Puma Social Club – The Calm Before The Storm

Hey all, just in case you had totally forgotten; this Sunday is July 4th so make sure you keep your Monday calendar clear as you are likely going to want to sleep off the night before. In preparation to this festive day, this Saturday, July 3rd, why not head on down to the Puma Social Club located at 210 [...]

Absolut Brooklyn Vodka Sponsoring Blogfest 2010

Not that I need any excuse to knock back some bread wine, but Absolut has given me one anyway. Hitting stores nationally June 2010, Absolut will be launching the fourth bottle in the American city bottle collection. The first three were New Orleans, Los Angeles and Boston (did we just beat Manhattan to the proverbial [...]

Mission Dolores – Park Slope, Brooklyn

This self proclaimed ‘weird bar’ located at 249 4th Ave between Carroll and President Street in Brooklyn was bought to you by brothers Mike and Ben Wiley (with the help of a few close friends). You may know them from Bar Great Harry in Cobble Hill. This, for those of you that have been to [...]

April 7th Is National Beer Day – Cheers!

​If you do a quick search of Google, you will see there are a few unofficial “beer holidays”. August 7 is apparently International Beer Day. American Beer Day is October 27. But National Beer Day, celebrated each year on April 7, is actually the more credible. It’s on this day in 1933 that President Franklin [...]

[New Bar] Lowlands bar to open up in Gowanus, Brooklyn

UPDATE:  Lowlands Bar opened it’s doors for business Friday, March 27th Yet another beer notch on the growing Gowanus belt.  I just passed by the old Karate dojo on 3rd Ave and 14th Street in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood when I saw a break in the window coverings, the new bar is coming along very nicely.  New owners [...]

Sexy Beer Bottle Designs

I recently came across a graphic design blog which featured some great designs for beer bottles.  I forget that there are such a variety of designs.  Sitting here thinking which is my favorite beer bottle design…. I think it has to be Rogue Mirimoto Imperial Pilsner.   It felt like an old school clay beer [...]

Move over Sam Adams ‘Utopias’. Hello Brew Dog’s ‘Sink The Bismarck’

The worlds strongest beer is no longer Samuel Adams Utopias.  The 25.6% ABV beer made by one of Americas’s most well known brewery companies just lost it’s American crown to a couple of 20 something year olds from the U.K. (Fraserburgh, Scotland to be more precise) James Watt and Martin Dickie started brewing their beer in [...]

Beer Is Good For Your Bones

I knew it!  And to celebrate, let’s toast a beer to beer.  According to researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California, have found beer is a rich source of silicon and may help prevent osteoporosis, as dietary silicon is a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. These [...]

USA vs Canada – Colbert Launches ‘Don’t Be An Icehole’ Campaign

If you haven’t heard already, Stephen Colbert is starting the ‘Don’t Be An Icehole’ campaign against the Canadians, which in turn, has promoted Canadian based R&B Brewery Co to do something about it. It all started because supposedly, the Canadians aren’t offering the Americans enough access to the Olympic rink to practice. Even after Colbert [...]

Bruce Springsteen named as plaintiff in NY Pub lawsuit

Bruce Springsteen had no idea his name was even on a lawsuit demanding licensing fees from Manhattan pub, Connolly’s (121 West 45th Street, New York, NY) where a band played his songs. A statement on Springsteen’s Web site Thursday said he didn’t know about the lawsuit that was filed Wednesday in federal court and wouldn’t have agreed [...]