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Crafting Beer: Traditional Techniques, Modern Brews
Oct 24
Japan Society
Crafting Beer: Traditional Techniques, Modern Brews
Japan Society
Japan Society

Beer Tasting & Tour Packages

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Need helping planning your next big beer adventure?
From birthday beer bashes to guided tastings and brewery tours, I have a trio of curated packages available.

You don’t often find a future picture of your soon-to-be hungover self celebrating the next-morning hamburger, but hey! Here we are.
Every week, our daughter comes home with a new mask that would do well in a reboot of an ‘80s slasher flick. (That’s a unicorn on the right, FYI.) Anyhoo! In between arts and crafts, I drank a little @finbackbrewery Cats and Dogs double IPA done up with guava and raspberries. Fruity! Finely bitter! And other descriptors I can’t think of while staring at that Terror-Corn mask.
Current status. Because: phew. I just finished leading a beer-cheese pairing for the @frenchcheeseboard, which meant saying many words and eating many, many cheeses. And now I could use a beer and a bad, bad movie.
I’m a sucker for a good can label, and this @kcbcbeer / @brooklynbrewery collaboration is one of the best I’ve seen lately. It ticks all the boxes: hops, pinball, the threat of carnivorous pandas and, oh yeah, a pretty delicious, coffee ‘n chocolaty Baltic porter fit for these cool fall nights. Beware the 🐼.
Oh, you know, just spending Monday night going over Spanish flash cards while your daughter pretends to be Wonder Woman and you sip @sonofman.co’s Basque-style cider. Lemony! Acidic! Wild-fermented! Refreshing! The Oregon cidery is an interesting play: They’ll be using native Oregon apples to create Spanish-inspired sidra. New worlds! And now back to teaching Wonder Woman to count to 10 in Spanish.
We think of beer as a liquid, but it’s really the end product of agriculture and people. I met @sean_littlefishbrewing some 20 years ago back in Athens, Ohio, where I snagged a degree @ohio.university. Fast-forward a little bit, and Sean founded @littlefishbrewing in Athens and, this weekend, brought his collection of first-rate farmhouse beers and barrel-aged everything to New York City. It’s been a fun few days. Beer is easier to make than friends. It’s good to have people in your life that are good at both.
All roads lead to apples. Also: all of New York City appeared to be apple-picking @fishkillfarms this afternoon.
Oh, I do love living in Brooklyn, but the best thing to stay sane is to take regular escapes. Today we took off to Peekskill, hugging the Hudson River and home to @peekskillbrewery and its tenth anniversary party, where I took no pictures. So here’s a stunning river sunset instead of IPAs.
I’ve always been a huge fan of @burlingtonbeer’s killer can designs *and* beer. Found a can of Uncanny Valley IPA at my local beer shop this eve and the hazed-up, refreshingly bitter fruit bomb hit the spot. Also: the plants are fast taking over our living room.
Manners 101: New York City Edition
And some days you spend a solid chunk of your evening watching trains rumble beneath the overpass, waving to the conductors that happily honk, a cold can of @citizencider in hand as you try to convince yourself that it’s really, truly fall—even though it’s nearly 80 degrees in October.
With public schools closed in New York City today, Violet and I dialed up the ol’ no-school special: a round-trip ride on the @statenislandferry, a spin on the @seaglasscarousel, dumplings in Chinatown and a wee bit of street-art spotting before we hit the playground and, in my infinite wisdom, bought two massive servings of to-go pho. Ever brought a four-year-old and a couple vats of near-boiling soup on a subway at rush hour? There should be a merit badge for both bravery and stupidity. Also: the soup was delicious.