This Sunday, March 19th, celebrate Greenpoint Beer & Ale’s (7 North 15th St) 3rd Anniversary!
Join starting at 2PM for more hoppy awesomeness on than previously considered possible. In addition they will have another can release on the horizon where they’ll be releasing local favorite Milk & Honey plus a killer new IPA, Interstellar. Until supplies last they also are offering cans of Instant Credibility Double IPA and Denali IPA for sale at the brewery, BE THERE!
The 2017 Academy Awards will kick off this Sunday at 8:30pm. If you have the urge to watch from anywhere but your couch, here’s where you can watch it on big screens in our ‘hood.
Northern Territory | 12 Franklin St.
Northern Territory is hosting an Oscars blowout in collaboration with the best Meryl Streep-themed Instagram account ever, Taste of Streep. The watch party starts with the live red carpet pre-show at 7:00 with the main show starting at 8:30. Admission is free and you have a chance to walk away with some rad Taste of Streep goodies.
Humboldt & Jackson | 434 Humboldt St.
H&J is rolling out the red carpet (yes, an actual one) this Sunday for their Oscars viewing party. Don your best sparkles and tuxedos, ’cause there’s a best-dressed contest, too. RSVP info hereContinue reading →
Lox of Beer @ Greenpoint Beer & Ale (7 North 15th St) has teamed up with Acme Smoked Fish for their annual Smoked Fish & Beer Tasting on Friday, December 18th from 2-5pm! For $30 you’ll get four different types of smoked fish along with four of their signature Greenpoint Beers to pair with each one, Buy tix [sponsored]
♦ Drawing Table @ Archestratus Books + Food (160 Huron St) 7pm, FREE, A warm, laid back atmosphere to work on personal projects, make some friends, and draw. Bring your own supplies or use some of ours. Beer, wine, vermouth, coffee & tea for sale to keep the creative juices flowing, RSVP =) This Tastes Funny @ Experiment Comedy Gallery (272 Grand St) 7:30pm, $5, New York’s newest food-themed comedy show! There will be FREE FOOD given away as prizes from an unnamed Upper West Side specialty market and some of the city’s funniest comics!, Buy tix
THURSDAY 12/15
♦ SHREDLIGHT @ IDIO Gallery (976 Grand St) 6pm, FREE, Photography exhibition opening with Ebru Yildiz, Walter Wlodarczyk, and more plus live 8-Ball Radio Broadcast, More info * Coming Together North Brooklyn @ Automotive High School (50 Bedford Ave) 6:30pm, FREE, We need to reassure our community that if the new administration tries to roll back the progress we’ve made as a city that we are prepared to fight back! Join Councilman Stephen Levin to come together and organize for a better Brooklyn, RSVP ♫ Chairlift, Mr Twin Sister, Junglepussy @ Good Room (98 Meserole Ave) 8pm, $25, The R&B laced, vibrating drum infused pop track serves as the first musical offering from Chairlift’s forthcoming album Moth, which will be released in January 2016, More info Continue reading →
If you missed the last canning at Greenpoint Beer & Ale (7 North 15th Street), there’s another one coming up this Friday, October 28th at 5PM.
As we saw in their canning launch party “The canning sequence is nothing short of mesmerizing” and “For the brewers, this challenge is an opportunity to flex their creativity, and concoct some really diverse and interesting creations that keep bringing customers back again and again…”
Thsi time, they’re releasing Flannel ShirtRed IPA and Rabbit Island Pilsner into the wild. Rabbit Island is a beautiful hoppy pilsner brewed exclusively with forever tropical Motueka and Wi-iti hops from New Zealand. Plus it features killer artwork from infamous local artist Paul Richard. Flannel Shirt is our homage to the sticky, piney & eternally hoppy Red IPA’s from the Pacific Northwest. Just like last time this is a super limited run so make plans now to join us for more canned awesomeness than any of us certainly deserve. $4 per can, $16 per 4 pack, $96 per case.
Here’s the canning process in action we caught in the last visit!
Cozy up and celebrate this Fall season, Urban Frightfest style, with warm libations, food, live music, FREE fun activities, while discovering unique locally crafted items this Sunday, October 30th (1-7PM) at the Greenpoint Loft.
Wind down from the weekend’s Halloween festivities or warm up before Trick or Treating by hanging out in one of Greenpoint’s most beautiful historic spaces, restored to its pre-war glory. The Greenpoint Loft was once the home of America’s largest rope manufacturer and is now a private event space with views of the East River and Manhattan skyline that is open to the public during our markets!
