Tag: Beer

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

Bacon and Beer fest!

MAY 12 – 15 – Bacon and Summer Beer Week at Jimmy’s No. 43 in E Village on 7th. and 2nd Ave. They will be featuring food with bacon and summer beers on through May 15th. Get down there or visit www.jimmysno43.com / call 212 982 3006 for more info Jimmy’s is a good beer …

Blue Ribbon Burial?

Now here’s a man that takes his love of the brew to new levels…. 6 feet to be exact – and at least he’ll get plenty of use out of this thing as a party cooler for many years to come… SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. – Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and …

Ballparks sell diluted beer

I moved to New York several years after the ban on drinking in the bleachers of Yankee Stadium, and to a fan of the game from when I could lift a bat through my legal drinking age, I didn’t understand the reasoning. I heard the fight stories and am very familiar with those as an …

I think this would be a good time for a beer

April 6, 1933. Midnight was approaching. A crowd of perhaps 25,000 milled around the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Pestalozzi Street. Inside the lobby of the Bevo packaging plant, August A. “Gussie” Busch Jr., grandson of the brewery’s patriarch, stepped up to a KMOX microphone. “April the seventh is here, and it is a real occasion for …

Sam Adams with glass? Delicious

You have to appreciate a brand that will make public announcements before an actual customer incident is found. In this case, quality control tests caught some chards in bottles of Sam Adams and they are recalling some beer. I can’t imagine that this bottle supplier only supplies bottles to Sam Adams… whom else is on …

Jerry’s got Subway, we have Guinness

Drink your way to a slimmer figure you ask, oh yes, the liquid diet! Most light beers save only about 20 to 50 calories per bottle — and some even outweigh regular beers. It’s mostly marketing, says Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster and author of The Brewmaster’s Table. Want maximum taste, minimum guilt? Consult Men’s …

Beer better than water after exercise?

According to this Fox News story, a study found that beer after exercise helps a person quench thier thirst and replenish carbs/calories from the work out. Rest of story is also here: Having a beer after exercise could do you more good than drinking water, a new study suggests. Beer can help someone who has …

2 Beer Festivals weekend of Oct. 26, 2007

You have your choice; one is in NYC and the other Boston. One focuses on Belgian Brews and the other there’s now restriction to flavor, malt or style. Both claim over 100 brews to sample and are both around the same cost. Brewtopia: the Great World Beer Festival (GWBF)! on Oct 26th and 27th. In …

For Beer Tastes, on Beer Budgets (NYTimes)

Great article in the NY Times today By SETH KUGEL – Read away you beer snobs! VISITING the big city can leave you parched, especially in summer. It’s easy to develop a more-than-one-beer thirst as you gamely tramp from museum to museum, from landmark to landmark. But hunting cheap beer on the New York City …