Category: General

New York pub crawls: Because your regular drinking dens are like following the spin-dry cycle

What kind of party can you rip for $2000

Bottle service has been the demise of the club scene since it’s apparent inception in 1995 (David Sarner and Michael Ault make bottle service mandatory for VIP-room access at Spy Bar; by 2001 the trend has spread from NYC to Miami and Vegas *from History of Bottle service*). As Sarner states, the focus is not …

Wine Barrel Beer

While surrounded by fields of grapes and makers of some of the worlds finest vino, Russian River Brewing Company went the other way and created the first brewery in Sonoma to use wine barrels to produce beer. RRBC age the brews in wine-seasoned oak barrels with wild yeast and bacteria for a year or two, …

Don’t drink the coal juice

Courtesy of Chinese black market: I’ll take a “Joens Danhsels” (from Tendessee) with coke, and my Red Square & Johnnie Worker Black Labial neat. Thanks….

Conservative convention will have liberal drinking rights

Reported in the Star Tribune out of Minneapolis, MN the city council will approve extending the hours of operation for bars during the Republican National Convention of 2008 to 4 am. The bill allows the city to extend its usual 2 a.m. bar closing and allows packaged liquor to be sold on Sundays during an …

The Luck of the Irish Pub Crawl Event

This is not a Gotham Pubcrawlers sponsored event but because we aren’t organizing one this year, you might want to check out the annual event from MurphGuide.com:

Spring Craft Beer Festival – March 1st

If you get a chance, check out this craft beer event on Long Island, in Uniondale, NY. The 2nd Annual Spring Craft Beer Festival is a true craft beer tasting event featuring an incredible variety of beers from some of the finest brewers in the country. Local craft beers such as Blue Point Brewery and …

Computer Problems this Week

Sorry all, we’ve had computer problems as well the site’s been down. Might have something to do with the upgrades we did over the weekend: “People say Microsoft paid 14M$ for using the Rolling Stones song ‘Start me up’ in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed 14M$ only for a part of the song. …