top Hat.”

Well, stick the cork back in.

(read more)

For The Home Brewer In Your Life

Yeast: It’s Wild! Class at Brooklyn Kitchen Labs — Brooklyn Brewery’s Chris Basso will lead this class, focusing on the different kinds of yeast that can be used in homebrewing. Topics will include Ale Yeast, Lager Yeast, Wild Yeast and their uses in brewing. We will discuss some basic yeast handling methods and ways to more effectively control the results of your fermentations. There will include a tasting of various beers that give typical flavor characteristics of each variety of yeast. An additional side by side tasting of beer homebrewed by Chris will be on hand to show how by changing only the yeast strain the resultant beer will be dramatically different. Expect to come away knowing far more about yeast than you thought possible. Sign up here.

For the Beer Geek or Would be Beer Geek In Your Life

Brooklyn Brewhouse T-Shirt: Inspired by our actual brewhouse control panel, this American Apparel t-shirt will instantly mark you as a beer connoisseur and dedicated follower of fashion. Buy it here.

from _BuBBy_ 's flickerstream

Kudos to Josh Rubin for his courageously accurate review of Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout. Read it here and then go out to buy yourself a 4-pack. If you want.

The world famous Gathering Of The Santas, aka SantaCon, descended on The Brewery, this Saturday. Of course, mirth and merriment were in high supply (as were  some stocking stuffer-sized contraband.) Here’s a few shots taken by our intrepid Office Manager/photog, Sherwin Chang.

They managed to make it inside without the aid of a chimney.

via @john_hudson

On Tues, 11/17, Brooklyn Brewery’s own Garrett Oliver will be packing up nearly every beer, special, secret and otherwise and hauling them down to Philly. To commemorate the 10th Anniversary of The Bishop’s Collar in Fairmount, 11 tap lines are being devoted to Brooklyn Brewery beers from 6pm to 8pm.

Then from 8pm to 10 pm, walk down the block to St Stephen’s Green, where they’ll devote 12 taps per floor to Brooklyn beers. If you know anything about addition you know that that’s 24 tap lines in all!

Check out the lineup:

SPECIAL
Brooklyn Blast! (Imperial IPA)

BROOKLYN BREWMASTER’S RESERVE
Manhattan Project
Cuvee de Cardoz
Savoir Faire

VINTAGE
Monster Ale
Black Chocolate Stout

SEASONAL
Brooklyn Winter Ale

CORE
Brooklyn Lager
Brooklyn Brown
Brooklyn East India Pale Ale
Brooklyner Weisse
Brooklyn Pennant Ale

The Guinness will come off, and, 11 Drafts will be featured.
All Brooklyn, All Night!

The Brooklyn Brewery and owners Steve Hindy, Eric Ottaway and Robin Ottaway were honored for their “dedication to the people of Brooklyn,” on October 17 at the annual Prospect Park Gala at the Carousel in the park. Five hundred of our best friends attended the event to support the ongoing operations of the Prospect Park Alliance. You don’t often see us dressed up like this!

Founder, Steve Hindy, GM Eric Ottaway and myself took a rewarding trip down the road to the Brooklyn Navy Yards, this morning. Governor David Paterson, Borough President Marty Markowitz and a host of other government leaders were on hand to dole out $7.8 million in Downstate Revitilazation Funds to various New York City small businesses, including $800,000 for The Brooklyn Brewery.

When asked to speak, Steve said, “As a small business owner, I watched with dismay as the federal government bailed out the big banks that were ‘too big to fail’ with hundreds of billions of dollars.  Small business owners wake up every morning painfully aware that they are NOT ‘too big to fail.’  We are grateful that Governor Paterson, the NY Legislature and NY Economic Development Corp are awarding this grant to the Brooklyn Brewery.  We are just starting a $6.5 million expansion that will increase our brewing capacity in Brooklyn by six times.  The NY stimulus money will enable us to employ some green technologies, like solar panels, that we otherwise could not afford.”

Thank you, New York!

–Ben Hudson

For the last year, Queens County Farm Director Michael Robertson has been dropping by the Brewery to pick up our spent grain to feed his animals with.  He’s also been busy revitalizing the longest continually operating farm in New York.  We’ve had fun collaborating with the farm on a couple events like the Fourth of July pig roast and campout. Look out for more Brooklyn Brewery events with the Queens County Farm and check out the New York Post go ga-ga for Micheal below.

From The New York Post

Hot for farmer!

City boasts bumper crop of urban agrarians

By CARLA SPARTOS

EATING local was never so appealing.

At a harvest dinner at the Queens County Farm Museum last month, several topics dominated the evening’s conversation: the quaintness of the candlelit barn, the deliciousness of the fresh-from-the-henhouse eggs and — perhaps most discussed — the hotness of the farmer responsible for all the bounty.

Meet Michael Grady Robertson — New York City farmer and the best thing to happen to the local organic movement since Whole Foods opened a beer room on Houston Street.

“He looks like Brad Pitt,” coos one young woman who’s married to a chef at a popular downtown restaurant.

Farmer Michael Grady Robertson has helped make over the Queens County Farm Museum.  Since joining the Queens County Farm Museum last year, Robertson, 35, has been garnering lots of attention — and not just for his looks.