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The Washington D.C. Chinese Take-Out Experiment, April 22

UPDATE // APRIL 23 The results from the D.C. Chinese Take-Out Experiment are in! Read all about the extravaganza here from Food Experiments, and the see the winners and event photos below:

AUDIENCE
First Place
(pictured above): Luck Fortune Golden Mountain Palace Express Takeaway / PORK, PORK, PORK
Second Place: C. Rear / Virginia is for (Dumpling) Lovers
Third Place: Casually Pepper Spray Everything Girls /  Casually Pepper Spray Everything Beef

JUDGES
First Place / Grand Prize: Luck Fortune Golden Mountain Palace Express Takeaway / PORK, PORK, PORK
Second Place: Pork Bun / Char Siu Bao
Third Place: Rickshaw Astley / Ssippi Fried Rice
Honorable Mention: Make it Tso / General Tso’s Ice Cream
Honorable Mention: ….In Bed / Fortune Cookies

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Tap That Glass: Draft List, Friday April 13

Below is the roster of beers you can expect to find here at The Brewery on Friday, April 13 (list is subject to change). Beer tokens can be purchased for $5/each or 5 for $20.

DRAFT // 1 token each (unless otherwise indicated)

SPECIAL: Cask of Dry Irish Stout (4.7% abv)

“Oishi” by Tom Villa, Lead Brewer (3.9% abv)
Mary’s Maple Porter (7.5% abv)
Brooklyn BLAST! (9.0% abv) — 2 tokens
Brooklyn Radius (4.8%)
Brooklyn Lager (5.2% abv)
Brooklyn Dry Irish Stout (4.7% abv)
Brooklyn East India Pale Ale (6.9% abv)
Brooklyn Pilsner (5.1% abv)
Brooklyner Weisse (5.1% abv)
Ama Bionda (6.0% abv)

BIG BOTTLE POURS // 3 tokens each, includes complimentary Souvenir Logoed Stemware Glass

Brooklyn Local 1 (9.0% abv)
Brooklyn Local 2 (9.0% abv)
Sorachi Ace (7.4% abv)
AMA Bionda (6.0% abv) – 2 tokens

View our complete public hours here.

The Carolina Pork Experiment, April 15

UPDATE // APRIL 18 The results from the Carolina Pork Experiment are in! Read all about the extravaganza here from Food Experiments, and the see the winners and event photos below:

AUDIENCE
First Place / Grand Prize Winner (pictured above)You’re Bacon Me Crazy / Beer, Bacon, & Bean Ice Cream
Second Place: Guisto Gusto / Vesta Porchetta
Third Place: Redneck Scientific / Menage a’ Pork

JUDGES
First Place: Howard Manning / Carolina Triple Trio
Second Place: You’re Bacon Me Crazy / Beer, Bacon, & Bean Ice Cream
Third Place: Bull City Red BBQ / Bull City Red BBQ

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Tap That Glass: Draft List, Friday April 6

Below is the roster of beers you can expect to find here at The Brewery on Friday, April 6 (list is subject to change). Beer tokens can be purchased for $5/each or 5 for $20.

DRAFT // 1 token each (unless otherwise indicated)

SPECIAL: Cask of Dry Irish Stout (4.7% abv)

“Oishi” by Tom Villa, Lead Brewer (3.9% abv)
Mary’s Maple Porter (7.5% abv)
Brooklyn BLAST! (9.0% abv) — 2 tokens
Brooklyn Radius (4.8%)
Brooklyn Lager (5.2% abv)
Brooklyn Dry Irish Stout (4.7% abv)
Brooklyn East India Pale Ale (6.9% abv)
Brooklyn Pilsner (5.1% abv)
Brooklyner Weisse (5.1% abv)
Ama Bionda (6.0% abv)

BIG BOTTLE POURS // 3 tokens each, includes complimentary Souvenir Logoed Stemware Glass

Brooklyn Local 1 (9.0% abv)
Brooklyn Local 2 (9.0% abv)
Sorachi Ace (7.4% abv)
AMA Bionda (6.0% abv) – 2 tokens

View our complete public hours here.

Wednesday Cheese Pairing, April 4

Brooklyn Local 2 with Spring Brook Raclette. Nutty, buttery, grassy, and just a little funky, this washed rind cheese is made in Reading Vermont. The farmhouse notes in its flavor will pair nicely with the sophisticated sweetness of the Local 2.

Martin Johnson runs The Joy of Cheese, a series of informal cheese and beverage classes that take place at a variety of Manhattan and Brooklyn venues as well as at the 92nd St Y. He is also Cheese, Charcuterie, Beer and Wine Manager for Gastronomie 491, a new market/cafe on the Upper West Side. He blogs at TheJoyOfcheese.com.