Greenpoint Beer & Ale (7 North 15th Street) simply couldn’t contain themselves to one Oktoberfest weekend so they decided to celebrate the booziest of holidays all damn month. They’ll kick off this weekend Oct. 8th, with a brilliant lineup of house lagers and pilsners plus a very special guest list from our favorite German purveyors, Shelton Brothers (listed below:) All month they’ll have special beer releases and seasonal food offerings that will propel you mind, soul and liver immediately to November, OH BOY!
Check out their Oktoberfest Guest Beers:
Mahrs Ungespundet Lager, 5.2%, Kellerbier
Their favorite lager on planet earth and very highly regarded. Fresh, perfumy hop aroma. Remarkably smooth, very fresh flavors and a spritzy dry finish with beautiful balance. This is a delicious, appetizing beer and a true taste of Germany. Continue reading →
Take it from us: there really is no way to prepare your body for the consumption of alcohol at ten o’clock in the morning. No amount of crack-of-dawn jogging, smoothie making or transcendent meditation will make it any easier to knock back even one sip of a strong brew before your breakfast has begun to digest. We don’t know how we didn’t expect this, showing up to photograph the first-ever canning run at Greenpoint Beer and Ale Co. The process, led by Iron Heart Canning was mind blowing enough even without the pre-lunch intoxication.
Far from the beginning of this brewery’s story, this canning is but an exciting new chapter in their long history making and importing wonderful beer. Owner Ed Raven has been in the business of great suds since the 1980s. Not long after getting his start with the Brooklyn Brewery, he began his own importing company, RavenBrands, and opened the Brouwerij Lane beer shop on Greenpoint Avenue in the early 2000s. After Raven opened Greenpoint Beer and Ale Co. in 2014, the beer shop began to serve as a pseudo-training ground for young hopefuls who want to work at the brewery–honing their palettes and familiarizing themselves with beers from all over the world. Continue reading →
Nowadays, Greenpoint has a bewildering number of bars, but many of the best ones aren’t really places to watch a football game. So what makes a great sports bar where you can watch all the Sunday N.F.L action (or Monday night or Thursday night or Saturday College Football)? First, the bar has to have a big screen TV, preferably many TVs, so if you don’t root for the Giants or the Jets you can still catch your team’s game. Second, the bar’s gotta have good cheap beer and preferably some kind of beer and shot specials. Also, who doesn’t watch a football game without getting the munchies? A bar that serves pub grub has to rate higher than one that doesn’t. Finally, you want to watch with a good crowd, not in some mausoleum. With those categories in mind, here is a list of the top ten places to watch an N.F.L game! Continue reading →
WEDNESDAY 3/30 * Participatory Budgeting Expo @ Greenpoint Beer & Ale (7 North 15th St) 6pm, FREE, Meet your neighbors and learn about each of the proposed projects on the ballot from the people who developed them, More info * We Missed You Party @ Kinfolk (94 Wythe Ave) 7pm, FREE, Celebrate the relaunch of Vice‘s completely redesigned magazine, More info ♫ Jacques’ Experimental Church Concert @ San Damiano Mission (85 N 15th Street), 8pm, FREE, Anyone is welcome to bring a random object to contribute and Jacques, a French electro artist, will incorporate it into his soundscape of experimental electronic music. More info
THURSDAY 3/31 ☺ We the People Live @ Over the Eight (594 Union Ave) 7:30pm, FREE, Comics and journalists join HuffPost LIVE host Josh Zepps to break down the headlines—and one another, RSVP ♦ Trauma Salon: Idealism & Icthyosis @ Panoply Performance Lab (104 Meserole St) 8pm, With Robert Pepper, David Ian Griess, Alex Cohen, Sylva Dean and Me, and Janna Pelle, RSVP ♫ In Memory of Michael @ Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave) 8pm, $10, Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall performed in its entirety by 11-piece band Atomic Funk Project, More info
There have been more than a couple shots fired in our neck of the woods over the last week. On Tuesday, two gunmen were apprehended at North 4th & Kent following an armed robbery. Then, on Wednesday, a member of the North Brooklyn Community Group on Facebook said a neighbor witnessed a teenager fire a hand gun at McCarren Skate Park around 5 p.m. before fleeing on a bike.
The seedy underbelly of Greenpoint continues its chorus with a drug bust of a $10-million-per-year operation. Cops seized 400 pounds of marijuana, 1,100 containers of retail-ready marijuana, mushrooms, liquid THC, liquid PCP and liquid HGH from Philip Feng, 36, and Victor Bae, 35.
