How Craft Beer Came to New York City
The nation’s largest city is now in the delicious midst of its annual craft beer week, which, by dint of Gotham’s mammoth population as well as its 15 breweries and counting, has quickly become one of...
View ArticleTuesday Trivia Answer: New Amsterdam Amber
The question was what was the first East Coast beer to place at the Great American Beer Festival. It was New Amsterdam Amber Lager, which nabbed the third spot in the 1984 Consumer Preference Poll,...
View ArticleNew York City Could Have as Many as 20 Breweries By Next Summer—Can They Last?
As our vice president might say, “This is a big, fucking deal.” Ken Christensen in Crain’s has the scoop: An estimated 20 breweries are slated to operate in the city by next summer. In the past year,...
View ArticleTurning Contract Brewing on Its Head
Time was in the American craft beer movement that start-up craft brewers had to find their ways to regional or other craft breweries running under capacity if they wanted to brew their brands under...
View ArticleFive Pivotal Moments in the History of New York State Craft Beer
I’m visiting the incomparable Shmaltz Brewing Co. in Clifton Park, N.Y., this Sunday to talk New York craft beer and its role in the larger American craft beer movement. That got me to thinking: What...
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