Brooklyn Blackout @ The Brooklyn Brewery, April 14

Whether you’re a fan of goth-punk or you have a migraine-induced sensitivity to light, this April 14 event is for you. Right here within the Brewery confines, we’ll be paying homage to the old Hindy warehouse parties of yore, with unlimited taps of some of our darkest beers (Dry Irish Stout and current Brewmaster’s Reserve Mary’s Maple Porter) as well as a midnight tasting of the eternally-dark vintage Black Chocolate Stout. Oh, and if it isn’t clear yet, the theme of this particular get-together is darkness, so come dressed in dark attire and get ready to dance to the seriously dark dance tunes of DJ Seek10. Tickets are $20; you can get yours by clicking on the button below.

Monster’s Log: Tuesday, April 3

In the current issue of TAPS beer magazine, an article heavily featuring yours truly dares to state the truth brewers worldwide refuse to acknowledge: they need cats to make beer. The picture of me on the second page (shown below the jump) may look like I’m fast asleep on a fluffy bag of tempurrrpedic barley, and although I may in fact be deep in a dream about big fluffy dogs trying to steal the last of this year’s Black Chocolate Stout, you can rest assured that mass of malt is safe from harm.

Read more below for an excerpt from the piece (and if you see my manager, tell him it’s “just appropriate” for him to get me a bowl of milk)…

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SLIDELUCK POTSHOW BARCELONA VI RECAP

[Text by Albert Such]

[Photos by Marcelo Aurelio and Oscar Ciutat]

Saturday the 31st of April was a gorgeous spring day in Barcelona, so we could have the projection and dinner in the patio that makes CC Pati LLimona famous, in the middle of the Gothic Quarter in Barcelona, and next to the ruins of the old Roman city wall.

In Spain, we like to have dinner very late, so we have made a slight change to the traditional SLPS routine: we started having some cold beers and chatting, while the production staff from Pati Llimona was setting up the last details, followed by the slideshow itself, and then dinner. As usual in Spain, also, people tended to arrive late, so we really did not start the projection until 8:30…

We had a very good attendance, around 100 people showed up; some well known friends from that had attended other SLPS shows in Barcelona, but lots of people for which this was the first time, and did not know really know how the whole thing works: “where do I leave all the food stuff I brought?”

The slideshow was really interesting.  We had a wide variety of very different work: from the lovely portraits of Barcelona people of Enric Mestres, to the very intriguing work of Oscar Ciutat about animals in the zoo.  We had also some international presence, Renaud Cousin from France and Piere Liebert from Belgium, though none of them could attend the show in person, so this year we had to give our prize to “the perosn who has travelled further to attend the show” to Marcelo Aurelio and Sonia Gimenez, who came from Terrassa (only 40 Km away from Barcelona!)

Dinner, after the slideshow, was delicious!  We had all types of different foods and plenty of time to talk both about the different works presented, what’s happening in the Barcelona photography scene, and everything under the stars.

Motley Cru: Field Trip to Brooklyn Oenology

A team of Brooklyners hit the sunny streets of Williamsburg last week to enjoy Motley Cru*, among a score of other fine wines produced by our vintner neighbors Brooklyn Oenology, a wine shop, bar and art gallery on Wythe Ave (just a few minutes walk from the Bedford L train). With gratitude to our gracious host/winemaker Alie Shaper, we left BOE having not only indulged our sense of taste, but with significant knowledge of the beverage.

Setting this purveyor apart from the vast lot of other wine shops/bars is that the majority of BOE’s offerings are produced by BOE themselves, on Long Island, and using NY state grapes, predominately from the Finger Lake and North Fork regions. Each bottle of BOE wine is adorned with a custom label created by a NYC artist, whose work can also commonly be found decorating the walls of BOE’s Brooklyn tasting room. Said tasting room is a cozy, sun-drenched den wrapped around a half-moon bar, on one side offering for sale bottles of wine, whiskey and a selection of various local products, and on the other providing patrons a place to relax and sip (and munch on a cheese plate). As an additional offering, BOE produces a monthly wine CSA club where members come to pick up four bottles: two from BOE and two from a rotating cast of local guest wineries.

[*no, not that Crüe]

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Tap That Glass: Draft List, Friday March 30

Below is the roster of beers you can expect to find here at The Brewery on Friday, March 30 (list is subject to change). Beer tokens can be purchased for $5/each or 5 for $20.

DRAFT // 1 token each (unless otherwise indicated)

SPECIAL: Cask of Best Bitter (5.0% abv)

“Oishi” by Tom Villa, Lead Brewer (3.9% abv)
Mary’s Maple Porter (7.5% abv) – 2 tokens
Brooklyn Lager (5.2% abv)
Brooklyn Dry Irish Stout (4.7% abv)
Brooklyn East India Pale Ale (6.9% abv)
Brooklyn Pilsner (5.1% abv)
Brooklyner Weisse (5.1% abv)
Ama Bionda (6.0% abv)

BIG BOTTLE POURS // 3 tokens each, includes complimentary Souvenir Logoed Stemware Glass

Brooklyn Local 1 (9.0% abv)
Brooklyn Local 2 (9.0% abv)
Sorachi Ace (7.4% abv)
AMA Bionda (6.0% abv) – 2 tokens

View our complete public hours here.