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Homebrew World Book Signing and Talk at TeKu Tavern
Jul 10
TeKu Tavern
Homebrew World Book Signing and Talk at TeKu Tavern
TeKu Tavern
TeKu Tavern

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.

So. This could be a boozy game-changer. The team @exconditions rejiggered a machine to dispense boozy drinks with a token. So. Fun. Puts the interactive experience back into booze. Beer? How can we make the magic happen.
Life tip: Never turn down an opportunity to make a terrifying face. Especially when it’s 90 degrees in Brooklyn and you’re sweating out rivers of bad decisions you made with beer and booze over the weekend. Summer in the city: nature’s all-natural detox.
Happy Father’s Day to all the dudes out there making the parent magic happen. Spent the day in the Rockaways, crushing cold waves and @threesbrewing IPAs because, well, that’s what I wanted to do. Parenting!
School’s not quite out yet in New York City, but summer is in full effect with water fights and blueberries and beers @threesbrewing and the kind of sunsets that take your breath away as you sip another cold IPA.
There’s nothing like dodging death-defying Brooklyn traffic to discover a Bourdain memorial in a traffic island, taking a needed minute to pause while life whizzes past, way too fast.
Man, it would be nice to coast on the fumes of a good story, but the freelance hustle never stops. Next up: a feature on the new wave of nonalcoholic beers that are putting O’Doul’s to shame. One good example: this NA @athleticbrewing IPA, which tastes fuller and more fragrant than many sessions IPAs out there. Journalism!
As a nation, we’re no longer drinking as much milk as we used to. Prices have cratered, sending many dairy farms into bankruptcy, farmers committing suicide. To save their farms and family traditions, dairy producers such as @stonecowbrewery, @ssfarmbrewery and @cofarmbrew have turned to brewing, a new kind of liquid capital to bolster their bottom lines. My latest @nytfood was both heartbreaking and heartwarming to report. Link in my profile, and it’ll be in the Times’ print edition tomorrow. 📷 @itsmetonyluong
While in Connecticut, we made it a point to pit stop @aspetuckbrewlab, where the owner, Peter, is a veteran of my homebrew events. It’s always cool to watch folks take that homebrew dream pro. We snagged some low fills—the cans are a little bit less than 16 ounces, meaning they’re not sold and are often what brewers drink—of stellar IPAs like Turbid Lucidity, a splendid haze bomb suited for sipping near a snail-filled marsh.
The skies were a touch overcast today, so we skipped the beach and packed a picnic lunch for @foxfarmbeer, a former dairy farm making some of the tastiest unfiltered pilsners, IPAs and mixed-fermentation beers in this neck of Connecticut. Totally worth any and every detour for a visit. Then: ice cream. Because it’s summer.
Fact: It’s not officially summer in New England until you’ve eaten your first fried whole-belly clam and lobster roll at a BYOB shack on the water. P.S. @aspetuckbrewlab IPAs for the win.
Five hours of traffic later, we arrived in Old Saybrook, a pretty little Connecticut beach town where our friend @elowitz has a nearly century-old cabin where there’s nothing to do but hang out by the Long Island Sound and drink fine locally brewed beers like @greysail’s Far, Far Aweigh, one of those IPAs done up with melon-y Galaxy hops. Here’s to three days of Connecticut beers and buttery lobster rolls. Because: life should be awesome.
New York City is full of so many things to do. So many! I’m always a believer that you pick one thing, and you do it well. So! With public-school pre-K closed today, me and Violet took the book to @governorsisland, a 172-acre refuge near the southern tip of Manhattan it’s a car-free paradise, all walking and biking and crazy art and stuff like these 57-foot-long slides (oh, you’ll want to click the post for the video) worth going down headfirst, screaming into the salty air, Statue of Liberty smiling in the near distance.