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The Best Thing We Ate and Drank This Weekend

By kristen | Published: October 4, 2010
The Best Thing We Drank — Kelso Satisfaction: Satisfaction, a seasonal offering from Kelso, is an English bitter. Like most Kelso beers, it is extremely drinkable, with a rich, light malt body and a slight toffee taste. It’s a good beer for a weekend afternoon, or to sip with the hearty comfort foods of [...]
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Whole Foods Homebrew Heros Wanted

By brian | Published: August 19, 2010
Let’s be honest, friends are like squirrels. The second you hand out a free homebrew to those freewheelers, they keep coming back for more like so many breadcrumbs in the park. Imagine telling them that if they want more, they can go to the bar and buy their own. Whole Foods on the Bowery has announced their [...]
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Free Union Hall Homebrew Competition Tonight

By brian | Published: August 17, 2010
Whether you are a homebrew junkie or you just like free beer, you’ll want to be at Union Hall tonight. The second round of homebrewers of the Knights of Bruklyn Homebrew Competition will be gathering at the round table tonight at 7pm to share their blood sweat and tears, so to speak. Attendees can sample all of the [...]
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Ahoy, Kelso Ho!

By brian | Published: June 30, 2010
Make sure to get your summer whites bleached and press, slip on those beaten deck shoes, and hop aboard the S.S. Kelso. Kelso of Brooklyn will be hosting a beer and cheese pairing with Brewmaster Kelly Taylor aboard The Adirondack, the 80-foot Schooner, for a night of sophistication that hopefully degenerates into Kennedy-like debauchery. Though it [...]
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Ditmas Park’s Summer Beer Hub

By brian | Published: June 18, 2010
Food may be the mark of gentrification, or foodification, as Kristen has said before. Then what does the appearance of craft beer say about a neighborhood — the degenerates have moved into town? You’d have to survey the weekend crowd in the new backyard “beer garden” at Sycamore in Ditmas Park to get an answer. The local [...]
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16 Homebrews Down, Two Competitions to Go

By brian | Published: June 16, 2010
The most encouraging sight last night at Union Hall might have been attendees of the Knights of Bruklyn Homebrew Competition buying beer at the bar while standing in line for free samples of all the entered beers. It was truly a voracious crowd, and eventually, a quite inebriated one at that. Union Hall was packed with [...]
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Union Hall Announces Homebrew Competitions: Win A Chance To Brew at Sixpoint

By brian | Published: April 26, 2010
There isn’t a homebrewer alive that doesn’t dream of brewing their coveted recipe alongside professional brewers at a fully-equipped brewery — fishing waders, stirring the mash and the whole nine yards. This June, Union Hall will be partnering with Sixpoint Craft Ales, Kelso of Brooklyn and Brooklyn Brew Shop to give the lucky winner of [...]
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A Tour of the Breweries in Brooklyn

By brian | Published: March 8, 2010
If you were one of the lucky few to snag tickets to the release of Brooklyn Brewery’s Dark Matter tonight 7:30-10:30 at the brewery, then I salute you. Turns out the first 25 to email info@brooklynbrewery.com Friday got comp tickets, then you blink and they were gone. For all the others lagging behind, like me, [...]
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