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Guided Urban Beer Walks A great way to see the home of a craft beer revolution from different angles! Some are beer-focused, some food-focused, some focused on soaring architecture with beer thrown in. All are neighborhood focused.
BIKE BROOKLYN BEER BLITZ! September 13 & 19 from 2:00-5:00pm $20/person, plus drinks. Limited to 20 cyclists. Approximately 12 miles at an easy pace. Contact: iammattlevy@gmail.com Join tour guide and City Reliquarian Matt Levy on a biking and drinking tour through the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick, home to German brewers of the late 19th century; cycle past and learn about their brewhouses, mansions and churches. En route, stop at some bars and toast a few pints to breweries gone by. Tour ends at Evergreen Cemetery, the eternal resting place of many of the brewers--with a surprise. SCENTS AND THE CITY This 2.5-hour Beer Walk with Allison Radecki takes place September 11-15, 17 & 18. Tour limited to 8. $40/person includes all tastes (drinks extra). Rain or shine. For exact times, e-mail: FlavorsOfTheCity@gmail.com Stroll, sniff and sample your way through the Lower East Side's past and present, where a new generation of flavors continue to inspire food lovers to journey below Houston Street. Smokey pastrami, locally roasted coffee, and pungent farmstead cheeses are just a few of foods you will encounter as you learn the history of local dishes and the purveyors that create them. NYC HOMEBREWERS TOUR Saturday, September 12, 1:00pm Tour limited to 20. $25/person includes samples. Contact: josh.bernstein@gmail.com Beer journalist Joshua M. Bernstein shows you the joys and tribulations of homebrewing in Brooklyn's gnat-sized apartments--without compromising taste. We'll venture inside the homes of the city's finest amateur brewers, see their set-ups, discuss their craft and, most importantly, sample from their stashes of superlative beer. There will be several stops; bring a Metrocard. RED HOOK: FROM LONGSHOREMEN TO KEY LIME PIE Friday, September 11, 2:30pm sharp Limited to 10 people. $20/ person, samples at the brewery included, but drinks at pubs extra. Contact: ianlkelley@gmail.com. Still called South Brooklyn by the old timers and dockworkers, the neighborhood retains much of its industrial and maritime grit. Local manufacturers--including a premier craft brewery and a sublime key lime (!) pie maker--thrive there. But newcomers are also making a splash. Join lifelong Brooklyn resident Ian Kelley for a summer afternoon stroll and enjoy some of the old and new on this Beer Walk with stops at several watering holes. About 2 miles of walking over 3 hours. Heavy rain cancels the tour. BROOKLYN SCARY DIVE- BAR CRAWL Wednesday, September 16, 7:00pm Max 15 people, $10/person plus cash for drinks. Contact: josh.bernstein@gmail.com They exist in shadows, beneath elevated tracks or behind graffiti-scrawled doors: scary bars. But (as with many fears) reality is often totally different. Many are among the friendliest, with cheap drinks accompanied by good cheer. Beer journalist Joshua M. Bernstein leads this tour of neighborhood dives and workingman's bars from the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge to a motorcycle club in Bed-Stuy. Learn their histories and about their specialty drinks--one with overproof rum and milk! Free food at one. BREWED IN BROOKLYN BEER BREWING PAST & PRESENT September 12, 13 & 19, 11:45am $45/person, 16 people/tour. Additional information and and advanced registration (required) at: urbanoyster.com. The guides of Urban Oyster will kick off this 3-hour walk with a tour of Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg, followed by a tasting in their tap room. Along the way, sample pizza and more beer as you get a history of the neighborhood from the early 1800s to today. See the former Brewers' Row, old brewery buildings, and historical architecture. The tour ends with food and a German and craft beer tasting. GASTROPOLIS: RUSSIAN BRIGHTON BEACH Saturday, September 19, 4:00pm Tour limited to 20. $50/person includes a light meal and a signed copy of Gastropolis. Contact: drjond@gmail.com Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, co-editors of Gastropolis: Food and New York City (Columbia University Press, 2009) lead a tour along the Coney Island & Brighton Beach boardwalk. They discuss the food history of the area from native times, through settlement and mass immigration, and its relation to the arrival of the lagering process when Brooklyn was the brewing capitol of the US. The group explores present day foods and kvas and concludes with a meal at a Russian restaurant. ASTORIA CULINARY & BEER STROLL Tuesday, September 15, 6:00pm $60/person Includes sausage demo, food samples at 4 restaurants and a flight of craft beers samples Contact: staceyornstein@gmail.com Bring your appetite and walking shoes to stroll through Astoria for tastes of the wider Mediterranean: a sausage stuffing demonstration at an Italian salumeria, a savory Middle Eastern wrap, flaky Bosnian bureks, a detour for Greek sweets, then ending with grass-fed beef sliders and a sample-size flight of craft beer. Food writer and recipe developer Stacey Ornstein leads a group of up to 20 on this 3 hour tour. THE HIDDEN ENCLAVES OF MIDTOWN EAST September 18, 6:00 - 7:30pm Steady rain cancels. $17/person, max 20 people. Contact: mark@nycbeerweek.com The East Side is not all skyscrapers and office workers. Discover the history of several urban oases hidden in plain sight in and around the old gashouse district that is now the United Nations: Tudor City, Sutton Place, Beekman Place, and possibly NYC's most hidden park. This 2.5 mile tour will take you from the Empire State Building to the Queensborough Bridge. We will begin at a NYC craft brewer and end at one of Midtown's most venerable workingman's bars. UNCLE SAM'S NY Tours each evening. Details and registration at: unclesamsnewyork.com Offering a unique blend of storytelling, sightseeing, beer and socializing, Uncle Sam's New York's pub crawls take you on a cultural journey through some of the most celebrated bars and taverns of New York. From the oldest Irish pubs to the bars featured in classic novels and movies, your tour will be filled with tales of great establishments and the renowned patrons that frequented them. So come out and join us. We will make sure that you Go Home With A Story! Friday, September 11 - West Village Pub Crawl Saturday, September 12 - West Village Pub Crawl Sunday, September 13 - East Village Pub Crawl Monday, September 14 - East Village Pub Crawl Tuesday, September 15 - East Village Pub Crawl Wednesday, September 16 - Hell's Kitchen Pub Crawl Thursday, September 17 - West Village Pub Crawl Friday, September 18 - West Village Pub Crawl Saturday, September 19 - West Village Pub Crawl Sunday, September 20 - East Village Pub Crawl MIDTOWN STREET FOOD September 18, 11:45am - 1:45pm $30/person includes samples. Contact: mark@nycbeerweek.com Increasingly, New York's mobile food carts have moved from traditional "street meat" (tube steaks, gyros) to more haute (if not haughty) culinary offerings like organic dumplings, roti, kimchi, and Carolina BBQ. Join journalist and urban foodie Mark Foggin for a two-hour stroll around Midtown to sample a half-dozen offerings, observe the constructive genius that cram full kitchens into improbably small carts, and to learn the stories of their proprietors--from struggling immigrants to culinary school drop-outs, to former 4-star restaurant chefs. |